The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-26
|SSENHUTH WORKS
ON new ROAD LAW
THROUGH RECESS
Vigorous Attempt Will
be Made to Put it
Through.
NEW HAT-PlN BILL
HAT-PlN BILL
Representative Stuverud Has
New Evidence to Support
His Restrictive Measure

Pierre, S. De. G. Issenhuth,
chairman of the joint committee of
the two houses for the preparation
of a satisfactory good roads bill, is
the first of the members to return
from his recess vacation, and is busy
in his committee room today in
framing up the bill which will be
presented. He hopes to get a meas
ure which will at least give the state
a start in good roads work at this
session, and one which will meet OBJ
jections of past sessions. On ac-
count of the strong feeling in regard
to the subject in some sections of the
state, the new bills may contain To-
cal option features, to remove such
objections.
Chairman Glasner Of the house
public lands committee, with other
members of that committee have re-
NAMED over the recess and have
been working with Land Commits
sioner Brinker, on a bill which it is
hoped will cover the necessary fea-
lures to protect the rights of the
state, and of the individuals in leas-
ing state lands for agricultural pur-
poses. This is a proposition which
will have to be handled carefully to
see hal the individual who leases
the land will be given the breadest
| possible use of the land, and at the
same time protect the state from
damage through the operations of
tenants who may not care to give
state land the same car they would
that was owned by themselves.
Other members are using their va
cation time to visit various state in
stitutions and form some ideas of
their W as to the actual needs of
these institutions, as compared with
their wants as expressed in the va
rious bills appropriating money for
them.
Some of the papers over the state
(evidently are laboring under a wrong
impression in regard to the appoint
ing power which selects the COM
mandant of the state soldiers home.
They are crediting the appointment
of Col. Thos. Orr. as the successor Of
Col. Geddis, as an appointment by
Governor Vessey." While Governor
Wesley would no doubt have made as
good an appointment, the action was
that of the soldiers home board in
stead of the governor, such appoint
ment coming from the board.
500, 900 Asked for tuberculosis
Hospital.
While the legislature of two years
ago, with no protest whatever, APP
propriated five thousand dollars to
make a beginning of a tuberculosis
hospital at Custer, it may not so
readily grant all that will be asked
this year, but will without doubt
give hat institution enough to put
it into active operation. The insti-
tution's friends will ask for $4,000
for new buildings, and a system of
sewerage and a plant for disposal of
the same; and will ask for about as
much for a maintenance fund.
The bill in the house by Whiting
and in the senate by Norbeck which
seeks to change criminal practice to
permit prosecuting officers to call at
%tention to the fact that the defend
ant has not seen fit to take the
stand in his own defense, is said by
Whiting to be getting to the point
of an absolute need in this state.
The Kaufman and Garrigan cases
in Minnehaha county, as we'll as
many minor cases in which new
trials have been granted on this
ground are samples which will be
presented in support of the measure.
Wantes Pay for Diseased Animals.
j. A. Hawkins, Of Stanley county
was in this city this week to meet
members of the legislature to ask
for relief from a situation in which
he finds himself. He wants radical
amendments to the live stock laws
in some manner. 1t apears that
Hawkins a short item ago purchased
three thousand dollars worth Of
horses from a Montana man, who
had shipped them into this state, only
to find after he had made the pur-
chase hat the whole bunch was
glandered. He brought suit for
damages, alleging that the railway
company brought the horses into
this state without inspection, and is
in the position that he must hold
the animals until the suit has some
outcome, and at the same time If he
! kills them as diseased animals the
loss to him will be total, as there
is no provision in the state laws by
which he can recover anything for
horses on acount of disease. OF
course there is a law making such a
provision, but 1t has never been
backed by an appropriation, and
there can be no recovery. Several
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