Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-02-23

hey have interests in that county tina
ave been seriously jeopardized, an,
be newspapers of the state, with bu
be or two exceptions, have valiantl,
>ught their battle. 1t therefore strike!
Re average newspaper man rather
eer that the first man in the legisla
Re to go after them halls from Brown
pnty.
The bill to pay judgment held by
Margaret w. Mellette against the state
on account of the old Taylor defalcation
matter, which has been before several
dlherent sessions of the legislature, to
11Ifpf passage every time in one house
or The other, now shows signs of being
euacted. The senate has passed the bill
providing the appropriation, and the
house appropriation committee has fav-
orably recommended it, and it is now
on the calendar to be reached sometime
tor action.
Loekhart's measure, requiring every
thresher to keep an accurate account
of the amount of grain threshed and
transmit report of the same to the
county auditor, far further transmits
sion to the state statician, lost in the
senate by IL to %. Amsden opposed it
on the ground that the measure levied
a penalty on the thresher for no1-com-
pliance with the law. Anderson, of
Aurora, objected to it because it would
enable the SPECTATOR to get an accurate
idea of the yield of products. The
South Dakota Grain Growers associa-
tod passed resolutions against it on this
same plea.
The senate might as well kill the
headlight bill at once. The fact that
the house did not pass the measure
with an emergency makes it clear that
the bill will be sent to the referendum
If it is passed by the senate The peo-
pie voted the measure down but few
months ago and there seems to be no
good reason why the cost of the refer
endum should be applied to this meas
ure next year. The charges by Mr..
& McMasters on the floor of the house
are such that good many people who
have hee2 somewhat Indifferent to this
Kneasure are now inclined to think that
it should be killed instead of passed
Representative Tscharner believes
the way to go after the express com
panies is to abolish them entirely, and
require the railroad companies to handle
such packages as they carry by fast
freight and parcel service of their
own. He, in house joint resolution IA,
memoralizes congress to provide enact
ments which will wipe out all express
companies operating in the country,
classing them as an evil in modern
Industrial conditions. While he may be
radical in this, he is getting down to
about the view expressed by many
people when they are called upon to
meet the rates which the express com.
panies charge for carrying small par.
GELS.
Repeats of old laws appear to be pop
Mar. Among those which have appeared
Tee past few days are the repeal of the
old law locating a contingent insane
asylum at Watertown; repeal of the
state wolf bounty law, and repeal of
the free range law. While this bill
n proposes one end of the stockmen's con-
\ troversy, another bill by Sutley
attempts to allow stock free range for
the winter months, beginning Dec. l.,
and ending April l. That proposition
has been "scare crow" to the people
in the western part of the state during
all the present session, and many petit
tons protesting against have been cir
culated, and now that it has finally been
presented, these petitions will begin to
.come in.
It's too bad that cranks already gone
to seed get into legislative bodies, but
lnty uO IL III Splle Ol-WcH, we WON
say it-and South Dakota has its share
of them, Take that marriage bill, for
instance, introdu ced at this session, and
which the lower house killed as dead as
a herring when vote was taken. 1t
was measure providing a physical
examination for both sexes before a
license could be issued. Fancy having
chaste and innocent young girl SUBJ
: jected to such an ordeal before she
could don the bridal veil and you can
imagine how hard that bill was hit when
the South Dakota men got whack at
1t.
When the provision was made for the
division of the forest reserve funds
which come to this state, the members
from the Black Hills section thought
they needed the money for roads, more
than for schools, and while the federal
provisions of the grant of money pro-
vided that it should be divided between
the road and school funds of the coun-
ties receiving the money, they fixed the
division at 80 percent for the roads and