Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-24


tigstion committee, who is reerol.
sibis for bis defeatY"
Senate bill IS passed the house.
House bill AZ vas passed.
House bill Al did not receive an
Affirmative vote Of two-thirds of the
house members and was declared
lost.
House bill 10, passed.
Senate joint resolution 9, passed.
House bill IL, was reconsidered
and passed.
House joint resolution |, passed.
Speaker appointed L. A. Eggel-
ston clark Of the committee on agri-
culture.
The county local option bill,
which a prepared by the state
anti saloon league. is a radical
measure. and carries with it an
opportunity for any one who so
desires to spring an election on the
question at any time by petition.
1t is framed on the theory that the
rural vote would prevent saloons,
and it takes away from cities and
towns local control. The bill was
introduced by Carver, of Aurora.
An attempt first will be made to
secure it through legislation, and if
that fails, the initiative and referen-
dun will be invoked.
The first general debate in the
house was over the report of the
election committee on the primary
bill, which had been materially
amended. Mr.. Glass moved it's
adoption under suspension of the
rules, in which he was sustained by
Representative Hebel and opposed
by Representatives Browne, East
man. Foster and Price of Yankton
and Peterson OF Lawrence, the
report going over without action.
The railroad baiters evidently
decided that they are attempting to
90 a little too far and fast. The
railroad committee at a short
meeting, decided to Recommend
favorably the fellow servant act, and
did, but will recall it and will allow
those interested to appear before a
joint meeting of the railroad com
mittee of both houses TO state their
positions on the bills. They also
probably will select the measures
which they think they can get
through at this session, and will
push them to the front, allowing the
others to lag.
In the house, the school land
committee reported favorably on a
bill to give to road districts in which
sale has been made, the fees for
school lands which now 60 into the
state general fund.
Eastman's bill requiring the CAPT
tol commission to use only South
Dakota material in the construction
of the capitol will perhaps find Lard
The expressed sentiment
of most members seems to favor the
use Of home material il it can be
used upon equal terms, but they are
not inclined to tie the hands of the
in any way to add
materially to the cost or cripple the
enterprise, or to detract from the
appearance of the completed build
In 1904 about a dozen of the city
clerks Of the state neglected to
report to the auditor the condition
of their respective fire departments,
and they therefore failed to partici-
pate in the distribution of the fire
insurance tax of that year. Huron
was the heaviest loser. These cities
are now asking for special appro-
priation to make good the loss.
The second bill to pass the house
was Foncannon's proposition to turn
the fees from land sales into the
road funds of the several counties.
enator Greene yesterday intro
duced a bill emanating from the
land department providing these
fees shall be turned into the interest
and income fund for the use Of the
schools. That is the present usage
but there does not appear to be any
upon the proposition.
The negotiable instruments bill
now the law of thirty-two states has
again appeared in this Legislature.