Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-26


Webster on legal matters the first OF last
week, returning just in time for the
adjournment Saturday.
A bill passed the senate raising the
salary of the public examiner to 5000
a year, but it was at once reported lido
not pass" when it reached the house
appropriation committee.
Representative Potter went to Wolsey,
the first of the week, to meet Mrs. Pot
ter, who will remain in Pierre until the
close of the session, and Mr.. Ash, who
will take in the sights of the capital for
a week.
The house committee killed the bill to
appropriate money with which to insti-
tute Irvine plant at the state peniten-
tiary, and despite the efforts on the part
of the friends of the bill to revive it ON
the floor of the~house, it still remains
dead.
The anti-compact insurance bill has
passed the house by an almost unanimous
vote, and friends of the measure predict
that it will go through the senate with
about the same vote as the valued policy
bill did. This is one of the few laws
that the people are demanding and we
hope the predictions are correct, and if
we read the signs of the senate right,
they are.
Pierre takes great deal of pride
and South Dakota may also be justified
for feeling elated-over the fact that
Mr. Rollo Lyman, son of the Congre-
gational pastor of this city, has been
chosen by Harvard college, which insti-
tuition he is attending, as one of her
representatives in the great annual
debate with Yale.
The legislature adjourned Saturday
at 3:l5 over Monday as Sunday was
Washington's birthday and Monday
was thereforesto be observed as a legal
holiday. Owing to the very short inter-
mission only few of the members We're
able to get home. AS Sunday was a
very beautiful day over fifty per cent
of the members and clerks left in the
city availed themselves of the splendid
opportunity to visit Scotty Phillips
herd of buffalo.
A bill that has passed the senate and
received favorable report from the
appropriation committee of the house is
one that appropriates 5000 for a silver
service or other suitable recognition of
the naming of one of Uncle Sans new
war ships, the South Dakota" The
bill does not provide positively for a sill
yer service, because it reached the ears
of the Legislature that Uncle Sans navy
was now overburdened with silver ser
vice.
A bill has passed the house which pro-
vides a penalty of ten dollars for Sab
bath breaking. This law will only be
an encumbrance upon the statute books,
as it will never be enforced. Such laws
never are, unless it is a case of petty
spite work on the part of some one who
desires to work mischief with someone
else and can find no other means. The
legislature should be very careful about
the manufacture of laws which are
never used unless for petty spite work.
Senator Abel's antitrust bill has
passed the senate, and without a dis
senting vote. This law was framed
from the laws of many states, and was
drawn with view of getting just as
strong measure as could be enforced in
the courts of the state. The most of the
provisions are those that have been
passed upon by the courts of other states
and found to be constitutional. A pro-
viso is thrown in the bill that nothing in
it shall be construed as against the form
ing Of labor unions.
The board of charities and corrections
of five members will be q thing of the
past with the expiration Of the terms of
two of the present members, if the gov
ernor signs the bill which has passed
both houses. The new bill provides for
board of three members, who shall
receive a salary of $1,000 per year, and
in return will be supposed to devote
practically all their time to looking
after the business and detail of the insti-
buttons of the state, and keep an account
of all money appropriated for and spent
by each institution.
"South Dakota's great manufacturing
industry" as it was apply put by man
high i'm public life of the state, 1.-THE man.
ufacture of new corporations, received
severe jolt in the neck, the other day,
when the legislature materially increased
the fees for filing the papers with the
secretary of state OF course there are
few attorneys in the state, especially
IN p;arra unron and Ginnx Ealls who