The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-02-23
NEWSPAPERS Have
CHANCE or SAVING
some OF REVENUE
Proposed to Distribute
Insurance Statements
Equally.
ROAD BILL PASSED
Both Branches of Legislature
Have Now Approved 1t.
Many New Bills.

Vldlly NEW DIS.
Pierre, 8. D.-After dealing the
newspapers of the state a terrific blow
by passing the Curtiss bill, transfer
ring the payment for publication of
referred laws from the newspaper
publishers to the job printers, the
legislature today seems Modified
somewhat in its thirst to injure the
newspapers.
Consequently there seems some
prospect of the enactmen OF a new in
uranc statement law, to take the
place Of the n which the last re-
publican convention directed the leg
islature to repeal. 1t is proposed
now to pass a new law, providing for
the publication, at the expense of the
insurance companies as heretofore,
of their annual statements in each
judicial district of the state. The
new feature of the law is that these
statements are to be distributed
equally among the legal paper of the
state, regardless of the political par
ty or fact o n to which they belong.
Heretofore the statements have been
given out by the insurance commits
sioner, usually to papers Of the same
political faith as himself.
The Bigelow educational code took
up the forenoon session of the
. House, and received the endorsement
OF the committee on education. 1t
was explained in detail by Bigelow.
The Senate temperance committee
today made short work of the bill in
troduced by Senator Hitchcock of Da-
vision proposing a reduction of coun-
ty liquor licenses from $4O0 to IS o
year.
HOUSE is DELUGED WITH
BILLS UPON LAST DAY
Pierre, S. D.-Wednesday being
the last date for introduction of bills
in the house except by committees
the members got busy along that
line, throwing in "A bills and one
joint resolution. The new bills are:
332, Hursh, providing fer protection
of big game; 33S Mellette, appropri-
ating 5000 to reimburse Manuel Syl-
va for lease money paid on state
lands; 334, Mellette, %(request) maxi
ing every Saturday afternoon q legal
holiday; 335, Hursh, fixing order of
succession in estates; 336, Stoddard,
OF Grant, fixing time of meetings for
county boards of e%ducation; 337,
NanCamp, limiting complaints in
adultery cases to either husband or
wife; 33S, Mendel, exempting church
mutual insurance companies from the
insurance laws of the ! state; $40,
Parrot, changing and fixing the
boundaries of Dewey county; 339,
Mertens, fixing terms Of court in the
tenth judicial circuit; 341, Kaas, au-
thorizing cities to levy a tax FOR pub
licity purposes; 342, appropriation
committee, appropriatihg $1,000 for
the railway commission: 343, appro-
preparation committee, appropriating
$4,000 for maintenance of the state
house for rest CT fiscal year; 344,
Teets, and Whorton, authorizing the
state to secure additional land at the
state fair grounds: 345, Sutley, ap-
propriating $4,000 for state farm at
Vivian; 346, Groth, making railway
companies liable for repairs requir-
cd TO be made on cars by shippers;
347, Wagner, requiring sleeping and
parlOr cars to be provided with Gus
pidors; 34S, Wagner, providing for
ballots for Independent voters at pri-
mary elections; $40, Wagner. fixing
automobile licenses at from three to
ten dollars, based on size and power
of cars; $50, Wagner, requiring o
specific marking of ballots where
there are more than two candidates
for the same place on a ticket; ssh,
Whiting, regulating practice in SUI
preme court, all evidence to go to
the supreme court, and decision Of
lower court to be given no weight in
the case; 352, Hursh, authorizing
circuit courts to close up the affairs
of defunct corporations; .353, Thomp-
son, appropriating $1,000 for pay
ment of land Office filing fees in en-
dowment and identity selections by
the state; r. ]. r. IA, Tscharner,
m~emoralizing congress for laws abol-
fishing express companies; bill 1854,
fish and game committee, a new
game code abolishing county wardens
and providing for state deputies; 1855
Roskie, appropriating $492.38 to A.
H. Wheaton, as state food and dairy
commissioner; $3.50, Bigelow, divid-
ing the forest reserve funds equally
between school and road funds; si7.
Boreson, authorizing condemnation
Of dams where same interfere with
drainage projects: 358, Shoop, (re-
quest) providing for an inspector Of
county and city jails. to be appoint
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