The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-02-18

bills Friday, with the Ewart bill al
lowing service by publication on cor
porations which have no resident
secretary of state in the case of com
panies which have withdrawn from
the state. BY Bates, fixing licenses
for clairvoyants, fortune tellers and
fakirs generally in cities; Bates, to
provide for construction of sewers and
manner of levying special assessments
for some, was made a special order
Feb. s. The Stokes bill, accepting
the provisions of the Cary irrigation
act for the state, was passed. :.
New senate bills were Highly, fix
ing attorney fees for foreclosure at $40
for chattel mortgages, and s25 for real
estate mortgages: Andrews, appropri-
Oscar Hunt and George Mackey for
injuries received at militia encamp-
ment at Huron; Stokes, amending the
law for distribution of water in irriga-
ton bitches; Byrne, creating the
Tenth judicial circuit out of a portion
Of the Sixth.
The senate. passed the house bill au-
thorizing holding terms of court in
towns other than the county seat,
when same is more than three miles
from a railroad.
New house bills were by Patton,
making 1t a misdemeanor for city I'LL
ditors to fail or refuse to publish quar-
terly financial statements: Kinney,
making it unlawful for any person to
vote at a town election within sixty
days after voting at a township cleo
ton; Lakings, to prevent fraud in
agricultural seed; Kteldseth, specific
ally eXempting public property from
sale for special assessments; Bruce,
providing order of succession in dis
tribution Of estates; Roberts, allow
ing religious and charitable associa-
tons to enc charters; Scott of Au-
rora, appropriating money for build
ings at the state training school;
Kjeldseth, providing n of collect
ing delinquent special improvement
taxes; Johnston, prohibiting brewers
and wholesalers from engaging in re-
tail liquor business; Martens, o
g%anizatiOn Of the state board of
health; Bently, appropriating $4,000
for maintenance of soldiers home to
July /; Morris, preventing suits on
defective titles after ten years; New
ell, fixing salaries of county auditors
on valuation basis; Schamber, appro-
priating $4,000 for the state expert
ment farm at Eureka.
The house met early to get the cal
endar cleared for n day, and dis
posed Of a number of measures, some
of which have been hanging fire for
several days. The ones passed were
the bill providing a method Of present
ing accounts against towns: amending
the law providing for government of
cities by commission; requiring coun-
ty auditors to place tickets on the bal
lot in order of numerical strength Of
parties; joint resolution memorable
ing congress for 640-acre homesteads
in certain cases; preventing unfair
discrimination in buying grain and
other commodities; making the annual
offering of $4,000 acres of state lands,
optional with the state lands board
changing the name Of the deaf mute
school at Sioux Falls to the state
school for the deaf.
The house passed senate bills to le-
galize the incorporation of the town
of Cotton, M%innehaha county, and re-
curing railroads to construct woven
wire fences along their right of way
when the owner of the property had
enclosed the other three sides of his
field with such a fence.
The house Saturday disposed of a
list Of senate bills, defeating a bill
which seeks to cut from the legisla-
tive members the right to grant free
scholarships for students at the state
normal schools.
Twin resolutions by Cable, memoir
alizing congress to increase the tariff
on wool, and to take the tariff off of
lumber, called out a number Of COM
ments, the wool propositin being OPP
posed by Mcdonnell. Republican. and
Zefbach, Democrat, on the ground
that all parties are pledged for the
downward reform Of tariff.
The principal bills coming In at
present, deal with appropriations for
various purposes and such bill will be
numerous from this time on.
Again the lower house of the South
Dakota legislature has put its ap-
prevail or the bill to prevent treating
in saloons. When the bill came up
the only effort to defeat 1t came from
Bently of Fall River, who asked to
amend so as to add cigars, soda
water. gum and ice cream to its pro-
visions. This was quickly voted
down, and the bill passed by a vote
of practically two to one.
The bill to commit dope fiends" to
the insane hospital came up, but so
many attempts were made to amend
It that 1t was sent back to committee
with instructions TO reprint with
amendments.