The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-03


tee Friday reported out the capitol
and the bill will be up in the senate
Monday for final action.
The principal new senate bills pre-
scented were: BY Cassill, to allow a
wife to take advantage of exemptions
when the husband has failed to do SO,
and by Cook, requiring foreign corpor-
atoms doing business in the state to
pay license fee. Senate bills passed
by the house were to provide for state
aid for high schools and for a state
library commission
The senate made laws of house bills
compelling mutual insurance compa-
MES to give non-negotiable notes, as
required by law; providing for divi-
sion of costs in township line fire
guards, and increasing the term Of
compulsory attendance at school to
sixteen weeks a year.
Vanosdel in the house introduced a
resolution memorializing the state del
egatiOn in congress to support Presi-
dem Roosevelt in his railroad rate
fight, and secured assurance of it's
consideration in committee of the
whole next Monday. He also present
! ed a resolution for a constitutional
amendment to prevent the giving or
receiving of a railroad pass by any
state official or member of his family.
Other house bills were by the
committee on state affairs to
compel railroad companies to build
side tracks between stations when
such stations are more than fourteen
miles apart, and by Hilstad, providing
a penalty when a physician prescribes
liquor in cases where there is no all
ment.
Parmley, IN of the members of the
immigration committee, secured the
adoption by the house of a resolution
instructing the house appropriation
committee to add to its general bill an
| appropriation for $3.50 to be expended
, in the issuing of an official state map,
showing the esource of the state.
The two wolf bounty reports started
the same old fight which is renewed at
every session where bounty is IN is
sue. AS usual, the fight and the ma
jority report carrying $4,000 a year
was adopted by the house, after a dis
cussion in which a number of mem
bers ooh part. Bills regulating the
taking of carp were indefinitely post
poned; the house bill on the plea that
the senate bill following covered the
same ground, and the senate bill on
the plea that the general game bill
was sufficient regulation.
The house made laws by passing
senate bills to allow consolidated
school districts to increase the limit of
bonded Indebtedness to S. 5000; requir-
ing the registration of motor vehicles,
and providing a penalty for physicians
who fail to register their certificates.
Saturday being closure day on gen.
eral bills, several new one were pre-
scented, the principal being: To fix
salaries of county auditors and regis
ters of deeds on a valuation basis. and
providing for licensing of legislative
lobbyists. The latter measure was
framed after the Wisconsin law, and
was introduced by Sanders.
The house went into committee of
the whole on the resolution indorsing
the action OF President Roosevelt on
the rate question, recommended its
passage and put it at the head of the
days calendar. where it passed with
out a dissenting vote.
The appropriation of $4,000 for the
soldiers hame was passed, a swas a
small appropriation for the Lyman
the practice of optometry came up it
met with vigorous opposition. Turner
of Faulk, in moving indefinite post
ponement, said all the bill vas drawn
for was to. compel every seller Of spec
tacles to pay to the state board of med
ical examiners 81 a ear and that pay
was the main part of it. Brown of
Sanborn said it was nothing but graft,
and the bill failed to develop a single
friend, either in debate or on the vote.
The bill requiring notice of lien on
grain before it should become effective
and one to allow a county treasurer to
collect 81 from each nonresident tax
payer who paid by letter, went to the
morgue with the optometry bill, while
the bills to put transient merchants
under the penalty clause of the ped
der license clause was carried.
The session ended with the first rip
pie in the harmony of the Black Hills
corner ove the attempt to amend the
law rushed through at the beginning
of the session to allow Deadwood to 60
out into the Hills searching for the
creek it wanted to draw water from.
The desire of the amendment was to
limit the scope of the original bill, and
it was a test of the strength of the
delegation from the Hills against the
Lawrence county members, with the
sympathy of the house against Law
renee county. The amendment was
passed.
The senate held a long session:
rushed through a number of bills be-
fore adjOurning, and ended in a gen.
eral row, as an aftermath on the pri-