The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-03-07
AK IS USED ON THE
APPROPRIATION BILL
Approximately Half a Million
Dollars Topped Off by
Committee. 4
%"sPEcIALs" SUFFER MOST
County Option on Liquor Question
"sPECIALs" SUFFER MOS
County Option on Liquor Question
Must Be Secured Yearly-Bis
Grist of Bills Passed by
Both Houses.

Pierre, >. ID, March 5.--Ile JOINT an
preparations committees wrestled mos
of the night with the budget asked for
to bring 1t within the limitations OF the
revenue for the next biennial period. The
estimated revenue from all sources is
so, 200, 900, and the total amount of ap-
preparations asked for Is practically
! 81, 500, 900.
To bring the appropriations within
the limits OF the revenue the special
for a new building at Madison is Topped
off. the special for buying land at the
Redf1eld asylum Is cut in two. The
specials are rimmed on nearly all 9TH
,er institutions. The maintenance for
all institutions is sliced UNNECESSARILY.
n the expense n Of the state Off
GERS are also pared.
The bill for the general a%ppropria-
tions VIII be introduced in both houses
Monday and then the real fight will be.
gin among the representatives of the
institution counties.
Passed Batch Of Bills.
The senate yesterday passed thirteen
house bills and the house reciprocated
with ten enate bills to keep the row
ernor busy.
Dillon's bill repeating the North
Carolina bond acceptance law was re-
fused by the house by a decided ma
jority.
The Glass maximum 21a-cent rate
bill went through the senate without
debate or opposition and there was not
a railroad representative in sight.
Secretary of State Wipf presented to
each body a copy of the county local
option petition asking for the refer
endum.
Governor Crawford vetoed his first
measure, providing that the newspaper
las in Ia, - hsrt Z ,as- r,No ~, - ~ e L.
accepted as evidence in court.
The new city charter bill providing
for government by commission under
the Galveston plan comes up in the
house today, and will constitute the
only feature of the session. 1t passed
the senate with many changes after
long delay and will probably be ac-
ceptable to the house.
Local Option Wins.
The liquor interests made a killing
of the count local option measure, but
1t bobbed up again in a petition in
voking the initiative and signed by
5000 voters of the state. After this
short lived victory 1t was thought the
liquor interests would have rested with
q law which has been pronounced good
for several years since 1903, but in an
~illadvised moment 1t was sought to
have the annual voting feature cut out
of the present law and a bill was in
troduced in the sena to that effect,
but it has gone the way that does not
provide for return trip tickets. With
not a vote to spare it's opponents de-
cided that IL the saloons want to eX-
ist they shall ask for the privilege an
nually, 1t being argued that this will
have a tendency to cause the saloon
interests to keep on terms of amity by
keeping within the limitations of the
qaw. 1t will rest there for at least two
years more.
Feared by Politicians.
Friday was hangman's day for the
anti-treating bill in the senate. 1t was
condemned to death the previous day
and the sentence was made irrevocable
when it failed to come up for consid-
Grafton. 1t was killed by it's loving
friends who We're afraid Of the effect
its passage might have on the party,
The state horticultural society has at
tanned to a standing at court by the
passage of two bills through the SEN
ate, one providing for the printing and
distribution of 1000 copies Of the an
nua report and then it gets a 81, 500
appropriation.
An echo from h days of populism
when Andrew E. Lee was on guard
and Robert E. Dowdell was oil. inspec-
tor was heard when the senate passed
q bill conveying 1000 10 from the treas
yury to the agricultural college, this
being a sum Of money which the In
spector turned into the treasury when
Tom Ayres accused him of stealing it
resulted in Dowdell's resignation. The
money has remained In the trea sury
ten years. It will now be expended UNI
der the direction Of the college chemist
for more apparatus for the inspection
OF oil and food products.
Quiet Over Washington Way.
Nc recent word has come to the Joint
investigating committee from that part
of the congressional delegation that il
anxious for Investigation, though it is
pointed out that the MEMBERS might
reasonably leave Washington this even
Ing and reach Pierre in the dark on
Tuesday morning n have four days In
which to ave their robes made white.
The committee is constantly expecting
a telegram advising it to be In readi-
ness to receive he delegation.
The house has passed a bill granting
$4,000 o year for two years for the
maintenance of the state guard. Four
years ago the amount appropriated For
h same purpose was $4,000 q year. a
difference OF $4,000 which is said to
represent the shrinkage in patriotism
in that period. BY some 1t Is clain1ed
to be a useless expenditure to train IN
"tin" soldiers in view Of the good ac-
count our raw recruits gave OF them
selves In the Spanish-American war.
pilion's Futile Eioquenee.
DillOn's speech on the North Caro-
lima bone deal was the, longest made IN
the n this winter, but he proved
he North Carolinian's band OF heroes
Who a been carpetbagged oinsensi-
bility and then left to continue voting
for Andrew Jackson while their honds
were hawked about by Simon chaffe
who rave them to the state Of South
Dakota. He didn't have the votes
however, to bear out his contention and
he bill Tor the return of the money re-
covered on these bonds by this state is
sleeping with its toes turned to the.
daisies.
The house has voted to set aside for
experiment purposes the balance 81 i
unappOrtiOned endowment Iands
amounting to $4,000 acres. These ara
largely lands situated In the semf-arid
sections west OF the river where mo-
vision is made forStha establishment "A
teso new sub-experiment stations which
VIII be operated under the supervisian.
of Professor n. r. Hansen Of the 49,
ricultural lands.
Pierre,S S. ID, March 2.-The san.,
divorce bill had its first round in~fhe
house today when Whitencre moved
that II be takenSup Ia comlmittee 81 he
whole because h Judiciary COMMITTEES
sisEoperWorked.