The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-08


pass EXAMINATIONS sld secr.e certih.
Gates Of efficiency. The certificate 10
to cost them 81 and 81 per year for
renewals, which sums are presumed
to maintain the of.ce. The railroad
men laugh at the proposition, Claim
ing THAT the responsibility Of the roads
Is sur cient guarantee that the best
men c,jtainable will be employed and
that an examiner is entirely unneces-
sary. =
The colleges of the state have
joined in request for legislation pro-
tiLting the sale of liquor within one
half mile of any institution of learn
ing, the distance being determined by
the present distance of Huron college
from any saloon. Business colleges
are excepted from the operation of the
bill
Sioux Falls is interested in a new
| waterworks bill. The city has been
engaged for six years in contest with
the old water company and the his
| tory OF the municipal plant is we'll
snown. 1t is the purpose of the new
oill to levy tax upon all property for
the maintenance OF the water plant,
but permits those who choose to do
20 to pay this levy with receipts for
water purchased from the city. 1t
would appear that IL this bill goes
into effect most citizens will purchase
their water of the municipal plant
rather than from the old company.
Mr. Issenhuth's bill making Lin
coins birthday legal holiday has
passed the house. but unfortunately
| and inadvertently in re-enacting the
| existing law to include Lincoln the
Fourth of July was left out OF the list
Of holidays and the member from
Sphinx is now endeavoring to square
himself with Young America.
Oppose Good Roads Bill.
As time advances the indications
are that the good roads bill will re-
ceive more opposition than was at
drst thought probable. Since the
farmer members returned from their
vacation the opposition has become
quite manifest. The innovation pro-
posed is too radical to suit the more
! al their lives made the summer road
working their annual holiday do not
like to give up the enjoyable festival.
Town officers are reluctant to surren-
der the control Of the highways and
the incidental Importance they de-
rive from 1t, as we'll as some per-
Quisites, and they are being heard
from. On the other hand, the good
roads men argue that NO good thing
Is secured without cost and sacrifice;
that IL We are to ever have good roads
we must pay the price and that the
! present bill embodies the best mod
ern thought on roGdmaking. The
Black Hills contingent is enthusias-
tically for the bill and there is pos
sibly strength enough from this side
to get over the line, but it will be ex-
ceded to he the most important piece
of legislation of the session, not even
barring the railroad bills.
On this proposition the house passed
an important bill Thursday. proposed
by johnson of Clay county. which pro
vides fer compelling the owners of
abutting lands to keep the highway
before their lands free from weeds.
The bill was saved from defeat last
week by postponenent until Thurs
| day when, its object being better un-
derstood, it went through without
much opposition.
Free Site and Material.
! Dell Rapids is offering site and
free building stone delivered upon the
ground for an inebriate asylum.
There is some question OF the power
of the state to engage in this enter
prise, for the penal and charitable in
stitutions are enumerated by the con-
stitution. The bill carries a $4,000
appropriation for the building and
places the affair under the direction
OF the board of charities.
Referring again to the good roads
proposition one of the strong objec-
tions to the proposition comes from
farmers, who fear that good roads
will be built connecting the towns and
then will be monopolized by the auto
mobilists. Few denizens of the towns
realize what source of terror the
automobile is to the farming com
munity. A caucus of farmer members
discussing the proposition agreed that
It was no longer safe to permit wife
and children to 60 alone upon high
ways with horses. Mr.. Olson of Moody
said: Il never allow my children to
go to the creamery with the morn.
ings skimming without being in fear
of consequences" The horse that
passes an automobile in town without
paying any attention to it goes into
commissions when he meets the same
machine out on the prairie. The re-
suit of the conference is bill which
Mr.. Olson will introduce requiring
automobilists upon rural highways to
stop his machine upon the approach OF
team and remain standing until the
team has passed. A fifty-foot limit
is fixed.
Printing Plant Bill Doomed.