The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-03-12

bills passed upon this line were: In
creasing the penalties for procuring;
providing against miscegenatious mar
riages: providing penalties for taking
liquors or narcotics on premises OF
| penal or charitable institutions; pro
hibitine the giving Of liquors to black.
iised persons; prohibiting townships
from granting licenses within two and
one-half miles of incorporated towns;
: county option bill; an an~titreating
act: and act absolutely prohibiting the
manufacture or sale of cigarettes
within the state, and, as before men,
toned, prohibiting drinking or gam.
bling on passenger trains.
Agriculture.
South Dakota is distinctly an agri-
cultural state and naturally the farm
ers come IN for a good share of atten.
ton. Among the acts in their inter.
est is one to prevent the adnlteration
Of milk. cream and dairy products;
providing a bounty to be paid by the
county commissioners for planting for
est trees; repeating the nursery
agents act. which required agents Of
foreign nurseries to procure a certif-
cate from the state and to put up a
bond for the protection of their GUS
toners. The supreme our knocked
out the bond and the agents were US
ing the certificates to impose upon the
public by thus showing state author
Sty: prohibiting bringing diseased
sheep into the state; regulating the
inspection of horses for shipment:
providing tor the inspection of bees:
a simple procedure for securing parti.
tion fences. a procedure for securing
right of way to isolated tracts; a gen.
eral drainage law: a general irriga.
ton law accepting the provisions Of
the Carey land and irrigation act and
requiring warehuusemen to exhibit
certificates of weighing and inspection
Of all grain shipped.
Education.
This was an of yea in educational
legislation. For fifty years Dakota
has passed an education code at one
session of the legislature, tinkering it
w a. lAS Acht anu a. INC 3
session passed a new code. This was
a tinkerlng year and the result was
acts permitting high school boards to
charge eighth grade graduates from
country schools q higher tuition than
the * per month which the home dis
:rict is compelled to pay; exempting
the state superintendent from the ne
ccesity of rendering legal opinions;
fixing the date for the general school
election on the third Tuesday. in
June; requiring school boards to en-.
ploy certain teachers on a petition Of
a majority Of the patrons: requiring
vocal music to be taught in all
schools; requiring county superintend'
ents to hold first grade or higher Ger.
tif1cates: allowing school houses to
be used for public meetings; provid'
ing that townships in the new coun
lies may organize themselves into
school districts and, finally. refusing
to accept the gift from the United
| States government Of the gift of the
: Chamberlain Indian school.
| Counties and County Affairs. +"
An effor. was made to subdivide the
! Indian reservations into counties OF
proper size before the coming of thu
settlers with a view to avoid the com
l plications that county making always
involves in a settled region. The eff
fort YVES not wholly successful, but
several new counties were made. Al
that portion of the Standing Rock In
: dian reservation in South Dakota, EN-
! bracing about eighty townships, wa
created as Corson county. The Chey
enne River reservation y no
touched. All of the counties west o
; Trip, on the Rosebud and Pine Ridg'
; agencies, were rebounded and Meye
county and the fragment of Presho ly
ing north of it we're constructed int
Todd and Mellette counties and Lu
; genbiel was changed to Bennett coun
ty. Bills were passed fixing the sal
aries of states attorneys on popula
E ton basis; of county judges on popu
J lation basis: OF auditors on valuation
basis: amending the sheriffs' fee bill
pertaining to the fees of county treas
wrers and Increasing the per diem Q
= county commissioners to 81 per day.
Election Laws.
! The operation Of the primary cleo
: ton law in its first test in a cam
> paign developed some defects in II
i Some Of these defects were pointe
out by the supreme court in the tes
cases brought, portions of the la,
being held unconstitutional and othe
! portions being found to be unduly .,
; pensive. This legislature endeavore
Z to remedy the difficulties by a CON
U plete revision of the act. Another &C
! provides for the immediate semi-of
cial returns of each election, to avoi
the long delays to which we hav
I been subjected in this state. Anothe
' provides that amendments and refel
Z endum laws shall be printed clea
across the ballot in a way to avoi
confusion at the polls; another prt
. vides that in arranging party ticket
y on ballots it shall be done in the o.
z Aor ~ tho ctr,nvfh ~ Tho por<Soc q