The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-06
Dates Changed by
Legislature to April
LIST and Nov. |.
NO NKGUARAN
Measure is Defeated in SEN
ate After an Afternoon of
Debate.
From Thursdays Daily

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report for filing with the lcnislu.
turc which condemns several con.
tracts as excessive, principally for
the publicity pamphlets, the lesisla-
uNc h%andbooks and Blue Book and
The binding OF public documents.
They charge the printing commits.
sion with being lax in their DEPART
lncnt and the printers with bidding
at hiSh figures and non-contract work
with being paid for AT excessive rat.
Is, hut do not recommend II state
plant.
Pierre, 5. D,-The House at an
afternoon session ground out several
orders. A little contest started on
Il motion to place on the calendar
Fouse Bill PSI, which seeks to pre-
Vent card playing in any room in
TINS state, and it was got on for
regular order. The county option
free range bill was next on reconsid-
Grafton, and was backed by Stokes,
Morgan and Hursh, and opposed by
Thompson, Bileski, Withee, Tschar-
ner, knight and Leedom, and went
down with but 81 votes in its
favor.
't ''O'"' ~ IL DlONl NIIlS IOl
repayment OF taxes by a county, when
collected w%rongfully under a claim of
title to territory was passed after a
ilttle mix up between Lyman and
stanley county members as to just
what should be contained in the
bill; House bill 1872, tor state uni
formity OF text books Nas next up,
and was opposed by Roberts, Chris
topherson, and Kerr, and received
seven votes for to IS against; Sen
al" bill 80 was next. which APP
propriatCs 100000 for beginning i'm
proVtmcnts OF grounds for an in
sane hospital at Watertown. which
was opposed by StCddard. Ruol-
man, Patrick and Jekyll, and sup
ported by Mcfarland, Granger and
Knight, and received 81 votes,
thirteen short OF the required num-
Der, and it Will be up on reconsid-
Grafton: II. Il. 22G, bulk sale act
went down. but is back on recon-
sideration; House 800, relative to
certificates OF teachers went down
ON indefinite postponemcnt; l04,
providing for taxing transient mer-
chants was lost after a fight in which
Anderson, Hawley, Withec and Ruhl-
man, Hart and Comstock took u
part.
More Time on TaNcs.
The House then c~oncurred in the
Senate amendments to House 81,
which advances the date when taxes
shall become delinquent to April
first. and it goes to the governor as
an emergency measure by senate
amendment, and allows another
month for payments. The House
adopted resolutions of sympathy to
Representative Clapp on the loss of
his Sol whose death was learned of
late this afternoon. New house bills
OF the afternoon We're:
40. Railway and Telegraph
Committee Requiring consent of
Railway commission to build com
peting telephone lines.
AL. County Affairs Committee.
Legalizins the incorporation of GER
tain school districts in Corson
county.
4GS. Appropriations Committee.
Appropriation fer claims for pay
ment for horses affected with gland
ers. killed by order OF the state
authorities.
lG9. Appropriations Committee.
Appropriating money for def iency
in office of state treasurer.
Would Label Lobbyists.
Representative Youngquist pre-
scented a resolution asking that all
lobbyists in the South Dakota legis-
lature, s%uffragets included, be rcuuir-
ed to pay u license fee of ten dollars,
wear register numbers which can be
read a city block, with head lights
and red tail lights at night, and
carry tin whistles which must be
blown before rounding any corner in
the capitol.
Bank Guaranty Loses.
The Senate passed House bill 81.
making taxes due April first. and
November first: li5, allowing tie de
~struction Of chattel mortgages after
the expiration Of twenty years and
the clearing of record: 1G1. regulat-
inc the employment of ONE and
children; 113. authorizing consolida-
ton of state tax funds: 24I, prohib-
iting intoxicated persons from driv-
ing automobiles: 80, authorizing
railway commission to fix switching
charges: 311. recurring railways to
light and guard street crossings; 2oG.
creating state board of health and
consolidating board CT health and
medical examiners: 2o1. regulating
county board of health.
The rest of the afternoon was put
in on the Senate bank guaranty act.
which vas defeated after most of the
afternoon had been spent in talking,
with Hale. the author OF the bill,
Mather. Carroll. McMasters. Nor
beck and Morgan taking leading
parts in the argument.
70 Celebrate State Anniversary.
The House at a night session. the
first this time. took up Senate bills
and nasssd S. j r. %. processing a
celebration of the twenty-iftl ami
versary of the admission OF the state
at Pierre in 1914. the senate bill pre-
hibiting state officers travelling out
side the state at state expense. eX-