The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-01

Increasing taxes of insurance compa-
MES to 3 per cent of premium receipts.
Appropriating $1,000 for an a~rtesian
well at the Redfeld asylum.
Allowing cities to acquire property by
condemnation for sewer purposes.
Senat bills passed were:
To limit liability of banks on forged
paper and increasing to five years the
time of practice before admission to the
bar in the state.
SENATE.
The senate was the body in which dis
cussion was required to settle differences
Tuesday, several matters bringing the
senators out for expression. The report
~favoring farmers Institutes, carrying an
appropriation of $4,000 for thar purpose,
was opposed by Bonney and supported
by Lightner and Branson, but finally on
motion of Rice, supported by Cassill,
went back to the agricultural committee.
Several members took occasion Of an
opening to shoot to pieces the resolution
for the publication of legislative hand
books, Stoddard and Wesley opposing its
publication, the former alleging graft in
that work, and that no one would ever
look at it after it was published unless
it would be at the bindings and pictures.
The next round was on the wolf boUn-
ty report on the bill carrying an appro-
p~riation of $4,000. This was bitterly
fought by Frieberg, who has in a bin to
repea! all bounty laws, his claim being
that the bill was for a few counties
which should pay their own bounties. 1t
was adopted with only eight votes
against it.
The hottest fight of the session ragged
in the senate Wednesday from 3 o'clock
until 8 at night over the report of the
committee on rules for indefinite post
ponement of the initiative petition for the
primary election law.
The senate passed a humber of bills
Wednesday, the principal of which were
to make hunters licenses good only in
the county where issued, making il a mis-
demeanOr to purchase old metal from
miners, appropriating $1,000 for a live
stock exhibit building at Mitchell. and
increasing the wolf bounty from $1,000
to $4,000 per year.
The warmest contest yet had in the
senate was that Tuesday over the bill to
provide for farmers institutes, which
contained a provision for the circulation
among farmers of copies Of the legisla-
tive hand book. The fight ended in the
sending of the bill back to the agricul-
tural committee.
Frieberg led the fight on the bill to
increase thS annual wolf bounty from
5000 to $4,000 per year. He has intro
duced a bill to wipe out all wolf bounty,
and took the position that a bounty bill
was only for the benefit of three or four
counties, and they should pay their own
bounties.
New senate bills presented Thursday
were by Hutchinson, providing appro-
! priation for payment of premiums at
| state fair, and fixing salaries of men,
bers of state boards of agriculture, and
by Mortimer TO make larceny of live
I stock of any value grand larceny.
The senate passed the house bill re-
curing county officers to provide the
state auditor with the required figures
for making county financial statements IA
portion of his annual report. and killed
the house bill providing for the examina-
ton of the eyes and ears of pupils in
the public schools.
In the senate Friday the bill to create
a northeastern hospital for the insane
at Watertown was the only matter which
| called out debate. Johnson asked for an
amendment to prohibit the erection of
buildings at the new location until the
Yankton institution had reached an at
tendance or 1000, which was added to
the bill before it passed.
Other senate bills passed Friday were:
Empowering county commissioners to APP
propriate cash for county fairs; requir-
ing the faculty at the agricultural college
TO make an annual exhibit at the state
fair: allowing road taxes to be paid in
cash: authorizing the employment Of as
sistant states attorneys in certain cases
and providing for farmers institutes.
The senate made laws by passing house
bills making notes for a physicians serv-
ices non-negotiable, and authorizing con-
solidation of certain funds in the state
treasury.
The senate bills Friday were:
By Frieberg, to fix fees Of insurance
companies, and a joint resolution by Cas-
sill indorsing the position of President
Roosevelt on the railroad rate question.
In the senate the principal new bills
were to provide for the appointment of a
, special states attorney to attend the
grand jury when the regular attorney is
incapacitated, and TO prevent the sale of
stocks of goods in order to defraud cred
itors.
The senate passed the house bill pro-
viding for determining adverse claims to
real estate. and senate bills to regulate
fees of sheriffs, a new fee bill; to allow
boards of equalization to place on tax
list property which has escaped the as
SCISSOR; fixing rates of tuition in schools
and providing for the teaching of effects
of tobacco on the human system in pub
lie schools.
In the senate Tuesday, among the
new bills were:
Rv Koepsel. allowing the county treas
nrers to offer for sale tax lungmenfS So