The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-02-03
DoINGs OUT AT PIERRE
A Minority Report Was Brought II
Concerning the Increase of
Communicates alary.

Commandments aldry.
Pierre special, IS. Senator Dillon
was at his desk yesterday again. aft
tel being out owe two weeks with
ing congress for the election of
United States senator 10y a popular
vote was %unfavorably reported. The
Taubman libel suit brought out a
bin by Rice which provides for trial
IN libel charge against a newspaper
in the county i'm which the paper is
published. Cook introduced a bill
Tor scale inspection.
Jhe senate passed the senate bills
providing for the division of towns
into wards; providing tor So a day
tol court bailihs in certain counties.
and making ptoNision for the collec-
tion of taxes from transient .aer
chants.
Van Osdel came in with Il minority
report against the bill which allows
an increase of salary of the com.
mandant of the soldiers home to
81 200 a year and provides pay for the
board. The committee report WAS
favorable and the minority report
~unIavorable, the opposition being on
he ground of the raise and the TAX
ing away of the pension OF soldiers.
The capitol building bill after
numerous amendments was favor
ably reported and will come up in
committee of the whole for discus
aion today. The house committee on
agriculture unfavorably reported the
bill to limit the shooting season to
two months and Lee who introduced
1T asked for a recommitment to the
live stock committee. which failed.
Pierre, Jan 3l.-While not much
has been doing up to the present. IN
the way of laws. several were
ground out yesterday, the house pas
Sing senate bills to legalize liquor Ii
cenSeS granted IN towns where no H.
cenSe elections were held the past
two years and am emergency applo-
priation of So. 800 Tor the normal
school at Speartisl, which was re-
quired to keep that school open after
this week, and also, the house passed
the sen'te bill requiring school ofic-
ers to plant and care for trees on
school grounds. Boswell moved to
indefinitely postpone this, but kribs,
Jackson and Carroll rallied to its
support and it passed by a vote OF 80
to %.
The senate passed the house bills
appropriating SIS, $50 dctiricncy at the
soldiers home at Hot Springs and
the Joint resolution memorializing
congress for protection OF farmers
from the ravages Of the Missouri
liver.
The only new senate bill was by
Lightner which gave the authorities
power to use force of arms if ueces-
sary to prevent the escape of prison.
ers at the penitentiary or elsewhere.
The principal new house bills wcre:
BY Anderson. to cut the eight Mill
limitation OF county levieS out OF
the revenue laws: by Blaine. allow
lig %tua4netic dealers To operate in
the state, and by Madison requiring
county officers to furnish the state
auditor with information for includ-
ing county financial Statements IN
his annual reports.
The senate cleared IA long calander
OF senate bills. Among them were
The bill to appropriate the proceeds
OF the South Carolina bonds to the
state university the providing for
the division of wards into voting pre-
clncts; the bill making abandonment
of a family miSdemeanor and the bill
fixing the liability of banks on
forged paper to six months after the
paper is returned to the customer.
The house passed house bills pro-
viding regulations for teachers GEL
titicates which will allow interstate
exchange.