Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-02-23
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

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animation of eyes ana ears of pupils
& in public schools.
i New senate bills presented were:
BY Hutchison, to provide an appropri
alton for payment of premiums at the
state fair, and fixing salaries of the
members of the state board of agriccb
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.
quent personal property taxes after
one year due; requiring township f"G
guards to be broken not later
July in any year, and to be dragged
keep down weeds; and memorial to
congress to drop Lawrence county
from the provisions of the hill to al
low homesteads in forest reserves.
/ The Charles Mix county seat fight
has got into the Legislature in move
by j. w. Lindsay of Gedes to make
that town the county seat in fact, if
not by vote of the people. Platte par
ties are on the way to fight the bill.
/
ing pushed by the state LIQUOR mems
! league, is meeting breakers. 1t was
first reported out favorably and went
| back for amendment. Then it was re-
ported without recommendation, and
as no one could tell whether it had
been amended, it went back to the
committee again to-day.
The house today passed the Foster
| bill making the operation of bucket
/ shop or dealing in futures MI
meanor. In support of the bill, Eos
| ter declared these institutions to be
worse than any kind of gambling
house in the state and that they should
! be suppressed.
Other bills passed by the house
were: To prohibit granting saloon
| licenses within five miles Of govern
ment contract work; allowing circuit
| judges expenses; increasing compen-
sation of county commissioners in GER
tain cases; increasing term Of compul-
sorry school attendance to sixteen
! weeks in a year; providing a penalty
for failure to provide for wife or chill
dren; legalizing bonds issued for
| waterworlls construction; bill to as.
sist in Strengthening out the Sioux
Falls waterworks tangle, and a joint
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment to provide for municipal courts.
The bill for a state library comis-
sion was defeated and the Zafft reso-
luton for an amendment to allow in
/ creased compensation for legislative
members only mustered eleven votes
in it's favor.
The house passed senate bill to pro-
vide for taxing the costs against the
plaintiff when suit has been brought
in the wrong oouinty, and to provide
for listing agricultural and mineral
lands in different classes, for assess
ment purposes.
The principal new house bills were
BY the ways and means committee,
providing for the annual meetings of
county auditors with the state board
of equalization before assessors meet
ings in the spring; by the live stock
committee, providing for county meat
and hide inspectors, and by the ways
and means committee to increase tax
es on insurance companies from 212
per cent of premiums to 8 per cent.
The elections committee filed its re-
port on the primary elections bill
recommending indefinite postpone
ment, and the report went over to to-
morrow for action. The house likely
will turn down the report and will pass
the bill. The house report attacks the
validity Of the petition, but is not as
radical as the senate report.
The bill to locate the Northwestern
asylum for the insane at Watertown
was opposed by Senator Dillon of
Yankton in a speech in which he re-
hearsed the action of two years ago,
when the state fair was moved from
Yankton, with Cassill supporting him
in his opposition. Neill, Hutchinson,
Larson and Abel supported the meas
ure, which finally was passed, but not
until Johnson of Hamlin had secured
an amendment providing that before
any appropriation could be secured for
a building the Yankton institution
must have ], 200 patients.
Other bills passed were: To pro-
vide for farmers Institutes; authoriz-
ing the employment of assistant
states attorneys in certain cases. al
lowing road taxes to be paid in cash.
ordering the faculty at the agricultur-
al college to make an annual exhibit at
the state fair; empowering county
commissioners to appropriate money
for state fairs: providing for township
Are guards; and a joint resolution for
/ u consti tutionaI amendment to allow
the legislature to provide a special tax
levy for the construction of q Irvine
plant at the penitentiary. Il
The senate made laws by passing
house bills making notes for physi-
clans services non-negotiable; author-
Iizing consolidation of certain funds in
! the state treasury.
New senate bills were: BY Frsaerg,
| to AK fees Of insurance companies, and
Ia rasOlnffnn Nv Cassill indOrsing the