The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-02-14
LIVELY At PIERRE
HARD FIGHT ON BILL FOR TAX
COMMISSION BACKED BY
GOV. BYRNE.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine State.

the Sunshine State.
Pierre The fight on the senate bill
or state tax commission which pass
I'd that body and is now in the house
S warming up. The bill is backed by
GOV. Byrne and is being pushed by
he administration
The first skirmish in the house on
he bill occurred when Blake tried to
get it back to the committee for fur
her consideration
Monday the house passed the bill
authorizing cities and towns to levy
tax for publicity, and killed the bill
defining burglary with explosives.
Yesterday afternoon both were recon
Sidered, the house reversing itself on
both measures
The bill which attempts to increase
compensation for county commission
ers in large counties, and also in coun-
ties of large population, started the
Minnehaha county delegation The
population feature affected only the
counties of Minnehaha, Brown and
Lawrence, and the representatives.
from Brown and Lawrence wanted
that feature retained, but the Mime
haha delegation lined up against it
and secured the cutting out of the
population feature, leaving it to apply
only to size. after which is passed.
Zoske presented a bill in the house
apprOpriating $4,000 to send Prof n
+. Hanson, of the state college of ag-
riculture, on another trip to Siberia
in search of forage plants suitable for
growth in the northwest. Hanson has
made two trips to that country at the
expense OF the general government.
and it is now proposed 10 send him on
another.
In the House.
An attempt in the house 10 eliminate
the bill 10 prohibit all suggestive
dances. through indefinite postpone
ment, was voted down, and the bill
placed upon the calendar, and lot of
amendments are being prepared to the
bill
On motion of Whittemore, the vote
by which the house adopted the bill to
allow cities to levy taxes for publicity
purposes. was reconsidered and later
the bill was defeated by decisive
vote
On motion of Berg the house recon
sidered the vote by which it defeated
house bill 159, defining burglary by
explosives, and later. on call of the
bill, it was carried almost unanimous
ly.
Hart attempted to secure reconsid-
Grafton Of the vote by which the house
yesterday defeated the bill to author
ize the judge to enter judgment re-
gardless of jury verdict, but failed to
get the votes to again call the bill out
New house bills were:
No. 245. Hart-Requirng cuspidors
to be placed in all passenger coaches
No. 246. Providing
methods of winding up the affairs and
caring for property of extinct religious
societies.
No PAT. Nelson-Prohibitin the op-
GRAFTON of motor vehicles by intoxi-
Gated persons.
No. 24S, neutrality-suspicious. SO.
900 to send Prof ~ f. Hansen to 81
IBERIA to search for new forage plants
for South Dakota
No. $50, Appropriation Committee
Appropriating s113.56 for state sur
vayor
No. 249, Davies s-PrOviding regula-
tions and fees for registration of
breeding horses.
No. 251, Appropriation Committee
Appropriating $4,000 for land office
fling fees
No. 252. olleman-Regulating dis
tances between elevators and mills on
railroad rights of way.
No. 253, Clark of Dewey-Fixing
terms Of court in twelfth cirucit.
No. 254. Consolidating state
medical examiners.
No. 255, Sasse-Prohibiting persons
under 21 from entering saloons and
penalties for falsfying age
No. 256, Relating to powers
of county boards of health.
No. 257. ChristOpherson-Re epealing
chapter 90. laws of 1911, which pro-
vides for fees by loan and trust com
panies for doing business in this state.
No. 258, Judiciary Committee-Re-
lating to duties Of clerk of trial court
In appeal cases.
No. 259, Judiciary Committee-Fix-
ing time and method of making record
on appeal in civil cases.
No. 26O, Judiciary Committee Reg
ulating motions for new trials.
No. 261, Judiciary Committee-FiX-