The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-01-24

The house committees so far select
ed are:
| Appropriations-Ca MichaeIs
| Whittemore. Stokes. Lars on, Foster,
! Ellerman, Trumbo. Hale.
Agriculturc-Groce, Carver, An
drews, Kleinsasser, Johnson of Clay,
Smith Of Marshall, Matteson, Van Os.
del, Price of Sprink.
Apportionment-Fo Ewald FL
lerman. Glass, Brynjulson. Carroll.
Herman, Jones, Shaw.
Banks-Issenhuth Riebelheimer, Jo-
seph. Van Osdel, Bratrud, Ewald, OF
to, Pennington, Carroll. Gropengeiser,
Peters.
Capitol Building - Gropengeiser,
Shaw, Hebal, Lee, Carley, kribs East
man
Charitable nstitutions-Fitch. Sa
ter, Price of Sphinx, Price of yankton,
Wolzmuth. Gurney Smith Of Miner.
House Journal-CarIey, Beibelhein-
er, See.
Counties-Johnson of Clay, Nelson,
Frease, Peterson of Lawrence, Wolz-
muth, Weide Otto.
CorporatiOns-Lanu Olson, Ca
BILE. Peterson of Lawrence, Engstrom,
Ebbersviller, Brumbaugh. .r
Education-Kribs, Fitch, Foncan-
non, Gable. Carver, Heibelheimer,
Groce, Lanum, Larson.
Ergrossed Bills-Parmley, Joseph,
Stoner, Hornby, Ranum, Whittemore,
link
Peterson of Lawrence, Rood, Heffer-
man.
Food and Dairy-Olson Of Clark,
Groce, Meyer, Simonson, Martin, Dins-
sor, Goff
Highways-Lee, Peterson of Law
renee. Brynjulson, Olson of Moody,
Nelson, Humiston, Hare.
Immigration-Whit Wooley,
Bratrud, Pennington. Oviatt, Hopkins.
Indian Affairs-Ellerman, Rood,
See. Sem. Humiston, Meyer, Gurney.
Irrigation and Drainage-Stokes,
johnson Of Clay, Ranurh Hare, Van
Osdel Nelson, Swanson.
Insurance--Wooley, Whittemorc
Bratrud, Issenhuth, Shaw, Kribs, Hop
kins.
Other house committeesare not yet
ready to give out and will be an
nounced later.
The anti-pass bill is to be pushed at
once with an emergency clause, the
senate rate committee Monday fore
noon recommending the passage Of the
Dyrne bill.
The rush of bills has begun, house
bill No. l being introduced by john
oOil VI Nidy, liic pS'i~'
code to make wife abandonment
misdemeanor. Other house bills IN
troduced were by Kribs, providing
penalties for determinations by cor
pOratlonS which deal in commodities
by Whittemore for reciprocal demur-
rage; by Bratrud, to extend power or
inheritance tax laws; Hebel, providing
expense funds for state judiciary; Ra-
mum, regulating issuance of patents by
state land department; Swanson, to
prevent sale of stocks of goods in
fraud; FoncOnnon, to place fees for
sales Of school lands in road fund,
Bratrud, providing for loaning sinking
FUNDS of municipalities; Glass anti
lobby bill, penalty for corporation lob
byists; requiring reports of expendi-
lures of campaign funds. penalty for
campaign contributions by corpora
tians; anti-pass, framed on lines of
federal law; and primary election law
practically the same as that sought
through the initiative two years ago.
Price introduced resolutions for re-
moving tariff from lumber, and cleo
uon of United States senators.
The senate passed resolution to
present retiring Gov. Elrod with his
official chair, and in that body Dillon
secured MOL on his bill for primary
elections. Other bills introduced in
the senate not duplicates of house
bills were: Dillon, making a recorded
instrument legal notice even If It lack
ed minor legal requirements; Goodsell,
uniform text books; Massey, to provide
for legislative expenses; Scroggs, to
change boundaries of Union county;
Englesby, providing that threshers
lien must be foreclosed within sixty
days; making telephone, telegraph and
express companies common carriers
and placing them under control of the
railway commissions; providing liza
bility of companies in regard to tele-
graph and telephone messages;
Thompson of Turner, general drainage
bill; fixing liability of injuries from
defective bridges: in counties. and an
other similar bill for townships; Nc
Cullen, to locate and endow the South
Dakota college of irrigation and ex-
pertinent station at Miller, Hand coun-
ty; Mundt, prohibiting common cal.
riers from limiting their liabilities,
Jenkins, the employers liability or fell
low servant act; Tobin, appropriating
money for buildings at state fan
grounds at Huron.
In REGARD to the railroad bills, the
companies will make no move what
ever to prevent the anti-pass bill bul
bill, the 2-cent rate bill and the
freight rate bills which will be intro
duced. The supporters of the 2-cent
rate bill take the position that the cut
ting off of passes will so far increase
the earnings Of roads that cents un-
der the anti-pass provisions will give
them a revenue practically the same
as they now receive at cents. The
roads refuse to concede this, and say
their pass business did not aggregate
over l per cent of the business, and
their estimates run from that down to
less than one-half of / per cent They
say what the people want is service
more than they want the rate reduc-
ton. and it remains to be seen how tho
legislative members will look at It,
The state vet possesses 10000 acres
OF unallotted endowment lands and
in past sessions several efforts have
been made to get this allotted to some
OF the old established institutions,
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