The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-01-12
TWELFTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Weeks Doings of Our Body of Law
Makers at the Capital City

Cne WORK OF organization. Inc SO.
cial event of the season was the
inaugural ball which occurred or
Tuesday evening. Probably 1906
were in attendance, and the scene
was the most brilliant ever seen in
South Dakota. The chairmen OF
the more important senate COM
mittees are Appropriations: Car
rol, Hand; Judiciary, Curtiss,
Brown; Ways and Means, Wyman,
Yankton; State Affairs, Norbeck,
Sphinx; Education, johnson, Lake;
and Privileges and Elections,
Hedrick, Brule. The chairmen of
the same house committees are
Appropriations. Helgerson, Davi-
son; Judiciary, Whiting, Miner,
Ways and Means, Browne, Brown ;
State Affairs, McMaster, Yankton;
Education, Gardner, Hand; Privi-
leges and Elections, Berg, Mime
haha. The senate committees were
announced first, and consequently
that body got to work quicker.
The Governor recommended to the
legislature by special message that
an investigating committee be ap
pointed to investigate the manage
ment of the Hot Springs Soldiers
home, such resolution was the
first to be introduced and to pass
the senate.
Senator Cone of Minnehaha had
the honor of introducing the first
bill in the senate. one to enable
special city taxes to be collected
by county officers; and the Issen-
huth GOOD Roads Bill was the first
to come before the house. The lat
er proposition is compromise be-
tween the ultra-conservatives and
the ultra radicals, and embodies
the good features of both the coun-
ty and the district methods of
road supervision.
On Thursday the Governor sent
the name of Hon. Albert Ander-
son of Sturgis to the senate for ap-
proval for reappointment to the
state board of regents. 1t was
granted without question.
The Dillon civil service law,
passed by the session of 1909, has
come in for considerable discus
sion. 1t provided that there should
be ten elective offices for each of
the houses, and that all other
clerks, should be expert steno-
graphers, and be appointed by the
presiding officers of both houses
after civil service examination.
The position of assistant-sergeant-
alarms was not provided for in
the statue, and the house violated
the law by electing one. fter dis
cussion the senate decided that the
law-making body should be the
last to violate it's own laws and
refused to elect any officers not
provided for in the statue.
A constitutional amendment has
been introduced by Senator Wright
of Beadle, to require the payment
of poll tax thirty days prior to
elections in order to vote. This
would cut out the floating vote.
The sixteenth amendment (income
taxi of the United States constitu-
ton has been introduced in the
senate for the ratification of the
South Dakota legislature. Last
May about fifteen state legislatures
had given their assent to the
amendment.
The only real excitement of the
week, has come over the contest
between Wagner, Democrat, and
the present incumbent, and Wakes
Republican for a seat in the house
from Bon Homme. The matter
went before committee, where
the interests of the two contestants
were looked after by Judge Dillon
of Yankton, and Judge +. Il,
Wicks Of Scotland. The commit
~ reported 70 the house four e