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Lawmakers.
Weeks Doings In the
State Legislature. q.

~ State Legislature. -.
The house accomplished noticing
Thursday except to receive communi
cations and to appoint the committee
on elections and privileges, which &C
| ton was taken to allow the beginnins
OF the hearing on the contested seat
from Douglas county where K g. Eos
ter, Republican, is contesting the seat
of A. d. Mather, Democrat. A hear,
| ing on the contest was begun Thurs.
day night. The committee is composed
of Stokes of Marshall, chairman;
Turner, Rogde, Holman, Belts, Zaft
| and Sprick. This committee is OF
| more Importance than usual on &C.
count of its being called upono to look
| after the primary election law at this
session.
In the senate joint resolutions were
introduced by Hayward, to present
Gov. Herreid his Office chair; by Han.
ley, memoralizing congress to pass the
640-acre homestead act, and by Law.
son, memoralizing congress to open
the Cheyenne River Indian reserva.
ton. The first senate bill introduced
was by Lawson, providing for the TAX
ing OF the state census and collection
of vital statistics, making the secre-
tary of the state historical society the
head of the department.. Other bills
introduced were by Wegner, to reduce
the contractive rate of interest from
II to 10 per cent, while Stoddard in
troduced several bills to regulate pro.
cedure in the state land department
Committees of both houses were an
nounced Friday and the preliminary
work of organization was completed,
bringing the session to the point
where the daily grind will predom-
mate. The first house bill to be intro.
duced was by Michaels, and was for
the location of a hospital for the in
sane at WATERFOWL. to be known as
the Northwestern hospital Another
of his bills was for regulation of auto
mobile travel on public highways.
Among other house bills of Importance
was one by Sutherland, providing for
the creation of a capitol commission
and making an appropriation for a
state building OF, the grounds at
Pierre; another by Wilson, providing
for public cattle-dipping tanks by
counties and the employment of pub
lie dippers; two by Clark, one to de.
fine settlement, its intent to prevent
inmates of the national soldiers home
at Hot Springs from becoming accred-
tied to Fall River county, and the 9TH
er regulating the management of the
state soldiers home and allowing an
increase to $1,000 in salary Of COM
mandent. On request of both parties
election committee Gu the Douglas
county contest was taken up and
adopted, and Foster was declared to
be entitled to the seat. He was escort
ed to the seat occupied by Mather, but
he allowed the sitting member to re-
main for the rest of the day.
The following are the chairmen of
the principal house committees:
Agriculture and horticulture, Mar
tin; appropriations, Turner; banks
and banking, Craig; capitol grounds
and buildings, Sutherland; charitable
institutions, Brown of Lincoln correc-.
ton Of house journal, Demalignor;
counties and county affairs, Kehm; ed
ucation, Kribs; engrossed and enrolled
bills, Parmley; federal relations, Mad
ison; food and dairy products, Brown
of Bookings; highways, bridges and
ferries, Peterson; immigration, Dex-
ter; interpretations, Lindley; Indian
affairs, Kelly; irrigation and drainage.
Omdahl; insurance, Steiner; judiciary,
Rogde; live stock. Ham; manufac-
lures, Bratrud; medicine and surgery,
MicnaeIs; military amairs, Brown OF
Sanborn; mines and mining, Penning-
ton; municipal corporations, WOLF
muth; penal institutions, Potter; per
diem, mileage and legislative ex-
penses, ApIand; printing. Daley; priv
ileges and elections, Stokes Of Mar
shall; public buildings other than
capitol, Huff; public library and his
torical society, Carroll; public health
Smith; railroads, Trumm; rules, Tow
er; schools and public lands, Bowel;
statistics, Hillestad; state affairs.
Belts; temperance, Jackson; ware.
house, grain and grain grading, Coun-
tryman; ways and means, CLANCY.
In the senate DR.. H. P. Carson Of
Scotland offered the invocation onsmo.
ton of Lawson. Senator Cooper of
Lawrence was president pro TEN. of
senate. A joint resolution to complete
the work of the boundary commission
on the boundary between South Da-
kota and Nebraska was pushed
through and sent to the house, where
the same action was taken to allow
the matter to be presented at the pres
ent session Bills of minor Importance
were introduced by Cooper, Cassell
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