Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-03-07

New items in the DILL mount TO
s72, 1854, the increase for educational in
situations amounts to something like
$32, 900, and the increase for penal and
charitable institutions to about $685.
900.
Pierre, Mar. Following is an ap-
proximate estimate of the income of
the state from all sources for the COM
ing two years:
Regular 2 mill levy, $3.50, 900.
Bond Indebtedness levy, 500, 900.
Miscellaneous receipts, 500, 900.
Insane, $50 patients, S220, 000.
Feeble minded, so patients, $40, 900.
One mill deficiency levy, $4,000.
Total, s1,450, 600.
This estimate is based on an assess
ment of S170, 000, 900, but is not exact.
Pierre, March 2.-Chmn. Odland of
the house committee on appropriations
has introduced a bill that will some
day become a law and put an end to a
practice that may grow into an evil. IL
provides that no student shall be ad-
mitted to any of the educational insti-
tutions unless he or she has passed the
eighth grade in the common schools.
This requirement may be too strin-
gent for such an institution as the
| agricultural college, for instance,
which would naturally be attended by
farmer boys, but the idea is right and
it's enforcement would relieve the in
situations Of all undue pressure from
the towns In which they are located
II would prevent them from being used
as high schools, as commonly charged.
Pierre, Mar. 2.-Senate joint resolu-
tom No. Is, relating to the removal Of
cSlnty seats, provides for the submits
sion of a constitutional amendment
| changing the existing provision to per-
NIT sixty per cent of the voters to re-
move the county seat from an inland
to a railroad town.
This measure has passed the senate
and Is pending in the house. 1t APP
plies particularly to the counties OF
Jerauld, Charles Mix, Hutchinson, Nc
Pherson and Walworth. In these
counties repeated efforts have been
made to change the county seats TO
railroad stations but without avail, as
they were located by a popular vote
and can only be removed by a vote o.
two-thirds. The amendment also pro-
vides that county commissioners must
submit the question TO the people at
the next general election upon petition
of a majority OF the legal voters.
Pierre, Mar 2-The bill which passed
the senate on Wednesday TO empowet
cities to purchase. erect and main ain
lighting plants was framed for the es
pecial benefit of Sioux Falls and Aber-
deem, where the lighting plants are
owned by private corporations.
1t is ~contended that under the pres
ent law cities have no power to main
tain such plants-at least no EXPIRE sci
~power-and the authorities want such
a bill passed to cover possible mum CT
pal ownership in the future. The hill
will probably receive the sanction o.
the house. Another measure of espe-
cial Importance to cities has passed.
one branch and is now pending in The
other-a bill providing that when spe-
cial assessments for improvements
have been declared illegal because OF
some informality the taxes may be re-
assessed.
Still another bill increases the power
of cities to collect taxes for sidewalk
purposes. The latter bill was in ro-
duced by Mr.. Vreeland. 1t applies par
ticularly to Sioux Falls and will be a
law as soon as approved by the gov
ernor.
Pierre. March 2.-One trouble with
the state institutions is that the law
governing them is a patchwork relic
of territorial days. Prior to statehood
each charitable and penal institution
was managed by its own board of trus-
tees, which acted independent of all
other boards and was responsible only
to the governor.
With statehood the individual boards
OF trustees were abolished and all the
institutions Of that class were placed
under control of a board of charities
and corrections, with a provision that
this board succeeded TO all the rights,
duties and powers of the several boards
OF trustees. The result is that the
system is not uniform and a single
code should be adopted for guidance
and direction.
These facts and many more have
been disclosed by the investigation,
which Will result in great good to the
state in bringing many matters Of the
kind to light that otherwise would re-
main hidden, with nc probability of
ever being remedied. The testimony
will be a guide for legislation for years
to ONE.
And it should be remembered that
much IL not all OF the looseness in the
management of the institutions has
been inherited from territorial days
when every man was a law to himself
and accountable to nobody as long as
he kept anywhere within bounds.