The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-02-21
GRIND OF THE LAW MILL
What Is Being Accomplished by the State Solons

Two OF the administration bills We're
completed Tuesday as far as legisla-
: tive action is concerned, and have
| gone 10 the governor. They are the
law to prevent corporations organized
for profit from making campaign con-
tributions, and the reciprocal de-
murrage law. Another administration
measure. the primary election bill, is
the subject OF dispute between the
| two houses. md has gone to confer
ence, each house standing by its own
bill on the subject.
Other senate bills which were N
acted into law were: Fixing terms of
! court in the Ninth judicial circuit;
parole of reform school inmates: at.
| taching certain lands to Union county;
placing a firemen's tax on local mutu.
| al fire insurance companies; legaliZing
the incorporation of the town of Tur-
| ton, and a joint resolution for a con-
stitutional amendment changing the
| manner Of taxation of corporate prop
to remove the tariff from lumber and
to prevent the granting of revenue IL
censes in prohibition territory.
The senate bills providing for local
instead of state tax of local insurance
companies, providing for the election
Of county commissioners by districts,
and requiring the names OF those re-
ceiving county aid to be published
were all defeated.
In the senate Dudley introduced a
resolution that Congressman Martin be
furnished by the investigating commit
| tee with the specific charges against
him, with the names OF his accusers,
which, after a wordy contest, vent
over until Wednesday under the rules
| The senate passed the house bills to
repeal the hide inspection law and to
provide for the destruction of weeds
: on highways, then tangled up over the
1 primary election bill, in which Dudley
again attempted to have stricken out
: of the bill the fee provision, resulting
in the rejection of the house bill II
insertion of their own measure.
I The house Wednesday killed the bill
! to elect county commissioners by the
vote of districts. The bill has passed
the senate, and was supported by
Eastman and the Democrats in the
house and opposed by Gable and
Brown.
Welzmuth introduced a bill in the
house providing for public care and
control of liquor and morphine fiends,
to be looked after and confined in the
insane asylum.
Parmley and Glass tangled up again
in the afternoon on the report of the
Gamble investigation, which was
| printed in the hoose journal of Tues
day. Carley, chairman of the commit
tee on journal, presented his report
and Parmley at once moved that IT be
not adopted as the report. Insofar as
the Gamble investigation is c"oncerntd,
it had been garbled by cutting out
that part of the answer as TO whether
it was customary for senators and rep
resentatives at Washington TO place
their sons on the payroll.
The answer, Parmley claimed, had
been changed. the original being cut
from the sheet and a satisfactory an
swer written in at the top of the next
page on the printers copy. Glass de-
Tended the report of the committee
and said it was just as taken by the
s~tenographer with a few slight cor
rections where it was in error. Parm-
lty secured a delay of a day in the &C
ton on the journal.
Action on the bill to prevent the
running of raw sewage into streams
the water of which is used for domes-
tic purposes was indefinitely post
poned on motion of Hare. %Issenhuth
again got out his fire marshal bill. only
to see it defeated a second time after
he had explained it. The bill to appro-
pirate lands to the insane asylum to
be located at Watertown was tabled
on motion of Paterson of Lawrence by
a vote of 43 to SO.
The senate w~rangled over the re-
port on the Gamble investigation, and
| finally adopted the journal report
against the protest of Senator Cooper.
| The bill to assess railway, telegraph
and telephone property other than the
line property was opposed by Dudley
and advocated by Byrne and Robert
| son and passed.
Gov. Crawford SEN to the senate the
name of Thomas Hicks of Grant coun-
ty for state veterinarian and the ap-
| pointment was confirmed.
The house session opened Thursday
afternoon with a renewal of the fight
over the record of the Gamble investi-
cation. Parmley started the row by