The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-02-20
AFTER COMMITTEE
LAWMAKERS GET INTO TANGl.E
BUT RESOLUTIONS FINALLY
PLACED ON CALENDAR.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions ard From
= Many Different Parts Of
the Sunshine State.

hOuSc UlOIuluS S6S-
sion Thursday went after the commit
tee on federal relations on it's adverse
reports on agrt eing to the amend
ment to the national constitution IL
regard to the tanner of filling vacan-
cies in the office of United States SEN
ators, in a memorial asking for linn
tied terms for federal judges and in
a memorial for a national act in re-
gard to polygamy, all of which ad-
verse reports went over and the reso-
buttons were placed on the calendar
after a contest in which a number of
the members were tangled up before
the resolutions were finally disposed
Of.
The house has the dance bill to dis
post Of again. along with the bill to
cut out publicity of insurance state
ments.
Legislative Work.
The net output of the legislative
work up to now in the way of laws
and resolutions is comprised in Is
acts which originated in the house and
is which originated in the senate,
practically all of them being small APP
preparation bills to meet emergency
situations. Gov. Byrne signed the
state tax commission act Wednesday,
as that is the time limit for his TAX
ing action On such laws, and will, UNI
der the provisions of the act, within
ten days name the three commission
ers he has selected to fill the places.
To Destroy Weeds.
Senator Hicks has presented a bill
for the destruction of noxious weeds.
The present law in regard to that sub
ject is changed very little in his new
bill. But it is made more effective in
its workings. AS the law stands at
the present time it is made the duty
of officials to take the initiative in re-
gard to such work, and many of them
do not care to stir up local antago-
nism by pushing the enforcement of
the law, but would be willing to see
that it is carried out If some one else
takes the initiative. The amend
ments to the law require action of the
local authorities in the destruction of
tOAIOuo WSCuS Ol avs anu uIlOC-
cupied lands when they are so petit
toned to do so by three resident free
holders Of the township. This gives
the town officers the initiative desired
to act, and the cost of any such work
of destruction is to be taxed to the
land.
To Better People.
NJ. A. Schuster of Miller usually
gets around at each session with a
bill which embodies his peculiar ideas
of government, or his ideas which APP
pear to be peculiar to most people.
He is here with his latest idea which
is that OF county and township or
CARNATIONS to force civic and moral
betterment of the communities
through regularly authorized public
organizations for that purpose.
Board Of Charities.
The members of the state board of
charities and corrections are in the
city to make their last summary to
the joint appropriation committees of
the two houses for the amounts they
desire for their different institutions
for the coming biennial period. The
appropriation committees are grind
ing Is rapidly as possible to get the
general bill into shape, and to shape
up what looks to them like practically
necessary appropriations for the diff
ferent institutions for the next two
years, and after that is finally worked
out they will come as near as posi-
BILE to holding special appropriations
within the limit of estimated revenues
of the state for the period, and if they
accomplish this they will of necessity
cause disappointment to a number OF
the different institutions of the state.
Bank Guaranty Bill.
House bill 240, by Morgan, is a bank
guaranty act, and besides the pro-
visions which require banks to come
under an assessment fund, as most
such acts require, it contains anoth-
err feature not found in such guaranty
acts passed by other states which
have not placed themselves under the
assessment and benefit fund provided
by the law prior to January ], 1914,
shall be required to execute a surety
bond to the state of South Dakota, in
trust for the depositors in the bank,
in a sum not less than so per cent
of the deposits of such bank, or depos-
1t with the state real estate securities,
or government. county or municipal
bonds to that amount, such securities
to be approved by the public examin-
err. This. while making the law OPP
tional as to whether or not the banks
Returns from Visit to Capital.
Pierre.-Land Commissioner Brink
err has returned from Washington, ID.
C., upon a visit of official business for
the department, having been away
STAGE January 8, the day after taking
his oath of office. Mr.. Brinker did
not succeed in his fight before the for
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