Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-22
THE LEGISLATURE.

Pierre. s. d., Jan. ~I5-Fourteen new
bills in the house and II in the SEN
ate made up the DAYS work yesterday
The more important of the house phls
were: One by Peterson, of Lincoln, re-
ducing railroad freight rates, express
rates and telegraph n telephone tohs
Is per cent from the rate in force Janu-
airy j. 1909; a deposit insurance Din py
Issenhuth; a bill by Wolzmuth author-
izing the commitment to the state nos
pital for the insane or persons addlcteo
TO the drug habit.
Other house bills were: One providing
for county supervision Of roads and
road work; reducing the amount ex-
empt from execution from $3.50 TO $50V,
one to divide the Cheyenne River ana
Standing Rock agency; two relating I"
municipal courts; providing for accept
ance of the provisions of the Carey act,
relating to the foreclosure of mort
cages; to regulate practice in courts;
appropriation to furnish Spearfish nor
NAL school: appropriation for commls-
sioner of immigration; amending the
drainage laws.
Three Joint resolutions were intro
duced in the house: One for an anti
polygamy amendment to the federal
constitution; one memorialiZing con-
gress for the opening to settlement OF
OIL tAAoLlAiH AAANAsAiA ~ @N' ~
one protesting against the issue OF in7
ternal revenue liquor license to parties
where sale is prohibited locally.
The senate received II ~incipient laws.
eight of them introduced by Senator
Thoreson. One of Mr.. Thoreson's bills
was for the establishment of a hos
pital for inebriates at Dell Rapids; one
eXempting from taxation all land used
exclusively for highways; one regu-
lating procedure for recovery of dam
ages from railway companies; n re-
curing railway companies TO report
to the railroad commissioners &~E
wrecks or accidents resulting in loss
of life; one defining certain powers and
duties of railway commissioners; one
requiring railroad companies to re-
port number of elevators adjacent to
their tracks; one providing for toilet
rooms in railway stations; and re-
quiring all railroads to be equipped
with safety appliances.
Other senate bills were: To enable
acceptance of the terms of the Carey,
act; relation to the organization of
corporations; TO the redemption of
property sold for taxes; regulating
mortgages and liens; requiring adop-
ton Of uniform rules of practice in
state courts; prohibiting the ale of
game; relating to the levying of poll
tax; relating to the notice of tax sales;
and two appropriation bills, one for
money for immigration commissioners
office, and TO a John Longstaff for
certain printing.
A bill will come up in a few days
putting municipal elections on the same.
day in every city and town in the state.
The avowed object is to prevent vices
that seek legislation from co%ncentrat-
ing it's efforts at different points on
different days.
The 'Saul and Jonathan business
among the members from the Black
Hills is in danger of being strained
over the herd law. The homesteaders
on the range demand a herd law, with
out waiting two years to secure its APP
plication under the county option pro-
visions Of the present fence law. They
set up that they cannot remain on the
claims without ii, as the cattle of the
ranchmen eat III their crops A few
of the members recognize the passing
pr the old order of things and are dis
posed to legislate for the changed con-
ditions, while others cling to the steer
as king. The members from the older
counties would be disposed to be guided
by the majority of the delegation from
the section directly interested but for
the fact that most of them have sons
or neighbors on claims who have been
bombarding them with letters urging
them to save their claims for them by
giving them protection from the cattle
pest.