The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-01-20
STATE LEGISLATURE.
The Weeks PROCEEDINGS.

raised from that of former sessions,
that Of principal clerks being placed
at IS a day and all others at 81. Pages
are to get s2.75.
Both houses introduced numerous
bills, the principal ones in the house
being to appropriate $65,350 for legis-
lative expenses; by Stokes of. Butte,
authorizing county commissioners to
offer rewards of 800 for horsethieves;
by Martin, changing terms of direc-
tors of county mutual insurance com
panies from one year to three; by Will
son, defining a confidence man and
making his operations a criminal Of
tense; by Parmley, to encourage farm
ers' institutes and for them providing
an annual appropriation of $4,000; by
Kribs, providing for state licenses for
motor cars and limiting speed to TWEEN
ty miles an hour on highways, and
from four to ten miles in town: by
| Webb. appropriating SIS 5000 for build
ings on the state fair grounds at HUI
ron, and by Carroll, a resolution for
constitutional amendment to allow
election holdover legislative members.
Senate bills were by W1llsie, ap-
propriating $500 deficiency at the
school of mines; by Frieberg, provid-
ing that the statute of limitations in
other states s~e a bar to procedure. in
this state.
A senate bill to provide for increased
school fund loans on farm lands passed
unanimously.
In executive session the appoint
ments of John II. King of Huron and
George II. Whiting of Yankton, as
members of the state board of agri-
culture and DR.. j. P. Foster of Huron
as state veterinarian, were confirmed.
These are reappointments.
In the senate there was offered a
horse-play bill providing for the dip
ping of j%ackrabbits, with state inspec-
ton and a state dipping tank at the
geographical center, unless it be more
accessible to rabbits at some other
point. The measure is a ~jocular thrust
at the advocates of Gov. Elrod's rec
o~mmendation that dipping tanks be
provided in every county for the eradi-
cation of the scabbies among cattle in
the state.
Everything in both houses Thursday
gave way to an early adjournment TO
allow the members to get away on the
recess. The house business was SIM
| ply the introduction of bills, by Clark,
to appropriate $9,025 to a de-
fciency at the soldiers home; by
! Tubbs. allowing the county commits
sioners to build or repair the county
buildings without a vote; by GrOpen-
gieser, to change the classification OF
horses for taxation, putting range
stock in a list by itself.
Bills to allow towns to condemn
property outside the limits for water
works purposes were advanced on The
calendar.
In the senate were introduced bills
bv Shober. to limit liability of policy
holders in mutual insurance compa-
MES. and providing for the election or
an insurance commissioner; by Neil,
empowering sheriffs to levy X on
! goods of transient merchants, and by
Hutchinson. to make lightning red and
machine notes non-negotiable.
Both houses went into joint session
to listen to an address by j. w. Shep-
pard, chemist at the agricultural col
lege, on the subject of pure foods. All
members left for their homes on the
afternoon trains, the adjournment De-
ing to Tuesday of next week.