The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-21
So Far Both Houses Manage TO
Keep Calendars Clear.
ABERDEEN PEOPLE WIN FIGHT
Bitter Contest Over Course Of Studies
at the Northern Normal and
Industrial School.
Especial Correspondence

)ills will hereafter be received. which
is an evidence TO the Oldest hahitlje
Of legislative halls that the melancholy
days OF the finish are close at hand.
Thus far both houses have kept mp
with their daily calendars and it looks
like little difficulty would be expert
enced in clearing up the slate at the
close.
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The big fight Of the week came upon
the passage OF the act confirming to
the Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen the right to in
clude in its curse two years OF col
lege work. It's charter permits this
ana the college work has been in
.ludcd in its course Of study, but last
year the regents OF education, in an
effort to corelate the work of the ed.
vocational institutions and avoid du-
plicatiOn as much as possible. deter
mined to cut of the college work at
Aberdeen and coufine its activities to
purely normal and manual training.
The Aberdeen people resented this
attempt to cripple their institution
and after vainly Iaboring with the re-
gents appealed to the legislature. The
dill passed the senate with little OPP
rosition and the fireworks came in the
house, where the opposition to it was
ed by Eide OF Beadle. The scrap on
the floor was picturesque. but during
its progress tbs previous question was
sprung and the bill passed by an over
Whelming majority. In A letter from
President Hitchcock OF the regents Of
education, read by Mr.. Eide in the
curse of the debate. MIR. Hitchcock
said that a s~elf-respecting citizen
could not remain upon the board if
the bill passed. Ii is hoped that be
may reconsider this view and accept
in good part the action of the legisla-
ture as fairly representing the wis
dom of the state.
The passage of the tax commission
bill necessitates some supplementary
legislation. which is being cared for
by Bielski of Stanley. author of the
house bill. One OF these limits the
amount Of money which any taxing
district may raise under the new bill
to 102 per cent of the amount which
might have been raised under the as
sessment Of 1912. The reason for this
assessed valuation from about 20 per
cent Of the real value to full money
value will make it possible at the ex-
listing levy limits for municipalities to
produce about five times the former
revenue. Another bill limits salaries
upon assessed valuations. Still an
other provides the sinews OF war to
maintain the tax commission work.
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The game bill is a biennial source
Of joy to the farmers in the legisla-
ture. Once iii two years the sports
men Of the state meet and formulate
a splendid game law from the sports
mans point of view, which is always
quite divergent from the farmers
viewpoint. When it gets onto the
floor it is batted about and the i'm
mortal works torn out of 1t until its
authors do not recognize it. As it has
happened in previous years so it hap
pened again last week. The perfectly
good game bill came out with a joyous
grin Illuminating it's c~ountenance, but
Berg Of Minnehaha caught it under
the tip of the chin with an amendment
cutting out hunting with dogs. At
this the bird dogs set up a howl that
sounded up to heaven. but the farm
ers kept kicking the purp around till
he was out of the bill for good. With
the dogs gone the spOrtsmen began
to lose interest and courage and when
they saw the deputy wardens follow
the dogs into the discard and the
spring shooting Topped off, and the
deer hunting so limited that, as one
of them said, it was necessary to
catch the animal and hog tie it be-
fore shooting to be sure it was a
male deer more than one year old.
they turned in with the farmers and
nelped Dury the measure with fleet
ing o~bsequies. Meantime there is a
surplus of Sal 600 good round dollars
lying in the game fund aud uo one
knows precisely what is to 6ceome
of it.
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The house in perfectly COCOA faith
passed a bill prohibiting the turkey
trot," grizzly bear "bunnyhus'' and
other immoral dances. When the
measure reached the senate the digni-
fed and reverend solons did more
things to that bill than ever hap
pened to a bill before in the history
of South Dakota legislation. By sue.
cessive amendments they exempted
the Irish from it's prohibition, then
indians beyond 100 years of age.
They made it in~aDplicable during Lent