Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-07
FIELD DAY FOR FINICKY FOLK
Such Will Be Next General Election
in South Dakota.
TICKET TO BE SEVEN FEET LONG
Initiative and Referendum Laws
Called Into Use Freely, and Sew
ernl Constitutional Amend
ments Proposed.

PIERRE, s. D., June 6.-Cspecial )-The
season" for referendum petitions closed
Thursday night, and the list of propositions
which the people will have to vote upon
at the next general election are all In. The
constitutional amendment list includes six
propositions, the principal one being that
to change the method of taxation in sew
eral particulars; others are for equal suf-
frage; authorizing the Legislature to fix the
salary of the attorney general, with an
1850 limitation; authorizing the leasing cf
state school lands for Agricultural pur-
poses; requiring the location of any fur
ther state institutions TO be submitted 10
vote of the people; and authorizing inde-
pendent school districts to increase their
indebtedness for the purpose of construo-
ton of buildings.
The law submitted through the initiative
and referendum is the county option law,
which was carried through under the pro-
vision of the initiative. The laws which
come under the efasSBa,,rn alone are those
providing method of control of the state
militia, the electric light law, that gerry
Wandering the state into congressional dis
tricts, that abolishing the State Board Of
Embalmers, and the one authorizing the
/
cause after a hearing. This list must all
be printed on ballot ten inches in width
and between each OF the different proposl-
tions presented there must be an inch Of
blank space, and this Will make a ribbon
fully seven feet long, even in small type.
The voter who gets hold of such ballot,
with all its different propositions, is likely
to get weary before he gets down to the
last of the propositions, and to cut out the
voting, unless he is especially interested in
some subject further down the line.
Statement by the Milwaukee.
The question Of just what county will be
covered by the sew extensions Of the Mil
waukee line west of the Missouri in the
northern part Of the state is shown in the
official statement by the road, that the
new line is to begin at a point OF connec-
tlon with the main line of said company
as now constructed Immediately west Of
the Missouri river bridge, in the county OF
| Dewey, and extending in a southwesterly
direction to crossing of the Moreau river,
proceeding thence southerly and south
| westerly up the valley OF Virgin creek TO
/ the plateau in township 12 north, range q
/ east; thence in a westerly direction along
| or near the north line Of Armstrong county,
and said line produced through the coun-
! ties of Dewey, Arrhstrong schnasse,
Meade and Butte, to the west line of Butte
county. The estimated length of which
line is approximately 215 miles"
Bankers Program.
The program of the State Bankers asso-
citation. which meets in this city the 2Sd
and Gath of this month, includes talks by
Congressman Il. w. Hartin, Governor Yes,
sey and Bank Examiner j. L. Jones among
the state officials and bankers from out.
side the state who are on the program, in
clude Charles r. Frost and w /. Nolar
of Minneapolis, David Williams OF Duluth
C. n Lukes OF Sioux City and E. r. Cur
ney OF Fremont, Neb Besides the business
of the session the visitors will be glver
an excursion to the buffalo pasture
flsh-chowder lunch on Marion island, and
other entertainment. The session prom.
ises to be an important one and good at