SOUTH DAKOTA. 



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the management of the office of Oil Inspector 

 Dowdell, finding that it had been conducted with 

 little or no system, that the fees had all gone 

 to maintain the office, and that some items of 

 the expense account indicated a scandalous con- 

 dition of affairs. Keport was made also on the 

 State Treasurer's office. The Examiner could not 

 find that any of the interest received by Treas- 

 urer Phillips had been turned over to the State. 

 The Governor estimated that the Treasurer had 

 received $52,653.86, which should have gone to the 

 State, but the Attorney-General could find no law 

 to compel the Treasurer to account for interest 

 on the daily balances. 



A constitutional amendment was adopted at 

 the State election of 1898, establishing the dis- 

 pensary law for the sale of liquors, but it could 

 not go into effect until a method of administering 

 it should be prescribed by the Legislature. Bills 

 with this intent were introduced, but none were 

 passed. Instead, the question was resubmitted, 

 and in 1900 the voters will have before them the 

 question of repealing the amendment that they 

 adopted in 1898. Meantime, the liquor license 

 law continues in force, as was decided by the Su- 

 preme Court in a test case brought before it in 

 September. 



A new registration law was enacted. 



A bill was passed prescribing the method of 

 carrying into effect the initiative and referendum 

 amendment to the Constitution adopted at the 

 election of 1898. 



The game and fish laws were made more strin- 

 gent; provision was made for licensing hunters 

 and for protecting large game. 



An act was passed to classify cities according 

 to their population. The issuing of bonds by 

 cities for water works and the refunding of bonds 

 were provided for. 



Supplies for State and county institutions must 

 be bought, as far as is practicable, within the 

 State or county. An appropriation was made for 

 a building for the care and training of feeble- 

 minded persons. Tuition in State educational in- 

 stitutions is to be free to soldiers and sailors and 

 orphan children of men who have served in the 

 army or navy. 



Acts were passed offering bounty for killing 

 wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions; for prevent- 

 ing the spread of disease among swine, and for 

 preventing the shipping or driving of stolen cattle 

 from the State. 



The laws in regard to location certificates on 

 mining claims were amended, and it was provided 

 that owners of mining claims must post copies 

 of mortgages before employing laborers. 



The levy and limitation of taxes was regulated. 

 Taxes may be paid in two installments. Buildings 

 must not be removed from city lots nor timber 

 from claims till taxes are paid. 



Property sold under judgment subject to re- 

 demption may be redeemed by payment of the 

 purchase price with 7 per cent, interest instead 

 of 12 as formerly. 



Bonds for sites or buildings, or for refunding 

 indebtedness, are limited to 4 per cent, of the as- 

 sessed valuation instead of 3 per cent, as for- 

 merly. Districts having debts beyond the con- 

 stitutional limit may issue extension coupons on 

 bonds coming due. 



Other measures were as follow: 



Relating to the divulging of telegraph and tele- 

 phone messages, imposing a penalty of $50. 



Providing that adulterated food must be la- 

 beled as such. 



Creating a State board to license embalmers. 



Providing that graduates of schools of oste- 



opathy may receive certificates allowing them to 

 practice, though osteopathy is defined as not the 

 practice of medicine within the meaning of the 

 law. 



An act regulating the assessment and collection 

 of taxes for artesian wells was declared partly 

 void, since the assessments were graduated in 

 proportion to the relative distance from the well, 

 while the Constitution requires taxes to be in 

 proportion to the value of property and limits 

 special taxation for local improvements to cities, 

 villages, and towns. 



The general appropriation bill amounted to 

 $891,750; the appropriations for deficiencies to 

 $58,742.32; for judgments and claims, $4,133.27; 

 to replace burned public buildings, $67,500; for 

 new buildings, $141,000; for legislative expenses, 

 $71,000; for printing, $17,000; total, $1,251,125.59. 



Memorials to Congress were adopted relating 

 to savings banks, to taxes on Indian allotments, 

 to free homesteads, to Fort Meade (asking that 

 it be made permanent), to the treaty with Spain 

 (that it be heartily and promptly supported), 

 and for the establishment of a branch of the 

 national home at Hot Springs, S. D. 



A law of 1893, providing that property sold 

 under mortgage foreclosure might be redeemed 

 within one year, or within two, provided the 

 mortgagor pays at the end of the first year the 

 taxes, the interest due, and the interest for a year 

 in advance, is declared void as regards mortgages 

 given before it was passed, on the ground that it 

 impairs the obligation of contracts. 



Political. An election for 3 justices of the 

 Supreme Court was held in November. The Re- 

 publican convention, at Aberdeen, June 28, re- 

 nominated Judges Dighton Corson, Dick Haney, 

 and Howard G. Fuller. The resolutions were 

 strongly in favor of the principles of the party 

 and the policy of the national administration. 



The Populists, Democrats, and Free-Silver Re- 

 publicans united in convention at Mitchell, Sept. 

 4, and nominated Edmund Smith, Silver Repub- 

 lican, C. B. Kennedy, Populist, and Julian Ben- 

 nett, Democrat. The resolutions approved the 

 Chicago platform and advocated the nomination 

 of Mr. Bryan; denounced the Philippine war as 

 a repudiation of the Declaration of Independence 

 and of the Monroe doctrine, and an assault upon 

 liberty; demanded the political independence of 

 Cuba; and deprecated the formation of trusts. 



The Republican candidates were elected, receiv- 

 ing majorities of 6,231, 6,029, and 5,189 respec- 

 tively, in the order of their names as above. The 

 total vote cast was nearly 42,300, about half the 

 number of electors. 



SPAIN, a kingdom in southwestern Europe. 

 The legislative power is vested in the Cortes, con- 

 sisting of a Senate of 360 members and a Con- 

 gress of 432 members. Of the Senators half are 

 life and official members and half are elected by 

 the provincial and communal assemblies, eccle- 

 siastical bodies, universities, academies, and indi- 

 viduals paying the highest taxes. The Senators 

 in their own right number 80, including royal 

 princes, if there are any, grandees of Spain hav- 

 ing an income of 60,000 pesetas, captains general 

 of the army, admirals of the navy, archbishops, 

 and the presidents of the superior tribunals. The 

 Senators appointed by the Crown for life number 

 100. The elective Senators sit for ten years, the 

 moiety being renewed every five years, but if 

 the Cortes are dissolved all go out. Every Span- 

 iard twenty-five years of age enjoying full civil 

 rights and a citizen of a municipality for two 

 years possesses the right of suffrage. 



The present King is Alfonso XIII, born May 



