Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-03-14
OPINIONS ON PRIMARY LAW.

OPINIONS ON PRIMARY LAW.
Attorney General Passes on the Rich
ards Act.
Pierre-Attorney General johnson
has rendered an opinion covering a
number of points in the Richards pri-
mary law on queries which were SUBJ
mitted to him. Among other things
he holds that under the provisions of
that act there are no party organiza-
tions in the state of South Dakota at
the present time and cannot be until
after the primaries which are to be
held in December of this year under
the provisions of the act itself. This
eliminates not only the county commit
teemen, but the state organizations
are wiped out as well. In this he
quotes the dissenting opinion of JUS
tice Corson in the suits on the Rich
ards primary act before the supreme
court last fall. His holding is, fur
Their, that with no legal existence of
a party organization there can be no
legal postmaster primaries held, but
that even though there was legal or
ganization to put the machinery in
motion for such primaries the results
could not be made any more binding
on the president than they would be
without an organization. While he
does not call attention to one phase
of the situation, neither under his rul-
ing has an Endorsement of the old
state organization any legal standing
in making Endorsements for place, as
they are no longer in legal existance
any more than are the county organi-
cations.
Both houses are pounding along to
clear their calendar of the bills orig
mating in their own membership, so
as to leave the rest Of the week to
clear up the bills coming from the
"other house."
The senate killed the antisnuff bill
with little argument and by decided
vote.
staIwarts VS.. Progressives.
The house Stalwarts are throwing
stones at the Progressives for their
action in killing the Youngquist bill,
which attempted to prevent any men,
Der of the state finance board from
accepting state deposits in any bank
in which he is interested and requir-
ing the treasurer to secure permission
from the finance board for making de-
posits in banks not bidding for fnuds,
and then passed bill which places
the state treasurer on the state CAPT.
tol commission, which gives the Pro-
gressives the appointment of bunch
of janitors and employees in the state
house. At least that is the way the
Stalwarts put their case, with the op-
position denying that there was any
such motive in their action. The SEN
ate will hold secret session to con-
slider the Bowel. charges.
At 1885 Tuesday the house took
an informal recess until "a new presi-
dent is inauGurated." ]. E. Ziebach,
one of the leading Democratic mem
bers, was escorted to the chair and a
general Democratic jubilation kept
things stirring until Wilson was mad
gurated. America" was then sung
and the house settled down to the
grind The Republican majority help
ed the Democratic minority in the
jubiliation
The senate general state printing
bill passed the house with an emer-
gency clause, putting it into force as
soon as the bill is signed, which will
stop number of applications for bids
for printing work which have been put
out by different state institutions.
Lake Bed Law.
Mitchell.-By the action of the leg
islature in passing law with refer
ence to filling lake beds and the deci-
sion of Judge Smith in the same cases
the two big lake beds in Aurora and
Brule counties will be converted into
lakes with large area of water. The
promoters in both counties have been
ready to begin work whenever it ap-
peared to them that they would have
the right to proceed with the sinking
OF the artesian wells. The county
commissioners are said to be in SYM
pathy with the work and will help.
Working on Printing Bill.
Pierre.-The joint printing commit
garden" proceedings, decided that
tees of the two houses, after "bear
they did not care to examine any fur
Their witnesses under oath and took
up the printing bill to work out its
provisions, regardless of personal dis
putes and quarrels of those introduced
on the one side or the other. The
charges were so radical that one of
the points discussed, was another in
vestigating committee to investigate
the charges made.
$4,000 Fire at Elk Point.
Elk Point-Fire was discovered in
the w. ]. Comfy & Son drug store on
East Main street Sunday morning at
about 1890 o'clock, which destroyed
four buildings and stocks to the