The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-03-12
on bills. and laws will be piled up rap


of scales; protecting property Of own
ers OF bottling plants; providing for
keeping OF a record of real estate
transfers In auditors office; requiring
report of brands of stray stock TO be
reported TO state brand inspector; Civ
LEGATION; requesting the state treasur-
er to give bond of half-million; Civ
ing county boards authority to lay out
highways along city boundary lines;
appropriating money for publication Of
reports Of the state horticultural So
ciety, and providing that where par-
ents send children to the feeble-mind-
ed school and leave the state they
must remove patient with them or
make provisions for expenses and
care.
20 Pierre, S. D., March 6.-The house
started the morning session with a
scrap, and that mood appeared to pre-
vail all day, Notwithstanding there
was long calendar to get out of the
way. The first fight was over the bill
TO tax mining stock, which was backed
by Allen, Bromley and Hutchinson of
Beadle, and fought by Gross, Goddard
and Rogne. Gross started the fire fly
ing by declaring the bill to be only a
club which was introduced by the in
surance lobby, and one which should
be killed. Goddard took the position
that it could in no way increase reve-
nues, as the tax could not be greater
than the value of the land, while
Rodgne attacked 1t on its validity,
saying that in case it was enacted
nothing would be gained. After the
war was over the bill passed by good
majority. Next was the anti-football
bill, which was passed by so to 20 un-
der previous question to shut on de-
bate. The next fight was between
Longstaff and Price on the bill for a
building at Huron, in which each ac-
cused the other of deliberately falsify-
ing. This bill was lost for lack Of
two-thirds. The senate wolf bounty
bill failed for lack of one vote, and got
back for reconsideration. The house
passed senate bills to regulate the
election of school officers; providing
manner of issuance of school bonds; q
general military code; authorizing
docketing of United States court judg-
ments with clerks of circuit courts;
providing punishment for theft of
water, gas or electricity, and legisla-
tive op,,nrt iOpmapt hill .s ##
The senate closed it's session with a
fight between Close and members Of
appropriation committee over bill to
pay interest on certain old claims at
Plankinton reform school. A bill
passed to pay the claims with the in
terest provision stricken out, regard
less of a fight made on the validity Of
the claims, and a new bill was intro
duced by Close, which was killed on
committee report after a discussion in
which Burke, Bennett, McDougall,
Friberg and Close took part. The SEN
ate passed bills appropriating money
for the judge of the new Ninth circuit
court; and a bill to cover defects IN
the vetoed bill returned Wednesday.
Also house bills for dockage of grain
on a screen basis; general law in re-
Pierre, S. D., March z. - BY some
means the house bill to tax mining
stock failed to get to the senate until
yesterday, too late for action, and
Representative Allen, the father of the
bill, moved the appointment of an in
vestigating committee to look into the
matter. The committee consisted of
Allen, Craig and Carroll, and their re-
port, while making no specific charges,
simply showed that bills passed just
prior and Just after that particular bill
went to the senate all right, while that
particular one was the only one which
failed to get out.
The bill to allow wholesale druggists
to sell liquor without license, which
came from the senate several days ago
and was killed, came back as a new
BILL and Allen moved its indefinite
postponement, as "the first bill had
been thrown through the ceiling, and
this should be treated in the same
way" which 1t was. The house ground
out laws providing for organization Of
societies for protection Of animals;
providing state deficiency levy of 1
mill on the dollar; appropriating $780,
900 to pay wolf bounty deficiencies;
providing a penalty for Offering pre-
MUM to secure life insurance policy,
and a number of minor laws. The SEN
ate clerks and employees were in a
pickle yesterday, as the senate several
days ago raised the pay of all of them
so cents per day. This required new
appropriation to get the difference, and
a bill was hurriedly passed through
the senate to meet the occasion.
The house has steadily refused to
grant this raise to it's clerks, and as a
result, when the bill came to the house
1t was not passed until it had been
pared down to meet only the payments
at the original figure. This had to go
back to the senate, and the pay had
not been forthcoming at late hour.
The total appropriations passed at the
session outside of the general bill, are
1861 ,119.
The present session has made a rec
ord in both houses by passing every
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