The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-01-26

~ work in this state; by Carver, pro-
vidinp for county local option; by
class to reduce railroad. telephone
and telegraph rates: by Olson, Oh
Moody, increasing pay or township SUI
neryisors and clerk to $3.50 per day.
bv Carroll, regulating passenger rates.
cents per mile on Interchangeable
mileage books and u cents on tick
cts.
Roth houses are getting along to the
stage where they are beginning 10 I'm
ish work on bills. Saturday the sem
ate passed the legislative expense bill.
then began tangling up on the anti
pass bill, which was called up on re-
port, and the report adopted by a
vote of rs to 20. The effort of Engles-
by to get the stalwart investigation out
of the committee failed.
New Bills.
The new bills keep up their flood
the number so far introduced pelng.
half Of the last session. The senate
bills introduced were by Carpenter.
giving justices of peace and municipal
courts greater jurisdiction; Doering.
basng price of lumber on actual meas
urement thereof; providing for LABEL
ing paints, white lead, etc, with for
mula and date of manufacture; pro-
viding additional qualifications for
clerks of courts; providing for supply
ing the state law department OF the
| university with copies of supreme
| court reports; relating to care and GUS
| tody of supreme court library; def-
| cheney appropriation of $500 for Sec
rotary of state department; providing
| supply of session laws to state law
school; Green of Deuel. providing for
| the levy of a tax for penitentiary twine
plant; Cooper, increasing fees of regis
| ters of deeds: May, increasing fees Of
witnesses and jurors at discretion Of
court; Robertson, general road law;
| Heppelee, donating codes and session
| laws to state law school
Under suspension Of rules the senate
| passed Perkins resolution memorial.
izing congress to increase Fort Meade
! to brigade post.
| The house developed orators in the
| debate on the provisions of the pri-.
mary election bill Saturday, which
was up on committee report. Favora-
| BILE reports were returned on the bill
! to prohibit adulteTation of white lead;
| two-cent passenger rates: and reSOlu-j
| tons asking for free lumber, and III.
dorsing Roosevelt A long list of house
! bills was presented, many of them
! duplicates of senate bills, those not
| in that list were by Forecannon, in
| creasing fees of the department of sec
rotary Of state; Lanam, changing state
brand commission to consist of secre-
tary of state, one member from the
city of Pierre and one from west Of the
| Missouri river; Lee to make taxes de-
linquent the first of April and Novem-
Der instead OF the present dates on
| March and October: Fitch, uniform
text book law; Parmley, providing for
| reciprocity with other states on dental
certificates; Matteson. appropriating
$50, 600 for dormitory at agricultural
college.
| Live Stock Interests.
| Tho live stock in Of No OF
are getting to the front with the bills
| which they desire to have enacted, one
of them being Ellerman's bill increas-
ing the annual wolf bounty apprOpria-
ton to SIS, 900. Under the law the to-
tai amount must be apportioned among
the different claimants for bounty, and
for the past three years the amount
paid has been about s62 cents on the
dollar. This is not enough induce
ment for the professional hunters. and
with an increased appropriation it is
hoped to bring face value for the GER
ti6cates.
Another bill has been introduced by
Hore of Pennington. who wants all
bills of sale Of live stock to be &C
knowledged before proper certifying
officer The intention of the bill being
TO prevent the giving of bills of sale
for stolen live stock.
Street Railway Franchise.
The Sioux Falls people have their
bill under way for the extension of
the life of street railway franchise
from twenty to thirty years On this
law they pin their hopes of securing an
electric system for their city. and an
end to their unsuccessful ATTEMPTS in
that direction. They have a strong
delegation here to help the bill along,
and all are hopeful that they will soon
secure what they want.
|
The fee bill for the office of the Sec
rotary of state which was introduced
by Forecannon is in line with the rec
concentrations of Secretary Wiuf in his
annual report. The fees for filing arti-
cles of incorporation, for domestic cor
porations; or for examination and fill
| ing articles for foreign corporations
range from $40 to $4,000, and under
to $25 for corporations with capital
of from $4,000 to 100000, with an
additional 50 for each hundred thou
sand over the last named amount All
fees generally for the department are
increased. At the rate in which COR
porations are being filed under the
laws will bring decided increase in
the revenues.
The law department of the sto.e uni
versity has been hampered in its work.
| for lack of the necessary state laws
in it's library, and while the state Isl
ready to supply the lack. there has
never been any legal provisions to meet
the requirement. To cover this a Sc
ries of bills have been introduced to-
supply the codes and laws of past ses-
sions, and laws of future sessions and
supreme court reports.
General Road Law.
The general road law which was in
troduced in the senate by Robertson
and in the house by Parmley, provides
for doing away with the working out
of road taxes, but requires all such
taxes to be paid in cash, to be ex-
pended under the control of the coun-
tY commissi oners. who shall EN- nlnx a