The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-02-03

by Turner of Brown, TO reduce the
minimum sentence for robbery in the
first degree to one year; by Newton,
allowing guardians to transfer real es-
tate, and resolution by Zafft, for con-
sttutional amendment 10 increase pay
of legislative members to $40 per day.
The house passed house bills making
marshals in small towns appointive in
stead OF elective, and changing time of
taking Office by board of trustees, and
amending the probate code to allow
any interesting party to ask for an &C
counting and senate bill to authorize
the commissioner of lands to enforce
lease contracts.
In the senate, Senator Dillon an
swered roll call for the first time since
his illness.
The committee on elections present
ed an unfavorable report on the reso-
luton for the election of senators by
popular vote. The senate passed SEN
ate bills providing for division of
towns into wards; providing for SO per
day for bailiffs in certain countless and
making provisions for collection of
taxes on transient merchants. New
senate bills We're: BY Rice, to provide
that when crime is committed, partly
in one county and partly in another,
jurisdiction shall be in either, and that
trial for newspaper libel shall be in
county where paper is printed; by
Cook, providing for scale inspection.
The house Saturday afternoon lis
tened to DR.. Ramsey of the bureau of
animal industry on the needs of dip
ping bill for South Dakota. He said
that few people were aware of the
spread of scabies east of the Missouri
river and that reports from agents in
the field showed that 60 per cent of
the herds of cattle between the Mis-
souri, and the James rivers were af-
fected, and that the disease extended
to the state line. Unless active work
OF wiping out the disease were carried
on, either under state or government
inspection, ne declared that a close
government quarantine would be estab-
liShed for the whole state, which would
mean that no cattle could be taken
across the state line until they were
accompanied with certificate that
they had been twice dipped.
The report on the capitol building
bill was taken up, and on motion of
Sutherland was made a special order
for next Tuesday at O'clock
House bills introduced We're: BY
Carroll, providing for publication of
new laws in supplement form in news
papers of the state; by BLY,, extending
the term of years for text book chang
es from five to ten; by Wilson, by re-
quest, allowing owners of threshing
machines to carry insurance for the
benefit of their patrons instead of Civ
ing bond.
The joint resolution for constitution
al amendment to allow counties to en-
gage in drainage work was passed.
The senate passed the Stoddard bill
requiring owners of motor vehicles to
register and number their machines,
and followed that with the first dis
play of fireworks of the session, on the
gress for the election of United States
senators by a popular vote. The cleo
tions committee had returned an I'M
favorable report, and Toy moved adop-
ton. Cook moved as a substitute that
it be referred to the federal relations
committee. but his motion was defeat
ed.
Rice took up the proposition that
the people themselves were better able
to Judge who they desired for sena-
tors than was the legislature, and
claimed that the present system leads
to corruption in the selection of sena-
tors Abel did not believe that the
state legislature gained anything by
suggesting amendments to the nation
al Constitution. Toy assailed the reso-
luton as Populist measure. Lawson
opposed the resolution as something
which had no standing except in the
Democratic state platform, and that
he had not been sent to the legislature
to place his seal of approval on such
Democratic doctrine. He closed with
a tribute to Senators Kittredge and
Allison. On roll call the adverse COM
mittee report was adopted by a vote
of 35 to 7.
The principal new senate bills were:
BY Cassill, providing for farmers in
stitutes and allowing counties to APP
propriate 5000 for the purpose; by
Johnson, fixing the exemption limit for
a single person at $3.50, and providing
for organization and control of trust
companies.
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woman with the veil?"
Eyes"
"Do you know why she wears the
veil?"
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mo. She's afraid the sun might
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Dealer.
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