The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-03
THE STATE LEGISLATURE

| making a promised cure; providing
penalty of 500 for false statement as
to physical condition. for the purpose
of securing public aid; making j a
misdemeanor for either parent TO all
to furnish necessities to minor GILL
| dren, and making a second conviction
for petit larceny a penal Offense; by
Hughes, providing defense on mutual
, insurance notes when non-negotia)le
| provision is omitted; by Dexter, re-
curing owners of lands TO keep WEEDS
moved on highways, and by Heb.ll,
limiting tuition charge for pupils in
public schools to 81 a month.
The senate caucus decided on a Ire
| cess adjournment from Thursday of
next week until Tuesday of the folltw-
ing week
The principal new senate measures
were: BY Rice, authorizing towns and
villages to reassess and collect taxes
for local improvements, and legallzng
| acts of uninc/porated school districs;
by Hanley, by request, to repeal tat
part of the statute which allows le-
| cision by two-thirds of a jury in GER
tain cases; by Bonney, to prohibit he
sale OF tobacco to children unier
twenty years of age; by Wesley, ore
quire study in public schools of he
effect of alcohol on the human system;
by May, providing compensation OF 50
a visit to superintendent of health,a an
o~1a-l-,,,t go rrocnpt n,n6ia11 law
A petition to members OF the house
against any change in the present IL
uuor law came from a number of resi-
dents of Bon Homme county Friday
The house committee on agriculture
reported u%nfavorably or the bill to e.
duce the open season for chicken
! shooting to two months, and Lee, wlO
introduced the bill, attempted to Sc
cure the reference of the bill to te
committee on live stock, in which he
failed. The military committee favor
ably reported the bill which increases
! the limit of salary of the commandant
and members of the home board, bit
reduced the limitation to $3.50 for the
commandant. Vanosdel presented a
minority report against the bill on the
ground that it increases salaries and
takes from the soldiers IN the home
their pensions for the use of the home.
The reports go over n day.
The capitol building bill was favor
ably reported after being amended in
am particulars, and will be up for
.scussion in committee of the whole
Saturday.
New house bills presented We're: By
| Applaud, for a general drainage code;
by Parmley, requiring solicitors for
benevolent institutions to secure Ii
censes from the state board of chart
! ties; by Countryman, providing for
| uniform text books all over the state;
by Turner of Brown, to reduce the
minimum sentence for robbery in the
first degree to one year; by Newton,
allowing guardians to transfer real es-
tate. and resolution by Zafft, for con
stitutional amendment to increase pay
Of legislative members to $40 pei day.
The house passed house bills making
marshals in small towns appointive in
stead Of elective, and changing time OF
taxing office by board of trustees, and
amending the probate code to allow
any interesting party to ask for an ac-
counting: and senate bill to authorize
the commissioner of lands to enforce
lease contracts.
In the senate, Senator Dillon an
swered roll call for the first time since
his illness.
The committee on elections present
ed an ~unfavorable report or the reso-
luton for the election of senator's by
ate bills providing for division of
towns into wards: providing for SO per
day for bailiffs in certain counties, and
making provisions for collection of
taxes or transient merchants. New
senate bills were: By Rice, to provide
hat when crime is committed, partly
in one county and partly in another,
jurisdiction shall be in either, and that
trial for newspaper libel shall be in
county where paper is printed; by
Cook, providing for scale inspection.
The house Saturday afternoon lis
tened to DIR. Ramsey of the bureau of
| ANNA. industry on the needs of a dip
ping bill for South Dakota. He said
that few people were aware Of the
| spread of scabies east of the Missouri
river, and that reports from agents in
the field showed that so per cent of
the herds of cattle between the Mis-
souri, and the James rivers were at
fected, and that the disease extended
to the state line. Unless active work
of wiping out the disease were carried
on, either under state or government
| inspection, he declared that a close
, government quarantine would be estab.
lished for the whole state, which would
mean that no cattle could be taken
across the state line until they were
accompanied with a certificate that
they had been twice dipped.
The report on the capitol building