Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-03-14
AK IS USED ON THE
APPROPRIATION BILL
Approximately Halt a Million
Dollars Topped Off by.
Committee. uA.;
"SPECiALS" SUFFER MOST
County Option on Liquor Question
Must 81 Secured YearlJ-6ig
Grist Of Bills Passed by
Both Houses.
"SPECIALS" SUFFER MOS

Pierre. =. D.. March 5.-The joint AN
propriations committees wrestled most
OF the night with the budget asked for.
to bring it within the limitations of the
revenue for the next biennial period. The
estiIna ted revenu. from all sources is
s.. 200, 900. and the total amount of APP
preparations asked for is practically
800, 900.
To bring the appropriations within
the limits of the revenue the special
for Il new building at Madison is topped
off. the special for buying land at the
liediield asylum is cut in two. The
specials are trimmed ON nearly All 9TH
or institutions. The maintenance for
AL Institutions is sliced immeasurably.
and the expense funds of the state Off
GERS are also pared.
The bill for the general a%ppropria-
tiOus win he introduced in both houses
] Monday ana 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 senare bits to keep the gov
ernor busy.
Dillon's bill repeating the North
Carolina BOND acceptance law was re-
fused by the house by Il decided ma
jority.
The Glass maximum 2la-cent rate
bin went through the senate without
debate or opposition and there was not
Il 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 he
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 he ac-
ceptahle to the house.
Local Option Wins.
The liquor interests made Il killing
of the county local option measure. but
1t bobbed up again in Il petition in
voking the initiative and signed by
5.0O4 voters of the state, After this
short lived victory ii was thought the
liquor interests would ave rested with
q law which has been pronounced good
for several years since 1903. but in an
illadvised moment it was sought to
have the annual voting feature cut out
of the present law and Il bill was in
trodlced In the senate to that effect.
but it has gone the way thai does not
provide for return trip tickets. With
not Il vote to spare its %pponent de-
cided that il 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 tho
law 1t will rest there for at least two
years more.
Feared by Politicians.
Friday was hanginan's day for the
anti-treating bill in the senate. IL was
condemned to death the previous day
and the sentence was made irrevocablc
when it failed to come up for conSid-
GRAFTON. 1t was killed by its 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
ilual report and then 1t gets Il 81, 800
appropriations.
An echo from the days of populism
when Andrew =. Lee was on guard
and Robert F.. Dowdell was oil inspec-
tor was heard when the senate passed
n bill conveying $1,000. 10 from the treas
ury to the agricultural college, this
being a SUI of money which the in
spectOr turned into the treasury when
Tom Ayres accused him of stealing it
resulted in Dowdells resignation. The
money has remained in tn. 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.
No recent word has come to the joint
Investigating committee from that part
of the congressional delegation that is
anxious for investigation. though il is
pointed out that the members might
reasonably leave Washington this even
Ing and reach Pierre i'm the dark on
Tuesday morning and have four days in
which to have their robes made white.
The committee is constantly expecting
II telegram advising ii to be in readi-
ness to receive the delegation.
The house has passed Il bill granting
$4,000 a year for two years for the
maintenance of the state guard. Four
years ago the amount appropriated for
the same purpose was 100000 ii year, IL
difference of $51. 900 which is said TO
represent the %shrinkage in patriotism
In that period. BY some it is claimed
to be a useless expenditure TO train up
tin" soldiers In view of the good ac-
count " raw recruits CAV of them
selves In the Spanish-American war.
billions Futile E%loquence.
Dl!lonS speech on the North Caro-
lima bond deal was the longest made in
the senate this winter, but he proved
the North Carolinian's band OF heroes
who had been carpetbagged to ~insensi-
bility n then left to continue voting
for Andrew jackson while their bonds
were hawked about by Simon Schaffer
who gave them to the state OF South
Dakota. He didn't have the votes.
however, to bear put his contention and
the bill for the return of the money re-
covered on these bonds by this state I
eleeping with its toes turned to the
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