Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-25

porations which have no resident
agents in the state or service on the
secretary Of state in the case of COM
panies which have with0-awn 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 SO
for chattel mortgages, and $25 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-
tion bitches; Byrne, creating the
Tenth judicial circuit out Of 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 railroad.
| New house bills were by Patton,
| making 1t misdemeanor for city au-
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 renew charters; Scott Of Au-
rora, appropriating money for build
| ings at the state training school:
| Kjeldseth, providing manner of collect
ing delinquent special improvement
taxes; Johnston, prohibiting brewers
| and wholesalers from engaging in re-
tail liquor business; Martens, reor-
| ganization 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 one 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 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 tn 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 beard;
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, Minnehaha county, ana 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 fence.
! The house Saturday disposed of a
list of senate bills, defeating 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 Gable, memori-
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 op-
| posed by Mcdonnell, Republican, and
Zeibach, Democrat, on the ground
that all parties are pledged for the
downward reform OF tariff.
The principal bills coming in at
! uSdl Will app LUZ
various purposes and such bill will be
numerous from this time on.
| Again the lower house Of the South
Dakota legislature has put It's ap-
prevail on the bill to prevent treating
in saloons. When the bill came up
the only effort to defeat it came from
Bently of Fall River, who asked to
amend so as to add cigars, soda
water, gum and ice cream to it's pro-
visions. This was quickly voted
down, and the bill passed by 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.
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