The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-08
WITH THE
Work Accomplished by the State Legislators.

place than another, with freight rate
differences. Goodner, Dillon and To
bin opposed the bill, which was sup
ported by Robertson, Dowdell, Byrne
and Massey, and While it failed as an
emergency bill it went through with
the emergency clause off by a vote of
rs TO 10.
The public printing committee in
troduced a bill for a state printing
commission to establish a plant, and
at the same time a resolution for a
CONSTITUTIONAL amendment to levy a
tax for the purpose of establishing the
plant.
The only house tansle was over he
Price . l-2-cent rate bill, which was
defeated on the committee report after
it had been advocated by Price and
Van Osdel and opposed by Glass,
Satire. lssenhuth and Hare. The house
passed a number of house bills, prin-
cipal of which We're: To include drugs
in the provisions of the pure food act:
providing for compulsory education of
Indian children; authorizing the board
of regents of education to select two
sections of state land west of the
river for experimental farms.
The house defeated the senate bill
to provide for uniform life insurance
policies, but notice of reconsideration
was given.
The house bill TO require railroads
TO equip their engines with self dump
ing ash pans was defeated by a vote
of AZ to "a on a motion to indefinitely
postpone.
The appropriations committee is at
tempting to hold the appropriations
below two and a quarter millions. The
situation will require special 2-mill
levies for both years.
The senate bill to place the law de-
under the attorney general and give
the governor the appointing power
for the scale inspectors was pushed
through the house Friday. The anne
bill has been killed twice before as a
house bill, but mustered the neces-
sary votes to get through on the third
trial.
Glass opened for the bill, and declared
The necessity for such a law was in
the fact that the present attorney for
the commission was selected and
placed where he is by the railroads
and in further response to remarks by
Browne, said that every member of
the commission since 1897, with N
exception, had been selected by the
railroads, and after selection they had
been elected.
The senate bill to make the secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture
ex-officio commissioner of immigra-
ton failed for lack of the required
votes to carry it as an appropriation
measure.
The senate bill to provide state aid
for high schools did not meet with
house approval, and went down with
only thirty-fiye votes in its favor. In
the forenoon session Of the house
Gov. Crawford presented his first veto
on the bill to make the records of the
state historical society evidence IN
court. and at the afternoon session
Glass presented a bill to ure the de-
fects noted by the governor.
The referendum petitions for the
county local option law to be present
ed to the people at the next general
election were filed in both houses by
State Secretary Wipf.
In the house the senate bill for he
government of cities by the Galveston
plan was favorably reported, and the
| senate reported favorably on the bill
to provide revenues for the state edu-
c~ational institutions by direct levy in
stead of appropriation.
In the senate the bill to authorize
towns to construct telephone systems
was opposed by Mundt Of Lincoln,
who attempted to amend it to make it
practically imperative, in which he
failed. The bill passed.
The senate defeated the house bill
to provide for appointment instead OF
election OF city assessors, and passed
a bill to limit saloon licenses to one
for each 900 inhabitants in a town.
The larger telephone interests mad
a harpoon thrown into them by the
house Saturday in the passage OF
house bill 270 after a vain effort to
substitute senate bill 26S. The motion
to substitute brought Glass to his feet
with a radical speech, in which he
charged that the senate bill was drawn
by representatives of the Dakota ZEN
trail and was perfectly satisfactory to
them, while the house bill was intend
ed to curb that monopoly. Browne op-
posed Glass in favor of the substitu-
ton and cited the actions Of the Civic
Federation of Huron on the bill as mis-
leading and false. Horribly, Carley
and Simonson stood for the house bill
on the ground that they thought the
Dakota Central needed curbing. The
bill passed after the substitute had
been disposed of.
The banking committee returned an
unfavorable report in the house on the
bill to make 10 per cent the highest