The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-01-21
FLOODED WITH. BILLS
The Legislators are Getting in on tho
Ground Floor With Their Num-
erous Bills.

but short sessions yesterday, anG
their is little else doing at the present
time than the introduction of bills
which will furnish plenty of business
later on. The following bills were in.
troduced in the senate:
40. Stokes. An act entitled an act
enabling the state to accept an Offer
of the United States made by act oil
Congress in relation to arid lands
commonly known as the Carey act,
approved August 1S, 1894 and the
amendment thereto and to promote
the reclamation and settlement of
said lands n to reimburse the state
for money hereto or hereafter used
for such reclamation by defining ad-
ditional duties and powers of the
Cary land act Board.
"A. Bobb. An act requiring cir
cult judges to adopt general rules of
practice in civil actions for the sew
eral circuit courts of this state.
40. Thoreson. An act regulating
the procedure and practice in actions
against connecting common carriers
for loss or damage to shipments Of
personal property.
so. Thoreson. Requiring rail-
road companies to report all wrecks
and casualties wherein any person is
injured or killed to the Board of
railroad commissioners.
81. Thoreson. Authorizing the
State Board of Railroad Commission
ers to appear and prosecute proceed
ings before the United States inter-
state commerce commission.
SO. Thoreson. Requiring railroad
companies operating lines of rail-
road in this state to report to the
board Of railroad commissioners the
number of elevators Of their respect
i've lines of railroad, by whom operat-
ed, the rental paid, by each; provid-
ing a penalty for failure to make
such report and also providing a
penalty for making a false report.
3d. Thoreson. Requiring railroad
companies to provide suitable toilet
rooms in railroad depots.
81. Thoreson. Authorizing board
of railroad commissioners to re-
quire railroads to install safety APP
planes.
55. Providing that it shall be I'M
lawful to sell, barter, or offer or
oyrnSo for co1a ort 1,orfor T., Tho C+o+o
of South Dakota any game bird. In
trodnced' by Mcpherson.
81. Dillon. Amending section
2l94 of political code Of South Dako-
ia relating to notice of sale of taxes.
House bills introduced were:
81. Wyman. Establishment, loca-
Stion, control supervision, construct
ion, and maintenance of highways
and bridges.
IS. Gardner. An act amending
section SAG of the code of civil pro-
cedure of 1908, state of South Da-
kota, and repeating section SAT of
said code of civil procedure relating
to exemptions.
sc. Mortens. An act subdiviaing
the Standing Rock and Cheyenne
River Reservations into counties,
naming the same, and defining the
boundaries Of each.
81. Fowler. An act amending sec
tons Z, 8. 8, 10, and IL of chapter
s191 Of the session laws Of 1907, state
of South Dakota.
50. Dingsor. An act relating to
the time within which real estate
mortgages may be forecloseds
40. Morris. An act prescribing
when the defense of assumed risk
shall and shall not be available when
interposed by a corporation or re-
ceiver operating a railroad in any
suit for damages for the death or
personal injury of an employee.
-. Peterson of Lincoln. An act
requiring all railroad compnies, eX-
press companies, telegraph companies
and telephone companies doing bust
ness In the state of South Dakota
each to reduce its rates on all bust
ness done wholly within this state
and fixing the penalty for the viola
ton thereof.
76. Issenhuth. Authorizing the
forming Of a state association Of
Incorporated banks and to permit the
voluntary creation and maintenance
of an insurance deposit fund and the
insurance of depositors in such banks
and providing for the supervision
and regulation of such insurance, the
maintenance of such fund and the
payment of losses.
rs. Wolzmuth. Providing for the
examination of dipsomaniacs, inebri-
ates and persons addicted to the ex-
cessive use of morphine, cocaine or
other narcotic drugs; for the deten-
ton, care and treatment of such per-
sons and their parole.