The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-01-30
NORMALS TRYING TO
GET LICENSE TO
Be UNIVERSITIES
State Schools Have
Bill Before the
Legislature,
VOTERS TO WALK
Measure Before the Legisla-
ture to Prohibit Carrying
Them to the Polls.
VOTERS TO WALK

Mondays Daily

From Mondays Daily
Pierre, S. D.-Two bills have been
introduced affecting county commits
%sioners. II to increase thelr pay IN
large counties, II the other to so
back - the former system OF election
III commissioners by the vote of the
whole county instead of districts as
is now the custom. The one bill fixes
the ordinary limit of compensation of
countS commissioners as not to en-
coed $500 per year, with 800 travel
allowance. The change is to increase
this in counties with more than thirty
townships TO not to exceed $500 sal
AIRY nor S150 traVcl allowances: in
counties OF forty townships or more
salary not to exceed $500 with 5000
travel allowance. The $500 and 5000
compensation would also go to com
m~issioncrS with fifteen thousand or
more population, regardless of size.
House bill 122 intends to allow
AN extension of the directorate OF
educational, charitable and hospi-
tai institutions in the state up to Il
membership of twenty-ouc, which is
to allow securing a larger body of
directly interested people to act in
such corporations.
NormaIs Would t. Universities.
Bills have been introduced in both
houses which seek to compel the
state board of regents to establish
certain lines of instruction in the
state normal schools. which lines the
present board has been attempting
To keep out of the normals, claiming
that tIIn 1ttntnnt ir hnino mad, 10
place the normal schools i'm the uni
Versity class instead of dcvoting them
10 the lines ON which they should de
vote their attention. 1T is likely that
thc board will take up this matter
and gel into the field with Il state
ment of its position at amy time.
County Seats and Court.
The question of holding court at
other than county seat towns. which
has been upon the statute books in
a number OF forms for years, sub
iect at any time to amendment to
suit the ambitions OF SOME one town
or another, is up again. One bill in
the house attempts to wipe the EN-
actment out absolutely. and require
county business to be transacted at
the county seat town. Another is AN
attempt 10 tAtelu llc Instance MuICH
Il county seat must be from a rail
road to meet this requirement. Rep
resentative Titland of Campbell
county wanting it extended to ten
miles so that Mound City will not
be affected by the law. Years ago
when the Mcpherson county boomers
started the act. the limit was ten
miles and affected Leola alone; then
ii was cut to six miles and Charles
Mix county was included: later it
was reduced to three miles to affect
Hutchinson county, but the next scs-
sion put it back TO six miles again,
leaving the counties in the list
Charles Mix. Campbell. and Per
kins, Mcpherson being eliminated
through the construction of a rail
way to Leola.
When the Dakota Central railway
company was constructed north from
Sioux Falls, the Chicago, milwaukee,
e ST. Paul road proceeded to parallel
the new line through a territory, in
which the people had been appealing
to tina system to build. This brought
out an enactment which prohibited
parallel lines of railway in the state
for a greater distance than eiSht
miles. Later to meet emergencies
this distance was increased to TWEEN
ty miles, and now there is a bill il
to wipe out that statute completely
as il is claimed that it stands in tho
way of progress.
Would Prohibit Carrying Voters.
If house bill 40 is enacted it viii
mean a sad falling off of TO
auto owners on election days. Tina
bill prohibits the transportation o
voters to the polls, providing a pen
atty for such transportation. and
would mean that a long list OF yco
men who get free auto rides on ever.
election day which comes along. ant
they come pretty often under prcscn
laws, will have to walk or drive Il
the polls TO cast his ballot for Iii
choice. and further It will give tn
campaign workers many cold chill
when they know that some OF thel
particular voters are slow abou
coming in, and the law stands III tn
way of their sending an auto to pro
perry impress them.
Up to the present there has been
dearth of railway bills as compare
with past sessions. So far the act
which have come along + to pre-
vide a method of securing far1
crossings; requiring unloading plai
forms for heavy freight; and fiNin
minimum train crews for the opera
tion of trains in the state. But tn
will probably be remedied when In
members get back and get thei
newly %ecquired ideas to working OF
into concrete forms.
Tho Insurance LEGISLATION 81 ia
presented is merely minor, or loca
affecting county and township m,
tuals with the exception of two act
Senate &c and 81 by Russell. whic
seek to extend the powers Of insu
ance companies organized under til
laws of the state, SO far as maxim
and handling loans of their surpl,
are concerned.