The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-02-24
What the State
SolonS Are Doing

M year due; requiring township fire
guards to be broken not later than
July in any year, and to be dragged to
keep down weeds; and memorial to
congress to drop Lawrence county
from the provisions of the bill to al
.ow homesteads in forest reserves.
The Charles Mix county seat fight
has got into the legislature in a move
by j. w. Lindsay of Gedes to make
that town the county seat in fact, II
lot by vote of the people Platte par
ties are on the way to fight the bill.
The liquor license bill, which is be-
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 to-day passed the Foster
bill making the operation of = bucket
shop or dealing in futures a misde-
meanor. In support of the bill. Eos
ter declared these Institutions to be
worse han any kind of q gambling
house in the state and that they should
be suppressed.
Other bills passed by the house
we're: 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: lesalizing bonds issued for
waterworks construction: a bill 10 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 Zakt reso-
luton for an amendment to allow in
creased compensation for legislative
members only mustered eleven votes
in its favor.
The house passed senate bill to pro-
vide for taxing the costs against the
plaintiff when q suit has been brought
in the wrong county. and to provide
for listing agricultural and mineral
lands in different classes, for assess
ment purposes.
The principal new house bills we're:
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 2k
per cent of premiums to 3 PEI 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 WATERFOWL
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
2 building the Yankton institution
| must have ] 900 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
fire guards; and a joint resolution for
q constitutional amendment to allow
the legislature to provide a special tax
levy for the construction of a tWlne
plant at the p~enitentiary.
The senate made laws by passing
house bills making notes for physl-
| clans services non-negotiable; author
izing consolidation of certain funds IN
the state treasury.
New senate bills were: By Friberg,
70 fix fees of insurance companies, and
a resolution by Cassill indorslng the
nosition Of President Roosevelt on
railroad rate legislation.
The interest in the session Saturday