The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-08
SENATE.

SENATE.
In the senate Friday the bill to Great,
a northeastern hospital for the insan,
at WATERFOWL was the only matter which
| called out debate. Johnson asked for. an
| amendment to prohibit the erection OF
| buildings at the new location until the
Yankton institution had reached an at
tendance or 1000, which was added te
the bill before it passed.
The senate bills Friday werei
BY Frieberg, to fix fees Of insurance
companies, and a joint resolution by Cas-
sill indorsing the position of Presiden,
Roosevelt on the railroad rate question.
In the senate the principal new bills
were to provide for the appointment Of s
special states attorney to attend the
grand jury when the regular attorney is
incapacitated, and to prevent the sale OF
stocks of goods in order to defraud cred
itors.
The senate passed the house bill pro.
viding for determining adverse claims to
real estate, and senate bills to regulate
fees of sheriffs. a new fee bill; to allow
boards of equalization to place on tax
list property which has escaped the as.
SCISSOR; fixing rates of tuition in schools
and providing for the teaching Of effects
of tobacco on the human system in pub
lie schools.
The senate session Saturday night end.
ed in Il wrangle as an aftermath of the
primary election bill. In the report of
the senate committee Senators Cassiu
and Shober were reported to have APP
peared Oh the primary petition twice.
ThGv npacantaH "A resolution, Of ,Dnr,o,,I
privilege in which the rules committee
Of the senate was attacked and demanded
an opportunity of explaining why their
names did so appear on the petition.
The report of the committee on the
capitol building bill was received and an
attempt to amend to provide that no
move could be made until the total of
$4,000 had been realized from the sale
Of lands. On motion Of Dillon it was
made a special order for Monday.
Principal among the new senate bills
Friday were those to license bucket
shops and to allow one railroad to use
the unused right of way of any other
road.
The senate made laws Friday by pass.
ing house bills reducing the minimum
penalty for robbery, allowing county
boards to employ tax ~ferrets, making
Il second conviction for petty larceny q
penal ~offense, and prohibiting the grant.
ing of a liquor license near government
public works.
The senate rushed through a long string
of senate bills Monday, principal of
which were the amendment to the oil
bill to allow Kansas oils to come in at
a gravity test of A., which passed with
out discussion; others being to place
building and loan associations under con.
troi of the public examiner; allowing
school districts to contain more than one
congressional township; providing that
judgments in justice court shall be good
for ten years; authorizing reassessment
for local improvements when first assess
meat has for any reason been set asides
providing for the organization and con
trol of trust companies. and changing the
date for collection of personal property
taxes by the sheriff by distress from July
/ to Oct. /.
The senate bills called out no discus
siOfs. and there was no excitement ex-
cept on the capitol bill.
In the senate Tuesday, among the
new bills were:
BY Koepsel, allowing the county treas
urers to offer for sale tax judgments Sc
cured by the county at scavenger tax
sales.
By the state affairs committee, a gen.
eral game law.
Senate bills passed Tuesday were:
To change the name of the Redfield
asylum to 'home for feeble minded"
An emergency appropriation for Yank
ton asylum.
House bills passed by the senate Tues
day were:
To provide for court costs in cases
brought by the state land department:
providing penalty for false statements as
to physical condition for the purpose OF
securing public aid, and the cattle dip.
ping bill which carries an appropriation
of $4,000 for carrying it into effect.
TIE principal senate bills passed Fri
day were to provide state aid for high
and creating a state library com.
The senate made laws by passing
bills compelling mutual insurance
companies TO give the non-negotiable note
required under the law; providing for di-
vision of cost of township line fire guards,
and increasing the term of compulsory at
END ance at school to sixteen weeks in
year.
Tie only relief from the grind in the
senate Tuesday afternoon was over the
resolution by Dillon memorializing con-
sress for a constitutional amendment to
trusts.
The senate passed senate bills appro-
$4,000 for premiums at the state
fair. and appropriating $4,000 for build
ass CO; the state fair grounds at Huron;
-eqtiring foreign corporations doing bust
ness in the state to pay license; providing
hat where an assistant is employed for
/ county attorney the pay shall come
from his salary; appropriating $1,000 to