The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-17
What, the State
SolonS Are Doing

I, on his motion, but it did not warm.
Chairman Stokes said one of the COM
| mittee was hard at work on an alb
stract Of the petition, and while they
might be ready to report on Monday.
it might take a day or two more before
the report would come in. On a divi-
sion, the Carroll motion was defeated,
SO to 80.
The senate session Thursday was
brief. Passing a senate bill making
notes for lightning rods and patent
rights not negotiable, and introducing
new bills. By Lawson, prohibiting the
purchase of brass and other old metal
from minors; by Toy, providing for
the appointment of county game war
dens by commissioners at a salary OF
$50 a month, and by Dillon, a%ppropri-
ating money for new buildings and a
deficiency at the insane hospital.
The house passed senate bills which
provide appropriations for the presi-
Dental electors and Lieut.. Gov. Snow;
regulating the ann of division OF
cities into wards; providing for the
collection of taxes from transient
merchants, and providing for the a
agement and control of cemeteries.
On the passage of the house bill
providing for the government of the
soldiers home. which turns the pen
sion money of those at the home over
<1 ~ o,,r,a,Iant NorncAn1 nnnIo
his last fight against the bill. The
measure passed by a vote of So to 16.
One Of the principal house bills in.
troduced was by Holman, providing
that whenever a vote is taken in any
town on the question Of liquor Ii
censes, that whatever the result it
shall stand until another election is
held on that question. This is the bill
Of the state liquor association, and it
will be- bitterly fought by the temper
ance forces.
Other bills were: By Foster, making
it a misdemeanor to conduct bucket
shops or board of trade rooms in the
state; by Stokes of Butte, prohibiting
county commissioners from granting
liquor licenses ut any point within
five miles Of government contract
work; by Hebal, changing the time of
assessors meetings from the first
Tuesday to the last Saturday in April.
The house educational committee
opened the way for a fight in the
house by unfavorably reporting the
Countryman state uniformity of text
book bill, and the %introducer will at
tempt to overturn this report in the
house. The same committee returned
the state song bill without reStm-
mendation. Bills that are coming
within a few days provide for a state
library commission. a caucus law, and
for a shirt factory at the %peniten-
tiary.
The strongest lobby which has ap-
peared in the city sc far this session
is here in the interest of the bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 for a permanent home
at Mitchell for the Improved Live
Stock Breeders association.
The house Friday had no bills for
final action, the first time in the his
tory of state legislation Cor the last
half of the session. The state song
coming up on committee report
1T recommendation, the occasion
taken for a little amusement.
Apland moved adoption of the report,
which was amended by Brown of Lin
coin to refer the bill to the judiciary
committee, and by Craig to indefinite
ly postpone. AS a number of mem
bers desired to get it out on the 1OOr
the Craig motion was voted down.
Hughes then moved reference to Doan
Robinson, secretary Of the State His
torical society. which motion carried,
and the bill is now in the relic room
Of the society with M way of getting
it out.
C%ountryman secured an overturning
Of the adverse report on his bill for
state uniformity of text books, and it
will 20 ON the calendar for final action.
The new house bills we're: BY Om-
dahl, requiring township clerks to re-
port delinquent real estate taxes to
county auditor; by Huff, increasing
of compulsory attendance at
SC DOL to sixteen weeks in a year; by
Pennington, providing for appoint
ment Of county game wardens at a
salary Of S125 a month during open
season; by Kribs, creating a state H.
brary commission and providing for
circulating libraries, and joint resolu-
tions by Lindley, endorsing the posi-
ton OF president Roosevelt on railroad
rate legislation, and by Rogde, for q
constitutional amendment to provide
municipal courts in cities of over ten
thousand population.
The senate passed senate bills:
Providing method of investment of
county sinking funds, and a deficiency
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