The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-04
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LEGISLATION ENDS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Most Important Work of the
Session Carefully
AnalyZed
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Special to The Globe
PIERRE. S. D.. March 3.-The senate
took up the general appropriation bill of
the house and amended it by adding
$4,000 year for the Springfield normal.
The bill was returned to the house for
concurrence. This was refused by vote
OF Al TO 40. House bills passed by the
senate were: To allow cities to acquire
property outside their limits for sewerage
purposes: empowering cities to sell or
lease municipal water plants. which is
the last OF the Sioux Falls bills to clear
up the water works tangle The senate
Killed the Carroll house bill to allow sure
Ties on official bonds to limit their liabili-
ties Carroll has pushed this bill through
the house at two sessions and both times
1t has fallen in the senate.
The conference committee on the diff
ference In the general appropriations
committee reported about midnight. cut
ting the appropriation for the Springfield
normal school $1,000 for each of the two
years and increasing the expense and liti-
cation funds of the railroad commission
$1,000 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 only house action of importance for
the evening vas the passage of the law
increasing the salary OF the public ex-
standard insurance policy The usual last
night scenes were witnessed I'm both
houses.
Sessions Work Reviewed
=. In their message to the legislature at
the opening OF the session both the out
going and incoming governors called at
tention to the necessity for revenue laws
which would raise the revenues. In this
line several laws have been enacted, one
to provide for, meetings of the county
auditors with the state board of equaliza-
tion each year before beginning assessment
work, to formulate general lines of work
TO make assessments over the state uni
form: the law to tax inheritances; and
to allow county boards to employ tax
ferrets are the others enacted.
The live stock interests were taken care
of I'm the dipping bill drawn to eradicate
"scabies' from the state; the wolf bounty
amendment to double the annual appro-
priation; and the law to allow counties
TO offer bounties for the arrest and con-
yiction of live stock thieves.
Two laws of opposite intentions that
have been classed together are the irriga-
ton and the drainage codes. the one to
meet the needs of that portion of the state
where the government irrigation projects
are being carried out, and the other to
provide for drainage OF the low lands in
the southeastern part of the state. The
former is drafted largely from the irriga-
ton codes of the states to the west. while
the latter Is taken from the Iowa statutes
on drainage.
Different acts OF the session will make
South Dakota a good field for frauds to
stay away from in the future. Among the
laws in this line are those defining swindlers
and confidence men, and providing pun
ishment for them; and others making the
notes given for lightning rods, patent
rights and mutual insurance premiums
nonnegotiable with a penalty for failure
to so draw such notes. Travelling doctors
are treated i'm the same way.
The principal insurance legislation is in
the laws to provide a standard state fire
insurance policy; and the law for creation
and control OF life insurance companies
on old line life plans. under which several
companies will be organized.
The defeat of the primary election law
which was sought under the provisions
of the initiative. brought out the passage
of a caucus law which allows challenging
for party reasons, as well as for the rea-
sons which apply at general elections.
with the chances that the voters will find
II a cumbersome measure i'm the smaller
precincts before they are through with it,
The Parmley parole law Is drawn from
parole laws of number of other states,
taking the best features of ali and cut
ting out the objectional ones.
The Irvine plant at the penitentiary has
been provided for and the capitol building
bill is sufficient to allow the beginning of
work. and to settle the controversy for
all time.