The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-01
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
Work Accomplished by the State Legislators.

| The senate met Tuesday at noon
and cast the full Republican vote for
Senator Gamble, the Democrats cast
| ing their votes for ex-Gov. Lee OF YER
million. The house met at 2 o'clock
and Senator Gamble received the fuli
insureent and a, large part of the stall
Wart vote.
The equal suffrage advocates won
! their first battle in the senate Tues
day when, after limited debate, their
proposition for the submission of the
question to the people was carried by
| "a to 21.
Gov. Crawford sent in the name of
| o. S. Basford as insurance commits
sioner to fill the place made vacant by
the removal of Len Doty, and for the
full term, beginning July l next, both
nominations being confirmed
The contests in the house were on
the county local option bill. which
was sustained on the committee re-
| port by vote of 46 to Al, and on the
bill to require orders before newspa
per subscriptions could be collected
| which was defeated by 81 to "a.
Both houses adopted the joint reso-
luton for recess adjournment from
Thursday evening of this week to
Tuesday evening Of next week.
In the house the railroad committee
has reported favorably on the bills
limiting the working hours of en-
ployes, and requiring double damages
for stock killed by railways through
negligence on the part of the employees
of the company. The live stock com.
mittee reported favorably on the bills
to require Acknowledgements before
a proper officer in bills of sale of live
stock, and the require practitioners OF
veterinary surgery to hold diplomas
from regular colleges.
The house then beat its record on
introduction of bills, starting twenty
five on the way, ranging from "a to
100. i IT, II y s6
At noon Wednesday the journals OF
the two houses were read in Joint ses.
sion and Senator Gamble was declared
to be elected for the term beginning
March next. ""f> 5000 s'''s
Both houses are getting ready for
the recess adjournment, and the house
pushed over all bills likely to. create
debate and kill time until their return
next week. The house passed the anti.
lobby bill as well as the one extending
street railway franchises for thirty
years after vote, both going throut
without a dissenting vote, The horse
doctors won over the veterinary sur
geons in the defeat OF the bill reuuir-
Ing the practitioners of veterinary sur
gerry to be able to show diplomas.
Tho senate held a session Thursday
morning and started with the 2-cent
rate bill, which was a special order.
but the bill went over for a week by
a vote Of 80 to 8. The reciprocal de-
murrage bill was then called up for
final action and after short discus
sion was passed, 81 to 6.
The house held a short session
Thursday afternoon, and the reciprocal
demurrage and 2-cent rate bills went
over to Thursday of next week without
discussion.
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week will be the railroad days Rep
resentatives of the roads will appear
before the joint committees of both
houses in open meeting in the hall of
the house Wednesday evening to pre-
sent their case on the different bills in
troduced, and on Thursday several OF
the most important of these measures
will be up as special orders in both
houses.
House bill 1872. introduced Friday by
Issenhuth. shows a popularity in the
laws Of the state as they have stood
for the last two years. The bill
amends section of chapter 139 of the
Laws of 1905, by changing the word
-four to three" The law in ques
troll of the Northern hospital for
feeble minded at Redfeld, and the sec
tion asked to be amended gives pow
er to states attorneys to take control
Of any such persons as are named in
section 4 of the act, and to send them
to the institution to be under the care
and supervision Of that institution.
Referring back to section 4 of the act,
1t provides that the institution shall
be under the control of the state board
of charities and corrections, and de-
fines what persons they shall select
for the management of the institution.
Section of the same act provides
what class Of people shall bs kept and
cared for at the institution, and the
incongruity of the law as 1t has stood
for two years can be readily seen
when the subject matter Of sections 3