The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-20
AT PIERRE.
Primary Election Bill i'm the
House Bills and Routine
Business.

Pierre dispatch, II: In the house the
report OF the house elections committee
on the primary election bill was pre-
sented late this evening. 1t attacks the
validity Of the petition and recommends
that it not pass 1t goes over to tomor-
row for action, and the probabilities
are that the report will be turned down
and the bill passed
Principal among the house bills pre-
sented today were these:
BY the ways and means committee
to require county auditors to meet with
state equalization boards before assess
ors meetings each year and increasing
insurance taxes from p TO 3 per cent.
OF premium receipts, and hy the live
stock committee providing for county
meat and hide inspectors.
The Iafft resolution for an amend
ment to raise salaries of legislative
members only secured eleven votes,
and the bill for the state library com
mission was defeated
The house made laws by pu ssins sen
ate bills to list agricultural and mineral
lands separately for assessment, and to
tax the cost against a plaintiff where
suit was brought in the wrong county.
House bills passed were these:
The Foster bill prohibiting dealing
IN futures and operation of bucket
shops Foster declared these institu-
tions to be worse than any other kind
of gambling places in the state and
the bill went through with only half |
dozen votes against it.
Other house bills were to prohibit |
saloon licenses within FIVE !
miles OF government works; increasing
of county commissioners |
In certain cases; allowing circuit court
Judges expenses increasing compulsory
school attendance TO sixteen weeks in a
7ear; legalizing the issuance of water
works bonds, and bull for the purpose
If assisting in Strengthening out the
sioux Falls waterworks tangle, and a
oint resolution for constitutional
to provide for municipal
QUITS
In the senate the bill to create
lortLeastern hospital for the insane at
Vatertown was the only matter which
allied out debate. Dillon of Yankton
eading the opposition, in which he was
upported by Cassill, Neill. Hutchinson,
.awson and Abel. Johnson asked for
n amendment to prohibit the erection
I buildings at the new location until
he Iankton institution had reached an
of 1000. which was added
, the bill before it passed
Other senate bills passed were EN-
owerine county commissioners to ap
ropriate cash fol county fairs; reuuir-
ls the faculty of the agricultural col
.ge to make an annual exhibit at the
tate fair; allowing road taxes to be
aid In cash; authorizing the employ
tent of assistant states attorney in
artain cases, and providing for farm
rs institutes.
The senate made laws by passing
ouse bills making notes for n ply
clans services non-neoetiable. and {
nthorizing consolidation fol- certain
lnds in the state treasury.
New senate bills We're:
by Frieberg, to fix fees of insurance
'iiipailles, ana joint resolution byI
assill indorsing the position of Presi.
mt Roosevelt on the railroad rate .
Iestion.
Babies skin will be soft. fair and
nooth if you give them HOLSTERS
ocky Mountain Tea this month. It'll
gulates the stomach and bowels 1t :
axes the little ones sleep and grow.
cents. Frank Smith.
Sickening Shivering Fits
Ague and Malaria, can be relieved by i
ID cured with Electric Bitters. This i
a pure tonic medicine; OF especial b
nefit IN malaria, for it exerts true
rative influence on the disease. driy-
9 1t entirely out of the system. 1t is
lch TO be preferred to Quinine, having >,
me OF this drugs bad effects. Il. s. -
unday, OF Henrietta, Tex. writes:
ly brother was very low with malarial
yer and jaundice, till he took Electric n
tiers which saved his life, At Stod. Il