The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-14
ANTHOLOGY and
ANT|-PASS LAWS
But South Dakota House Turns
Down the 2-Cent Fare
Bill.
SESSION is HALF OVER
primary Bills Pass Both Houses, Now
They Must Be Harmonized-
A New Railroad
Measure.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 11.-No passes ane
no rate reduction is the verdict Of the
The senate 2-cent rate bill took up most
of the time of the house Friday after
noon, and oratory was exhausted be,
fore a vote was secured, the leaders
being Carroll and Glass for the bill and
Browne and Price against. The con
test was a close one, M the first test
voting on putting the bill over for a day
was won by its advocates forcing ac-
ton. But on the question of passage
of the bill the opponents won by a vote
of A to SO. And on motion Of Browne
to "cinch" the action they secured As
to 81 against it. This ends the rate
question for the session.
Tenure of Office Bill Killed.
The house killed the biii which at
tempted to fix specific four-year terms
for h heads of the institutions under
control of the board of charities, and
made one law by passing the senat
bill providing for expense accounts Of
circuit judges.
For the first day since bills could
be introduced, nothing in that line
was offered in the senate at it's session.
That body made laws by passing the
house bill providing a penalty for wife
desertion. Several senat bills were
passed, among them the administration
Measure to compel filing of expense
accounts of candidates..
Work of the Session to Date.
Tho o~r,,.1oyDl -.~,1 =. g L. a.. ~.
Of the session which was finished
Thursday night, has not been very
great, consisting of the signing of three
laws by the governor and the filing
of five joint resolutions with the sec
rotary of state. The bills which have
been enacted into law are:
House bill 40, increasing the fees of town
officers.
mate bill sc, providing for the legisla-
tive expenses.
Senate bill As, making valid orders of
the railway commission and requiring any
one attacking them to prove to the CON
Irary.
House joint resolution Q, asking for a
constitutional convention to provide for
the election of senators by a popular vote.
House joint resolution 3, memoriaizfne
congress to open Trip county to settle
ment.
House Joint resolution 8, providing for
IN investigation of state officers.
oSllol JoAlll ICSOiullOti q, DTOVlOlne Tor
publication of legislative manuals and
handbooks.
Senate joint resolution 5, memorializing
congress to extend to April / the time for
beginning settlement on homesteads
Pierre, s. D., Feb. S.-The anti-lobby
bill was signed by Governor Crawford,
yesterday afternoon and filed with the
secretary of state this morning and is
now in force.
The anti-pass bill having passed both
houses with concurrence in ali amend
ments is this morning in the hands of
the enrolling and engrossing force and
Will go to the governor for his signature
TINS afternoon and will be Immediately
filed With the secretary.
The house held another morning ses-
sion Which was spent on passage Of
mouse bills none Of them having been
reached by this body in the past four
dF.ys.
A Limited AntI-Pass.
AS the anti-pass bill will become a
law, the newspaper men will take the
advice of Jim Hill at the time Of the
Pacific strike a few years
ago, Go to hell. pay their fares, or
walk" In the meantime the attorneys
III a show that they are receiving
salary of $500 a year from some rail-
road company can ride on a free pass,
me physicians can sit in dignity beside
the clergymen can use an annual
a book-mark for their bibles, since
n were able to exert pressure enough
to get out from under the restrictions.
This much at least the measure lacks
of being an anti-pass law, even by the
of it's champions, but in
name 1T fills the requirement and will
on record as one of the administers
ton promises fulfilled. And as far as
It goes its force will rot be questioned,
but no one will have courage to claim
that 1t is more than a limited anti-pass
Primary Somewhat Mixed.
The primary bills have passed in
their respective houses. where they or
lginated. They were Identical upon the
dafe of introduction and the senate bill
has remained tolerably true to the die
"a which it was originally cast. but
the house bill, while much the same in
It's general scope, would hardly be rec
ognized as the son of its own father.
Its yerbiage has been materially
some of the minor provisions
been altered, phrases have been
turned about to make them more clear
or less conclusive. and there is scarcely
one OF the seyenty-nine sections of the
Dill that has not been amended. The
ous has been so slow in the move
ASoooA GliCI tIlG SGIldlG
has become impatient, while the senate
Dill has been in the house the large part
OF a week and could easily have been
for the house bill at any
stage of the game.
Will Pass After Delay.
Q the senate will take I'M the
mouse bill and proceed to pass 1t with
as rev changes as possible, and after
That is done there will be more work
Lor q joint conference committee to
narmonize and agree upon the work Of
the two bodies in this important meas
ure. It Is no likely that the bill can
now become a law until the session is
lnree-fourths past, today marking the
close OF the first half OF the session.
q Osdel got his bill through the
mousse providing for electricians operat-
WEsTERNER WOULD MARRY
ACTRESS WHO PLAYED sALoME
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