Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-01-24

moved concurrence in the house reso'
luton of three members Of each body
to investigate the charges OF print
| ing Irregularities, and Bartine moved
a substitute to increase the committee
| to ten from each house, with the pow
err to summon witnesses and exam
| inc under oath, and named the mem
bers of the senate he desired as mem
bers of the committee. His substi'
tute was amended to place the nam
ing of the senate committee in the
hands of the president. 1t then pass
ed and goes back to the house for
concurrence. The issue was largely
one of state printing plant, or con-
tract work.
| Bankers will be interested in the IN
PRODUCTION by Youngqulst OF the uni
form negotiable instrument law,
which is in force in many states and
| is desired by the banking fraternity
| in I'M. state.
In the senate Lang presented res
olution for a constitutional amend
ment to allow the creation of irrlga-
tion districts and the use of the credit
| of the same for establishing plants.
| McMasters introduced a resolution
memoralizing congress to provide
presidential primary law TO" the Sc
lection of national candidates. Pat-
terson presented senate resolution
requesting the secretary OF the H.
terror to modify :,ne leasing regula-
tons on Indian reservations to make
them more specific.
The house put in the afternoon lis
tening to arguments on contests
cases which have been reported out
of special committee.
On vote Clark. sitting Republican
member, was seated, n TO Fl, over
the contestant.
Mather presented a resolution If the
senate for committee to confer with
the North Dakota legislature for
io;nt building at the San Francisco
exposition.
Irrigation and Good Roads.
The members from the western part
Of the state are boosters along the
line and they want everything they
can nail down in the wa.v of state
development Their long suit is ir-
rgation and forage experimentation,
along both lines of which they desire
a great deal of work to be done. The
irrigation question they desire to
work out in some mapner which Will
allow them to establish and maintain
irrigation districts and at the same
time avoid the weakness OF the bill OF
two years ago, which ran up AGAINST
Il constitutional provision. For the
development of forage plants they
want a good sized appropriation for
continuing the development work
which has been carried on for the
past year by Prof. Hansen, Of the
state school of agriculture. They
are now with his assistance deV eiop-
ing species Of alfalfa which they
have proven will grow on high dry
gumbo points with less than ten in
ctes of rainfall in year and make a
thrifty growth with that amount Of
moisture The same plants, without
any covering of snow, Rave this vim
ter had test of more than 20 degl ees
below zero, and if they can stand
such extremes and come through all
right they practically assure the whole
OF the western part of the state being
alfalfa territory.
And on the good =. roads subject
there is decidedly different tone ap-
parent at this session than in former
sessions. The farmer element is not
showing the opposition which some
of them have developed in past SEES.
sions, and while there very likely will
be tangles between the different road
bills which will be introduced at this
session the general idea Of good roads
is favorably looked upon.
Representatives of the township
and county mutual insurance CON-
panies are here with their bills to
exempt their agents from securing
permits from the state insurance de-
partment as is required by old line
companies, and they also want their
companies exempted from taxation,
all of which provisions are incorpor-
ated in bills now introduced in the
house.