The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-02-23
TWELFTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Weeks Doinss Of Our Body Of Law.
Makers at the Capital City

ny Representative Parmley o
ipswich eliminated in the first ad
vance, in the passage through boil
houses of the Issenhuth- -Bruc,
good roads bill. The bill, Will,
not ideal in any respect, because i
had to please too many people be
fore it arrived in its final form, i!
agreat improvement in our pres
ent road law, and embraces many
advanced ideas as the county unit
and an optional county engineer,
Advices from Washington tha,
We are to have a third congress.
man, have started congressional
apportionment talk. Whiting OF
Woonsocket would divide the state
into three districts. No. /. All
east of the Missouri and north of q
line projected west to the river
from the south line of Brookings.
(285, 900 people,. No.2 All south
of this line and east of the river.
(2l3,0OO). No. 3 All west of the
Missouri (l6O,OOO). Each district
is compact and intracommunica
tive.
The Perkins apportionment bill,
introduced the middle of the ses-
sion, smoked out the first of the
week, has finally been dropped.
The joint committee apportion-
ment bill came in on Saturday. 1t
uses a $500 unit for representa-
tives and $4,000 for representa-
tives. The location of thirteen
representatives and three senators
are changed. There are 1O3 house
members and As senator's. Union,
Clay. Yankton, Bon Homme,
Hutchinson, Turner, Lincoln, Min
nehaha, Kingsbury, Brookings,
Day, Roberts, and Lawrence each
lose one representative. Charles
Mix, Beadle, Brown, Gregory,
Meade, Tripp, Hand, Corson,
Dewey gain one, Perkins two, and
Hamlin- Deuel. one at large house
members. Three senators are lost
on the east side of the river by
creating new districts. Hanson,
McCook, Aurora, Douglas, Min
er, Sanborn, Jerald, Buffalo, Brule
Bamlin, Deuel., Stanley, Harding,
Perkins, Tripp and Mellete each
gain one. This apportionment
will undoubtedly be changed con-
siderably before finally adopted.
The Bigelow school code lost
after three days of discussion on
the floor, 1851. The measure
grew during the session and was
considered much more favorably
at the day of it's final passage than
at any previous time. Every
member of the house educational
committee fought for it on the
floor. Just prior to final roll call,
a motion by Hursh for indefinite
pestponemert, met instant disap-
probation, and Vercoe and Tschner
called it a "dastardly and coward
ly trick"
The Curtiss BALLOT bill, the hard
est fought measure of the session
finally passed the house, and upon
signing will be the law. A news
paper lobby was here for a week
fighting it. The vote was 1920.
The land lease code, authorized
by hst falls constitutional amend
ment, passed both houses during
the week. In the house Gardner
attempted to strike out the clause
mxEing minimum rental of -
per acre without success.
The electric headlight bill, turn
ed down by the people At the last
election, passed the house after a
very lively debate, In which Nc
Master Of Yankton In very able
speech urged the members to abide
BY the wishes Of the people, and
Tscharner affirmed that the people
had not voted intelligently on the
measure.
0srdneg's bin, indemnify fyine
owners q hocsss killed for slan-
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