The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-01-27
What, the State
S0l0nS Are Doing

the session. it being to provide legisla-
tive expense funds. The pen was pre-
sented to the State Historical society.
The house decided that it had been
quiet long enough, and debated bills
brought before it. The first was the
bill appropriating $8.923 deficiency at
the soldiers home. This was opposed
by Vanosdel, who announced it as his
belief that the deficiency was caused
by extravaganza in management and
violation of direct law. He believed
that the old soldiers should be prop
erly cared for, but did not believe in
going to the extent of violating the law
to do so. Clark of Fall River and Tur-
ner of Faulk supported the measure on
the ground that the deficiency was
caused by absolute necessity. 1t was
passed with but four dissenting votes,
Vanosdel not voting.
The resolution for a constitutional
amendment to allow county superin-
%tendents to hold more than two terms
brought on a general discussion and
the resolution finally was tabled on
motion of Demalignon by a vote of A
to "A. The bill was supported by
Brotrud, Hebal, Carroll and Bowdell,
and opposed by Madison, Countryman,
Craig and Turner, the latter opposing
Z on the ground that the people of the
tate twice had voted and defeated the
same proposition.
An u~nfavOrable report was returned
by the house committee on the appro-
priation of $1,000 for buildings on the
state fair grounds at Huron.
Two Irvine plant bills were intro
duced in the house, one by Hebal, car
rying an appropriation of $15O,OO0, and
the other by Thoreson. with an appro-
priation of $751; 600. Other house bills
were: By CLANCY, to make the office
of town marshal apppointive instead of
elective; by Pennington, cutting away
all exemptions from a single man;
and by Turner of Brown, to prevent
druggists from selling liquor in mo IL
cenSe towns except upon prescription.
The house passed bills fixing the be-
ginning of terms Of county auditors at
the first Monday in March, and max
ing the terms of officers of mutual in
surance companies three years.
The senate session Monday was a
short one, handling a small amount Of
business. The Cooper bill to l~egalize
liquor licenses in towns where no Ii
cense vote was taken last year was
passed. Bills were introduced as fol-
lows: By DOering, changing the date
when taxes shall become delinquent
from March to May /; by Cooper. to
provide stenographers for county
courts: by Rice, giving farm laborers
and threshing crews lien for their Ia
Dor.
The house passed the Lawson sem
ate bill providing for the taking of
the census and collection of vital sta
tistics. Before It passed Turner of
Faux secured an amendment to make
the record of the commissioner and
clerks of court in connection with the
bill proper evidence in court. Heball
attempted to secure an amendment to
strike out all that portion of the bill
which related to vital statistics. but
his amendment was voted down-44 to
"a. The bill then passed with but one
vote to spare, as al emergency meas
ure, getting 81 votes. House bill pass
ed to allow counties to offer reward
for capture of horse thieves, and bill
to give court bailiffs increased COM
pensation in the larger counties was
killed. House joint resolutions were
passed for a constitutional amend
ment allowing the legislature to pro-
vide qualifications for a county super
~intendent, memOrializing congress for
protection of the banks of the Missou-
ri river. and providing for the publish
ing Of Legislative manuals and hand
books. Kribs introduced a bill to fix
qualifications required for teachers
examinations, the purpose of the bill
bein" to make certificates conform to
req ements for interchange with 9TH
er states. The Huron state fair build
ing bill, which was ~unfavorablv re-
ported, was re-referred to the commit
tee for further consideration. Apland
got his state song bill changed from
the committee on immigration to the
education committee.
The winter thus far has been unus,,.
ally mild. Cattlemen report that the