The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-02-19
South Dakota
Legislature


The center OF interest Wednesday
was in the 2-cen rate law, with the
emergency clause attached, which
would MAKE ii a Law as soon as il was
filed in the office of the secretary Of
state. Ii was signed by the presiding
officers o fthe two houses and went to
the governor at $40 o'clock, and with
In ten minutes was signed.
Their 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, hut Bartine
and Wyman insisted on getting the bill
out into the open for consideration and
secured a change i'm committee report,
and II viii be up for discussion.
A bill was introduced In the senate
by Danforth TO pay George Mackey
and oscar Hunt $4,000 for damages
received by them by the premature
discharge Of a feldpiece at the militia
encampment at Huron several years
ago.
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 urpose
If thesenate follows the house ac-
ton the state will establish a tubercu-
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 fer
sS37.0 600 for the two years beginning
July / next. This will al be for main
tenance and repairs. no new buildings
being asked for in the list. Out of
this total $211,eo0 is for maintenance
OF the insane hospital and comes back
10 the state through the counties.
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 te secure
a reprinted bill to the numerous
committee amendments ii 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 purposes.
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 coed vote.
The senate members were not
agreed on the Arenson bill to repeal
the law which restricts bank loans to
three times h capital stock. Nor
beck n Byrne wanted to further try
for consideration of the measure and
Ewart thought it should be acted up
on After discussion II was laid over
informally until the members post
themselves on its provisions.
The bill to reduce the interest OF
state warrants from 7 per cent to 6
per cent was amended to fix ii at 5
per cen 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
err 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
legal questions which Will have to be
settled is whether the state or federal
courts first secured jurisdiction, the
state legal department claiming to
have got into the state courts first by
a few minutes. and the railroads al
leging they were in the federal court
At Sioux Falls a "scracth" ahead Of
the state in the state courts.