The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

The last session Of the senate took
up the general appropriation bill OF
the house and amended it by adding
$4,000 a year for the Springfield nor
NAL school. The motion on which this
was lone was made by Chairman
Branson of the appropriation commit
tee. who at first reported the bill to
wipe out the institution. The amend
ment was accepted without a dissent
ing vote and the bill returned to the
house for concurrence
Bills passed by the senate were to
allow cities TO acquire property ont
side their limits for sewerage purposes,
and empowering cities to sell or lease
municipal water plants, which is the
last of the Sioux Falls bills to clear up
their waterworks tangle.
The senate killed the Carroll house
bill to allow sureties on official bonds
to limit their liabilities. Carroll has
| pushed this bill through the house at
two different sessions and both times
it has fallen in the senate.
Gov. Elrod sent TO the senate the
following list of appointees: Insurance
| commissioner, J. c. Perkins, Sisseton;
| public examiner, F. T. Bramble, Wa
tertown; food and dairy commissioner,
z. w. Small, Webster; mine inspector,
Nicholas Treweek, ST., Lead; members
soldiers home board, Charles A. Mar
shall, Rapid City; S. Pratt, Spearfish;
George w. Snow, Springfield.
The conference committee on the
differences in the general a%ppropria-
ton committee reported about mid
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
railroad 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 adj
journed.
The senate presented the lieutenant
governor with his chair and gavel. The
only house action of Importance for
the evening was the passage of the
law increasing the salary Of the public
examiner to $500 a ear and the
state standard insurance policy. The
usual last night scene was carried out
in both houses while waiting for the
committee to finish the work.
Among the most important measures
at the legislative session were those
| Jo,ltncr ,ri-h rDrn,rnS Al tho noonjnQ
of the session both the outgoing and
incoming governors called attention to
the growing needs of the state in the
way of revenues, and Of laws to bring
the needed funds. In this line several
laws have been enacted, the principal
Of which is to provide for annual meet
ings of county auditors with the state
board of equalization, beginning the
assessment work each ear. This is
intended to provide an assessment over
the state which will not have SO wide
a range of difference between counties,
and it is hoped by this means to Sc
cure a much larger general assess.
ment thar under the old law. Other
measures are for the taxation of in
h~eritances: and the employment of
tax ferrets by the county boards, to
search out property which has escaped
the tax lists, on aopercentaSe OF his
finds. With these different measures,
it is believed that the of the
state will be largely increased in the
next year.
The live stock interests have been
well taken care of in the different bills
which have become laws, the leading
one being the dipping bill, which is in
tended to eradicate the scabies which
prevail over the state. and which law
Is drawn to cover the government reg
| ulations for shipment of cattle out of
the state. Other laws of interest to
this industry are those which increase
the annual wolf bounty appropriation
to $4,000, and One to allow counties
to offer bounties for the conviction Of
live stock thieves.
The matter Of changing the oil law
! of the state to a different gravity test
to allow Western oils to be brought in
was one which was lot taken until a
thorough investigation had been made
by the authorities of the state, and on
their report the gravity test was low
cred from 46 baume to AZ, as the West
ern oils cannot be made to comply with
the original requirement.
In insurance matters, the principal
laws Of the session are those which
provide for the organization and con
| troll of old line life insurance compa-
MES, and several companies are al
ready being formed to operate under
this law. The old line companies of
! the East take about a million dollars
a year out of the state, and with the
new companiec it is hoped that some of
that money will be left in the state.
The fire insurance law of the session
was to provide a state standard policy
form, which, while following the New