Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-02


sure 20 the energy and the wisdom of
Representative Tschaner, of Eemmon.
A lively scrap is now on ever the
of judge for the new
district. The lawyers of that district
are united in one thing that Is IN oppo-
sition to the appointment of Mr..
Coleman, who is now receiver of the
Lennon land office. The lawyers are
opposed to his appointments and judg-
ing from tho man. 5 p;st, their opposi-
ton is founded on grounds which ought
to prevent his appointment.
Stroup attempted to secure inde6-
mite postponement of the Whiting Grim
inal practice bill while Whiting was out
of the room, and he came back with
charges of anything but fair dealing or
of good faith being handed him. The
row thus started resulted in the bill
holding its PLACID on the calendar. Then
Teets started to get the Richards prim-
airy bill out of general orders at the
head of the calendar. This meant more
trouble, and required callof the house
to get the required record, resulting in
vote of Sc for the motion, but lacking
the required two-thirds to push the bill
to the head Richards is in Pierre to
watch the progress of his bills.
In the discussion Of the Whiting Grim
inal practice law at one of the evening
sessions, lack Sutley, the Lyman
county democratic leader, could not
refrain from getting into the game and
was opposed to criminals getting off
with such light sentences, and referred
to a murder ease in Stanley county
where the defendant went free, as he
termed it, because he only got eight
years IN the penitentiary. He caused
the greatest laugh of the evening and
the most prolonged applause of the SEES
sion when in a fit of excitement he
declared that you could go to the peni-
Tertiary at Sioux Falls and see whole
lot of fellows all of whom were a.
shaewd and sharper than the members
of this house.
Senator Candy has introduced at the
request of j. c. Bower, of Rapid City,
a measure designed to prevent finan-
cial panics." 1t retains the present
banking laws as far as practicable. A
bank shall be controlled by board of
directors, elected by the stockholders,
each of whom has one vote, no matter
how much stock he controls. The bank
must keep thirty percent reserve. If
overdrawn, the bank becomes insolyent
and winding up" committee, con-
sisting of one representative from the
directorate; one from the depositors,
elected by one vote from each depositor
without regard to the amount Of the
account; and one selected between them
The committee must turn the assets
into cash and liquidate the Indebtedness.
If liabilities exceed assets, the capital
stock may be assessed.
The legislature is newspaper shy.
The members are as wary OF printer
as pinched pup is of bear trap
Voting down every suggestion OF fair
ness to the newspaper craft, both
houses passed the bin taking election
printing away from the newspapers
and the senate has done crude thing
in repeating the provision which
requires attorneys TO swear they have
paid the fun amount of the printers
fee for legal advertising. This affidavit
is protection to the public as well as
to the printer; in fact its chief object
was to prevent unprincipled lawyers
from beating down the printer to half
or less of the legal fee and then charg-
ing his client the sull price of the
legal price for such printing; but
seemed to be provision favorable to
the printers and so the senate ruth
lessly brushed it away.
| 1t is to be regretted that the appor-
tionment bill does not cut the repre-
sentation down to the constitutional
minimum in the house. If this session
has accomplished nothing else it has
shown how foolish it is to have house
with the membership of the present
house. 1t is too large for practical
purposes and more expensive than
necessary. Any county would be bet
ter represented with small house
membership than with large one.
Take Minnehaha for instance. In the
present house it has seven members.
: Does anyone think that it is more
i effectively represented than if it,
a representation was less? Certainly not
L What is true of Minnehaha is true o.
o nearly every other large county h ,vini
|. "a large representation. The stat'
= would have been better off If tn.
q apportionment bill cut the house mem
q bership to seventy-fiye.
+ With the assistance of the new &C
q to indemnify owners of horses killed b.
> the state veterinarian because affecte,
le with ulandoro tharo Ia hopa tbat ths