Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-14

dead for the session. The same action
was taken on the senate bill to fix
standard form of life insurance poll
cies. The house held its first night
| session Wednesday evening.
The senate passed the house anti
| gambling bill, which makes gambling,
| betting or wagering by any one mis-.
| demeanor, and gives the right of re
covery against property owners or ten
ants where betting or gambling is al
! lowed Several attempts to amend
We're voted down, and the bill went
through as left by the house.
The house Thursday afternoon was
in a killing mood and got away with
the bills applying the Carey act in
this state, limiting the time of begin
ming foreclosure of mortgages to If
teen years; providing for specific an
nual levies for the state educational
Institutions; allowing trolley lines to
use highways for right of way, and
memorializing congress to require
| lumber to be the measurement at
which it is claimed to- be sold.
After three efforts the senate re-
ceded from it's position on the bill to
make the secretary of the state board
of agriculture ex-off1cio state immt
grafton commissioner, and the bill was
adopted by both houses.
The last bill passed by the house
for the afternoon was to submit con
stitutional amendment to increase the
salary of the attorney general to ST.
| 500 a year. The Democratic caucus
| railway bill, after being amended in
| the title to ga bill creating campaign
thunder for the Democrats" was post
poned until 1909, after an attempt to
expunge the record in regard to the
amendment in the title had been voted
down, the Democrats all voting to al.
| low it to stand.
The senate killed the bill to appro
! pirate money for telephone inspect
or; the boiler inspection bill; to re,
quire school districts to furnish bonds
| for their treasurers; to appropriate
money to pay for horses killed on
order Of the state veterinarian because
Of glanders; attaching unorganized
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dicial purposes, and appropriated s5,,
900 for building at the deaf and
| dumb school.
They passed the bills for a new
building at the Spearflsh normal and
for the protection of quail for Ave
years. The senate tonight held a
night session, and will meet at
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ness in the forenoon. The house
holds no night session.
For the first time in the history OF
the state the legislative session ad.
journed Friday at daylight. The spir.
it of the noon adjournment resolution
was not kept, although the letter Of 1t
was stretched by few minutes, the
actual adjournment being few min.
utes after that hour. An unusual nun.
Der of important measures were en-.
acted into law, among them being pro.
! hibition Of railway passes and tele'
/ graph franks, provision for 2 12 cent
railroad fares wherever the state com.
missioner deems such reduction advis.
able; amendment of the divorce laws
in the interest of reform and a state.
wide primary election law.
Just at the close of the senate ses.
sion Dowdell rose to a question Of per.
sonal privilege, on a claim that his
character had been attacked in an
anonymous circular letter, and that
while he did not care for himself, he
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sent any accusations which had been
made.
The two houses enjoyed mock SEES
sions while waiting for the engrossins
forces to clear up the work and kept
the fun hot for time. Both houses
joined in singing America" just be
fore the end.
The session will go down as the one
in the state which has done more to
control corporations by law than has
any other session ever held in the
state, having devoted great part OF
the time to that class Of work. The
public morals have also been consid
cred, and several laws on that subject
have been enacted. The liquor inter
ests found every move on their part
for greater liberties blocked, with
many restrictive measures enacted for
their better control.
The general bills Which have been
enacted which are of statewide inter
est are the primary election, capitol
building, general divorce and general
educational laws, while many minor
measures Of local interest have been
enacted. The appropriations have
gone beyond those Of any other ses.
sion, but the growth of the state has
compelled an increase at each sue.
ceeding session, which will keep on as
long as the state continues it's growth.
Repulsed; Seeks Death,