Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-08
PROGRESS MADE.
ONLY FOUR BILLS HAVE SOLAR
REACHED THE GOVERNOR.
Discrimination BIN tho Only Important
One That Has Run the Gauntlet Of Bots
Houses-Taylor's Defaleasion Respons,.
BILE for the Delay. .
Work Going Slow at pierr.

Work Going Slow at Pierre.
Pierre special: The eighteenth day Of
the Legislative session has passed. This
defalcation Of ex-Treasurer TAYLOR
aas necessarily taken SO much Of the tlne
and attention Of the legislators that IL
would be hardly fair to mako comparison
between the work Of this session and that
Of two years ~ One hundred and sixty.
n bills have been introduced In the
house and 1A8 In the senate. Not over
four. however, have yet reached tho gov
ernor for his signature. Sixteen have
passed the house and eleven the senate.
Aside from the resolutions m bills In
reference to tho defalcation the most i'm
portant that have passed the senate are:
The r~esubnlission bill; two bills for the
organization Of mutual insurance com
panies. n for county and ono for state
companies. designed to take in the BUSH
ness men: a long irrigation bill amenda-
tory Of the township law; one providing
for the issuance of anticipatory warrants,
and q bill providing for the safe invest
ment of the psroaanent school and other
educational and the collection OF
Interest. cts.
In the house., No. SO. relating to the
protection AID propagation of fish. was
passed. blu as there is a large number
Of bills introduced in reference to the pro-
lection Of both game and fish, 1t is very
likely that out Of tho whole grist some
new bill will be ground and finally passed.
,.Ae house has also passed bill No. u:
ohattel properly shall furnish tho mort
gagor with a complete copy Of the tnstru.
ment. n that tho mortgage shall be void
unless such 2 copy IL iurnisne ea;, Also so
counties for the insane out Of the general
fund and creates 9 special fund That can
be drawn upon only for the maintenance
OF the insane.
The really Important WORK OF the iegts.
concerned. has not yet been reached:
some opposition, especially from the
American book concern. 1t provides for
q board Of commissioners who shall I'D.
y VERT Sd in tw S0a state aSs R pa sbIsa one P Par Bias an
from publishers Of text books, to furnish
the same for a term of five years and to
accompany such bid with specimen zen COZ.
Of manuscript Of books not yet published,
and bids from persons willing to under. ka
the compilation of a book OF a series OF
books, and provides that bids from pub
fishers shall give a bond of $4,000 for tho
fulhllment of their contract.
Irrigation Law Amended.
To those interested in the subject Of irri.
cation and familiar with the defects of
the old township Law it may be Of Interest
to know some of the important chan es
made by the amendments as passed upon
By the senate. One of the great defects
in the old law was the fact that contract
ors were not willing to undertake wslls
where no provision had been made for
partial payment during process of con.
struction. The amendment provides that
on completion of Zach 100 feet of a we'll rs
per cent. of the contract price may. be
paid by the township. providing 1t fur
nish tho material, and 50 per cent. where
but that no further payment shall be
made until tho well is completed and &c.
copied. The old law, in providing for the
rental OF the water. only provided that a
rental equal pro rata to the interest on
yiding no means in the use of tho water
to pay for the construction of the VIII.
The amendment provides that the rental
shall not be less than 81 per acre foot per
annum and provides that the water rentals
terest n principal Of the bonds. The
amended law further provides that in case
of inability on the part of q contractor to
complete the construction of a well the
board of supervisors shall lave power to
modify the terms Of the contract. SUI ,ct
to ratification by the state engineer of ri.
cation: 1t further provides that the les.
sees of the water or any part therein .ay
at any time purchase the well, provii ng
a price is paid not less than the cost of he
OF the freehollers Of the township con.
sent to said sale. The purpose of this pro-
vision is to provide for the sale of the
wells so that the funds may be reinvested
In additional wells. 1t Is reasoned that 1t
Irrigation should prove successful, and
the system of irrigation will become gen.
eral.