Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1905-01-27

DOINGs BY THE sOLONs

DOlNGS by THE SOLONS
Items of Interest From Legislature-Writ-
ten and Clipped from Various
Sources.
The house passed the bill allowing
counties to offer rewards for the cap
ture of horse thieves and killed the bill
to allow court bailiffs in the larger
counties increased compensation.
The senate did very little business,
passing the Cooper bill legalizing liquor
licenses in towns where no license cleo
tion was held last year and introducing
bills by Rice, giving farm laborers and
threshing crews liens for labor and by
doing 40 to change the time when taxes
shall become delinquent from March
first to May first.
Already the state has several modest
little cottages at the Soldiers Home,
where old soldiers who have wives may
be domiciled and cared for without the
necessity for breaking family ties and
giving up the home life. These cot
tages are always filled and more are
needed. Mr.. Clark, supported by the
governing board, has introduced bill
providing for eight additional cottages
to be built at an enpense of $3.50 each.
These will furnish comfortable and
cozy homes for number of worthy old
heroes and their wives.
The great Belle Fourche project for
the irrigation of that fertile valley
through the provisions of the national
reclamation law involves good deal of
legislation on the part of the state to
make the federal provisions effective.
To this end Messrs Mortimer and
Stokes.of Butte county, where the Belle
Fourche is located, have twin bills pro-
viding state irrigation code. It is a
voluminous proposition, said to be pre-
pared under the advice Of the federal
authorities.
The bills in which livestock affairs
are concerned will soon be up for ac-
ton, and +. M. Stewart, secretary of the
Western South Dakota Stock Growers
Association, has arrived from Buffalo
Gap to keep an eye on their progress.
The bills which have so far been intro
duced to affect these interests are the
dipping bill; the one to increase wolf
bounties, and to allow counties to offer
rewards for capture of horse rustlers.
These are all the measures which have
been introduced up to the present, but
the coming of Stewart may develop
further measures in which they will
taks interest.
For the first time in the session Sat
urday the orators of the house broke
loose, first on the deficiency appropria-
ton bill for the Soldiers Home, which
was opposed by Van Osdel who charged
extravaganza and the use of money in
violation of the law. Clark and Turner
favored the measure, declaring the de.
ficiency to be one of absolute necessity
instead of extravaganza and the bill
passed with but four dissenting votes
Van Osdel not voting.
Van Osdel was member of the Sol
diers' Home board by appointment by
Governor Lee. He said that he was
thoroughly familiar with the condi.
tions at the Home, and that the ole
soldiers should consider economy al
the Home instead of asking for more
than the state could afford to spend
That the buildings could easily be re
paired at a small expense, all the roofs
needed being new shingles, and that {
little patching would make the plaster
ing in good shape. and that there wa.
, no need for any such expenditure al
was suggested.
The Soldiers Home board asked
100000 for new buildings and repairs
to old ones, as one of the members Of
the board recently expressed it:
"The other boards are not asking fol
much this year and we will make hay
while the sun is shining
SCHOOL REPORTS.
MINNEKAHTA SCHOOL.