The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-01-18
rora. Whitlock Of Potter and Cooper Of

northrnp OF Minnehaha. Hayward Of
Diark, branson Of Dawson, Royhl OF
hingsbury, Morgan of Charles Mix. Nav
o. Lawrence, Hanley of Custer and Lar.
kin of Lake.
hducation-Payne of Clay, chairman:
: Stoudard OF Turner, Koepsel Of Brown,
, mortliner of Brown, Amsden of Grant,
Cook OF Aurora, Bonney of Sanborn,
fehhle of Jerauld and Cassill Of Lincoln.
state Affairs-Abel Of McCook. chair.
man; johnson of hamlin, Doering of
Hutchinson, May of Lawrence, Toy of
Day, Willsie of Pennington. Amsden of
Irant, Hutchinson Of Beadle and An
ierson of Deuel..
Railroads-Saltmarsh Of Hand chair
man; Williams of Marshall. Brapson of
Dawson, Hayward of Clark, Royhl of
hingsbury, Neil Of Codington. Lightner
or Edmunds, Hutchinson of Beadle and
Anderson Of Deuel..
Federal Reiations-Wagner of Hanson.
chairman; Koepsel Of Brown Haugen of
Roberts, Mortimer OF Mead, Amsden of
Grant, Doering of Hutchinson and Cas-
sill Of Lincoln.
Counties and Towas-Johnson of Ham
I'm, chairman; Frieberg Of Aurora, Ste
phens of Bonhomme. McCaughey of
Sphinx, Wagner of Hanson, Morgan of
Charles Mix and Vessie of Jerauld.
Military Affairs-Neill Of Codington.
chairman; Northrup of M~innehaha. Law
son of Brown, Abel Of McCook and
Blanchard of Campbell.
Legislative Expenses-McCaughey Of
Sphinx, chairman; Doughty of B~rookings,
Mortimer of Meade. Payne of Clay, Sho-
Der of Hyde.
The senate rushed a resolution through
to accept the report of the boundary COM
mission on the boundary between Ne
braska and South Dakota and the house
did the same TO allow the matter to be
presented to the present session Of con-
G"eSs for action.
Senator Lawson got in the first bill in
the senate in a measure providing for the
taking of the state census and collection
of vital statistics, placing the control of
the work i'll the hands of the secretary
of the State Historical Society. The
bill was by Wagner, to reduce the con-
tract rate Of interest from II per cent.
to 10 per cent. Both of these bills were
in line with the recommendations of Gov.
Elrod in his message to the legislature.
The latter bill will be fought by the bank
ing interests Of the state, who consider
the present rae low enough.
Senator Stoddard introduced a group
of bills covering the management of af-
fairs in the state land department.
These bills are prepared by Land Com
missioner Bach TO cover deficiencies
which have appeared in the present laws
in regard to affairs in that department.
One of them is to allow patents from the
national government to be filed for record
without any further acknowledgement;
another provides for the enforcement of
lease contracts. on state lands, as parties
at times lease for terms and drop out be-
for the completion of the contract. An
other is to relieve the office from acting
as a court to settle titles where contracts
nave been assigned and papers lost leav-
ing a question of title to lands sold; and
another to regulate the loaning of state
funds by counties to which they are ap-
portioned by the state.
Senator Hanley. of Custer, shows the
interest of his section Of the state in the
G4O-acre homestead bill by the introduce
ton of a joint resolution memorializing
congress to throw open to settlement the
Cheyenne River reservation.
The senate made the first move for a
recess from Thursday of this week to
Tuesday of next week by adopting a res
olution to that effect.
A resolution was introduced in the sen
ate Saturday for the appointment of a
joint committee to go to the soldiers
home to report on its needs. Bonney
moved that the resolution be amended
that the committee consist of all mem.
bers and employees of both houses and
that they be given thirty days in which
to make the trip.
Football legislation received it's first at.
tention Monday IN the senate in a bill
by Lightner, in which he attempts to reg
ulate the manner of playing, providing
disqualihcations for any player OF a col
lege or a school team who either accident
ally or Intentionally Injuries another
player.
Other senate bills were: BY Lightner,
To encourage tree planting on the school
grounds; by Andrews, to provide state
aid to high schools; AMI by Cordill, to
change the manner of election of county
commissioners back to the district instead
of the county system, which is now in
force.
In the senate Tuesday q communica-
ton was received from former Gov. c. n.
Herreid, transmitting the records of the
boundary commission which located the
boundary between Nebraska and South
Dakota, and both houses advanced the
resolution accepting the report.
A communication was received from
the governor Of Virginia asking the state
to provide an exhibit at the jamestown
exposition to be held in that state.
b. f. Williams and w. w. Boyd were
added to the list Of senate committee
clerks.
The indications now are that no eff
fort viii be made to push the work of
the session until after the recess ad-