The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-03

Carolina bonds to state university; by
Willsie, to appropriate $1,000 def
cheney for John r. Brannan as railroad
commissioners in 1894; by May, for es-
tablishing day schools for the deaf in
this state; by Cooper, appropriating
$500 deficiency at the Spearfsh nor
NAL school, and a joint resolution by
Payne for a constitutional amendment
allowing counties to incur Indebtedness
for ditch and drainage purposes.
The senate passed the Lightper bill
to provide for the planting and care of
trees on public school grounds. The
Sioux Falls insurance bill, allowing
stock insurance companies to invest
their surplus outside of the state and
to reduce their reserve funds was OPP
posed by Craig and Vandosel, and lost
as an emergency measure. 1t was eX-
planned by DAILY and Rodge and Brat
rud, but could muster only enough
votes to go through without the emer-
gency.
The new house bills were: By Lee,
to make the open season for hunting,
September and October only; by
Satire. to prevent shipment of fraudu-
lent dairy products out of or into the
state; by Smith, to provide for the
examination at public expense of eyes
and ears of school children; by Clark,
to provide for an agreement by two
thirds of jury in civil suits; by Brown,
to appropriate $4,000 for a building at
the Aberdeen normal school.
In the senate Wednesday an unsuc-
cessful attempt was made to keep alive
| the bill to elect county commissioners
by districts instead of by counties.
Committees reported favorably on the
bill to give court bailiffs SO a day in
| certain counties; the bill to allow sher-
| ifs to collect taxes from transient mer-
| chants, and the Spearfish emergency
appropriation to keep the school in OPP
Grafton. On motion, the senate ap-
pointed a committee to prepare a pro-
gram for Washington's birthday. The
members named were Hutchinson,
| Abeles and Whitlock. New senate
| bills were by Lawson, amending gen
| eral banking laws, and a~ppropriating
deficiency for the board of medical ex-
aminers; by committee on banking,
limiting liability of bank on forged pa
per to six months after same had been
returned to customer; by L%ightner, pro
| viding for incorporation and mana
| ment of life insurance companies in
| this state: by Paine, providing a gen
| eral ditch and drainage code; by Sho-
Der, to require insurance companies
operating in this state to comply with
laws, and exempting $500 of property
Of war veterans from taxation.
In the house on motion of Parmley.
the Northwestern road seed lecturers
were invited to appear before a joint
session on Feb. 1. On motion of Suth-
erland, the following committee on pro-
gram for Washington's birthday was
selected: Sutherland, CLANCY and
Hughes. Among the e house bills
presented were BY Wilson, to amend
fish laws to allow the taking of carp at
any time; by Sutherland. making faith
Ell and mother equal guardians of
minor children; deficiency appropria-
tons by Sweeney for judicial expenses
in Lyman county, and by Holman, for
labor deficiency at insane hospital. The
Parmley parole bill was passed in the
house without a dissenting vote. The
bill allowing court bailiffs SO a day in
certain cases., coming up on reconsider
| alton, the house went into committee
of the whole and threw down the bars
on discussion. Several members who
have kept quiet in the past took occa-
sion to express themselves. Shaw said
the bill is practically a necessity in
Lawrence county. The bill affected
Lawrence, Minnehaha and Brown u
ties, the former favoring it and the
latter neutral, with Minnehaha neu-
trail. Sutherland was willing to let
Lawrence have the law, but wanted it
amended to apply only when 81 men
could not be secured. ROgde and Pc
terson asked for favorable action,
while Browne of Brown, and WEIGH op-
posed it. The committee reported it
unfavorably. the report being adopted
on roll call by SO to 81.
The senate Thursday passed the bill
asking for IS, 500 as an emergency APP
preparation to keep the Spearfsh nor
NAL school in session and the bill for
q reward of $500 to be offered by coun-
ties for the capture of horse thieves.
The senate also passed the resolution
memorializing congress for a 64o-acre
homestead.
The house passed the bill relating to
the settlement and support Of the poor,
after amending, on motion of Vanos-
del. to strike out all that portion refer
ring to the soldiers home. The bill
nroyides that no inmate Of any state
institution shall become q charge on
the county in which the institution is
located. The house adopted favor
ably reports on two waterworks bills
which AFFECT Sioux Falls.
New bills introduced in the house
are: BY Holman. making totes given
for medical services non-nesotiable,