The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-15

| not yet lead them out of the woods
and into the pleasant valleys of adver-
| tising mileage, the senate Tuesday
| evening refusing to concur in the
| house amendment, and conference
| committee has been appointed to con-
| slider the matter.
The senate in executive session con-
firmed the appointment of John l..
| Jones of Madison as public examiner
| and passed the bills requiring rail
| ways to put in connecting tracks at
| junction points and authorizing the
railroad commission to make joint
| through rates.
Among the new senate bills the
| principal one was appropriating S15,-
| 600 a year for the state militia. The
| senate then went into committee of
| the whole on the Dowdell state text
book bill, and ended a wrangle over
| the measure with an adjournment,
| leaving a motion to lay the bill on the
| table hanging in the air.
| In the house the committee report
| on the bill to grant right of way for a
| street across the normal school
| grounds at Springfield was amended
to donate to that city all the grounds
| and buildings owned by the state at
| that place for educational purposes.
| with recommendation that it pass.
| The judiciary committee reported
| favorably on the bill prohibiting par
| allel railroads within eight miles OF
| one another. An unfavorable ~eport
was returned against the bill TO pro
| hibit sweat shops, and a favorable re-
| port on the bill to elect county com
mssioners by districts, the same bill
| having been passed in the senate.
| The immigration commissioners
| proposition appears to be the attract
| i've one at present one bill being in
| troduced to make it a division OF the
| department of history and another TO
place that duty in the hands of the
secretary of the state board of agricuI
| ture.
A resolution was introduced in the
| house by Martin of Beadle, recon-
mending that no legislative appropria-
| tions be made for state educational in
stitutions which are located in towns
which license saloons.
In committee of the whole the pro-
visions of the primary bill which re-
| Cuire payment of fees by those who
seek to become candidates in the pri-
maries were stricken from the bill as
/ being prohibitive to the minor parties.
The conference committee on the
anti-pass bill, by a vote of 10 ),
Wednesday evening decided to report
in favor of striking out the house
amendment allowing newspapers to
contract with railroads for advertis-
ing payable in mileage books. The
committee report will very likely be
adopted.
The house held forenoon session
in an attempt to clear the calendar.
resolution was adopted fixing Feb. 20
as the last day for receiving new bills
without the consent of the house.
Among the new bills presented was
one by kriebs fixing a legislative APP
portionment which will give the house
101 members, a gain of twelve.
The 2-cent rate bill was called on
the calendar and went over TO the 9th
Oh motion of Carroll. This will in ef
feet place the senate bill on the calen-
dar ahead of the house bill and will
give the rate reductionists two
chances. leaving the house bill open
if they should meet defeat on the SEN
ate bill.
The afternoon session of the house
was taken up in final action on house
bills, the primary election bill being
the principal one. Glass secured the
reinserting of the sections which were
stricken out in committee of the whole,
which provide fees for filing. Eastman
opposed the reinstatement and gen
eral debate resulted in their going
back by a vote of 81 to "a. The bill
then passed by II to 3. those voting
against it being Eastman, King and
Peterson of Lawrence.
The senate at the afternoon session
passed number of minor bills and re-
ceived several new bills, principal
dIuOuS lueiH DSIlE oLC W piuSC SAS
powers of the attorney of the railroad
commission in the department of the
attorney general and making the ware
house inspector an appointee of the
governor. both of these positions be-
ing at present in control of the rail
road commission.
The anti-lobby bill has been signed
by the presiding officers of the two
houses and has gone to the governor
for his approval, which means the last !
day of the lobby.
The lobby is ended, Gov. Crawford
having affixed his signature to the bill
Thursday evening. Passes will be
good for one more day, the conference
report having been adopted in both
houses, and Friday it will receive the |
signatures of the presiding officers of