The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-08
Ak IS USED DN The
APPROPRIATION BILL
Approximately Half a Million
Dollars Topped Off by
Committee. ...
"SPEClALS" SUFFER MOS1
County Option on Liquor Question
Must Be Secured YearIy-Bis
Grist of Bills Passed by
Both Houses.
"SPEClALS" SUFFER MOSl

S'lSl VI o''S aoSSa oY
Both Houses.
iiei1c s D., March 5.-The joint an
| Preparations committees wrestled most
of the night with the budget asked for.
TO bring it within the limitations Of the
revenue for the next biennial period. The
estimated revenue from all sources is
81, 200, 900 and the total amount of ap-
| propriations asked for is practically
! s., 800, 900
To bring the appropriations within
| the limits of the revenue the special
| for a new building at Madison is Topped
I off, the special for buying land at the
Redtield asylum is cut in two. The
/ specials are trimmed on nearly all 9TH
| er institutions The maintenance for
all institutions is sliced nmeasurably
4 and the expense funds of the state Off
GERS also pared.
The bin for the general appropria-
/ tions Will be introduced in both houses
Monday and then the real fight will be-
| gin among the representatives of the
4 Institution counties.
Passed Batch of Bills.
The senate yesterday passed thirteen
/ house bills and the house reciprocated
With ten senate bills To keep the gov
e,nor busy
Dillon's bill repeating the North
/ Carolina bond acceptance law was re-
fused by the house by a decided ma.
Jority.
The Glass maximum 2i2-cent rate
bill Went through the senate without
/ debate or opposition and there was not
a railroad Representatives in sight.
Secretary of State Wipf presented to
each body a copy of the county local
T an, f,,.
endum.
Governor Crawford vetoed his first
measure, providing that the newspaper
flies in the historians department be
accepted as evidence in court.
The new city charter bill providing
| for government by commission under
the Galveston plan comes up in the
house today, and will constitute tha
only feature of the session 1t passed
| the senate with many changes after
| long delay and will probably be ac-
| ceptabe To the house.
Local Option Wins.
The liGuor interests made a killing
of the county local option measure. bat
| 1T bobbed up again in a petition in
| Nokins the initiative and signed by
5,oo4 voters of the state. After tins
| short lived victory it was thought the
liquor interests would have rested with
q law which has been pronounced good
| for several years since 1903. but in an
/ iladvised moment it was sought to
have the annual voting feature cut out
| of the present law and q bill was in
| troduced in the senate To that effect.
but 1t has gone the way that does not
/ provide for return trip tickets With
not a vote to spare its opponents de-
| cided that If the saloons want to eN
ist they shall ask for the privilege an
| nually. ii being argued that this Will
| have Il tendency to cause the saloon
! interests Eppo of AnlitN DN
/ keeping within the limitations of the
| law. 1t will rest there for at least two
/ years more.
Feared by Politicians.
Friday was hangman's day for the
anti treating bill in the senate 1t was
1 condemned to death the previous dan
and the sentence was made irreNocable
when it failed 10 come up for Consid-
Grafton 1t WAS killed by its loving
/ friends Who We're afraid of the effect
its passage might have on the party
The state horticultural society has at
tanned To a standing at court by the
| passage of two bills through the sen
ate. one providing Tor the printing and
distribution of 1000 copies of the am
nua report and then ii gets Il Sl,50o
/ appropriation.
An echo from the days of popuism
! when Andrew Il. Lee was guard
4 and Robert +. DowClell was oil inspec-
| tor was heard when the senate passed
a bill conveying s., o0o.1O from the treas
ury to the agricultural college. this
! being Il sum of money which the in
/. spector turned into the treasury when
| Tom Ayres accused him of Stealing it
resulted in Dowdell's resignation The
| money has remained in tn. treasury
/ ten years. 1t will now be expended UNI
| der the direction of the college chemist
| for more apparatus for the inspection
Of oil and food products.
Quiet Over Washinoton Wav
No recent word las come to the joint
! Investigating committee from that part
of the congressional delegation that is
anxious for investigation. though it is
| pointed out that the members might
/ reasonably leave Washington this even
ing and reach Pierre in the dark
| Tuesday morning and have four days in
which to have their robes made white.
| The committee is constantly expecting
a telegram advising it TO be in readi
ness to receive the delegation.
The house has passed a bill granting
| $4,000 a year for two years for the
maintenance of the state guard -Four
| years ago the amount appropriated for
| the same purpose was $50. 900 a year. a
difference Of s5l 900 which is said to
represent the shrakage in patriotism
| In that period. BY some it is laimed
to be a useless expenditure to train up
'tin" soldiers in view of the good ac-
| count our raw recruits gave of them
Selves in the Spanish american Wnr.
Dilion's Futile EIoquence.
Dillon's speech on the North ,aro-
| lima bond deal was the longest made in
| the senate this winter. but he proved
| the North Carolinian's band of heroes
| who had been carpetbaSged to insensi-
/ bilty and then left to continue voting
| for Andrew Jackson while their bonds
We're hawked about by Simon Schaffer
who gave them to the state of South
| Dakota. He didn't have the votes.
| however. to bear out his contention and
| the bill for the return of the money re-
| covered on these bonds by this state
sleeping With its toes turned IL the
daisies