The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-13

- o5o. 80.
To meet the grand outlay for ap.
preparations made there is an esti.
mated revenue of 81, l60, 900, and a two
mill deficiency levy provided by a law
passed at this session for an amount
equal to the conditional limit of two
mills on the dollar. According to the
estimates this should furnish a revenue
during the next biennial period of 81,
GOO, 900, and this would covertbe amour,
of the appropriations.
Besides this Carols amended bill
provides for raising the assessment as
returned by an amount equal to 800,
600 600. Berg's bill taxing corpora
tions is also intended to increase the
revenue by a considerable amount.
In addition to new laws covering the
question of the legislature
has taken steps to solve the problem
of investment of permanent school
fund by providing for a constitutional
amendment permitting a loan of So, 600
to any one party where the limit is now
only 1000, and also Withdrawing one
half Of the lands from sale and leasing
for a long term, as we'll as investing
the moneys in all evidences of the
SUdUC . luuCOUculCSS as UulS pEODOSl-
tiOn affects a fund now amounting to
SIS, 0OO, 600 and which will ultimately
reach more than $50, 900, 600 it is
generally considered that the passage
of the resolution is one of the i'm
portant pieces of legislation.
The location of the state fair at
Huron and the encampment of the
national guard at w atertown extends
| tho nJ,ynhor nf tho cfofotS rStif,t;Oo
permanently.located, while the passage
Of the capital removal resolution
places before the people another evil
dence that the state is not vet ready to
settle down and begin keeping house
in its W palace. 1t is presumed that
there will be times in the coming two
years when the people may regard this
as the most exciting if not the most
important act of the eighth legislature.
A total of more than two hundred
bills have passed and either await the
governors signature or have been
signed and are o on file with the
secretary of state. Up to the close of
session lob bills and resolutions had
been placed on file as laws while others
were in the hands of the governor, not
less than so bills being passed or
amendments concurred in and handed
to the governor during the last day.
he has ten days in which to examine
these bills and sign them or veto them
and it will not be known until that
time just how many new laws the people
OF the state have to become acquainted
with. Among those signed are the
new code bills which supercede the
compiled laws of 1887 and become the
absolute law of the state except as
amended by laws of this session..
The number of bills introduced dur
ing the session was below the average
while the proportion of bills passed
was above the average.
Much of the new legislation is in the
form of amendments to existing law,
but one of the notable exceptions is
the medical examiners law which is a
new act on the statute books, as we'll
as the law relating to horse inspection
and the larceny of live stock.
These of course are lost sight of in
the eyes of the people as compared
with the valued policy insurance law
and the anti-compact law which held
the center of attraction during most
OF the session to the exclusion of
matters of probably larger general
effect.
Taken as a whole it has been a
session without any startling sens alton
to call the attention of the people
toward the present capital OF the state.