The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-03-10
THIRTEEN HOURS FIGHT OVER
IMMIGRATION BILL ENDS
WORK OF SOLONS
THEY FOUGHT ALL NIGHT
he House Refused to Consider the
Senate's Proposition on the
Bill and the Governor
VAS Appealed to

the immigration bill, and after the
original proposal of $4,000 had been
cut to $17,500, the result of seven
conferences # committees from the
two hours, final adjournment came,
and the Sob Dakota ! gislators to-
night are, il the most part, on their
way to their respective h, mes
Tired and worn out, the members
stuck to their seats through the en-
tire night. Here and there about the
floor roups of seantors and repre-
~sentatives were to be f. und chatting
as this or that subject, while from
other little gatherings, strains of pat
riotic songs floated to the dome of the
state house.
The h use made a record on the
la st day If the session, it having pass
ed nearly a hundred bills. After a
final agreement was reached today.
nearly all the members left for their
homes. Pierre tonight presents a far
different scene than it did twenty
four hours ago.
The fight over the appropriation
:, r the immigration bill was one of
the most bitter that has ever been
"dS6u over SuCIl a IldlltI. Inc lOOSc
steadily refused to consider the sen
ate's proposition to set aside $25 200
for the carrying out of the pnJvisions
of thes bill.
Governor Vessey, after it was evil
dent that neither side inclined to give
or take, was asked to do what he
could t. break the deadlock, but this
he refused to do unless each body
would be willing to stand by the joint
committee.
One of the two administration
measures which escaped the AK at the
hands # the legislators. "a that pro-
viding for the establishment of an ex-
ecutive accounting department. The
institutions of the state handle mill
lions of dollars n in he past there
has never been provision for an accu-
rate check m this expenditure of
money. The duties of the new office
will be to see that the records of
these institutions are accurately kept
and that the entrusted to
them are ju%diciously expended.
The anti-treating law vas repealed
o because it was not considered a
good law but rather because it was
a dead letter. being disregarded
generally throughout the state.
The measure calling for the regis
tration of voters at the primary, is a
conservative and sane revis' n of the
# the Urinary along the lines where
the present system is defective.
The house finally passed senate bill
No. A. and now Ely Fort can have
his Missouri river sand bar just as
- 1-- -,,+r
the price on it.
The measure providing for a civil
ian board for the soldiers home is
now a law and there would seem to
have ben no cause for the alarm rails
ed by the veterans. All of the new
hard are old soldiers. J.. l.. Turner.
E. M. Thomas and J.. H. Holman.
Representative Sherman's House
Bill No. IS, was finally amended to
read fifty five percent of the pr per-
ty owners on a street could stop street
improvements, and was passed in that
shape. The original bill made it
seventy-five percent.
The free range in South Dakota
has been blotted out. The bill re-
pealing what is known as the herd
law, passed both houses.
Among the proposed constitutional
amendments is that calling for a
gross earning and net income tax.
Among the bills that the newspap-
ermen saved fr m the wreck was that
calling for the publication OF insur-
ance statements. The statements are
to be of uniform length and to ppear
in each official paper before the first
of May. A strong fight was made to
do away with this p~ubticdt.tn alto
gether.
The measure which provided that
% percent of the voters could demand
a vote of the people on the recall of
any state official and that a tv, thirds
vote of the voters would be sufficient
for expulsion, was killed in the house,
lacking two votes of enough t. carry.
The First National Bank of Brook
ings oaned S610.S9 for the continu-
alton of the work of the farmers in
stitutes, but the house refused 10 APP
pr pirate the amount to reimburse
the institutj n.
The following bills Were passed by
both houses of the, legislature, but
will not become laws, Ibe,aise Over
rCr Vsssey exercised his vC.o pt,wer:
House Bill No. Il, by Iursh. t... .
towering circuit courts 20 adjust de-
funct mining companies.
House Fill NJ. 10a by Whiting, re-
lating to the organi.lci N of Kew
counties.
House Bill No. a0s, oy committee,
transferring money into the special mi
litia fund.
The Bartine rate bill was consign-
ed to the ash barre by the house. The
objection to ii was the lack of a prac-
teal basis for a foundation. 1t start
ed with a {, mpromise rate rather
than taking into consideration the
cost of transportation, valuation and
depreciation. The railroad commits
sion was . pposed to the bill and their
attorney had declared the measur
was impractical. The Norbeck bill
was the measure the commission de-
sired. 1t was really a railroad code.
OF the thirty-seven insurance meas
ures introduced in the legislature. but