The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-02-09
DAYLIGHT BILL
PASSES HOUSE
PROVIDING FOR I Sic O'CLOCK
SALOON CT ENG.
CONSERVE ARTE IAN SUPPLY
is AIM OF A Bill sINTRoDUcED
BY cocHRANE If s HE HOUSE.

Pierre, Feb. 6.-Considering the flu
ture interests of South Dakota there
was no measure of the week of more
Importance than Cochrane's providing
procedure for the conserS alton of our
artesian supply. The bill provides for
the supervision of the artesiGn sup
ply by the state engineer; the regis
tering of each we'll with the county
auditor and the payment of a fifty
cent fee for the same; and al annual
charge varying with the size of the
we'll for consumption of water greater
than twenty-five gallons per minute
for each quarter section. All wells
must be thrOttled down, and all waste
is prohibited. In case of municipal
tiles, or gas wells more water is per
mitted.
The house pessed two of the import
ant measures of the session. The Day
light Saloon bill, containing the nine
O'Clock closing hour and emergency
clause, passed the house, 70 to "a. A
motion by Glassmer to make the law
optional with cities lost by a big
majority. 1t is certain th2t it will
pass the senate, but there is danger
that it cannot pass with the two
thirds majority, or thirty votes, neces-
saIy for the emergency clause. Ii
this clause is attached the act goes
into effect at any date named, and al
not be referred. If it fails to secure
the emergency it will be referred and
its operation delayed, if not killed en-
tirely, for two years. Friends of the
measure claim Twenty-Five senators
solid for it, with one or two doubtful.
The other side says that sixteen are
against it.
The Issenhuth-Bruce composite good
roads bill, badly cut up and amended,
but with vital points intact passed the
house, 70 to %. AS accepted it gives
the adm nistration to the county of
all sums over $500, and to the town
ship of lesser amounts; enables the
optional hiring of a county engineer;
allows the commissioners to levy a
five-mill tax without, and a ten-mill
road tax with the consent of the peo-
Pile: and abolishes the road supervisor
and makes the chairman of the town
board that officer eX officio. The more
radical enthusiasts feel that the bill
has tried to please too many people,
and consequently is not as able an
instrument as if not so badly
amended.
The r. o. Richards primary bill, in
troduced by request, in the house by
Tscharner and in the senate by
Wright, has been officially declared
dead by the house committee. Mr..
Richards addressed a joint meeting of
the house and senate elections com
mittees, who accorded him a careful
hearing, but felt that the measure was
too complex and uncertain in its
workings for South Dakota. Mr.. Rich
ards is circulating a petition and will
force the referrending of the law. The
Bigelow primary ballot, combining the
regular and primary elections in n
by means of a very simple ballot,
which automatically prevents a Dem
ocrat voting in Republican primaries
OF vice versa, and reduces the cost of
our elections by about half, is re-
ceiving more favorable reception, and
possibly will be reported faycrably.
The house education committee has
had many long sessions with the Bige-
low school code and is studying it
like 4 text book. They will probably
report ii favorablv with no chance
of 4 minority report. The possibilities
of the law have grown on them with
study
The old question of the disposal of
the North Carolina bond money. re-
ceived from that state after a fight in
the United States supreme our es-
tablishing the validity of certain re-
pudiated North Carolina bonds, which
had been presented to the state, was
partly settled by the senate voting
to return the money, some $4,000, to
the general fund. Mcpherson of Law
renee, fought the Curtiss resolution
in a half-hour speech on the ground
that the bond money was tainted"
Efforts to return it to North Carolina
have been defeated twice in previous
legislatures.
Another biennial controversy, that
between the graduate vets and the
horse doctors" continues. The seat
Of war is In the house live stock com
mittee, where an effort is being
made to amend the law to permit any
one, practically, to practice veterinary