The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-10

eral bills. several new one were pre-
sented, the principal being: To fix
salaries Of county auditors and regis
ters OF deeds on a 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
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
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
zeal examiners 81 a year, and that pay
was the main part of it. Brown Of
Sanborn said it was nothing but graft,
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
and one to allow a county treasurer to
collect 81 from each nonresident tax
payer who paid by letter, went to the
morgue with the optometry bill, while
the bills to put transient merchants
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
it was a 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
among those who had twice signed the
petition, Senators Shober and Cassill.
These two offered written statements
condemning the rules committee and
The senate held a long session;
rushed through a number of bills be-
fore adjourning, and ended in a gen.
eral row, as an aftermath on the pri-
mary election proposition.
explaining how their names appeared
twice. 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
ly an attempt to play politics. This
brought responses from Cassill and
Rice.
The president ruled that the resolu-
ton would not pe received, for the
reason that the committee merely lad
stated a fact. Shober appealed from
the decision Of the chair; Lawson
moved adjournment, and the session
ended in a general wrangle, in which
Shober, Rice, Lawson, Toy and the
presiding officer took a part.
The report of the state a%ppropria-
tons committee on the capitol build
ing was received and the bill was
made a special order for Monday at 3
o'clock.
The senate passed house bills to le-
duce the minimum penalty for rot
berry; allowing county commissioners
to employ tax f~errets; making second
conviction for petit larceny a penal Of
Tense, and prohibiting granting of sa-
loon licenses near government con-
tract work.
The principal new senate bills pre-
scented were: To license bucketshops,
and to allow one railroad to use the
unoccupied right of way of another
road.
sion Monday, an attempt was made
by Satire to force a committee report
on the bill to change the office of SUI
preme court clerk from fee to salary,
but he failed to make his point.
The principal bill acted on at the
forenoon session was that regulating
football, which after a hot fight, pass
ed by a vote Of IS to 26. The bill dis
qualities a player who Injuries another
and provides a penalty for any at
tempt on his part to play while under
disqualification, with penalty for the
team captain who allows violation.
Hebal, Shaw and Foster opposed the
bill, with Parmley, Craig, and Andrews
for it. The football enthusiasts will
make their fight in the senate.
At the afternoon session the house
passed the bills giving cities power to
sell or lease w~aterworks, a part Of the
Sioux Falls bill, in the fight TO make
the city council part OF the board OF
equalization; amending he horse in
spection law to require the filing OF
certificate Of inspection Immediately
after inspection. The house killed
houco hills rnuuiring the state board