The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-01-25

An attempt to bring up the bill to al
low towns TO condemn property outside
the municipal limits for water works
purposes for final action resulted i'm its
being sent back to the judiciary com
mittee.
SENATE.
The senate rushed a resolution through
to accept the report of the boundary com
mission on the boundary between Ne
braska and South Dakota and the house
did the same to allow the matter TO be
presented to the present session of con-
g?ess for action.
Senator Lawson got in the first bill in
the senate in a measur providing for the
taking of the state census and collection
of vital statistics, placing the control of
the work in the hands of the secretary
Of the State Historical Society. The
bill was by Wagner, to reduce the on
tract rate of interest from l. per cent.
to 10 per cent. Both of these bills We're
in line with the recommendations of Gov.
Elrod in his message to the legislature.
The latter bill will be fought by the bank
ing interests of the state, who consider
the present rate low enough.
Senator Stoddard introduced a group
of bills covering the management of af-
fairs in the state land department.
These bills are prepared by and Com
missioner Bach to cover deficiencies
which have appeared in the present laws
in regard to affairs in that department.
One of them is to allow patents from the
national government to be filed for record
without any further acknowledgement;
another provides for the enforcement of
lease contracts or state lands, as parties
at times lease for terms and drop out be-
for the completion of the contract. An
other is TO relieve the Office from acting
rs a court to settle titles where contracts
have been assigned and papers lost leav-
ing q question Of title {. lands sold: and
another to regulate the loaning of state
funds by counties to which they are APP
portioned by the state.
The senate made the first move for a
recess from Thursday of this week to
Tuesday of next week by adopting Il res
Olution to that effect.
A resolution was introduced in the sen
ate Saturday for the appointment of a
joint committee to 90 to the soldiers
home to report on its needs. Bonney
moved that the resolution be amended
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bers and employees of both houses and
that they be given thirty days in which
to make the trip.
Football legislation received its first at
tention Monday in the senate in Il bill
by Lightner. in which he attempts to reg
ulate the manner of playing, providing
disqualifications for any player on a col
lege or a school team who either accident
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player.
Other senate bills were: BY Lightner,
to encourage tree planting OH the school
grounds; by Andrews, 30 provide state
aid to high schools; and by Cordill, to
change the manner of election of county
commissioners back to the district instead
of the county system, which is now i'll
force.
A number of bills were presented i'll
the senate Tuesday, being duplicates of
house bills. The principal measures in
that body were by Northrup to prevent
the introduction of noXious insects into
the state; by Wagner, providing for tax
ing the costs of a suit to the
plaintiff when the same is brought in the
wrong county.
A communication was presented from
eX-Gov. Herrcid transmitting the report
of the boundary commission which fixed
the boundary between Nebraska and
South Dakota and a resolution accepting
the report was pushed through both
houses.
1t is not likely that any attempt will
be made to rush business before the re-
cess adjournment. which will carry the
session up to the 18th before any real
work commences.
b.. +. Williams and w. w. Boyd were
sworn in as committee clerks of the SEN
ate.
A horse play bill was introduced into
the senate Wednesday to provide for
state inspection and dipping of jack rab-
bits with an official dipping tank at the
geographical center unless it could be
shown that the tank was more accessible
to the rabbits at some other place. The
bill caused considerable merriment.
Presumably it is a take-off OH the bill
introduced into the legislature a few days
ago providing protection for the jacks.
The bill is not taken seriously, but the
introduction of such a bill is due to the
fact that a Sioux Falls firm has con-
tracted to supply the French market with
10000 jack rabbits, and that expert
marksmcn are now at work in the jack
rabbit districts getting the requisite num-
Der. This has agitated sportsmen, par
ticularly those interested in coursing
meetings, who believe that such a whole
sale slaughter of the animals will cause
them to become extinct.
The senate, after routine work, intro
duced the following bills: By Shober, to
limit the liability of policy holders in
mutual companies and providing for the
election of insurance commissioners; by
Neil, empowering sheriffs to levy taxas
on goods of transient merchants, and by
Hutchinson, to make lightning rod and