The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-02-13
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.

Many Different Parts of
the Sunshine State.
Pierre.-The fight on the senate bill
FOR a state tax commission which pass.
ed that body and is now in the house
Is warming up. The bill is backed by
Gov, Byrne and is being pushed by
the administration.
h first skirmish in the house on
the bill occurred when Blake tried to
get it back to the committee for fur
Their consideration.
Monday the house passed the bill
authorizing cities and towns to levy
a tax for publicity, and killed the bill
defining burglary with explosives.
yesterday afternoon both were recon
sidered, the house reversing itself on
both
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 1t
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 SIC, 600 to send Prof. N.
E. 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 hat country at the
expense of the general government,
and it is now proposed to send him on
another.
In the House.
An attempt in the house to eliminate
the bill to prohibit all suggestive
dances, through indefinite postpone
ment, vas voted down, and the bill
placed upon the calendar, and a 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 a 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-
CARELESS of jury verdict, but failed to
get the votes to again call the bill out.
New house bills we're:
No. 245, Hart-Requiring cuspidors
TO be placed in all passenger coaches.
No. 246, MISUNDERSTANDING
methods of winding up the affairs and
caring for property of extinct religious
societies.
No. 247, Misunderstanding the OPP.
Grafton of motor vehicles by intoxi-
| Gated persons.
No. 24S, Zoske-Appropriationg &c.,
coo 10 send Prof. N. +. Hansen to ST.
IBERIA TO search for new forage plants
for South Dakota.
No. $50, Appropriation Committee
Appropriating $113.56 for state sur.
Vayor.
No. 249, Davies-Providing regula.
tons and fees for registration OF
breeding horses.
No. Isl, Appropriation Committee
Appropriating $1,000 for land office
filing fees.
No. 252, MISUNDERSTANDING 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, Sasse-Consolidating state
board of health and state board of
medical examiners.
No. 255, Sasse-Prohibiting persons
under 81 from entering saloons and
penalties for falsifying age.
No. 256. Sasse-Relating to powers
Of county boards Of health.
No. 257, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
chapter 80, 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. go, Judiciary Committee Reg
ulating motions for new trials.
No. 2G1. Judiciary Committee-Fix-