The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1905-03-10

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adoption Of a resolution which 10 effect
Insirticts the house appropriation com.
mittee 10 insert an item Of $50 in the
general bill for the purpose Of Issuing an
official tnap Of the state, showing the re-
sources OF the state In condemned form
on the same.
Among the new house bills presented,
Van Osdel sent In resolution for con
stitutional amendment TO prohibit the
giving to or acceptance Of railroad passes
By state officials aud their families. and
another resolution inatructing the South
Dakota delegation 10 support President
Roosevelt In his railroad rates PROPOSE
ton, and this was secured as a special
order for next Monday Ia committee Of
the whole.
The principal new house bills Friday
were TO license legislative lobbyists and
fixing the salaries Of registers of deeds
aud county auditors on a valuation basis.
The house passed resolution indorsing
the action of the president on the rate
bill, and several minor measures.
The house scared up several scraps for
Monday afternoon, and did not get
through as much business as the senate.
The horse inspection bill brought up the
never ending contest over the varying
interests of the eastern and western
parts of the state. the western members
winning out and carrying the measure
by q good majority. The next contest
was again the east VS.. the west. with
the same outcome on the wolf bounty.
increasing the annual bounty from 3d.
600 to $4,000 n year
The clearing up of the wolf bounty
bill and the Mitchell building bill by
the house action Monday, and the practi-
cal clearing up of the capitol building
bill by the senate action will clear away
Il lot of timber" for future work, aud
from this time on il will be rush TO get
as many bills out of the way as posi-
BILE before the closing night
Both houses rusheu work Monday. the
house beginning at 10 O'Clock in the
morning and the senate holding a night
session for the purpose of considering the
caucus bill, and passed it.
The house bills disposed of by the
house were to give cities power TO Fell or
lease water works. which is one OF the
Sioux Falls bills 10 settle the tangle
these. making a city council part or
the board of equalization. which were
passed.
The house made laws by passing SEN
ate bills empowering counties to fund
outstanding indebtedness: requiring the
agricultural college to make annual ex-
hihit at state fair; prohibiting the pHr-
chase of old metal from minors appru-
priating $1,000 for live stock exhibit
building at Mitchell; aud the wolf boun-
ty.
The house put in Tuesday afternoon
in committee of the whole on the caucus
bill and held a night session. at which
it passed the house bill for a caucus law:
allowing suits to be brought against cor
porations; allowing judge to fix COM
pensation of an attorney appointed in
criminal cases, and allowing town
boards to refund Indebtedness without
vote at a lower rate of interest.
The legislature will adjourn Friday
night.
The house Wednesday took up the
Springfield normal bill to abolish the
school. which bill was defended by the
members of the appropriation committee,
which introduced 1t. 1t passed by vote
of Al to 81.
The house general appropriation bill
was passed without discussion 81 amend
ment In any way. the first time IN the
history of the state.
The house made laws Wednesday by
passing senate bills TO appropriate money
for public printing; the amendment to the
oil inspection laws to allow Kansas oils
to come in at lower test; requiring in
struction in public schools as to the eff
fects of alcohol and narcotics on the hn-
man system; to provide for the organiza-
ton OF life insurance companies under
the laws of the state; making notes for
lightning rods and patent rights non-ne-
gotiable, and locating northeastern
hospital for the insane at WATERFOWL,
which was contested as unnecessary at
the present time, but it passed by a vote
Of 81 TO 80.
The house crowded along more rapidly
than usual with it's work Thursday.
clearing its calender early in the fore
noon and handling a number of senate
bills The only contests were over the
appropriation for the state fair at HUI
ron, which met some opposition, but
only enough TO make itself felt in talk.
but not in the vote.
Gov. Elrod Thursday signed the can't
toll building bill. making the long drawn
out capitol fights OF the past a closed in
cident.
The house at Thursday nights session
passed senate bills appropriating money
for new buildings at the Yankton asylum
and the senate joint resolution memorial
ing congress for a constitutional amend
ment for the regulation OF trusts.
The bill creating a travelling library
commission was killed for the second
time.
The conference committee in the con-
ference on the general appropriations
committee reported about midnight Fri
day night. cutting the appropriation for
the Springfield normal school 81 900 for
each OF the two years and increasing the
expense and litigation funds OF the rail-
road commission $500 for each year
The report OF the committee was adopted
by both houses, and as soon as the bill
was signed the session adjourned.
The senate presented the lieutenant
governor with his chair and gayei.
The only house action OF importance
for the evening was the passage of the
law increasing the salary of the public
examiner 10 81 500 year and the state
standard insurance policy.
SENATE
The senate session Saturday night end.
ed In a wrangle as an aftermath of the