The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-02-02
BILL WOULD STOP
REPEATED VOTES
ON SAME MEASURE
Proposed to Prohibit
Consecutive Votes on
Referred Laws.
AUTO TAX IS OUT

Attorney-G General Says This
Feature of Good Roads
Measure is Void,
Pierre, S. D.-The bill prepared by
r. E. Dowdell, Of Sanborn county
regulating the leasing of state school
lands for agricultural purposes will
be introduced in a few days. His
bill will have among its principal
features: Appraisements of the lands
for that purpose by a board consist
ing of the state land commissioner,
and the county auditor and superin,
tendent of schools; after appraise.
ment none of the lands are to be
leased for agriculture when the
valuation is placed at less than thlr-
ty dollars an acre. The lease price
is fixed at five per cent annually of
the appraisement price, except for
the first year of the lease when 1t
shall be three per cent. While a
long lease would be preferable, the
constitution limits any lease on state
lands to FIVE years, and that is the
limit for which agricultural leases
a be made. At the end of the
lease term any Improvements placed
upon the land by a tenant are to be
appraised, and in cas- any person
bids higher for the lease for another
term, he must take the Improvements
at the appraisal price. No n Will
be allowed to make a lease If he Is
the owner or holder of more than 500
acres of land including the tract to
be leased from the state. Encour-
agement in tree growing is provid-
ed by allowing four dollars an acre
for growing trees of a stated num-
Der to the acre up to five acres on
each quarter section. and a certil-
CdIC JldL III IIcOo dIC 6lOwlllf ElVSS
the lessee credit to the amount Of the
tree bounty on his lease payment.
While the bill goes into a great deal
of detail, the above are one Of the
principal features, which 1t will con-
tain.
T. II. Commit, and j. NJ. Lynch, OF
Wall we're in the city today and have
been for some time condoling with
one another w the legislative Stu
alton. In the primaries, COMMIT, a
republican, was defeated for the
nomination by James A. Clark OF
Keystone. At the election Lynch, q
democrat attempted to defeat Clark
but met the same fate as was dealt
out to Conif. While Clark wat
elected he has not yet appeared tc
take up his duties as a legislator, and
it is claimed that he will not do so
giving as his reason that he cannot
leave,his private business to come Il
the session. Both Commit and Lynch
are certain that they would not have
thus played false to the voters 4
they had been put in line for tn,
place.
INSURANCE STATEMENTS, But
REGARDLESS OF FACTIONS
Pierre, S. D.-The presentation o
new bills between conservation meet
ings appears to be the present da,
Legislative business: in short sessions
Principal new bills were one b,
the senate judiciary committee whicl
recognizes the numerous disbar
ment complaints the past year an,
attempts to provide method of pro
cedure, and authorizes the suprem,
court at it's discretion to require com
plant to provide bonds for costs.
The Insurance statement situaiol
comes up in the manner of a bill t,
provide legal methods of distribution
regardless of party or faction, which
it is hoped will stop the noise ant
yet leave the pie.
The new senatorial apportionmen
measure provides three new sena
tors for the country west of the Mis-
souri,. and attempts to divide thu
loss among eastern counies by chang
ing district lines.
PROPOSED AUTOMOBILE TAX
DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Pierre, S. D.-Attorney Genera
Johnson holds that the proposed five
dollar annual tax on automobiles fol
road purposes is demonstrations
and will not stand a court test. Thi!
is one Of the provisions of the new
road law. which seeks to secure cast
aid for roads from auto owners.
New senate bills presented yester
day we're: Judiciary committee, pro
viding manner of conducting dis
barrment procedure, and requiring
bonds for cost of prosecution in Ger
tain cases; Perkins, legislative ap