The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-03-08
! THE STATE LEGISLATURE
Transactions and House Representatives

The governor the appointing power
for tire scale inspectors was pushed
through the house Friday The same
bill has been killed twice before as Il
house bill, but mustered the neces-
sary votes to get through on the third
trial.
Glass opened for the bill, and declared
the necessity for such law was in
the fact that the present attorney for
| the commission was selected and
I placed where he is by the railroads
| and in further response to remarks by
! Browne, said that every member Of
| the commission since 1897. with one
exception, had been selected by the
railroads. and after selection they had
| been elected.
/ The senate bill to make the secre
tary of the state board Of agriculture
ex-officio commissioner of immigra-
ton failed for lack of the required
votes to carry it as an appropriation
measure.
The senate bill to provide state aid
for high schools did not meet with
house approval, and went down with
only thirty-five votes in its favor. In
! the forenoon session OF the house
! Gov. Crawford presented his first veto
! on the bill to make the records of the
state historical society evidence IN
court. and at the afternoon session
Glass presented bill to cure the de.
fects noted by the governor.
The referendum petitions for the
county local option law to be present
ed to the people at the next general
f., election were filed in both houses by
State Secretary Wipf
In the house the senate bill for the
| government of cities by the Galveston
plan was favorably reported, and the
senate reported favorably on the Dill
| to provide revenues for the state edu-
! cational institutions by direct levy i'll
stead of appropriation
In the senate the bill to authorize
/ towns to construct telephone systems
was opposed by Mundt of Lincoln,
who attempted to amend it to make II
| practically imperative. in which he
failed. The bill passed.
| Inc SeDdtp utltdttu tlC houoN plti
to provide for appointment instead OF
election of city assessors, and passed
a bill to limit saloon licenses to one
| for each 800 inhabitants in town.
The larger telephone interests had
! a harpoon thrown into them by the
/ house Saturday in the passage OF
house bill 27O after vain effort to
! substitute senate bill 26S. The motion
! to substitute brought Glass to his feet
with radical speech, in which he
| charged that the senate bill was drawn
by representatives of the Dakota Cen
| trail and was perfectly satisfactory to
them while the house bill was intend
! ed to curb that monopoly. Browne op-
posed Glass in favor OF the substltu-
ton and cited the actions of the Civic
| Federation of Huron on the bill as mis-
leading and false. Hornby, Carley
| and Simonson stood for the house Dlli
on the ground that they thought the
| Dakota Central needed curbing. The
bill passed after the substitute had
been disposed of.
The banking committee returned an
unfavorable report in the house on the
bill to make 10 per cent the highest
contract rate of interest in the state.
Cable secured reconsideration OF
the board of agriculture bill, with
! secretary acting as immigration com
missioner. and it will be up again
Tuesday.
The senate bill to place the duties OF
! fire marshal under the insurance com
missioner was placed on the calendar
after defeating an adverse minority re-
+! port.
Whittemore attempted to force ac-
| ton on the divorce bill, but was de-
| feated through the efforts of Glass,
| who desired it to go to committee, eS-
| pecting it to get into the judiciary
committee. But when it was referred
it was sent to the committee ON priv
ileges and elections, which will return
it with favorable report after amend
ing it to cut out the six-month amend
ment placed in it by the senate. Price
tried to smother the bill in the miX-up,
but was defeated.
The senate adopted the house reso-
luL1Ou IOI du ILOOi 'SNs
Friday, with a tacit agreement that II
! they were not through at that time
the clock was to be stopped to allow
them to finish.
The senate passed practically all the
special appropriation bills, giving $oo,-
600 to Vcrmillion, 100000 to Aberdeen,
| $50 900 to Brookings, about $4,000 to
Yankton and $4,000 to Rapid City
The senate passed the anti-cigarette
bill limiting it to those under twenty
one, and on reconsideration passed the
bill for appointment of city assessors
which was killed Friday.
Total appropriations, general and
special and special, recommending pv
the committees amount to $2,lO4,ooo'
of which $1,571 900 go into the general
bill
The house Monday passed the SEN
ate Galveston bill and it now goes 10