The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 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

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hous became reconciled to each other
in the fight over the appropri ton for
h immigration bill, and after the
original proposal of $4,000 had been
cut to $1,000, the result of seven
conferences IF committees from the
two hours, final adjournment came,
and the So"+h Dakota ! gislators to-
night are, l.. 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
as this or that subject. while from
other little gatherings, strains Of pat
riotic songs floatcd to the dome of the
state house.
The house made Il record on the
lest day IF the session, it having pass
ed nearly a hundred bills. After n
inal 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 Owe such a matter. The house
steadily refused to consider the sem
ate's proposition to set aside $4,000
for the carrying out Of the provisions
Of the bin.
Governor Wesley, after it vas 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 of the legislators, was that pro-
viding for the establishment of an eX-
~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 IN this expenditure Of
money. The duties Of the new office
win be to see that the records of
these institutions are accurately kept
and that the 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The anti-treating law was repealed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
a dead letter" being d~isregarded
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 il.
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
board are old soldiers, J. l.. Turner.
E. M. Thomas and ]. II. Hoffman.
Representative Sherncan'c House
Bill No. 6S. 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 it
seventy-five percent.
The free range in South Dakota
ha. 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 V fn'm the wreck was that
calling for the publication of insur-
ance statements. h statements are
to be OF uniform length and to appear
in each official paper before the first
Of May. A strong fight WAS made to
do away with this p~ubilcdta alto
gether.
The measure which provided that
25 percent of the voters could demand
a vote of the people on the recall of
any state official and that a tW'-thirds
vote of the voters would be sufficient
for expulsion, was killed in the house,
lacking two votes Of enough u carry.
The First National Bank Of Brook
ings, oaned $Gl0.S9 for the continu-
alton of the work of the farmers in
stitutes. but the house refused to APP
pr pirate the amouH TO reimburse
the institution.
nj following bills Wee passed by
both houses Of the legislature, but
II ll't " it - 't't' ~
TOR Nsss"y exercised Ills Nc.o power:
House Bin No. Il. by iIursh. p"
towering circuit courts 20 adjust de-
funct mining companies.
House gill M. 103 by Whiting. re-
Iating to the o%rganitati II Of new
counties.
House Bill No. 40i, nv 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 it was the c of a prac-
teal 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. 1t was really a railroad code.