Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-02-02

lboth houses, with an architect, consid-
Tered the proposed capitol building site
Saturday and later took up the bill to
erect a building.
/ The senate held short session, in
which a favorable committee report
was secured on the bill to legalize Ii
censes in towns where, nc license cleo
| ton has been held the last year.
Senate measures introduced we're:
BY Cook, a memorial to congress ask
| ing for the election of senators by a
popular vote; by Cordill, bill requir
| ing steam engines on highways to give
right of way to teams; by Anderson,
| for a Irvine plant at the penitentiary,
with $150,000 appropriation; by Sho-
bera. sheriffs' fee bill, and by Wagner,
providing for collection of expenses
of education Of children from parents.
Gov. Elrod signed the first law of
the session, it being to provide legisla-
tive expense funds. The pen was pre-
sented to the State Historical society
The house decided that it had been
quiet long enough, and debated bills
brought before IT, The fist was the
bill appropriating $8,923 deficiency at
the soldiers home. This was opposed
by Vanosdel, who announced it as his
belief that the deficiency was caused
by. extravaganza in management and
violation of direct law. He believed
that the old soldiers should be prop
erly cared for, but did not believe in
pNinp tn tho avfnnf IF vic ha J,r
to do so. Clark of Fall River and Tur-
ner of Faulk supported the measure on
the ground that the deficiency was
caused by absolute necessity. 1t was
passed with but four dissenting votes,
Vanosdel not voting.
The resolution for a constitutional
amendment to allow county superin-
tendents to hold more than two terms
brought on a general discussion and
the resolution finally was tabled on
motion of Demalignon by vote of "A
to "a. The bill was supported by
Brotrud, Hebal, Carroll and Bowde1l,
and opposed by Madison, Countryman,
Craig and Turner, the latter opposing
1T on the ground that the people of the
state twice had voted and defeated the
same proposition.
An unfavorable report was returned
by the house committee on the appro-
priation of 1000 for buildings on the
state fair grounds at Huron.
Two Irvine plant bills were intro
duced in the house, one by Hsbal, car
rying an appropriation Of $780, 900, and
the other by Thoreson. with an appro-
Ipriation of $4,000. Other house bills
were: BY CLANCY, to make the office
OF town marshal apppointive instead Of
elective; by Pennington, cutting away
all exemptions from a single man;
and by Turner of Brown, to prevent
druggists from selling liquor in mo IL
cense towns except upon prescription.
The house passed bills fixing the be-
ginning Of terms of county auditors at
the first Monday in March, and MAX
ing the terms of officers of mutual in
! surance companies three years.
The senate session Monday was a
short one. handling a small amount of
business. The Cooper bill to legalize
liquor licenses in towns where no IL
cense vote was taken last year was
| passed. Bills were introduced as fol-
lows: BY Doering. changing the date
when taxes shall become delinquent
from March to May / by Cooper, to
provide stenographers for county
| courts; by Rice, giving farm laborers
and threshing crews lien for their Ia
| Dor.
The house passed the Lawson SEN
ate bill providing for the taking Of
the census and collection of vital sta
tistics. Before it passed Turner of
| Faulk secured an amendment to make
| the record of the commissioner and
clerks of court in connection with the
bill proper evidence in court Heba,t
attempted to secure an amendment to
4 strike out all that portion Of the bill
which related to vital statistics, but
his amendment was voted down Az to
la. The bill then passed with but one
| vote to spare, as an emergency meas
lure. getting 81 votes. House bill pass
ed to allow counties to offer reward
Flor capture Of horse thieves, and bill
to give court bailiffs increased com
lpensation in the larger counties was
!! killed House ieisass iiuittii0ns were
Ipassed for cohsti tutional amend
ment allowing the legislature to pro-
| vide qualifications for q county super
lintendent. memorializing congress for
protection Of the banks Of the Missou-
| ~ river, and proyi ding for the publish.