The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-04

III. b. 217, providing for mutual auto
insurance companies; 115. allowing
shippers to put in track scales at
their own expense; and lST, fixing
date OF qualification of county super
intendent OF schools at June first in
stead Of January first H. B 81. leg
alizing salary warrants to Mellette
county officials, went down after
every member OF the judiciary COM
mittee had stepped on it and gave
it final kick to get ii down and
out. II. b. 312, limiting liabilities
for newspaper lible to actual dam
ages, and not punitive, in case OF
retra action, was passed.
H. b. $50, the code revision came
up, and Berndt wanted an amend
ment to prohibit the appointment of
an attorney on the commission who
is or has been a corporation attor-
ney within the past year. Urdahl
wanted the appointments to be made
by the court instead OF the presid-
ing Judge. Waters and Lundley
thought the bill all right and ough;
to pass. Stoner said it was the
slickest way-of getting s25, 900 out
of the state he ever saw. Urdahl was
for it, and Mclean against. as wa
Whitlock and Oh vote il Went down,
II yes to % nc.
New senate bills presented were
30S. directing the secretary of state
to return the surplus from the pub
licity pamphlet fund to candidates:
800, appropriating $6,500 for stone
quarry at penitentiary: 80, appro-
priating $1,000 for building at peni-
$61.51 for the transfer OF the sale
of Fort Island Fund to the general
fund.
At the afternoon session of the
senate tho bill to appropriate $1,000
to erect monument at the point
where the Verendrye plate was
found at Fort Pierre, was amended
to appropriate $500 to purchase the
plate for the state, and passed.
The senate passed S. B. 154, max
ing the expense of the care Of insane
a legal charge against the estates
of those legally liable for such care;
and S. B. AZ, appropriating $35, 900
for new wing on the main building
the bank guaranty act, the bank
ers bill. and S. b. 297. and the
"coffey BILL" both of which were
initiated, We're formally passed, as
was S. b. 29s, the initiated new
Richards" primary act
| S. B. 2SS. for uniform system
of weights and measures and for
scale inspection, passed, after several
objections of too much red tape from
Stephens and queries as to whether il
would apply to farm scales. S. b
299. requiring monthly reports from
state institutions to the executive ac-
countant passed, as did 800. making
more stringent the regulation for is.
suance of warrants by the state audi
tor, both being the outcome of the
recent Investigation, and having
been introduced by the committee
OF investigation S. b. 302, appro
priating $56.7S. to A. II. Orvis fol
legal services passed, as did 303, tt
transfer $19O2.93 from unorganizet
counties judicial tax fund to genera
fund: 304. appropriating $3.50 tt
reimburse the state board OF agricul
ture for money advanced to pay TO
buildings on state fair grounds; SOC
increasing the assistants in the de
partment of the executive accountan
from three to five, and 30S, direct
: ing the secretary of state to return t
candidates who paid for sketches i
the publicity pamphlet the fund LEI
over in that department; 2S4, to es
tend the time of appropriation of las
: session for 100000 for the new build