The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-03-07
Some House Bills Passed.


state.
Some House Bills Passed.
The house Tuesday passed hous.
bills to prevent the use Of impure
cream in the manufacture Of butter,
and fixing grades of cream; granting
to county judges powers as commit
ting magistrates; allowing personal
service on non presidents without pub
lication; limiting the time OF begin
ming quasi criminal actions to three
years; giving county judges Jurisdic-
ton in criminal cases in counties of
5000 or more population--up to the
present limited to counties of 10000
or more: authorizing city councils and
! school boards to appropriate funds for
Memorial day services; providing
method of probating estates Of non
residents.
The Galveston Plan.
The principal bill to receive consid.
sideration Tuesday was the Galveston
plan of city government, which passed
unanimously. A number Of the cities
Of the state will give IT a trial as soon
as they get through with the formali-
ii is not being put through as an
emergency measure it cannot in any
way affect the spring elections this
year, and will not be used to any grea
extent before the elections of mex
year.
New Court Districts.
The joint judiciary committees OF
the two houses are working upon
bill to increase the supreme court to
five judges, and create two new dis.
tricts, the lines Of which will probably
be:
District THE counties OF Butte
Meade, Pennington, Lawrence, Custer
Fall River, Washington and Washa
baugh, Shannon and Lugenbeel.
District 2-The counties of Clay
Union, Lincoln, Turner Yankton, Bon.
homme, Hutchinson, Douglas, Charlie.
Mix, Gregory, Tripp and Meyer.
District 3-The counties of Mime
haha, Moody, Lake, McCook, Miner,
Hanson, Dawson, Sanborn, Aurora,
Jerauld, Buffalo, Brule and Lyman.
District 4-The counties of Brook
ings, Deuel., Codington, Hamlin, Kings
bury, Clark, Beadle, Spink, Hand,
Hyde Hughes, Faulk, Potter, Sully,
Armstrong and Stanley.
District 5-The counties Of Grant,
Roberts, Day, Marshall, Brown, Ed
munds, Mcpherson, Walworth, Camp.
bell and all that part of the Sioux res
ervation north of Armstrong and west
to the Butte county line.
Divorce Bill is Amended.
The senate Thursday passed the new
divorce bill after the lawyers had in
jected an amendment allowing suit to
be commenced within six months
| where cause of action was in this
state. This allows the parties to the
| suit to both come to the state and on
agreed cause of action separate, one
leaving and the other staying six
months.
The bill to allow liquor license
vote to stand until voted down was
defeated by vote Of 23 to 20. Good
ner, Merry and Dudley supported the
| bill and Vessey, Byrne and Dowdell
opposed it.
The senate bill providing for divi-
sion of Lyman county after favor
! able vote has been secured was passed
after it was amended to prevent it's
interfering with the general bill for
county division.
In the house Price, of Yankton, in
| troduced a resolution memorializing
the South Dakota representatives in
congress to oppose any ship subsidy
| legislation, and Gurney presented a
bill to allow county commissioners in
| stead Of the county treasurer to select
| the paper for publication Of delin-
quent tax lists
The house passed the bill appropri-
| ating the balance of the government
] lands to state experimental farms and
put in an hour pickering over the ap-
portionment bill, finally settling on the
| bill presented by Engstrom, and pass
ing it, providing for As senators and
| 10I representatives.
Appropriation Committee at Work.
The appropriation committees are
yet working on their general bills and
| are pairing at every possible place. At
! the best the appropriations, general
| and special, will run to almost ST.
100000, and every effort is being
| made to cut them below that figure
| Most of the institutions which are
| asking for new buildings will find
their appropriations pared down, as
| will the institutions which are cover
| ed in the general bill. AS the situation
stands at the present special levy Of
mills will be required for each Of the
| two fiscal years covered by this ses-
| sion to meet the requirements. and a
| resolution has been introduced to that
effect.