The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-02-14
GRIND OF THE LAW MILL
What Is Being Accomplished by the State Solons

has gone very far. 1t provides that
judges and clerks of election shall re-
ceive So a day for their services as
such. On the face of it no great in
crease of election expenses is shown,
but when il is considered that the
new primary election bill provides for
several primary elections for the selec
ton of officers and delegates at differ
| ent times in a year il which elections
! are held, and further provides that
the judges and clerks of said primary
elections are to be controlled by the
regulations governing general cleo
tons, with the same pay, it Will be
seer that the election expense ac-
| counts will pile up with the increase.
The cooper bill in the senate TO levy
a specific tax each rear for the support
of the different state educational !nsti-
tutions is to move which has been dis
cussed in several past sessions. but
has never been brought to a final &C
ton. The bill proposes a levy for the
different institutions In the following
sums: Aberdeen normal, IL mills; ag-
r%icultural college, IL mills: Madison
normal, Is mills: Speartish normal, l3
mills; school of mines, IL mills;
Springfield normal, 6 mills; state uni
versity, 2S mills. With such a bill the
hauling In every legislative sessive
session over the appropriations for the
institutions would be stopped.
In the house and senate Saturday
the investigating committees submit
ted reports on their findings in their
investigation of charges against ex-
Governors Herreid and Elrod and incl
dentally named the railway commits
sion in regard to two employees OF that
| organization.
Their report, which Chairman Glass,
in the house, explained was not com
plete, charges that Gov. Herreid,
through the contingent fund, drew
! from the state $2,517.51; that Gov. Ell
rod, from the same fund, drew $4,000,
all being i'm violation of the provisions
of the constitution that p. j. Rogde
was employed as the attorney of the
railway commission in violation OF the
constitution, he having been a member
of the legislative session which appro-
priated money for that purpose, and
was paid $3,0S5, and that d.. G. Kicker
was employed by the railroad commits
| sion to fill the position of weight and
| scale inspector, an Office not author
| lied by law, and paid $4,000.
The committee reports that Con
| gresham Martin expressed a desire
to appear before them 10 explain GER
tain charges against him; that he
could not come at present, but desired
TO appear later. The senate received
the report without comment, but as
soon as it was completed in the house
Mr.. Parmley desired to know If the re-
port contained anything further, and
was informed that it does not. He
moved that the complete findings OF
the investigation of Jan. 81 in relation
TO Senator Gamble, with the record,
be filed with that OF to-day.
Chairman Glass said that could not
be done to-day, for the reason that the
record was not ready, but 1t would be
filed later.
Parmley arraigned the commission
for attempting to cast a smirch on
Governors Herreid and Elrod and leave
anything which might affect Senator
Gamble out Of the record; that the
committee went out of existence under
the law tomorrow, and anything
which it filed after that day would not
or could not go into the record; that
in the January findings they had ad-
hered 10 the wording OF the resolution
to report facts only, and no conclu-
sions. but in the present report they
had dealt in conclusions alone.
Glass explained the reason why the
report is not ready, out his action was
declared by Parmley to be a deliberate
attempt t o withhold the report IRON
| the house. A roll call on his motion
defeated it by "A to 81.
The anti-pass law was signed by
Gov. Crawford Saturday afternoon,
and it was filed fifteen minutes after
the afternoon train left for the East,
carrying. a number of pass passengers.
At the morning session of the house
favorable committee reports were re-
turned on the an~ti-treating bill and on
the one making the Office OF clerk OF
the supreme court a salaried one. A
list of new bills was presented, none
of special Importance.
In the afternoon session the bin
fixing specific terms for the heads of
state institutions under control of the
board of charities was defeated and a
new law was made by passing the SEN
ate bin providing for expense accounts
of circuit court judges.
The senate started no new bills, for
the first day since bills were p~resenta-
lie, and made one law by passing the
- 81 providing a penalty for wife
desertion.
senate bills were passed by
the senate, the principal one being the
administration bill requiring candi-
dates t o file accounts OF their ex-
pancas i'm tho campaipn