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

Legislative Notes
We now have good roads bill and it
is to be hoped it will start lot of good
roads as well as simply fill up session
! laws.
Representative Rommerein, of Lin
coin county, went home Thursday in
response to telegram stating that his
son had been accidentally killed.
The work of the house is crowding
the members and morning sessions are
now being held. Not so in the senate.
This leisurely and dignified body has its
work well in hand and is moving along
without friction or delays.
The proposition to dodge the insur-
ance statement plank of the republican
platform is to cut out the publication
as political patronage by giving each
legal paper of the state an equal share.
regardless of politics or faction.
One of tie bills which was introduced
in the house last week was to declare
every Saturday afternoon to be legal
holiday. 1t is safe to say that this bin
will be quickly relegated to the scrap
heap when it is brought up for vote
The bill providing for winter free
range has come back from the commit
tee with an adverse report, and it is not
likely that the house will turn down the
report to get the bill out for action, as
it is not considered very popular mea-
sure so far as the majority Of the resi-
dents of the state affected are con-
cerned.
Thursday, Feb. 16, was the las. day
on which new bills could be introduces
except by unanimous consent of the
committee on bills, and the house had
forty new acquisitions to the flock.
making total of three hundred and
seventy-five for the session. This is an
unusually small number.
Although, as one person put it, the
members of the legislature were allowed
to go home over Sunday to take a bath
and get their Stockings mended, mem
Der of the senate was sending frantic
ally out to one of the state Offices Tues
day morning to borrow a needle ard
thread. The messenger refused -
divulge the cause
Stuverud's hatpin bill was ignomini-
ously slaughtered and its author made
the butt of ridicule by many. How
ever, that the hatpin is dangerous
device is shown by the fate of Captai.
Englunde, of Peaks Island, Maine.
While riding on street car the captain.
received an ugly scratch from the,
effects OF which he died. The hatpin,
is dangerous weapon, The Legislature.
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
The department commander of the G.
A. X. of the state, N. H. Kingman.
has sent the following telegram to gov
ernor Wesley: "As department com
mander of the Grand Army of the.
Republic, of South Dakota, ard in the
name OF comrades of our order in the
state, earnestly protest against the.
enactment of house bill 249 as an unjust
and undeserved blow against the man,
agement by veterans of our home.
The heirs of Gov. Gilbert Pierce have
presented the state historical society
with fine sepia portrait of the ex-goy-
ernor, who was the territory's chief
executive from 1884 to 1887. The pic
ture is a very handsome one and bears
brass tablet with the name and dates
The picture has been hung in the gov
erner's office. After Mr.. Pierce's term
as governor, he became senator from
North Dakota and was minister 70
Spain before his death.
1t is not generally known over the
state that one ofthe emergency" laws
which has been enacted by the present
session requires the secretary of state
within three days after the enactment
of any emergency law to certify the
same to the judges of all the circuits of
me state, and to the clerks of court of
all counties This law in in effect and
8 being carried out. Many people are
'ending to the secretary of state for
certified copies of such laws. when if
hey but knew the conditions which
'xist, they could find what information
hey desire from the Judge of their cir
uit or from the clerk of courts of their
ounty. This puts such laws where
hose who desire to know Of their pro-
'sions where they can easily be exam
ned and their contents learned.