Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-15
ANTI-LOBbY AND
ANTI-PASS LAWS
But South Dakota House Turns
Down the 2-Cent Fare
Bill.
SESSION is HALF OVER
Primary Bills Pass Both Houses, Now
They Must Be Harmonized-
A New Railroad
Measure.

Plerre, .. ~, req. l1.-INO pdSSSS a'u
no rate reduction is the verdict of the
legislature so far on railroad matters.
The senate 2-cent rate bill took up most
Of the time of the house Friday after
noon, and oratory was exhausted be-
fore a vote was secured, the leaders
being Carroll and Glass for the bill and
Browne and Price against. The con-
test was a close one. and the first test
voting on putting the bill over for a day
was won by its advocates forcing &C
ton. But on the question Of passage
of the bill the opponents won by a vote
Of A to 3S. And on motion Of Browne
to "cinch' the action they secured As
to 81 against II. This ends the rate
question for the session.
Tenure of Office Bill Killed.
The house killed the bill which at
tempted to fix specific f~our-year terms
for the heads Of the institutions under
control of the board of charities, and
made one law by passing the senate
bill providing for expense accounts Of
circuit judges.
For the first day since bills could
be introduced, nothing in that line
was offered in the senate at it's session.
That body made laws by passing the
house bill providing a penalty for wife
desertion. Several senate bills were
passed, among them the administration
measure to compel filing OF expense
accounts of candidates.
Work of the Session to Date.
The completed work of the first half
- ~ --sN -yIIah r.rnH G~s-AA1
Thursday night, has not been very
great, consisting of the signing of three
laws by the governor and the filing
of five joint resolutions with the Sec
rotary OF state. The bills which have
been enacted into law are:
House bill 40. increasing the fees of town
officers.
Senate bill sc, providing for the legisla-
Senate bill 4S, making valid orders of
the railway commission and requiring any
one attacking them 10 prove to the con-
trary.
House joint resolution 2, asking for a
constitutional convention to provide for
he election of senators by a popular vote.
House joint resolution 3, memorialiZing
mgr to open Trip county to settle
ment.
House joint resolution 8, providing for
an investigation of state officers.
ena joint resolution 2, providing for
publication of legislative manuals and
landbooks.
Senate joint resolution 5, memorializing
congress TO extend to April l the time for
beginning settlement on homesteads.
Pierre, S. D., Feb. S.-The anti-lobby
Dill was signed by Governor Crawford,
yesterday afternoon and filed with the
secretary of state this morning and is
now in force.
The anti-pass bill having passed both
houses with concurrence in all amend
nents is this morning in the hands of
the enrolling and engrossing force and
will &c to the governor for his signature
his afternoon and Will be Immediately
fled with the secretary.
The house held another morning SEES
sion which was spent on passage of
mouse bills none of them having been
reached by this body in the past -four
days.
A Limited Anti-Pass.
AS the anti-pass bill will become a
law, the newspaper men will take the
advice of Jim Hill at the time of the
Northern Pacific strike a few years
ago. G. TO hell, pay their fares, or
walk" In the meantime the attorneys
who can show hat they are receiving
q salary of $500 a year from some rail-
road company ear ride on a free pass,
he physicians can sit in dignity beside
them, the clergymen can use an annual
as q book-mark for their bibles, since
they were able to exert pressure enough
to get out from under the restrictions.
This much AT least the measure lacks
Of being an a%nti-pass law, even by the
admission of its champions, but in
name it fills the requirement and will
go On record as one of the administra-
ton promises fulfilled. And as far as
t goes it's force will not be questioned,
but no one will nave courage to claim
that ii is more than a limited anti-paSs
aw.
Primary Somewhat Mixed.
The primary bills have passed In
their respective houses. where they or
.ginated. They were Identical upon the
late of introduction and the senate bill
has remained tolerably true to The die
In which it was originally cast. but
the house bill, while much the same in
It's general scope, would hardly be rec
ognized as the son of it's own father.
Its verbiage has been materially
changed, some of the minor provisions
have been altered, phrases have been
turned about to make them more clear
or less conclusive. and there is scarcely
one of the sev%enty-nine sections of the
bill that has not been amended. The
house has been SO slow In the move
ment OF the measure that the senate
has become impatient, while the senate
bill has been in the house the large part
of a week and could easily have been
substituted for the house bill at any
stage of the game.
Will Pass After Delay.
Now the senat will Jake up the
house bill and proceed to pass 1t with
as few changes as possible, and after
that Is done there will be more work
for a joint conference committee to
Aarmonize and agree upon the work of
the w bodies In this important meas
ure. 1t Is not likely that the bill can
Row become a law until the session is
three-fourths past. today marking the
close of the first half OF the session.
a Osdel got his bill through the
house providing for electricians operat-
WEsTERNER WOULD MARRY