The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-03-10
THE STATE LEGISLATURE

Saturday being closure day on gen.
eral bllls, several new ones were pre-
sented, the principal being: To fix
salaries of county auditors and regis.
tiers of deeds on 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 it's
4 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
l small appropriation for the Lyman
county costs. When the bill ii license
the practice of optometry came up it
met with vigorous opposition. Turner
of Faulk, in moving indefinite post
ponement, said all the bill was drawn
/ for was to compel every seller of spec
/ tacles to pay to the state board of med
ical examiners 81 a year, and that pay
was the main part of it. Brown of
Sanborn said it was nothing but graft,
4 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
h and one to allow county treasurer to
collect 81 from each nonresident tax
payer who paid by letter, went TO the
b morgue with the optometry bill, while
a the bills to put transient merchants
a under the penalty clause of the ped
= dler license clause was carried
The session ended with the first rip
pie in the harmony of the Black Hills
corner over the attempt to amend the
law rushed through at the beginning
of the session to allow Deadwood to go
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
1T was 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 committee report named
hmong those who had twice signed the
Hpetition, Senators Shober and Cassill.
@These two offered written statements
MScondemning the rules committee and
@ The senate held long session;
rushed through number of bills be-
Wore adjourning, and ended in gen.
eral row, as an aftermath on the pri-
mary election proposition.
explaining how their names appeared
Hkwice. Lawson objected to the receipt
OF their communication, on the ground
that it was out of order and was not a
proper question of privilege, but mere
Iy an attempt to play politics. This
Wrought responses from Cassill and
Nice.
The president ruled that the resol,l-
zion would not De received, for the
feason that the committee merely lad
s1tated fact. Shober appealed from
.ae decision Of the chair; Lawson
moved adjournment, and the session
ended in general wrangle, in which
Shober, Rice, Lawson, Toy and the
presiding officer took part.
The report of the state appropria-
tons committee on the capitol build
ing was received and the bill was
made special order for Monday ut 2
O'clock
The senate passed house bills to 1c-
duce the minimum penalty for rob-
berry; allowing county commissioners
to employ tax ferrets; making second
conviction for petit larceny penal Of
Tense, and prohibiting granting of sa-
loon licenses near government con-
tract work.
The principal new senate bills pre-
(hted were: To license bucketshops,
i'd to allow one railroad to use the
5noccupied right of way of another
sead.
gin the house, at the forenoon ses-
ION Monday, an attempt was made
Satire to force committee report
the bill to change the Office of SUI
neme court clerk from fee to salary,
Mt he failed to make his point.
1.-THE principal bill acted on at the
4ptball, which after hot fight. pass
Why vote of SO to &c. The bill dis
nalifies player who Injuries another
nd provides penalty for any at
empt on his part to play while under
republication, with penalty for the
Am captain who allows violation.
febal, Shaw and Foster opposed the
I'LL, with Parmley, Craig and Andrews
or it. The football enthusiasts will
make their fight in the senate.
At the afternoon session the house
,assed the bills giving cities power to
ell or lease waterworks. part of the
NOux Falls bill, in the fight to make
- city council part of the board of
alizaticn; amending the horse in
ction law to require the filing of
ifcate of inspection Immediately
er inspection. The house killed
a se bills requiring the state board
,vf$Aedical examiners to print report;