The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-03-01

eye in the senate Tuesday by that
body refusing to pass the house bill
to increase the pay of the soldiers
nome board from So to So per day.
Lincoln attempted to tie the bill, but
Dudley secured reconsideration and
another vote, in which it failed again,
and Lincoln secured his motion to put
1t beyond further reconsideration. The
expected discussion in the senate over
the anti-treating bill did not come up,
as it was put over until Thursday of
next week for a vote.
The senate passed the bill providing
state aid for high schools, giving 80
schools from $1OO to $500 a year, ac-
cording to the class of the school.
The house passed the senate insur-
ance bill requiring mutual life compa-
MES to make accounting to their poll
cyholderS as to the manner Of invest
ment of surplus, and the rate of inter
est it draws.
In the line of providing the railway
commission with the necessary figures
to base a general rate for the state
the house passed the bill to authorize
that body to employ experts and in
vestigate the actual cost of railroads
in this state.
Carroll got his 2-cent rate bill back
onto the house calendar on a motion
to take it from the table. 1t is likely
to come up at any time.
At the afternoon session Of the
house the general educational bill
passed after being thoroughly amend
ed.
The senate killed the bill requiring
newspaper libel suits to be brought in
the county where the paper is publish
ed. 1t passed one making the secre-
tary Of the state board of agriculture
~ex-oficio immigration commissioner,
and providing him with an appropria-
ton for an expense account.
The Dowell uniform ext book bill,
after being a cause of senate conten-
ton for the last week, was finally put
to sleep Tuesday afternoon on a tie
vote, after which the motion to tie it
down was made and it is no longer a
factor of the session.
The ghost of the 2-cent rate bill
came back to trouble the house, and
will have to be cared for by that body,
regardless Of the fact hat they have
twice buried it at this session.
CAROLS 2-cent --ate bill, though
placed at the head of the calendar for
Wednesday. was shut out by a special
order.
On the bill to repeal the law crea-
ting an insane hospital at Watertown,
the committee returned an adverse re-
port. Scott, the introducer of the bill,
attempted to change the report. but
the bill was voted down by a vote of
43 to 36, leaving the law locating the
institution yet on the statute.
lssenhuth called up his negotiable
instrument bill as a special order and
made the first request of the session
for a call of the house. The bill was a
long n and the farmers of the house
were afraid of it. Price of Yankton
n Eastman, attorneys, attacked it as
taking away privileges granted under
existing laws, and it went down with
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the powers of attorney of railroad
commission under control of the at
torney general and appointment of a
scale inspector in the hands Of the
governor was defeated. Among the
new house bills presented We're a num-
Der Of appointment bills from different
sources.
The senate held a short session, re
celving a number of new bills and
passing the senate bill adding the
duties of fire marshal to the insurance
department., and the standard life in
bill which was adopted by The
Chicago conference.
House bills We're passed by the n
ate prohibiting Sunday theaters and
prohibiting the sale of liquor within
800 feet of any school or church.
Gov. Crawford signed the primary
election bill and filed it Wednesday af-
.ternoon.