Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-03-08
Approximately Half a Million
Dollars Topped Off by.
Committee. aG.
"SPECIALS" SUFFER MOST
County Option on Liquor question
Must Be Secured ~Yearly-s's
Grist of Bills Passed by
Both Houses.

/ DIODIldtLOllS
of the night with the budget asked ior'
TO bring it within the limitations OF the
revenue for the next biennial period. me
estimated revenue from all sources Is
80 200. 600. and the total amount OF APP
propriations asked for is practlcaIly
49, 500, 900. .p,.
To bring the appropriations within
the limits of the revenue n Specldt
for a new building at Madison is Topped
off, the special for buying land at Ine
Redfeld asylum is cut in two. Inc
specials are trimmed on nearly all oth-
err institutions. The maintenance tor
all institutions is sliced immeasurapIyh
and the expense funds OF the state oin-
GERS are also pared.
The bill for the general approprla-
tions will be in both houses
Monday and then the real fight VIII pc
gin among the representatives or the
institution counties.
Passed Batch of Bills.
h senate yesterday passed thirteen
house bills and the house reciprocated
with ten senate bills TO keep the gov
ernor busy.
Dillon's bill repeating the North
Carolina pond acceptance law was re-
fused by the house by a decided ma
jority.
The Glass maximum 21s-cent rate
bill went through the senate without
debate or opposition and there was moi
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
files in the historians department be
accepted as evidence in
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 county local option measure, but
1t bobbed up again in a petition in
voking the initiative n signed by
1904 voters of the state. After this
short lived victory it was thought the
liquor interests would have rested with
a law which has been pronounced good
for several years since 1903, blu in an
illadvised moment it was sought tG
have the annual voting feature cut out
Of the present law and a bill was in
PRODUCED in the senate to that effect,
but it has gone the way that does no.
provide for return trip tickets. With
not a vote TO spare it's opponents de-
cided that if the saloons want to eX-
list they shall ask for the privilege an
nually. it 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
law. 1t will rest there for at a 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 IL failed to come up for conSid-
Grafton. 1t was killed by its loving
friends who were 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 sem
ate. one providing for the printing and
distribution of 1000 copies of the an
nual report and then it gets a $l,50C
appropriation.
An echo from the days of populism
when Andrew f.. Lee was on guard
and Robert r. Dowdell was oil inspec-
tor was heard when the senate passed
a bin conveying 81, 10000 from the treas
vi ~ lAG - - OENSS 1880
being q 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 treasury
ten years. 1t will now be expended un-
der the direction of the college chemist
for more apparatus for the inspection
of oil and food products.
Quiet Over Washington Way.
.-z..l 49, A,,o tA tho iAfnt
investigating committee from that part
| of the congressional delegation that is
| 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 and have four days in
which to have their robes made white.
The committee is constantly expecting
q telegram advising it to be in readi-
ness to receive the delegation.
The house has passed a bill granting
$4,000 q year for two years for the
maintenance of the state guard. Four
years ago the amount appropriated for
the same purpose was 100000 a year, a
difference of sol, 900 which is said to
represent the shrinkage in patriotism
In tina period. BY some 1t Is claimed
to be a useless expenditure to train VI
"tin' soldiers In view of the good ac-
count our raw recruits gave of them
selves In the Standardization war.
billions Futile Eloquence.
Dillon's speech on the North Csro-
lima bond deal was the longest made IL
the senate this winter. but he proved
the North Carolinian's band of heroes
who had been carpetbagged to insens;-
bility and then left to continue victims
for Andrew Jackson while their bonds
were hawked about by Simon Schaffel
who gave them to the state OF South
Dakota. He didn't have the votes
however, to bear out his contention an6
the bill for the return of the money re-
I covered on these bonds by his state Is
sleeping with it's toes urned to The
daisies.
The house has voted to set aside 70,
experiment purposes the balance of ths
unapporticned endowment land.
amounting to %, 600 acres. These arr
largely lands situated In the semi-arit
sections west of the river where pro
vision Is made for the establishment o.
two new sub-experiment stations which
will be operated under tie supervision
OF Professor N. +. hansen of the ag.
ricultural lands.
Pierre. S. D., March THE senat,
divorce bill la its first round In tn.
house today when Whitemore moved
that II be taken up In committee OF tn,
whole because h judiciary corpmitte.
Is ovsrworked.
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