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

In the house, at the forenoon ses-
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 hat regulating
football, which after a hot fight, pass
ed by a vote of SO to &c. 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 tight 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 the horse in
spection law to require the filing OF
certificate of inspection Immediately
after inspection. The house killed
house bills requiring the state board
of medical examiners to print a report;
giving artesian well drillers lien on
land for pay, and giving circuit court
jurors SO a day and mileage.
The horse inspection bill brought
out the never ending contest between
the eastern and western parts Of the
state, and was fought by Craig and
Brown of Sanborn. but the western
members carried it by a good major
ity.
The house passed senate bills en-
towering counties to fund outstanding
Indebtedness: making it the duty of
the state agricultural society to make
an annual exhibit at the state fair;
authorizing counties to appropriate
money for county fairs; prohibiting
the purchase of old metal from mi
nors, and appropriating S. 900 for an
agricultural exhibit at Mitchell. Then
again came the east against the west
in the struggle to prevent the in.
crease in the annual wolf bounty from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year. On this meas
ure the Black Hills themselves split.
Shaw of Lawrence opposing the rest
of the Hills members. The bill Sc
cured the required two-thirds to pass
It.
The capitol building bill was the GEN.
for nf a 1aron rynuyi ,,nt;I late =, 49,
evening, when it passed by a vote of
SO to s. with what is known as the
Frieberg amendment, to allow the use
of building funds as they accumulate
in the state treasury. Wagner at.
tempted to force his amendment to
prohibit the use of any of the fund I'M
til $%150,000 had accumulated. but it
was voted down-36 to 9. The bill
will have to go back to the house for
Concurrence
The senate rushed out a large num-
Der of senate bills, principal of which
was the amendment to the oil inspec-
ton law which will allow the admis-
sion of Kansas oils. 1t passed without
discussion. Other measures passed
are: To place building and oar asso-
Citations under control of public exam
iners; allowing school districts to oh.
tain more than n congressional
township; providing that judgments in
justice court shall be good for ten
years: authorizing reassessment for
local improvements when first assess.
ment has been set aside for any cause.
providing for organization and control
of trust companies.
The senate held a night session ia
consider the ucu bill as a special
order, and both houses are to work
under rush pressure from this time on.