Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-02-10
Pierre Correspondent.

SPECIAL TO THE LEADER Consider
ing the future interests of South
Dakota there was no measure of the
rane's providing for the supervision
OF the artesian supply by the state
engineer, who is commissioned to
make study of three representative
wells in each county: the registration
of each we'll with the county auditor
and the payment of a fifty cent fee
for the same; and an annual charge
varying with the size Of the well, for
consumption Of water greater than
twenty five gallons per minute for
each quarter section Of land. All
wells are throttled down and all
waste is prohibited. In case of
municipalities, or gas wells more
water is permitted.
The house passed two of the i'm
portant measures of the session. The
Daylight Saloon bill, containing the
nine o'clock closing hour. and emer-
gency clause passed the house, 1924.
A motion by Glassner to make the
law optional with cities lost by big
majority. 1t is certain that it will
pass the senate, but friends of the
measure feel that there is danger
that it can not secure the two thirds
majority, or thirty votes necessary to
carry the emergency clause. With
this clause attached the law can not
be referred. If passed without it, the
law will be referended and its action
delayed, If not killed for two years.
Friends of the measure claim twenty
nine senators solid for it, and one or
two doubtful. The other side say
that sixteen are against it. At pre-
sent it looks as tho the decision OF
one or two men will turn the scales.
The Issenhuth-Bruce composite
good roads bills, badly cut up and
amended, but with the vital points
intact passed the house, 1928. AS &C
cepted 1t gives the admin stration to
the county of all sums, over $500 and
to the township of lesser amounts;
enables the optional hiring of a county
engineer; allow the levy of a five mill
county road tax without, and ten
mill with the consent of the people;
and abolishes the road supervisor,
and makes the chairman of the town
board that official, x-office. The more
radical good roads enthusiasts feel
that the bill has tried to please too
many people, and consequently is not
as able an instrument as If not SO
badly amended. The r. G. Richards
Primary bill, introduced by request,
In the house by Techarner, and in
the senate by Wright, has been ofiici-
ally declared dead by the house elect
ions committee. Mr.. Richards address
ed q Joint meeting OF the house and
senate elections committee, who ac-
corded him careful hearing, but
felt that the measure was too COM
plex and uncertain In its workings
for South Dakota. Mr.. Richards is
circulating petition and will force
the referrending of the law. The
Bigelow primary ballot, which auto
matically prevents Democrat vot-
ing in Republican or vica versa pri-
maries, is as simple as the present
primary ballot, comb bines the primary
and regular election; can be adopted
by amending only fifteen OF the one
hundred odd divisions of the present
law; and saves half the cost and work
of election to both the state and the
candidate, is gaining In favor and
possibly will be reported favorably.
The house education committee
has had many long sessions with the
Bigelow school code and is studying
it like q text book. They will pro-
bably with little chance of minority
report. The possibilities of the mea-
sure has grown upon them with
study.
The old question of the disposal of
the North Carolina bond money,
threshed out before in two different
sessions, was partly settled BY the
senate pa0ing the Curtiss resolution