Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-01-12
The inaugural reception and bali was

The inaugural reception and bali was
a grand affair. 1t spoke volumes in
behalf of the prosperity of the state,
the intelligence of her people. All con-
dected with it have every reason to con-
graduate themselves upon the large
and fashionable attendance.
The first move on the long ballot was
made in the senate Monday by a reso-
luton by Bartine for a constitutional
amendment to require petitions for the
referring of a law to the people'to have
rs per cent of the voters at the last
previous election, Instead Of the pres
ent requirement of 5 percent.
At the opening of the session the
house ignored the law limit on the leg
islative employees but the senate stood
by it, and at the joint meeting of the
committees on compensation Monday
morning the senate members refused to
admit doorkeepers and watchmen as
Legislative employees, but said they must
get their pay as state employees and the
question promises to go on the floor.
The state fair will ask for an emer-
gency appropriation. A couple of years
ago, after the legislature, a bad storm
wrecked the fair buildings, and the
management, acting under the sanction
of Governor Vessey, the governor being
empowered by statute to make such
recommendations in time of public
emergency, repaired the buildings out
of their W pockets. The fair will ask
that the state return the money to the
management.
BY the seating of Wagner, the demo-
crat from Bonhomme county, in the
house Monday by a vote of II to % for
his republican contestant, the demo-
Gratis have NJ complaint to make in
regard to either body. Besides this
action in the house, by naming Ander-
son of Aurora as head of the new stand
ing committee of food and dairy pro-
ducts, that party gets a third good
craftsmanship in the senate.
Sitting on a scraper in the shade while
exchanging crop talk will go out of
fashion in this state if the session adopts
the provisions of the Issenhuth good
roads bill presented in the house. The
bill requires all road taxes to be paid in
cash, and the road work to be done by
contract, with S. a year automobile tax
to go to the good roads fund. Such bills
have in the past met determined oppo-
sition and the new one must meet the
test.
John S. Miller of Hutchinson county
is a candidate for oil inspector of the
southern district to succeed Editor
Pecham of Parkston, the present incum-
bent. Mr.. Miller is also a resident of
Parkston, but Of a different faction.
The fact that Hutchinson county gave
Governor Vessev a very fine majority
in June and Chauncy Wood a majority
in November makes it quite interesting
to watch the outcome of the candidacy
of Mr.. Miller.
Senator Perley took the first steps
toward a law governing the leasing OF
state school lands for agricultural pur-
poses, under the provisions of the only
constitutional amendment which got
past the vote no" campaign of last
fall. His attempt is the protection of
the state from the man who would lease
and skin off a flax crop, then leave the
land to grow up to weeds. 1t contains
a provision which makes as a part OF
the contract with the state that the
land may not at any time be sown to
flax, but must be used for the produc.
ton of some other class of crop.
Heretofore nobody cared to be on the
apportionment committee. but if there
is any member of the house or senate
that would not like to be on it this year
we fail to know who that member is. II
is perhaps the most important commit
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reason that some of the older counties
and districts that have heretofore beer
prominent in claiming legislation viii
hereafter have less representation and
be of less account so far as the state ir
general is concerned. This is particu.
larly true of the southeast section OF
the state.
Anderson. of Clark, is preparing
amendments to the present primary law
and election laws generally, in which he
will seek to eliminate a portion of the
heavy expense of the work under the
present laws. One thing he seeks to
eliminate is the publication in newspa-
pers, of the amendments and laws to
be voted upon. His plan is for the pub
LEGATION of such laws and amendments
in pamphlet form at state expense, and
their being mailed to every voter in the
state for his consideration in that man.
ner instead of attempting to publish
them in full or even by title in the