The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-02-21

holding any Office under the laws OF
the state or the ordinances of any niu-
nicipality, he cannot use the telephone
lines Of which he is an officer without
paying the customary tolls for the
privilege, and to do so makes him liable
to the penalties. There are hundreds
Of local telephones in existence in the
state, I'm which the principal citizens
are the organizers and officers. They
also hold the petty offices of their To-
calities and all come under the pro-
visions of the law. which will be very
inconvenient to them.
The railroads also claim that the
law will be a money loser to them.
They say that most of their passes
which were out, beyond those of stats
officials, were in the hands or land
men who Travelled to the eastern states
to work up emigration to this state.
BY this they were constantly bringing
in people who were paying fare to the
roads, but with the pass provision shut
out they will no longer make these
trips east, bringing back cash fares
with them, and thus cutting down the
railway revenues .
Fight on Game Bill.
The farmer members of the house
are whetting their knives for the game
bill If 1t ever gets out into the open.
They say the bill was drawn by sports
men, and in their interests, and the
farmers can't look upon the PROPOSE
ton in the same light the hunter
does. One Of them has threatened to
present an amendment making 1t
misdemeanor for anyone to enter up
on the land Of another for the purpose
Of hunting, with a heavy fine for the
offense, and making the possession Of
a gun or a hunting dog evidence of
hunting whenever a town sportsman
is found in the country. None of
them are in favor Of the bill, and 1t
will have hard shedding when they get
at 1t.
Osteopaths Want Better Laws.
The representatives of the osteo-
paths are on the ground and are lcok-
ing after a measure which will be in
troduced to give them a better stand
ing In the state. UP to the present
the old line physicians have been able
to block anything in that line which
they have presented, and will no doubt
attempt to do SO again.
House Bills Passed.
The house has passed house bills:
To transfer feeble minded from the
reform school to the Redfield asylum:
appropriating $1,000 for filing fees for
the state land department.; appropriat-
ing $3.50 deficiency for state house
maintenance fund: appropriating $500
deficiency in expense account of the
secretary of state department; in
creasing town library taxes from 1
mill to 1k mills; authorizing the
state lard commissioner to sell GER
tain pine timber in the Black Hills:
the Audubon bird bill.
Van Osdel attempted to secure an
amendment to the latter to exempt
blue jays from the protection of the
law, and was opposed by Hare and
Issenhuth, and his amendment failed,
after which the bill passed.
CANDLES Frineds Upheld.
The house session opened Thursday
afternoon with renewal Of the fight
over the record in the Gamble investi-
cation, Parmley starting the row by
moving to amend the report to contain
what he declared by the record to be
the proper wording, and submitted a
certified statement from the official
stenographer as to what the correct
wording is. He made a speech declar-
ing himself for better morals in poll
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quarter in his fight for that end.
Glass opposed his amendment on
the ground that the journal should
show the truth, which it would not
show if the amendment was injected
He declared that Senator Gamble
; did not use the language contained in
the stenographer's report in his ex-
animation and that the change in the
record was made by the whole COM
mittee with a desire to have the re-
port corrected. He admitted that
Senator Gamble did make some re-
| mark in the line of the Parmley reso-
| luton, but not as testimony, but in
side conversation with judge Gaffey,
and at the time asked that it be not
made of record. He was sustained by
Michaels and Hornby, who declared
'iie "hoie tiiilS was uiIty pollIics anu
Of piece with the action of the same
crowd two years ago to smither action
on a primary petition.
Many New House Bills.
A number Of new house bills were
presented Thursday, one to limit sa-
looms to one for each 500 population,
| and another requiring telephone COM
panies to connect with other lines.
House bill Nc. so, the 2-cent rate
bill. the will o. the wisp Of the house
calendar for the past ten days, was
put up near the head of the calendar
Thursday with the intention Of push
ing 1t, but the fight on the journal and
the reading of the general education
bill put 1t over until Friday.