The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-03-06
RESIGNS
AS COMMISSIONER
HEAD OF STATE LAND DEPART
MENT STEPS OUT AFER
INVESTIGATION
TAXES NOW DELINQUENT MONTH LATER
Time For Paying Taxes is Extended
by New law-lnvestigatlon of De-
partments Goes Merriiy On.

Pierre, March 3.-The legislature Of
1913 has indeed been a lively one
from every point of view from the sem
atorial fight to the last, most exciting
OF all In the way Of Investigations Of
state officers. From early in the ses-
sion there have been charges of irregu-
larities in the land commissioners
office, and ut last the committee in
~vestigating the office, found that
vouchers therein had been passed for
$110 while the person so employed
received but $40 a month for the SER
vices, and this upon personal check.
Commissioner Brinker has resigned
and turned $685. into the state treasury
The big fight on the saloon bill final
ly ended by passing the measure with
600 population to l saloon without the
emersen y clause, and 1t Is likely that
the saloon people even so will refer
the bill at the text election. Most of
the fireworks of the year was explod-
ed on the senate bank guaranty bill
this week, which was lost in that
body, very able debates being led by
prominent senators with Morgan, Hale,
Carol, Murphy and Norbeck for 1t and
Whitlock, McMaster, Harris, Mclean
and some others opposed.
A most important measure passed
and signed by the governor on the last
day OF February was II. B. 81, provii-
ing that taxes do not become delin-
quent until November LIST, and April
LIST, instead of a month earlier in each
case. This enactment will materially
aid farmers in their work in the fall
and In their sale of stock in the spring
emergency the law went into enect
Immediately on February %.
To the Irregularities in two coun-
ties over wolf bounties gave that sub
ject a black eye, after a severe fight
the wolf bounty acts with a%ppropria-
tions Of $4,000 carried and the acts
remain unrepealed.
Ex-Gov. Herried was in the capital
in the interest of two bills, n provid-
ing for vasectomy, and the other for
physical examination Of parties con-
tracing marriage, but the matter has
been given up as being too late in the
session to obtain a fair consideration
of the worth of the measures. They
will be r~e-introduced next session of
the legislature, as thirty-eight states
now have provisions along this line,
South Dakota need not fool a pioneer
in the matter should such laws be
passed here.
Two printing bills have been intro
duced, the latest being by a joint COM
mittee house and senate, providing
that the governor shall be printing
commissioners with power to appoint a
deputy who shall be expert state
printer, and absolutely all state print
ing must go through the hands OF this
commissioner. The other bill pro-
vides for a state printing plant, and
for a printing commission, and 1t is
absolutely uncertain which IL either
will pass, though the printing investi-
CATION committee having handed in
their report, most legislators are in
clined to favor such an Independent
printing plant for state use.
The mothers and widows pension
bill, now being agitated all over the
United States. all copying after the
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