The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-15

~"N''"uNp} 1lI WAS in peril for
a time Monday through an attempt OF
Eastman to inject INTO it a section
which penalized any attempt OF mem
DefS OF the legislature who traded
votes on amy bill or measure which Is
presented 10 the session The bill was
up ON concurrence with senate amend
ments To the bin and Eastman at
tempted to get ia his amendment.
which was TOO late in The progress of
the bill The first vote on concur
renee failed by lack of a majority. and
a long parliamentary tansle was re
CURED to secure reconsideration, in
which Il phase OF il nearly carried
the whole bill to the table. but after
the tangle was Strengthened out the
amendments We're c%oncurred in by a
vote OF so to IS.
Satire attempted to force for Tues
lay a report of the judiciary commit
Tee on his bill to make the office OF
The supreme court clerk a salaried
One, and secured a favorable vote on
MS motion to that effect after a state
meIt had been made by the chairman
OF The committee that they would get
around with it as soon as possible.
The house passed bills for supplying
the state law library with books and
regulating the organization of county
tam associations to allow county aid.
Inc senate had a short session. pass
ing a bill fixing the qualifications for
admission to the state law school. and
introduced a number of bills, among
them one limiting the jurisdiction in
a libel suit against a newspaper to the
county in which the paper is publish
ed.
In the senate bills have been intro
duced by Merrystate, inspection of
nigh schools; Thompson OF Clay, re
lat1ng to jurisdiction of justices of the
peace; May, increasing salaries of
county commissioners to So a day;
Goodell, appropriating 81, 900 annually
TO the state horticultural association;
Perkins, appropriating $205 to relm-
burse Meade county for transportation
OF insane; Joint resolution by Sween-
ey, memoralizing the president and
secretary of the general land office to
modify the order of Jan. 25 providing
for inspection of homesteads bv a d
cial agent before patent issues.
The victory of the newspaper !
OF the mouse In the anti-pass bill does
not yet lead them out Of the woods
and into the pleasant valleys of adyer.
using mileage, the senate Tuesday
evening refusing to concur in the
house amendment, and a conference
committee has been appointed to con
slider the matter.
The senate in executive session con
irmed the appointment of John L
Jones OF Madison as public examiner
and passed the bills requiring rail
ways to put in connecting tracks a,
junction points and authorizing the
railroad commission to make join,
through rates.
Among the new senate bills the
principal n was ap%propriating SIS.
600 a year for the state militia The
senate then went into Committee OF
the whole on the Dowdell state tex
book bill, and ended a wrangle over
the measure with an adjournment
leaving a motion to lay the bill on the
table hanging in the air.
In the house the committee repor,
on the bill to grant right Of way for &
| CO .~~t oa,~r tL>~ ~,-
grounds at Springfield was amended
to donate to that city all the ground:
and buildings owned by the state a
that place for educational purpose
with a recommendation that it pass.
The judiciary committee reporte,
favorably on the bill prohibiting par
allel railroads within eight miles O
one another. An unfavOrable repor
was returned against the bill to pre-
hibit sweat shops. and a favorable re
port on the bill to elect county com
missioners by districts. the same bill
having been passed in the senate
The immigration commissioner
proposition appears to be the attract
i've n at present, one bin being in
troduced to make it a division OF tn
department of history and another t
| place that duty in the hands of th
secretary of the state board of agricu
ture.
A resolution was introduced in tn
house by Martin of Beadle, recon
mending that 40 legislative a%ppropris
lions be made for state educational il
stitutions which are located in town
which license saloons.
In committee of the whole the pro
visions Of the primary bill which re
quire payment OF fees by those VIII
seek to become candidates in the pr
maries were stricken from the bill a
being prohibitive to the minor parties.
The conference committee on tn
a%nti-pass bill, by a vote of 4 to
Wednesday evening decided to repo1
in favor of striking ont the hons