The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-02-10
What the State
S0l0ns Are Doing

ey from the old soldiers, and in his
remarks he stated that the command.
ant and the home board could not all
ways be trusted to handle the funds
| for the best interests of the old SOL
| dlers. Brown of Sanborn defended the
| bill and declared that Nanosdel had
misrepresented conditions as to what
was desired by the soldiers, and the
conditions existing at the home. Clark
defended the measure and secured it
as special order for the foregoing
date.
The seed grain lecturers from the
/ agricultural college, Professors Vince
Ter and Chilcott, addressed the Joint
session Wednesday.
The principal measures among the
senate bills introduced were: BY
| Cooper providing for the selection of
| a board Of regents of education from
| different political parties; by Wagner,
| providing that the tuition at all state
educational institutions shall be the
same: by Cook, to prevent the reten-
| ton of any inmate of the reform
| school after reaching his majority; by
Abel, boiler inspection bill; by
Doering, to appropriate $4,000 for car
rying on seed grain experiments at
state stations; by Hutchinson, to all-
thorize cities to issue bonds for pay
| ing judgments; by Shober, defining
| the liability of railroad in personal
damage suits. The latter is said to
be one of the boosting" bills prom
!, ised for the primary election law
In the house, attempts are being
made to form conservative" faction
alleged purpose being to keep down
| expenditures. This agitation is look
ed upon as another Boxer move
ment, such as was organized in the
house two years ago, and it may
make showing when the appropria
ton bills come up after the recess.
On motion of Rogde, all bills for third
reading were put over until the Sth Of
the month.
Parmeley, the house member of
the subcommittee of the joint live
stock committee, secured the adoption
of a resolution to print 800 copies of
the bill proposed by the commit'oo.
to be distributed before it's intro,..~-
ton, in order to get suggestions Of
from the recess.
Several new house bills were repre-
scented. the principal among them be-
ing: BY WolZmuth (by request,
| making it a misdemeanor to operate
a threshing machine on Sunday; and
a committee bill providing pure food
regulations.
The house session Thursday was
brief, the only business being the pre-
sentation of bill by Clark, provid
ing for organization and control of
trust companies.
In the senate an exciting debate
arose over discussion of the bill to
provide for organization and regula-
ton of life insurance companies in
this state, which is an Aberdeen meas
ure to affect a company that it is pro-
posed to organize in that city. Bonney
attempted to amend by limiting the
field of investments of surplus to the
States of South Dakota, North Dako-
ia and Minnesota. Rice attacked the
bill. declaring that under the law as
drawn any seven men could organize
a company, regardless of their stand
ing and as it did not require sur
plus until the first years premiums
had been collected there could be
collection followed by vanishing act,
and that he would as soon trust a
brigand with bludgeon as the aver
age insurance agent.
In defense of the bill, Lawson said
that every age produced it's Don
Quixote who went about attempting
to right imaginary wrong, and that
the senator from Moody was in that
class. He named the men who are
back of the proposed company who
are not in that class. Rice heatedly
denied that his remarks were aimed
at those particular men. The bill
went over to Wednesday.
Several new senate bills were pre-
sented, principal of which We're: BY
Cooper, to provide that every person
who was liable for road work must
comply or pay $3.50 a day, and provid-
ing that claims against estates must
be filed within the required time or
be barred; by Payne, providing for
exchange of supreme court reports be.
| tween South Dakota and other states.
| Both houses adjourned to Tuesday
| of next week.
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