The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-01-24

of CLAY, which AMENDS lHe pendl que
IN make wife abandonment a INSIDE
meanor Other house bills introduced
were by Kribs, providing penalties for
determinations by corporations which
deal in commodities; by Whittemore.
for reciprocal demurrage; Bratrud, to
aytend mowers of inheritance tax law;
Hebal providing expense funds for
state judiciary; Ranum, regulating is
snance of patents by state land Depart
ment: Swanson, to prevent sales OF
stocks of goods in fraud: ~Foncannon.
IN Mace fees for sales of school and
in road fund of district in which lands
were sold instead of state general
fund: Bratru6, providing for loaning
sinking funds of municipalities; Glass,
antilobby bill. penalty for corporation
lobbyists, requiring reports OF expendi-
ture of campaign funds; penalty for
campaign contributions by corpora
tons, a%nti-pass, formed on lines OF fed
eral law, and primary election law
practically same as that sought
through the initiative W years ago.
Price introduced resolutions for re-
moving tariff from lumber and election
Of United States senators.
The senate passed a resolution to
present Retiring Gov. Elrod with his
official chair, and in that body Dillon
secured No. l on his bill for primary
elections. Other bills introduced in
the senate not duplicates of house bills
were: Dillon, making a recorded IN
strument legal notice even IL 1t lacked
minor legal requirements; Goodseli.
uniform textbooks; Wesley, to provide
for legislative expenses; Scroggs, 10
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 or the
railway commission; providing llabii-
ity Of companies in regard to tele-
graph and telephone messages;
Thompson of Turner, general drainage
bill, fixing liability of injuries from de-
fective bridges in counties, and anoth-
err similar bill for townships: McCul-
len, to locate and endow the South Da-
kota college of irrigation and expert
ment station at Miner, Hand county;
Mundt, prohibiting common carriers
from limiting their liabilities: Jenkins.
the employers liability or fellow ser
want act; Tobin, appropriating money
for buildings at state fair grounds at
Huron.
Railroad bills are yet coming, two
more being presented by jenkins in
the senate Monday, n of which linn
it's the working time of railroad men
to sixteen hours, the other making the
orders of the railro2E commission val
id and requiring proof to set them
aside. In the house they were allow
ed to rest, but Glass, who appears to
be after them, has a bill for introduce
ton which requires railroads, teie-
graph, telephone and express compa-
MES to reduce rates in the state exist
ing Jan. 1 25 per cent Aug. l 1 next, with
a penalty of a fine of $500 to 81 900 a
day on railroads and from $500 to $500
a day on telephone, telegraph and ex-
press companies.
The principal bills presented were:
Funcanpon, to cut out the oil law
amendment Of two years g allowing
Kansas oils a preference right; John
son of Clay, appropriating $50, 900 for
a law building at the university and a
bill requiring all white lead to be la
beled with formulate.
The speaker announced as the com
mittee on public health Michael, Simp-
son, Miller, Peterson Of Lawrence.
Trumbo, Matteson and Peters. George
Bunch, r. B. Dee and Albin Lindquist
we're appointed on the committee
force. George Hoff was appointed a
clerk to the department of legislative
reference.
In the senate Mundt introduced a
bill to allow the South Dakota Cen
trail railway the right of way across
the ~penitentiary farm; Wesley, to al
low stock insurance companies to in
vest in mortgages outside the state.
and Jenkins, to abolish the orices OF
county justices Of the peace and con-
stables.
Gov. Crawford Tuesday appointed
and the senate confirmed A. Norby Of
Roberts county a membe OF the state
board Of regents of education, to fill
the place made vacan by the expira-
ton of the term of Regent Slocum,
and Nicholas Treweek of Lawrence
county to succeed himself as mine in
spector.
While two more railroad bills were
introduced in the house Tuesday, there
are indications of putting On the brakes
in that line, the employers liability
bill having been sent back to commit,
tee in the senate, and a joint meeting
of the railroad committees will be held
to allow interested parties to appear
before them on all such bills.
New bills continue to come in, the
principal ones being a salaried clerk
of the supreme court; for an inebriate
asylum at Mitchell; a county option
liquor law, and an anti-cigarette bill.