The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-12-24
MORE THAN STATE CAN GIVE.
south Dakota Institutions Make EstI.
mate of Needs Aggregating $1,000.

he heads of most of the state insti-
.utions at the coming legislative
session Their aggregate demand
ipon the state treasury will be for a
million dollars for new buildings at
he different institutions. In the last
campaign, the heavy appropriations
If the last session were defended on
he ground that it was necessary to
provide new buildings for the many
state institutions, and that they had
aow been fitted out with buildings
which would meet their demands for
several years. But the heads of the in
situations think differently. They want
more and want them now. The state
university thinks it could get along
.or two years more il they were given
s345, 900 for that purpose; the agricul-
:ural college at %Brookings will be sat.
SIZED with $1S5,000; and the asylum
ior feeble-minded at Redtield wants
1927, 900 more. The rest of them are
willing to get along with from
800 900 down to smaller sums, but
III WduL SoillSlllIS.
This total does not include any.
thing for the completion of the work
on the state capitol. The commission
will ask for approximately 100000
for that work. They claim that as
their building is under construction,
and is absolutely needed, their
claims should hold the first position
before any other new buildings are
commenced. Further, their appropri.
alton will come back to the state IN
cash as soon as it is advisable to
place the rest of the state building
lands on the market.
The bulk OF what land remains Is
so far from rail facilities that to at.
tempt to sell at the present would
mean a great sacrifice, but in a lew
years the lands would return the ap'
preparations with interest. They will
ask for a continuance of the $780, 600
appropriation of two years ago, which
has not been drawn upon; for the
Issuance Of 500, 900 building bonds
for ten years, and for authority to ex.
pend $4,000 more from the ale OF
lands: and this they estimate will
complete the building; furnish 1t,
and fit UP the grounds. They have
expended $293,195 to date on the
work, and have about $4,000 yet
available in the way Of mortgages and
deferred payments, and have disposed
Of all the lands east of the Missouri
river.
! The farmers Of the legislature have
always in the past opposed any at
tempts to change the assessment laws
Of the state to any radical extent
claiming satisfaction with the old way
But at the coming session they will
be asked to get into line with other
states in a law for a state tax com
mission, to give attention to that
proposition, instead Of allowing the
work to go On under present loose and
old-fashioned methods. The present
system is cumbersome, and needs
changes to get effective results, but
whether it can be secured, in the view
of past efforts in that direction. is 8
problem.
Pure Food Commissioner A. H
Wheaton came to a fall in his effort
to compel patent medicine manufac
turers to print formulas of their
preparations on their bottles and
packages, but is alleged to be ready
to come to the session with an
amendment to the pure food bill tc
specifically insert within it, what he
thought it contained before, but
which he could not get the courts tc
believe.
After a fight of years the valued
policy insurance law was enacted fol-
this state four years ago, and the in
surance men will be here with a re.
quest that it be taken from the stat
ute books by the coming session
They have always fought that pro
vision, and probably always will.
With the supreme court nearly two
hundred and fifty cases behind their
calendar, the move to increase the
membership of the bench to five, in
stead of the present number of three
will likely go through with little op
position, in case the redistricting is
on a satisfactory basis.
Both political parties pledged them
selves to twocent fares in the state
in their party platforms. Bills to car
ry out the pledges will without doubt
be presented. What their fate will
be is another thing. With a suit
pending in court to prevent the put
ting into effect O. two and a half cen,
rate by the railway commission, ant
with the work of physical valuation
of roads Of the state for the purpose
of assessment and rate making, only
partly completed, the opponents Of
any such legislation will have plenty
of material to work upon.
Black Hills members will ask fol
strict regulations for deer hunting IL
their part of the state. with severe
penalties for the killing of anything
except antlered bucks. 1t is claimed
that 80 per cent of the kill In the
Hills this year was Of does anc
fawns, and this they want stopped.
Several theories in regard to the