Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-26

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chase Exposition go by without q prope
exhibit. They claim that all the state
organized ont of that purchase will hay
exhibits, and if South Dakota shoulN
fail, it will advertise that we are q PEG
pie Of mossbacks, or worse, that we ar
financially unable While we sincerely
trust that the appropriation will carry
we would not venture prediction.
The bill providing against boys undel
fifteen years of age carrying guns ami
hunting has been having hard Shedding
in the senate. 1t was at first amended
by except with the permission Of his
parent or guardian" This was ver5
satisfactory to the opponents of the bill
and it passed. On Saturday the friends
of the bill got it up on reconsideration
and tried to force the adoption of the fol
lowing: Except when accompanied by
his parent or guardian" This brought
out some hot arguments, many of the
senator's rushing TO the rescue Of the.
boys. 1t was a clear case of the amend
ment, if not the bill itself, being killed,
when the introducer of the bill in the;
house got the ear of few senator's and
had it re.referred 20 committee. We
cannot forecast the next step, but we.
hope it will be killed.
AS the session draws to q close great
many interested cnes are here from yari-
Gus portions of the state in the interest
of the special appropriation bills for the
vacaious schools and other institutions.
All are very much worried because Of
the house. The members of that body
are determined to make the revenues of
the state 60 as far as possible to meetg
the expenses of the state. The special
appropriations for new buildings, etc,
at the various state institutions, as they
have come up have all been postponed
until such time as they are all TO bein,
when they will be considered together.
There will be no appropriations for
buildings that can possibly be avoided.
Some of the lobbyists say that the legis-
lature will hurt the state schools. This
is not true. The legislature will give to
the various schools everything that they
need, but will positively countepance z.S
extravaganza in the way Of Buildings or
anything else.
A bill which has passed the legisla-
ture, that is of interest to teachers and
all who hope to become teachers, is that
which provides that all examination
papers Of teachers down to and inclUd-
ing the second grade shall be passed
upon by the state superintendent. This
law was recommended by both the house
and senate committees on education, be-
cause of the representation that at pres
ent, where the examinations were con-
Quoted by county superintendent, they
were often influenced by politics; fur
Their, that in some cases first and second
grade certificates granted in one county
were not recognized in another, because
superintendent of the one county did
not have confidence in the examinations
Of other county superintendent. The
state superintendent will now pass upon
the educational requirements of all, aud
any first OF second grade certificate will
be good in any county of the state.
Another provision of the law is that no
faa ba kcH fx.1 ~.
certificate more than twice, the legisla-
ture believing that If teacher did not
take interest enough in his or her work
to get better grading in that length Of
time they should not be allowed to teach
ut ALL The law further provides fee
of two dollars for taking the eygfnina-
ton. 1t is wholesome measure and
will make the schools more remote from
the politics of the state.
Queer, is it not, that when PROPOSE
ton is presented by some men or their
representatives to man, or body Of
men, the said proposition is at once
looked upon with suspicion? But it is
true nevertheless. Such was the case
when representatives of the present
Indian commissioner appeared before
the committee ON education in behalf of
bill that the commissioner desired to
become law in South Dakota. As the
said commissioner has been opposed to
every effort made by South Dakota's
representatives in Washington for the
conducting of the Indian affairs in
accordance with the wishes of the peo-
pie of the state, when this bill was pre-
scented to them the committee at once
looked for some hidden motive. They
found it. The bill provides for the COM
pulsory education of Indian children, or
children with Indian blood in them,
either in the public schools or the Indian
schools, and for the criminal prosecution