The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-01-11
BEGINNING TO GRIND
Senate Bills Introduced Yester.
y-House Getting
Ready Gossip

Pierre, Jan. 1.-THE introduction
Of bills commenced in the senate yes
terday, following the appointment of
committees. Twelve bills were intro
duced, the first by Senator Wright of
Beadle, calls for the regulation of pub
lie utilities and places the authority
with the railway commission. Senator
Cone of Sioux Falls introduced a "blue
sky" bill. Senator Hale of Sturgis
fathers a bill for the guaranty of
bank deposits.
In the house the rules committee
recommended the establishment Of Il
committee on the commission form of
government. Most of the house com
mittee will be announced today.
The Anti -Saloon league has a lobby
ist located here for the session but as
yet has net given out what laws it
cOntemplates asking the Legislature to
enact.
That a resubmission Of the wonan
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton will be asked for now seems GER
tain. The leaders of the movement
held a caucus recently and laid plans
for the campaign which will soon be
opened.
A little friction has been started
among the democrats, by Tom Ayers,
who has been a candidate for the Unit
ed States Senate. AT a csucus the
democrats decided to beast their % votes
on Joint ballot for E. s. Johnson, of
Yankton. defeated candidate for gov.
ernor, for senator and Ayers was not
even present. He claims that the eau
Gus was called fer other purposes and
threatens 10 make life miserable for
the minority members.
The house has twelve democrats and
81 republicans while the senate has 10
democrats and IS republicans, giving
the Legislature 90 democrats and 1876
republicans on joint ballot.
There is little or no talk on the
Richards primary law and it seems
probable that any attempt to repeal
it will lose force because of the state.
ments made by Governor Byrne in his
inaugural address. wherein be declared
that money must be raised for the
roper execution of the law and that
because the people had enacted it, they
were entitled to have it.
The apparently universal movement
for good roads has already taken hold
of the members of the Legislature this
early in the session. Various PROPOSE
tions for popular road improvement
under state or county supervision are
under consideration. Among these is
that of passing an act authorizing
convicts from the state penitentiary
TO be employed in the work OF load
improvement, similar to a system in
vogue ia Colorado, where the con-
victs are put out on their honor,
without guards on officers to work in
this capacity. However popular this
proposition might be with other mem
bers, it is not we'll received by the
farmers who express various reasons
for their objections to convict road
work, one of which is that it would
necessitste the purchase of a large
number of teams that would necessari-
ly be idle during a considerable portion
of the year while road work is impos-
sible, and at the same time the ~convicts
would be idle during such period of
the year. Another Objectionable fea-
ture of such a system is said to be the
jeopardy in which it places the people
living adjacent to the roads on which
convicts are employed.