The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-15
PLEDGES ARE: kept,
DOMINANT FACTION
A UNIT; ADJOURN
Remarkable Session OF South
Dakota Legislature Is
Concluded.
PROBABLY 24o NEW LAWS
People Have Been Given What Was
Promised and Enactments Have
Been Handled in a States
manlke Manner.

Pierre S. D., March 1.-THE scenes
which marked the close of the tenth
biennial session of the South Dakota leg
isature today of a different order
from those of any previous session The
work completed twelve hours in ad-
vance of the constitutional limit and oc-
CURED in daylight. There no long
drawn out contention over conference com
mittee reports There was no important
measure to die by limitation, and there
was pledge made TO the people left
unfuliilled
This legislature has elected a United
States senator who was Endorsed by the
people and their representatives in con-
vention.
Some First Importance Laws.
1t has enacted comprehensive primary
4 election law which is now effective and
I If found impractical can be repealed with
ment.
An anti-pass law is on the statute books;
4 likewise an anti-lobbying law, law pro
slibting corporations for profit from MAX
ing contributions to political committee or
1 candidates. a law requiring a record TO
be kept and filed of all campaign eN-
I Itenses.
Two and a half passenger rate
bill has becom. law. railways
4 must maintain connections a inter
secting points, must keep stations
in commission except upon hearing be-
/ fore the railway commission and authority
being given to close The railway COM
| missioners are empowered to employ ex-
pert accountants to investigate and de-
| termne the true value Of all railroad prop
erty in the state upon which a just and
/ equitable rate for both passengers and
freight may be promulgated and sus-
| tanned.
A New Apportonment.
The legislative districts of the state have
4 been reapportioned in accordance with the
growing and changing needs of the state,
! giving l04 representatives.
/ The educational law has been revised
and perfected, the institutions of the state
have been cared for by appropriations
which will sustain them and permit a rea-
sonable degree of growth.
A divorce law has been passed to meet
/, the demand OF those who are crSing out
| against permitting the mistits from other
states coming here and hanging their dirty
| laundry in th. front yards of the residents
/ of the state.
Provision has been made for the build
/ ing and completion of a capitol building
| to cost 100000 without direct appro-
\ priation from the treasury
4 These are the important measures which.
have crystazed into enactment, and it
has been done without friction 1t has
4 been done without bitter contention and
for the most part without opposition Of
any character.
About 24o New Laws
A Six hundred and thirty-thre.. bills and
/ resolutions have been proposcd 1893 have
u been filed with the secretary of state in
/ the form of approved laws while the
number Vet in the hands of the governor
will increase that number to al least 240,
perhaps the largest proportion of bills to
4 become laws at any session since state
\ hood it is the largest number of bills
TO be offered at any one session.
The threat of radical railroad legisla-
ton which was manifested early in the
session expended itself before the first
half closed, and it is the deliberate state-
ment OF the Representatives of the railroad
interests that of the eighteen states in
4 which the furore has been pronounced for
I radical legislation South Dakota has ac-
/ quilted itself in a way which colnmends
the reasonabeness of her citizens and her
4 legislators. All of the railroad legislation
that was asked for by the people has
/ been realized and more, yet the railroads
are not crippled nor hindered while the
A people have the adjustments and restric-
/ tions and regulations asked for
Both houses practically cleared all busi.
| ness yesterday afternoon leaving only
4 few bills to dispose of in either house this
morning. The senate held a night session
at which no real business was transacted.
In Slaughtering Mood.
Both houses We're In a slaughterins
mood yesterday. The senate killed house
bills to appropriate money for a building
a. the school for the deaf and dumb at
| Sioux Falls. attaching certain unorsanized
counties to organized counties for judi
cial purposes; TO appropriate money to
pay for horses killed by the authorizes on
I account of glanders; to require school dis
| tr.cts to furnish the bonds of their treas
! urer; senate bills for boiler Inspection and
to appropriate money for telephone in
! speCtor
The house slaughtered the senate bills
to provide specific tax levy for cluca-
ional institutions; to apply the Carey act
to this state; to limit the foreclosure of a
mortgage TO hfCen years. and allowing
i trolley lines the right of way on high
ways.
No Lotteries at Church Fairs.
Pierre, $. D., March li.--The divorce
bill passed the house without amends
nent after Glass had tried to delay it
a day to jeopardize it. There were
seventeen votes against it, including
the four members who are attorneys.
The term of residence is made one
year, except where both parties appear
and agree TO the separation.
The house anti-gambling bill passed
the senate with slight amendment and
prohibits bets and wagers as we'll as
gambling With cards, and will cut out
lotteries at church fairs.
The general appropriation bill passed
the house With a raise of $4,000 over
the senate and will be adjusted by a
conference committee.
The apportionment bill has passed
both houses and raises the number OF
representatives to 104.