The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-03-10
THIRTEEN HOURS FIGHT OVER
IMMIGRATION BILL ENDS
WORK OF SOLONS
THEY FOUGHT ALL NIGHT
The House Refused to Consider the
Senate's Proposition on the
Bill and the Governor
was Appealed to

than thirteen hours, Saturday aft
ernoon the senate IN the house
became ~reconciled to each other In
the fight over the appropriation for
the immigration bill, and after the
original proposal Of $4,000 had been
cut to S17,500, the result Of seven
conferences of committees from the
two hours, final adjournment came,
and the South Dakota legislators are,
for the most part, on their way to
their respective homes.
Tired and worn out, the members
stuck to their seats through the en-
tire night. Here and there about the
floor groups of senators and repre-
sentatives were to be found chatting
on this or that subject, while from
other little gatherings, strains Of pat
riotic songs ioated to the dome of the
state house.
The house made a record OH the
les day of the session, 1t 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
for the immigration bill was one of
the most bitter that has ever been
waged over such a matter. The house
steadily refused to consider the SEN
ate's proposition to set aside $4,000
for the carrying out of the provisions
of the 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 administrator
measures which escaped the AK at the
hands of the legislators, was that pro-
viding for the establishment of an ex-
ecutive accounting department. The
institutions of the state handle mil
lions of dollars and in the past there
has never been provision for an accu-
rate check on 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 amounts entrusted to them
are judiciously expended.
The anti-treating law was repealed
not because it was not considered a
good law but rather because 1t 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 revision of the
of 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
soon as the land commissioner puts
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 been no cause for the alarm rails
ed by the veterans. All of the new
board are old soldiers, j. L. Turner,
E. M. Thomas and j. II. Holman.
Representative Sherman's House
Bill No. 68, was finally amended to
read fifty five percent of the proper
ty owners on a street could stop street
improvements, and was passed in that
shape. The original bill made 1t
seventy-five percent.
The free range in South Dakota
has DCtu ulOIICu OuI. hO JILL IC-
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 from the wreck was that
calling for the publication of insur-
ance statements. The statements are
A.. - - a.
in each official paper before the first
Of May. A strong fight was made to
do away with this publication alto
gether.
The measure which provided that
rs percent of the voters could demand
a vote of the people on the recall of
any state official and that a tw,o-thirds
vote Of the voters would be sufficient
for expulsion, was killed in the house,
lacking two votes of enough ID carry.
The First National Bank of Brook
ings loaned s610,89 for the continu-
alton of the work of the farmers in
stitutes, but the house refused to APP
propriate the amount to reimburse
the institution.
The following bills were passed by
both houses OF the legislature, but
will not become laws, because Cover
ECr Vsssey exercised his veto p,,wer:
House Bill No. IA, by Hursh, j
pewering circuit courts 20 adjust de-
funct mining companies.
House Bill No. 1Os. by Whiting, re-
lating TO the organization of new
counties.
House B.ll No. 406, oy committee,
transferring money into 'he special mi
litia fund.
The Bartine rate bill was ~consign-
ed to the ash barrel by the house. The
objection TO 1t was the lack of a prac-
lea basis for a foundation. 1t start
ed with a compromise rate rather
than taking into consideration the
cost of transportation. valuation and
depreciation. The railroad commits
sion was opposed to the bill and their
attorney had declared the measure
was impractical. The Norbeck bill
was the measure the commission de-
sired II WAS really a railroad code