The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-17
PRIMARY LAW.
Ii Has Airing sin State Lsgisla'
ture e-iRitiative Petition
Turned Down.


Pierre dispatch, Is: The hotties
fight of the session ragged in tue senat,
I from o clock until at night owe
the report of the committee ON rules fol
the idetinite postponement Of the ipitia
tive petition for the primary election
law
| lawson started the battle by mo
tion to adopt the report, and Vessey
asked that the petition and all matter:
connected with it 60 to the Judiciary
committee. lawson declared this on,
| ly to be for delay, and argued the il
legality of the petition.
Frieberg desired the reference, ana
Rice, the leader OF the primary forces,
took the floor. He spoke for over an
hour, denounclng the report of the
committee in every particular, and
strongly denounced the effort to throttle
the will of the people.
Brasson followed, supporting the re-
part, declaring the move of those back
of the petition being a desire to stab in
the back the present congressional dele
cation and Senator Kittredge
Hutchinson, Dillon and Cassill OPP
posed the report, with Robertson, Wag-
ner and Toy supporting it, the close of
the debate being hot exchange of
compliments between Lawson and
Ca isill.
The motion to refer to the judiciary
committee was defeated % to 20. and
the report of the committee was adopt
ed, "a to 90
The senate passed a number of bills,
the principal Of which were to make
hunters licenses good only in the
county where issued, making it mis-
demeanor TO purchase old metal from
minors, appropriating 1000 for live
stock exhibit building at Mitchell, and
increasing the wolf bounty from $1,000
to SO, 900 per year.
The warmest contest yet had in the
senate was that yesterday over the
bill to provide fer farmers institutes,
which contained provision for the cir
culation among farmers of copies of the
legislative hand book TIE fight ended
IN the sending of the bill back to the
agricultural committee The bill was
by Stoddard AMI Vessey ON the
provisions for hand books. Stoddard
took the position that no farmer would
read the book, if sent him; that farmers
read only their agricultural papers and
newspapers. and when they receive
book lay it away after looking at the
binding and the pictures. Vessey said
that when a farmer received a book he
laid il up on shelf. where it remained
until it was covered with dust. and it
would be folly to appropriate money foi
the circulation OF these books among
them.
Lightnel d tended the bill as whole,
and declared that the farmers did read.
Bonney opposed the bill, which was
by Lightnel and Blanson,
but went back to committee ON motion
Of Rice, supported by Cassill.
Frieberg led the fight on the bill to
increase the annual wolf bounty from
S5, 600 to $4,000 PEI year. He has in
troduced a bill to wipe out all wolf
bounty, and took the position that a
bounty bill was only for the benefit OF
three or four counties, and they should
pay their own bounties. The bill pro
misses to bring ON a strong fight before
it closes up, as did the original bill, in
which the s., 900 provision was secured.
The anti treating bill, which has
been introduced in the house. makes it
a misdemeanor for anyone to treat at a
public bar, and provides the same pen
alty for saloon keeper or bartender to
allow such practice The bill has the
Endorsement of the Anti-Saloon league,
aud Rev. Havens. the superintendent of |
hat league, will appear before the tenn
perance committee in favor of the bill. |
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