Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-09
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

fouSe became reconciled to each other
in the fight over the appropri ton fer
the immigration bill, and after the
original proposal of $4,000 had been
cut to $4,000, the result of seven
conferences f committees from the
two hours, final adjournment came.
and the Sor'-'l Dakota ! gislators to-
night are, = 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 groups of senators and repre-
sentatives We're 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 house made Il record on the
le day If the session, it having pass
ed nearly a hundred bills After
final agreement was reached today,
nearly all the members left for their
homes. Pierre tonight presents far
different scene than it did twenty
four hours ago.
The fight over the appropriation
f I the immigration bill was one OF
the most bitter that has ever been
waged over such matter. The house
steadily refused to consider the sem
ates proposition to set aside S25, 900
| for the carrying out of the provisions
of the bill.
Governor Wesley, 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, was that pro-
! viding for the establishment of an eN-
ecutive accounting department. The
| institutions of the state handle mill
lions of dollars and in he past there
! has never been provision for an accu-
rate check n 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 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The anti-treating law was repealed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 it was
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'' 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
soon as the land commissioner puts
the price on it.
The measure providing for civil
ian board for the soldiers home is
now law and there would seem to
have ben no cause for the alarm rails
ed by the veterans. All of the new
h ard are old soldiers. j. l.. Turner
E. NJ Thomas and ]. II. Holman.
/ Representative Sherman's House
Bill No. IS, was finally amended tc
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 il
seventy-flve percent.
The free range in South Dakote
has been blotted out. The bill re-
pealing what is Known as the hero
law. passed both houses.
Among the proposed constitutional
amendments is that calling for {
gross earning and net income tax.
Among the bills that the newspap
ermen saved fl m the wreck was tina
calling for the publication of insur.
ance statements. The statements are
to be of uniform length and to appear
in each official paper before the frs
of May. A strong fight was made to
do away With thl., pubiicett,e alto.
gether,
The measure which provided tina
25 percent of the voters could demand
a vote of the people on the recall o
any state official and that a tN' third:
vote of the voters would be sufticien
for expulsion, was killed in the house
lacking two votes of enough Il carry
The First National Bank of Brook
ings oaned S610.S9 for the continue
alton of the work of the farmers in
stitutes, but the house refused to ap
pr pirate the amount to reimburs,
the institut: n.
The following bills Were passed b,
both houses of the legislature, bu
will not become laws. be.a'ise Over
rGr NeSsaT exercised his vr.o power
House Bill No. Ii, by iIursil. ely.
powering circuit courts 20 adjust de
funct mining companies.
House, Fill NJ. 1o' by Whiting. re
lating to the organi.ati, N of neg
counties.
House Bill No. 405, oy committee
transferring money into The special mi
litia fund.
The Bartine rate bill was consign
ed to the ash barre by the house. TIL
objection to it was the lack of a prac
teal basis for a foundation. 1t start
ed with {. npromise rate rattle
than taking into consideration tn
cost Of transportation, valuation ant
depreciation. The railroad commits
| sion was opposed to the bill and thei
| attorney had declared the measur
| was impractical. The Norheck hi!
! was the measure the commission de
l. sired 1t was really. railroad code.