The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-24

The hottest fight of the legislatures
session ragged Wednesday in the SEN
ate from 3 O'Clock until 8 at night over
the report of the committee on rules
for indefinite postponement of the in
itiative petition for the primary cleo
ton law.
Lawson started the game by a mo-
ton to adopt the report, and Vessey
asked that the petition and all matters
connected with it go to the judiciary
committee. Lawson declared this
to be only for delay. and argued the
Illegally of the petition. Frieberg de-
sired the reference, and Rice, the lead
er of the primary forces, took the floor.
He spoke for over an hour, denounc-
ing the report of the committee in
every particular, and strongly assail-
ing the effort to throttle the will of
the people. Branson followed, sup
porting the report, declaring the move
of those Jack of the petition was a de-
sire to stab in the bach the present
congressional delegation. Senator Kit
tredge, Hutchinson, Dillon and Cassill
opposed the report. Robertson, Wag-
ner and Toy supported it. The close
of the debate brought a hot exchange
of words between Lawson and Cassill.
The motion to refer to the judiciary
committee was defeated by a vote Of
25 to 20 and the report of the commit
tee was adopted by "a to 20.
The senate passed a number of bills,
the principal of which we're To
make hunters licenses good only in
the county where issued; making it
a misdomeanOr to purchase old metal
from minors; appropriating $1,000 for
a live stock exhibit building at.Mitch-
ell, and increasing the wolf bounty
from $500 to $4,000 a year. Those
who were looking for a fight on the
capitol bill in the house were disap-
pointed. While a number of the mem
bers made brief remarks. there was
no set speech in favoring the measure
which passed by a vote of "A to II.
Those who spoke for the measure
were Sutherland, Brown Of Sanborn,
Stokes Of Butte, Martin Olson of
Moody, Madison, Turner of Faux, Van
Odsel, Craig, Holman, who said that
different capitol fights had cost the
state in different ways enough to build
two capitol buildings. and Wilson of
Huron, who supported the bill in or
der to forever stop the people of Huron
from spending any more money chas-
ing after a capitol.
Other house bills passed were: To
increase the limitation of county gen
eral levies to ten mills; providing a
dofopSa of mutnal pCurapcp. nntoS il
legally drawn. Making the state food
inspector of liquors; reducing the min
imum sentence for robbery from ten
years to one year.
The bill for state uniformity of text
books was killed by a vote of 56 to 80.
This bill called out several speakers,
all opposing the measure except Coun-
tryman. ThoresOn of Minnehaha Op-
posed the measure as a graft bill for
which the members would have to
answer to their constituents if they
passed it.
Among house bills presented the
principal one was to prevent hunting
dogs from running at large from April
to September, and a bill to mend a
law passed earlier in the session to al
low cities to condemn property outside
of their limits for waterworks pur-
poses. The latter was a DeadwOod
bill. and it's amendment is attempted
by parties who desire to retain the use
of the waters of Elk creek. The
house state affairs committee favor
ably reported the resolution for a con
stitutional amendment to increase the
salary of legislative members, fixing
the limit at $500 a session.
The cattle dipping bill caused a
warm contest on the floor of the house
Thursday over the size of the appropri-
alton to be granted. No one opposed
the bill in any other particular, and
Parmley led for the minority report
which granted 100000. Foster opposed
and urged the majority report. which
allowed only $500. A number of
members ooh part in the debate, and
a vote of 40 to so for the minority re-
port was secured.
There was calm after the storm in
the senate to-day, and but little bust
ness was transacted. The senate en-
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to require county officers to supply the
state auditor with the necessary fig
ures for making county financial state
ments a part of his report, and killed
the house bill which requires the eX-
animation of eyes and ears of pupils
in public schools.
New senate bills presented were:
BY Hutchinson, to provide an appropri-
alton for payment of premiums at the
state fair, and fixing salaries OF the
members Of the state board of agricul-
ture; by Mortimer, making the larceny
OF live stock of any value grand lar
ceny.
The house passed house bills provid-
ing for contract collection of delin-
uuent personal property taxes after