Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-02-12

! day fixed the price Of Irvine at the pris-
on Irvine plant for next year at from z
to 10A cents a pound, cash price, ac-
cording to grades, with l cent a pound
added on time prices.
The house sent the hopes Of the
equal suffrage contingent soaring into
the realms Of Joy Monday when they
cut the property qualification from the
senate resolution granting suffrage.
O -ly to drop them into the slough Of
despond a few n later when
they killed the resolution by q vote Of
54 against 81 for the submission of the
question to the voters at the next gen.
eral election.
While the house refused to accept
the senate amendments to the 2-cent
rate bill, Il ola not call out the ex-
pected hot contest On the proposition.
Bartine, chairman Of the house rail-
road committee, opposed concurrence
and was backed by Taylor, of Brown,
and the matter brought to a vote, in
which the concurrence was refused,
and Bartine, Mcdonnell and Newell
appointed house conferees on the bill.
The senate conferess selected were
Norbeck, Byrne and McCullen.
After keeping quiet since the OPEN
ing of the session, the bill to allow at
torneys and physicians to crawl under
the fence so far as the a~nti-pass 'aw
is concerned was presented in the sem
ate Monday afternoon by Curtis, OF
Brown county and will be a factor In
legislation for a few lays until it Is
disposed Of.
The senate passed railroad bills re-
curing railroad companies to report
fatal wrecks to the railway commits
sion; authorizing the railroad commits
sion to appear in cases in which he
state is interested; requiring railroads
to report to the commission the num-
Der of elevators along their lines, and
recurring railroads to maintain toilet
rooms at all their stations.
The house passed the appropriation
bill for the completion of the state
capitol, and tangled up on the bill
providing for hotel licenses, which
tangle was ended by an adjournment
in the middle of the miXup.
r. O.. Richards, of Huron, was be-
fore the elections committee Of the
two houses Monday with his new pri-
mary election bill, which provides for
the distribution of state patronage
through legal procedure and a number
of features outside present political
lines.
He also has a bill On bank insur-
ance and another on taxation 10 pre-
sent.
The center of interest Wednesday
was in the 2-cent rate law. with the
emergency clause attached, which
would make it a law as soon as it was
filed IN the office of the secretary OF
state. 1t was signed by the presiding
officers o fthe two houses and went to
the governor at $3.50 o'clock, and with
in ten minutes was signed.
There was a slight furry in the
house over the committee report on
the indeterminate sentence and parole
officer bill, an adverse committee re-
port having been made, but Bartine
and Wyman insisted on getting the bill
out into the open for consideration and
secured a change in committee report,
and it will be up for discussion.
The Fitch bill in the house provid-
ing for 9 o'clock closing of saloons was
defeated, only receiving A Affirmative
votes.
The house made two laws Wednes-
day by passing the senate bills to le-
galize the incorporation of Cotton ana
requiring railways to construct woven
wire fences along their rights of way
in certain circumstances.
A bill was introduced in the senate
by Danforth to pay George Mackey
anu Usual Ifsooo -
received by them by the premature
of a ~fieldpiece at the militia
encampment at Huron several years
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The senate passed the bill to accept
the provisions of the Carey irrigation
act in this state, which allows private
individuals to put in irrigation plants
and secure land for the
If thesenate follows the house &C
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losis hospital at Custer, the bill for
that institution having passed the
house with but four dissenting votes.
The state board of charities and cor
rections will ask the legislature for
1897, 900 for the two years beginning
July 1 next. This will al be for main
tenance and repairs, no new buildings
being asked for in the list. Out of
this total $211,OO0 is for maintenance
Of the insane hospital and comes back
to the state trough the ~ountie
The first move towards a good roads
bill started things in the senate for a
time Thursday, but after several dila-
tory movements and an effort to secure
n reprinted bill to cover the numerous
committee amendments it was finally
made a special order for Saturday.
The house started the afternoon ses-
sion Thursday with a wrangle over the
resolution to submit to the people the
question Of leasing state school lands
for agricultural urposes
Newell Larson, of Union, Hebal and
Issenhuth opposed it as unwise and
Trumbo, Peterson of Clay, Wyman and
Roberts made a fight for the measure,
winning by a good vote.
The senate members were not
agreed on the Arenson bill to repeal
the law which restricts bank loans to
three times the capital stock. Nor
beck and Byrne wanted to further try
for consideration of the measure and
Ewart thought it should be acted up
on. After discussion it was laid owe
informally until the members post
themselves on it's provisions.
The bill to reduce the interest Of
state warrants from 7 per cent to s
per cent was amended to fix it at 5
per cent and was passed.
The members of the different state
boards are getting onto the ground,
resulting in the appropriation COM
mittees getting their bills into shape
for action, and from this on that fea-
ture of the session will receive great
er consideration.
About the only subject of discussion
Friday was the question as to which
side won in the rate case race to the
court on the 2-cent rate law. The
situation is such that one of the first