The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-03-10
THE STATE LEGISLATURE AO)0URNSI
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tant Laws.

The last session of the senate took
up the general appropriation bill of
the house and amended it by adding
$4,000 a year for the Springfield nor
NAL school. The motion on which this
was done was made by Chairman
Branson of the appropriation commit
tee, who at first reported the bill to
ment was accepted without dissent
ing vote and the bill returned to tho
! house for concurrence.
Bills passed by the senate were to
allow cities to acquire property out
side their limits for sewerage purposes.
and empowering cities to sell or lease
last of the Sioux Falls bills to clear up
| their waterworks tangle.
The senate killed the Carroll house
/, bill to allow sureties on official bonds
to limit their liabilities. Carroll has
pushed this bin through the house at
two different sessions and both times
it has fallen in the senate
Gov. Elrod sent to the senate the
following list of appointees: Insurance
commissioner. j. G. Perkins, Sisseton;
public examiner, F. T. Bramble, Wa
tertown; food and dairy commissioner,
E. W. Small, Webster; mine inspector.
Nicholas Treweek, ST., Lead members
/ h0n,n A
shall, Rapid City; S. Pratt, Spearfsh;
George w. Snow, Springfield
The conference committee on the
| differences in the general appropria-
| ton committee reported about mid
night, cutting the appropriation for the
Springfield normal school $1,000 for
each of the two years and increasing
the expense and litigation funds of the
railroad commission 81 800 for each
year. The report of the committee was
adopted by both houses, and as soon
as the bill was signed the session ad-
journed.
| The senate presented the lieutenant
governor with his chair and gavel The
only house action of Importance for
the evening was the passage of the
law increasing the salary of the public
examiner TO $500 year and the
state standard insurance policy The
usual last night scene was carried out
in both houses while waiting for the
committee tosfinish the work
Among the most important measures
at the legislative session were those
dealing with revenues. 1T the opening
of the session both the outgoing and
! Incoming governors called attention to
the growing needs of the state in the
way of revenues, and of laws to bring
the needed funds. In this line several
laws have been enacted, the principal
of which is to provide for annual meet
lngs of county auditors with the state
board of equalization, beginning the
assessment. work each year. This is
Intended to provide an assessment over
the state which will not have so wide
a range of difference between counties,
and it is hoped by this means to Sc
cure a much larger general assess
ment than under the old law. Other
measures are for the taxation of in
heritances: and the employment of
tax ferrets by the county boards, to
search out property which has escaped
the tax lists, on a percentage of his
finds. With these different measures,
1t is believed that the revenues of the
state will be largely increased in the
next year.
The live stock interests have been
we'll taken care of in the different bills
which have become laws, the leading
one being the dipping bill, which is in
tended to eradicate the scabies which
prevail OYER the state. and which law
is drawn to cover the government reg
ulations for shipment of cattle out of
the state Other laws of interest 10
this industry are those which increase
the annual wolf bounty appropriation
to $4,000, and one to allow counties
to offer bounties for the conviction of
live stock thieves.
| The matter of changing the oil law
of the state to different gravity test
| to allow Western oils to be brought in
was one which was lot taken until
! thorough investigation had been made
by the authorities of the state, and on
their report the gravity test was low
cred from As baume to AZ, as the West
i srn oils cannot be made to comply with
| the original requirement.
In insurance matters, the principal
laws of the session are those which
provide for the organization and con-
troll of old line life insurance compa-
MES, and several companies are al
ready being formed to operate under
this law. The old line companies of
the East take about a million dollars
year out of the state, and with the
new companies it is hoped that some OF
that money will be left in the state.
/ The fire insurance law of the session
! was to provide a state standard policy
| form, which, while following the New