Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-02-23

/. sessment taxes of cities. The house
passed house bills fixing terms Of
court in the Fourth Judicial circuit;
Il two bills amending probate procedure
to cover Indian claims in probate
4 cases; legalizing the acts of the town
of Hot Springs; providing for appoint
ment instead of election of assessors
in cities; changing the date for board
settlements with the town treasurer:
allowing the calling of circuit Judge
into circuit; allowing for terms of
court to be held in two counties at the
same time, and providing for the ex-
tensions of powers of sheriffs in max
Ing leyles on executions. The bill to
provide for state board of yeterina.
/ rians was lost.
! The hottest fight of the legislature
session ragged Wednesday in the sen.
ate from 3 o'clock until at night over
the report of the committee on rules
for indefinite postponement of the in.
itiative petition for the primary cleo
ton law.
Lawson started the game by mo-
| ton to adopt the report, and Vessey
| asked that the petition and all matters
connected with it go to the judiciary
| committee. Lawson declared this
I to be only for delay, and argued the
Illegally of the petition. Frieberg de-
sired the reference, and Rice, the lead
-er of the primary forces, took the floor.
He spoke for over an hour, denounc-
| ing the report of the committee in
every particular, and strongly assail-
ing the effort to throttle the will of
i the people. Branson followed, sup
| porting the report, declaring the move
| of those back of the petition was a de-
| sire to stab in the back the present
| congressional delegation. Senator Kit
! tredge, Hutchinson, Dillon and Cassill
| opposed the report. Robertson, Wag:
ner and Toy supported it. The close
OF the debate brought a hot exchange
| of words between Lawson and Cassill.
The motion to refer to the judiciary
committee was defeated by vote of
20 to 20 and the report of the commit
tee was adopted by "a to 20.
The senate passed number of bills,
the principal of which were: To
make hunters licenses good only in
the county where issued making it
a misdomeanor to purchase old metal
from minors; appropriating $4,000 for
live stock exhibit building at Mitch
ell. and increasing the wolf bounty
from $500 to $4,000 a year. Those
who were looking for fight on the
capitol Dill in the house were disap-
pointed. While a number of the men,
bers made brief remarks, there was
no set speech in favoring the measure
which passed by vote of "a to 10.
Those who spoke for the measure
We're Sutherland, Brown of Sanborn,
Stokes of Butte, Martin Olson of
Moody, Madison, Turner of Faulk, Van
Odsel, Craig, Holman, who said that
different capitol fights had cost the
state in different ways enough to build
two capitol buildings, and Wilson of
Huron, who supported the bill in or
der to forever stop the people of Huron
from spending any more money chas-
ing after capitol.
Other house bills passed were: To
increase the limitation of county gen
eral levies to ten mills; providing a
defense of mutual insurance; notes IL
legally drawn. Making the state food
inspector of liquors; reducing the min
imum sentence for robbery from ten
years to one year.
The bill for state uniformity of text
books was killed by vote of Sc to 80.
This bill called out several speakers,
all opposing the measure except CounY
tryman. Thoreson of Minnehaha op-
posed the measure as graft bill for
which the members would have to
answer to their constituents if they
passed it.
Among house bills presented the
principal one was to- prevent hunting
dogs from running at large from April
to September, and a bill to amend
law passed earlier in the session to al
low cities to condemn property outside
of their limits for waterworks pur-
poses. The latter was a Deadwood
bill, and its amendment is attempted
by parties who desire to retain the use
of the waters of Elk creek. The
house state affairs committee favor
ably reported the resolution for a con-
gstitutional amendment to increase the
salary Of legislative members, fixing
the limit at $500 session.
The cattle dipping bill caused al
warm contest on the floor of the house
Thursday over the size of the appropri.
alton to be granted. No one opposed
I the bill In any other particular, and
Parmley led for the minority report
which granted $4,000. Foster opposed
I ;aiiiii ii Tgsi the majority report, which
allowed only $500. A number Of
members took part in the debate, and
vote sof 10 to so for the minority re-
port WAS secured. 81
There was calm after the storm in
the senate to-day, and but little bust.
ness was transacted. The senate en-
acted one law by passing the house bill
TO require county officers to supply the.
state auditor with the necessary dg-s