Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-01-25

stoner, Hornby, Ranum. Whittemore,
link.
Fedora Relations-Ewald. voigt,
Peterson of Lawrence, Rood, Heffer-
Food and Dairy-olson of Clark,
Groce. Meyer. Simonson, Martin Dine
sor, Goff.
Highways-Lee. Peterson of Law
renee. Brynjulson, Olson of Moody,
Nelson. Humiston, Hare.
observation-disclosures, Wooley.
Bratrud. Pennington. oviatt, Hopkins.
Indian Affairs-Ellerman, Rood.
See, Sem, Humiston. Meyer, Quincy.
Irrigation and Drainage-Stokes'
Johnson of Clay, Ranum, Hare, van
Osdel, Nelson, Swanson.
Insurance-Wooley, Whittemore.
Rratrud, I%ssenhuth. Shaw, Kribs, Hop
kins.
Other house committeesare not vet
ready to give out n will be an
nounced later.
The anti-pass bill is to be pushed at
once with an emergency clause, the
senate rate committee Monday fore
noon recommending the passage of the
Eyrne bill.
h rush of bills has begun, house
bill No. l being introduced by john
son of Clay, which amends the penal
code to make wife abandonment a
misdemeanor. Other house bills in
trOduced were by Kribs, providing
penalties for determinations by cor
p~orationS which deal in commodities;
by Whittemore for reciprocal demur-
age by Bratrud, to extend power of
inheritance tax laws; Hebel, providing
expense funds for state judiciary; Ra-
mum, regulating issuance of patents by
state land department.; TO
prevent sale OF stocks of goods IN
fraud; Fonconnon, to place fees for
sales of school lands in road fund.
Bratrud, providing for loaning sinking
funds of municipalities; Glass anti
lobby bill, penalty for corporation lob
bylSts; requiring reports of eXpendt-
lures OF campaign funds; penalty for
| campaign contributions by corpora
tlans; anti-paSS, framed on lines or
federal law; and primary election laW
practically the same as that sought
through the initiative two years ago.
Price introduced resolutions for r%-
moving tariff from lumber, and cleo
ton of United States senator's.
h senate passed a resolution to
present retiring Gov. Elrod with his
official chair, and in thai body Dillon
secured Nc. / on his bill for primary
elections. Other bins introduced in
the senate not duplicates of house
bills were: Dillon, making a recorded
instrument legal notice e if it lack
ed minor legal requirements; Goodsell,
uniform text books; Massey, to provide
for legislative expenses: ScroGgs. to
change boundaries of Union county;
Englesby, providing that threshers
lien must be foreclOsed within sixty
days; making telephone, telegraph and
express companies common carriers
and placing them under control Of the
railway commissions; providing la
bility of companies in regard to tele-
graph and telephone messages;
Thompson of Turner, general drainage
bill; fixing liability of injuries from
defective bridges; in counties. and an
other similar bill for townships; Nc
Cullen, to locate and endOw the South
Dakota college of irrigation and eN-
pertinent station at Miller, Hand coun-
ty: Mundt, prohibiting ommon car
riers from limiting their liabilities,
Jenkins, the employers liability or fell
low servant act; Tobin, appropristing
money for buildings at state fan
grounds at Huron.
In regard to the railroad bills, the
companies will make no move what
ever to prevent h anti-pass bill bun
will oppose the reciprocal demurrage
bill, the 2-cent rate bill and the
freight rate bills which will be intro
duced. The supporters of the 2-cent
rate bill take the position that the cut
ting off of passes will so far increase
the earnings of IA hat 2 cents I'M
der the anti-pasS provisions will give
them a revenue practically the same
as they now receive at 3 cents. The
roads refuse to concede this, and say
their pass business did not aggregate
over 1 per cent of the business, and
their eStimateStrun from that down to
less than one-half of 1 per cent.~They
say what the people want is service
more than they want the rate reduc-
ton. and 1t remains to be seen how the
legislative members will look at it.
The state yet possesses 10000 acres
of unallotted endowment lands and
in past sessions several efforts have
been made to get this allotted to some
of the ole established institutions,
which are not endowed, but this has
always failed. Now an effort comes
from Hand to secure this unallotted
land for the endowment of a state
school of irrigation and experiment at
some point in that county, through a
bill which has been introduced by
| Senator McCullen, from that county.
The employers liability bill has been
sent back to the committee in the SEN
ate and a joint meeting of the rail
road committees will be held to allow
interested parties to appear before
| them on all such bills.
From the representatives who intro
| duced the administration bills in the
two houses it looks as If in the senate
the champions of these measures
| would be Dillon, Cook. Ryrne and Jen-
kins. In the house most of them
have been presented by Glass, who has
always taken a prominent part on the
floor whenever a member. Others wn"
are likely to. take a prominent part in
the house are Parmley, Carroll, Price
| and HebeI, all old timers. and while
| there has not yet been any opportu-
nifty for any of the new members to
show their PAGES, several of them are
likely to push to the front.
Col. Parker. cOngressman-elect from
/ D~eadwood, who has been in the city
| since before the opening of tibet ses-
sion ha returned to his home at Dead
wood, and will go to Washington some
| time in February before the adjourn
ment Of the present session of congress
March.
Gov. Crawford Tuesday appointed
and the senate confirmed A. Norby. of
Roberts county, a member of the state
board Of regents of education, to fill
the place made vacant by the expira-
ton of the term of Regent Slocum,
and Nicholas Treweek, of Lawrence
county to succeed himself as mine in
spector.
introduced in the house Tuesday, there
are indications of putting on brakes in
that line.
New bills continue to come in, the
principal ones being for a salaried
clerk of the supreme court, an ine-
briate asylum at Mitchell, a county op-
ton liquor law and an anti-cigarette
bill.
Members of the legislature Tuesday
evening started to outline the party
pledge legislation. Joint committees
OF the house and senate started to
work on railway regulation, a%nti-pass
and primary bills. 1t is expected that
these measures will be introduced with
all the force of the party influence be-