The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-03-09

shops and 20 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
a second conviction for petty larceny q
penal offense. and prohibiting the grant.
Ing OF liquor license near government
public works.
The senate rushed through n long string
Of senate bills Monday. principal Of
which were the amendment to the oil
bill TO allow Kansas oils Ia come In nc
a gravity test OF ~. which passed with.
out discussion: others being TO place
building aud loan associations under con.
troll 81 the public examiner; allowing
school districts 90 contain more than one
congressional township; providing that
Judgments In justice court shall be good
for ten years: authorizing rrassessmcnt
for local improvements when first ASSESS.
ment has for any r-ason been set aside:
providing for the organization and con.
troll ~ trust companies, and changing the
date for collection Of personal property
taxes by the sheriff by distress from July
I e. Oct. I.
In the senate Tuesday. among the
new BILLS were;
iiy Kucpscl. allowing the county treas.
urrrs 20 Offer for sale tax Judgments So.
cured by the county nj Scavcngcr tax
sales.
Senate bills passed Tuesday were:
To change the name OF the Rcdicld
asylum 10 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 nv
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 Il into effect.
The principal senate bills passed Fri.
day were TO provide state aid for high
schools and creating state library COM
mission.
The senate made laws by passing
house bills compelling mutual insurance
companies To give the non-ncgotiable note
required under the law: providing for a..
vision of cost OF township line fire guards.
and increasing the term Of compulsory ut.
tendance nj school TO sixteen weeks In
one year.
The only relief from the grind In the
senate Tuesday afternoon was over the
resolution by Dillon memorialiling CON
gress for a constitutional amendment To
regulate trusts.
The senate passed senate bills appro.
priating 5000 for premiums at the state
fair. and appropriating $4,000 for build
ings on the state fair grounds nj Huron /:
requiring foreign corporations doing bust.
ness in the state 10 pay license; providing
that where an assistant il employed for
q county attorney the pay shall come
from his salpry; appropsiating 81 900 10
the agricultural college for plant expert
meuts.
The senate rushed through a number OF
laws 10y house bills authorizing a 2-mill
deficiency levy for this year: legalizing
certain probate proceedings la Charles
Mix County Ia provide compensation for
county boards OF health: making the
food inspector inspector OF liquors: au-
thorizing guardians 10 mortgage the
property or their wards: appropriating
$1,000 for an aricsiau well nj the Red.
field hospital: requiring any titles IN the
future To he vested In the state befor.
money can be appropriated for buildings:
placing the ilowage OF nrtcsian wells
across highways in charge of road over
seers, and the house resolution for con.
stitutional amendment to allow munici.
pal courts.
The senate "Wednesday was tangled
up over the Deadwood water bill. to
a 4
which was refused. aud IL was an-
nounced that from this time on il is To
be n fight to n finish, with no compro.
mise. oil that bill.
The senate cleaned up a long calcn-
dar Wednesday. the principal bills being
to reduce the legal rate OF interest from
L. Ia 10 per cent; providing for state
standard FIR, insurance policy form. and
changing he date Of the closed game
season from April IL to Sept. l..
The senate passed house bills ta appro.
pirate $4,000 for a building NJ the Ab.
cr,lccn normal school. and the Irvine
plant bill to locate plant at the prni.
Tertiary.
The light TO n finish promised by the
Dcadwood people on their water hill IN
the senate came Thursday, and after IN.
smoke had cleared away the Dcadwood
people had been defeated 10y u vote Of
~ to \. They are now ia a worse con.
dition IN regard 10 getting a city water
supply than when they started
The house bill Ia allow the condrmna-
ton Of property for sewer purposes, an
Aberdeen hill. 80 closely followed the
Dcadwood bill In some particulars that
il went down. but j. back for reronsid.
Grafton aud will be amended.
The senate accepted the house caucus
hill and the one providing n penalty for
operation OF bucket shops.
Both houses passed n resolution me-
morialixing congress TO create n depart.
ment OF mines aud mining, with n chief
of department.
The Springfield people won n complete
victory aud the senate amended the
house appropriations bill. placing their
normal school appropriation In the bill.
and the hnus" will accept IL.
The usual last night scenes were ear.
risd out in both houses while waiting
for the committees Ia finish their work.
The afternoon session of the senate
took mp the general appropriation bill ~