The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-21

hlRh salary and .-.-A maue it apply
only to members Of the house of rep
resentatives and in that form they
passed the bill. cinched it and mes
saged it back to the house.
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The senate killed the overdraft bill:
several senators declared that if it
became a crime to overdraw ones
bank occur they could not possibly
keep out Of jail and the argument
seemed to appeal to enough of the
body to secure the defeat of the meas
ure. The bill made the making of
overdraft checks prima facie evidence
OF intent to defraud. Another bill is
pending providing it is fraudulent to
remove ones residence into another
town while an oyerdraft exists in the
bank ccoun and that is likely to get
through, as it is a too common prac-
tice for fly by nights to settle their
store accounts with worthless checks
and get away before the fact is ascer-
tanned.
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A proposition novel in South Dakota
affairs is being urged by Senator
Fischer. providing that South Dakota
institutions shall purchase coal upon
British thermal unit basis. The plan
is in operation elsewhere and is com
mended by those employing it. The
city of Minneapolis is using the sys-
ten and Mayor Nye writes: The
plan has worked admirably in his
city Through it the state will get
precisely what it pays for: that is,
clean heat units. instead OF paying
full weight for slate. earth and other
incombustible material with which
coal is adulterated.
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Although this is not regarded as an
anti-railroad legislature there are
about thirty bills before it affecting
railroads and generally placing some
burden upon the companies. 1t must
be admitted, however. that most of
these burdens are not very grievous
ones and generally such as self-re-
%specting railroads undertake without
requirement Of law. The most i'm.
portant are freight rate bills by Bar
tine and kaafke. respectively. Bar
tines bill is practically a duplicate of
the one urged by him providing a rule
for determining a distance tariff and
Kaafke's enacts in the body of the
law the classification and distance
tariff in express terms.
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The house has by a large prepon-
derance petitioned congress to pro
vide for the appointment of federal
judges in the inferior courts for linn
tied terms. The federal courts are
not very popular in this state and
there is a general inclination to limit
their activities, especially in relation
to their power to interfere with the
operation of state laws. The exercise
Of this power is especially CALLING and
perhaps leads to most of the Opposi.
ton. though in the debates here the
argument most used is that the life
tenure breeds an arrogance and a
lack Of responsibility to the public
which is lot desirable.
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The printing investigation drags
along. the managers state that the
motive of the investigation is to Sc
cure a basis for a rational printing
bill that will protect the states in.
terests in the future rather than to
punish laxness in the past. Mean
time there is a deficiency Of SAT 900
in payment of last years bills which
must be paid. but which the members
regard with marked disapproval.
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The senate has cut out all property
qualifications pertaining to the right
Of old soldiers to enjoy the privileges
of the state home. Hitherto a soldier
having an income of $500 was barred.
This limitation is regarded by the SOL
diers as putting a ban on thrift and
making the home in fact a sort OF
almshouse. Many veterans OF means
have no family and would delight to
| live at the home for the society of
| their comrades, but have been forbid
den the privilege under the property
qualification clause. The senate has
also provided that bringing liquor into
the home or returning to it into a
! drunken condition is grounds for dis
charge. There has formerly been no
law upon the subject and a recent
board was sued and mulcted in dam
| ages for having discharged some men
under rules adopted under the pre-
sumed general power of the board In
the premises.