Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-02
What the State
Sol0n$, Are Doing

attempt had been made to have the
provisions for the shirt and overall
factory stricken out. The state agent
two-mill deficiency and a general
drainage code were passed.
The principal senate bill presented
was to amend the present oil law to
allow Kansas oils to come into the
state at a gravity test of AZ instead of
the present test of 46. This bill. based
on the report of Prof. Shepard, chem
list at the agricultural college, who
has returned from an investigation of
the Kansas oil fields, and who asserts
the Kansas oils are better for illumin-
ating purposes than the Eastern oils,
but cannot be brought to the gravity
of 46 required under the present law.
Among other senate bills were: To
provide an annual appropriation Of
by Dillon, requiring fish ways in dams.
Principal among senate bills passed
were: To abolish farmers institutes;
to tax legacies and inheritances; to
authorize cities to issue bonds in set
Element of judgments; appropriating
money for the printing of reports of
officers.
The senate appropriation commit
tee Friday reported out the capitol
building bill without recommendation
and the bill will be up in the senate
Monday for final action.
The principal new senate bills pre-
sented We're: 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-
ations 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 divf-
| sion of costs in township line fire
guards, and increasing the term Of
compulsory attendance at school to
sixteen weeks year.
Vanosdel in the house introduced a
resolution memorializing the state del
egation in congress to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his railroad rate
fight, and secured assurance Of it's
consideration in committee Of the
whole next Monday. He also present
ed resolution for constitutional
! amendment to prevent the giving or
receiving of 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 physician prescribes
| liquor in cases where there is no all
| ment.
Parm1ey. one 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
| III luS lSSullS VI oil OllSldi oSoCC map,
showing the resources of the state.
The two wolf bounty reports started
| the same old fight which is renewed at
every session where bounty is an is
sue. AS usual, the fight and the ma
jority report carrying $4,000 year
was adopted by the house, after a dis
cussion in which number of men,
bers took 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 $4,000; requir-
/ ing the registration Of motor vehicles,
and providing a penalty for physicians
who fail to register their certificates.
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