Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-01-25

secure ballots previous to election day
mark them, and send them by specia
delivery registered mail to the supsrin
tendent of elections in his home pre-
cinct and there it may be opened durini
the process of election by the Judge
and deposited as are other votes. Sen
ator Norbeck's bill on the same subjec
permits the registered elector to inform
the judges by registered mail how h'
desires to vote and two of them, beinl
of opposing parties, may enter q boott
together and privately mark his ballo
| for him and deposit it. Travelling mer
and tfain men will be mostly affected by
these laws. and perhaps a constitutions
one can be satisfactorily framed.
The wolf bounty frauds in the western
part of the state recently give rise to leg
islation now, and Senator Cone ant
Representative Swanson each have bills
comforting upon county boards the full
power to give such bounties as they
deem expedient, but this Legislation
likely will be resisted by Western live
stock interests.
Those interested in Woman's Suffrage
are jubilant over the fact that both
House and Senate voted to re-submit
the question to the people at the nex'
election. Only two votes were cas-
against it in the Senate and about l3 in
the House.
Governor Byrne recommends thai
saloons be limited to one to the 1,00(
] population and the idea seems to be fa
vored. Odland, of Turner, proposes te
stop the practice of securing inferior
signers to petitions for legal license, a:
is often done in small places where
license is voted, by defining the extent o
holding which shall constitute suct
"freeholder." A sentiment toward ear
lier closing hours is expressed by tht
tenn perance people but has not yet taker
form.
Senator Amsden has introduced a bill
providing for the establishment of ira
yelling libraries for rural communitie,
which is proving very popular in the
minds of legislators.
Representative Bruce has introduced
resolution providing for four year.
term for Legislators and half to bs
chosen the first time for four years, the
other half four, and then following eacf
for four years. This would enable ar
appropriation committee to meet before
the session convenes and 60 over the
subject thoroughly for ten days, with
men chosen from hold-over members
and thus the matter of appropriation
could be settled early in the session in
stead of at the very last as is now thu
system; this idea of the committed
meeting is in conformity with recon
mendation made by the Attorney Gen
eral recently.
Lange, of Pennington, has introduced
a resolution asking Congress to make il
possible for entryman, filing on land ir
tlldl pOltIOh Vi tho osbtSt ~ A'~'~ sSa
years if necessary, instead of three, t.
make proof. They are now compelled
to pay 25c an acre, at the time of filing
make improvements to the amount o
50. 90 an acre, and irrigate with II inch
es of water and these conditions have
been found impracticable and just abou
impossible to comply with.
In the contest cases in the House
Ash, Democrat, from Dewey county vs.
Clark, Republican, was decided in favo
of Clark, and in the case of Budweiser
from Meade vs. Morgan, Democrat, wal
decided in favor of the Democrat.
The Bar association met in Pierre dur
ing Tuesday and Wednesday and par
ticipated in the unveiling of Kittredge'
marble bust in the capital, and at th'
close of their meeting gave a splendit
banquet in honor of retiring Justice
Corson and Haney of the suprem'
Court.