Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., S.D.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-08
Letter From Pierre.

NiuOS iuE all VI Vic tAiSbing sldLe OIuCcS
aid institutions so far as current expens
es and maintenance, salaries and the
like are concerned. The total for these.
items is sl,571, 900 for the biennium.
The special appropriations for legislative
expenses, printing, buildings and de-.
iciencies amounts to 1888, 900 or total
of 90, l04, 600, being about two hundred
thousand greater than for any former
year, the largest precious appropriation
having been made in 1903 when it reach
ed Sl, 200, 900. About S30O.OO Of the
special appropriations goes for new build
ings, or repairs to existing buildings,
leaving $500, 900 as the cost of the legis-
lature, printing, militia and deficiencies.
AS stated in my last letter the total ap-
proximate revenue for the biennium will
not be far from Is2.250oOO which will
leave about one hundred fifty thousand
10 apply upon the outstanding indebted.
ness, which aggregates s350000. With
ordinary conditions the state ought to
come up to the next session with float.
ing debt reduced to two hundred thous-
and. The probability is that the COM
mittee report will be adopted without
material change.
Tie two and a half cent passenger
rate bill has passed and will doubtless
be approved today. The senate accept
ed the house bill without change. The
passage OF this act practically completes
the proposed railroad legislation. The
rate bill does not, as has been said, fix
an arbitrary two and a half cent rate
after July next but leaves 1t to the rail-
road commission TO determine the
schedule with two and one half cents as
the maximum.
Events are crowding each other pretty
fast just now and by the time this letter
reaches its readers the legislature will
have adjourned and the aggregate re-
suit Of the waters work be known.
Some of the results of course are already
upon the record. This week the state
aid for high schools after passing the
senate with little opposition was killed
In the house and no attempt was made
TO revive it. Generally the memeers
were OF the opinion that the time had
not yet come 10 undertake the enter
prise In South Dakota. or course the
atty thousand dollar appropriation dies
with the bill.
There was hard fight this week over
Kribs bill against destructive discrimin-
alton, aimed at the practices 0: the
Standard Oil company and the Lumber
trust in putting down the price OF goods
in one locality to a point utterly rninous
to independent dealers. The bill pro-
vides that no company shall sell goods
in one town in the state cheaper than in
another freight rates being taken into
consideration. Local dealers were led
to believe the bill would prevent them
from making clearing sales and would
in various ways interfere with trade.
This was groundless tear no doubt in.
cited by the Trusts for their own ends
but 1t brought strong influence to bear
upon the senate where the matter was
thoroughly discussed both in committee
aud upon the floor and the bill was JAS
sed. The same law has been in opera
ton in Kansas with good results for four
years.
The divorce bill is through the senate
and will no doubt pass the house, where
it was received Saturday and referred
to the committee on elec tions and priyi-
leges instead Of the judiciary as would
have been the ordinary course. The
judiciary has held the house bill for
several weeks without a report and the
friends of the measure did not care to
take any chances upon losing the bill at
this stage.
Governor Crawford sent in his first
veto Friday; it being upon the bill MAX
ing documents in the Historical Society
evidence in court and proof of service in
certain cases. In territorial days when
land was cheap and business methods
unsettled many attorneys were exceed
ingly careless in making foreclosures by
advertisements and neglected to record
the printed notices Of sale. Now that
land has become valuable men are look
ing after their titles and frequently the
only available copies OF the printed
notices are in the Historical Society. In
many cases the papers are no longer
published, the publishers are dead or
not found and it was sought to find a
means to supply the necessary record
requirements by this BILL The COVER
nor's objection was well founded to the
iack of safe guards in the bin vetoed and
new bill embodying his suggestion is
already upon its way.
Next week will endeavor to epltomize
the entire work Of the session.
Harry Austin Robinson.