The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-24
Be NO EMERGENCY
CLAUSE IN A.-P. BILL
South Dakota Legislators Will
Danish Free Transportation,
But Not at Once.
UPSET PLANS NOW AFOOT
In Any Event the Statute Will 81
Taken to Supreme Court for
Ruling on Its Va
lidity.

lidity.
Piere, S. d., Jan. 22.-Sentiment APP
pears to be rapidly changing relative
TO the passage of an a~nti-paSS law with
an emergency clause. Three days ago
there were wager made that it would
contain the emergency clause but pas
without a days delay, and at this time
the consensus of opinion seems to be
that the emergency clause will have to
be stricken out to enable it's friends to
get it through at all.
There is but little sentiment against
the law in itself and only for the pro-
vision that it is to be in effect from
n after its passage and approval ii
' would have clear sailing until after the
governors signature was affixed; after
that 1T must in any case run the gaunt-
let of court trial to determine whether
1t is what it purports to be.
1t is argued, however, that an emer-
gency provision will be alike an injus-
t1ce to the railroads and to those with
whom at the beginning of the year
business relations were formed under
the ordinary conditions calling for the
use of the little piece of cardboard, and
that there is no existing emergency
demanding an abrupt change in these
relations.
Would Upset Projects Now Afoot.
AS an Illustration it is shown that
there ave been for some time a large
number of men working in the middle
n eastern states and even in the
southeastern part of this state getting
others to make change of location and
go on to some of the cheaper lands
west of the river. Such work cannot
be completed before May or June and
the changes brought about, and there
are other equally good reasons urged
why the law should be allowed to take
the usua course and become effective
July l after passage.
In any cas- the law will be taken to
the supreme court of the state to test
its provisions. Especially its prohibition
OF the right Of exchange contract. This
feature of the law will affect all news
paper men, and it is thought that
prompt action can be had through the
state supreme court to test this point
Newspaper Men Have Committee.
The newspaper men have a legisla-
tive committee consisting of Dick Hal
laday, Tom Taubman and L. V. Doty.
but up to the present time they have
made no move to cause a modification
In the provisions of the bill before pas.
sage Mr.. Byrne, the maker of the bill
is outspoken in saying that the law il
intended to bar newspaper men from
making exchange contracts and thus
prevent fraud. The bill is equally
stringent in it's general prohibition
which cuts all real estate men off the
free ride, n this was the one provi-
sion which the railroad interests sought
to keep moderately clear of the prohi-
bition, taking the position that the set
tiefnent and development of the state
VIII be retarded under severe restrict
tons along this one line.
To Slice Up Big County.
Representatives from Murdo, Preshc
and Oacoma, the three principal towns
I'm r N ~ -cnty,tHy have l&o,, -, -. Ill = -
ing conferences to determine what will
be o about dividing that large pub-
lie tract Into two or three subdivisions
FRESNO and Murdo favor division into
three counties with capitals at boil.
Of those places and also at Oacoma.
While Oacoma can not prevail against
the division of a county 100 miles long
and containing about 100 civil town
ships, an effort is being made to limit
Its division to two counties with county
seats provided for at Oacoma and Their
let the western half of the county dis
pose OF its own county seat question.
Huron Wants $f00,00O.
State Treasurer Cassill will begin
his administration by paying off a few
debts, one of his first acts being to
call in $4,000 of warrants which art
bearing Z per cent. The easy condition
of the states finances is acting as 6
%loosener on those desiring special an.
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Huron wants 500, 900 in a lump fol
permanent buildings on the state fair
grounds. An Investigating committee
has been appointed to go and see iust
how badly they need the money and
the committee is of rather conservative
makeup.
Give Sioux Falls a Street Car.
This legislature is evidently sus.
picious of corporations and when the
bill was proposed making it possible
to issue a franchise for a period al
thirty years instead of twenty, which is
now the limit, it mel with general OBJ
position until 1t was show that it was
for the express purpose of allowing
Sioux Falls to get a street car system.
and now the position taken seems ia
be that if Sioux Falls wants street cars
or a white elephant or any other OLD
thing, the legislature will not stand in
h way. The bill for this purpose is
Minnehaha county, however, but by
Price of Yankton. The M%innehaha
county members do not intend to get
In the imelight until they learn why
there was no craftsmanship of a COM
mittee assigned to that county.
Keep Public Printer Busy.
Senator Vessey's public printing bill
Is the n To which Senator DowdelI
OF Sanborn, has given SO much time
and thought, n contains many of the
ideas which he originally intended tc
embody in a bill. He later changed his
plans and concluded to work out hia
ideas through some one else, recog-
nizing that legislation could not
well come in large quantities
through democratic sources. Mr.. Dow
dell is, however, at work on his school
text book bill which originally went up
In smoke by the same fire in his room
which scorched his bible, and his bill
will contain a provision by which the
printing of text books and later on OF
school library books may be done by
the state printer, and thus keep him
employed constantly with a force OF
men rather than giving nine or ten.
months Of active work in the biennial
period.
CONGRESS TAKES PITY
ON SNOW BOUND SETTLERS
Washington, ~. G.. Jan. PA joint.
resolution granting q temporary leave.
OF absence OF three months to all set
tiers OF public lands In North and South
Dakota, passed both houses and has
gone to the president for his signature.
It will date from the time OF the sign
Ing and the three months are not to
be deducted from the full time Of resi-
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