The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-02-09
TWELFTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Weeks Doings of Our Body of Law
Makers at the Capital City -

Makers at the Capital City -.--..
Pierre, Feb. 6:-Considering the
future interests of South Dakota
there was no measure of the week
of more Importance than Coch-
rane's providing procedure for the
conservation of our artesian sup
ply. The bill provides for the
supervision of the artesian supply
by the state engineer: the register
ing of each we'll with the county
auditor and the payment of a fif-
ty cent fee for the same; and an
annual charge varying with the
size of the we'll for consumption
of water greater than twenty five
gallons per minute for each quar-
ter section. All wells must be
throttled down, and all waste is
prohibited. In case of municipal
tiles, or gas wells more water is
permitted.
The house passed two of the i'm
portant measures of the session.
The Daylight Saloon bill, contain
ing the nine o'clock closing hour,
and emergency clause passed the
house, 1924. A motion by Glass
ner to make the law optional with
cities lost by a big majority. 1t is
certain that it will pass the senate,
but there is danger that it cannot
pass with the two thirds majority.
or thirty votes, necessary for the
emergency clause. If this clause
is attached the act goes into effect
at any date named, and can not be
referred. If it fails to secure the
emergency it will be referended
and its operation delayed, if not
killed entirely, for two years.
Friends of the measure claim
twenty nine senator's solid for it,
and one or two doubtful. The
other side say that sixteen are
against it.
The Issenhuth- Bruce composite
good roads bill, badly cut up and
amended, but with vital points in.
tact passed the house, 1928. As
accepted it gives the administra-
tion to the county of all sums over
$500, and to the township of lesser
amounts; enables the optional
hiring of a county engineer; allows
the commissioners to levy a five
mill tax without, and ten mill
road tax with the consent of the
people, and abolishes the road
supervisor, and makes the chair
man of the town board, that officer
ex efficio. The more radical en-
thusiasts feel that the bill has tried
to please too many people, and
consequently is not as able an in
strument, as if not so badly amend
ed.
The r. o. Richards Primary
bill, introduced by request, in the
house by Tscharner and in the SEN
ate by Wright, has been officially
declared dead by the house CON-
mittee. Mr.. Richards addressed a
joint meeting of the house and sem
ate elections committees, who ac-
corded him a careful hearing. but
felt that the measure was too com.
plex and uncertain in its workings
for South Dakota. Mr.. Richards
is circulating a petition and will
force the referending of the law.
The Bigelow primary ballot. COM
bining the regular and primary
elections in one by means of a very
simple ballot, which automatically
prevents a democrat voting in re-
publican primaries, or vica versa
and reduce the cost of our elections
by about half, is receiving more ia.
vorsble reception and possibly
will be reported favorably.
The house education COMMITTEES
has had many long sessions with
the Bigelow school code and is
studying it like a text book. They
will prObabably report il fayorably