Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-09

land for pay, and giving circuit court
jurors IS 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 1t by good mai or-
ity.
Ihe 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 $4,000 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 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
1t.
The capitol building bill was the cen
ter OF a large crowd until late in the
evening, when it passed by vote Of
Sc 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 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 loan asso-
Citations under control of public exam
liners; allowing school districts to OBJ
tain more than one 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 night session to
consider the caucus bill as special
order, and both houses are to work
under rush pressure from this time on
The only relief from the grind in the
senate Tuesday afternoon was the
tempest over the resolution by Dillon,
memorializing congress for consti-
tutional amendment to regulate trusts
This was being held in the rules COM
mittee, which had reported a resolu-
ton OF its own covering about the
same ground.
Dillon and Lawson took the lead in
the discussion, which resulted in the
adoption of Dillon's resolution, order
ing the committee to report his reso
luton.
The senate passed senate bills ap-
propriating $4,000 for premiums at the
state fair; appropriating $4,000 for
buildings on state fair grounds at HUI
ron: requiring foreign corporations
doing business in this state to pay a
license; providing that where an as
sistant is employed for county at
torney, pay shall come from his sal
airy; apDropriating $1,000 to the agri-
cultural college for equipment. The
thorizing two-mill deficiency levy for
this year; legalizing certain probate
proceedings in Charles Mix county;
to provide compensation for county
boards Of health; making the state
food inspector also inspector of Ii
uuors; authorizing guardians to mort
gage property of wards; appropriating
$4,000 for an artesian well at Redfeld;
hospital measure; requiring any titles
in future to be vested absolutely in the
state before money can be appropri-
ated for buildings; placing flowage of
artesian wells across highways in
charge of road overseers, and the
mousse T6SOluIlOu lOI CONSTITUTIONAL
amendment to allow municipal courts.
The house put in the afternoon in
committee Of the whole on the caucus
bill, and also held night session.
In spite of long sessions of the SEN
ate and morning and night sessions
of the house, the calendars are piling
up, and it is case of rush from this
time on.
The house took up the bill to abolish
the Springfield normal school, The
measure was defended by the mem
bers of the appropriation committee,
which introduced it, and was opposed
by Wakes. Kribs. Sutherland, Bowel,
and Hebal, but it passed by a vote OF
AZ to 81. 1t will be fought out in the
senate tomorrow and likely will be de.
feated.
The house general appropriation bill
was passed without discussion or
amendment in anyway, for the first
time in the history Of the state. The
house made laws by passing senate
bills to appropriate money for public
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