The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-01-22
Pierre Pointers.
South Dakota LEGISLATORS Making
Some New Laws.

Al0ut.OOV TSVor NOTU0CA 0uA
Speaker c. A. Christie pherson have
appointed oil the permanent COM
mittees for the session. Important
.chairmen are; Senate; Appropriation,
Marvick; Banks, Temperance, Whit
lock: Taxation, Ways & Means, Nc
Master; Elections, Urdahl; judiciary,
Hayes; Railroads., Van Denmark;
State Affsirs, Stephens. House:
Appropriations, Knight, Hamlin;
Capital, March; Charitable Institu-
tions, Trip; Corporations, Ruckmsn;
Educstion, Roberto; judiciary,
'Tscbarner; Railroads, Blake, State
Affairs, ..Bsilski; Temperance, Withee.
Alleged graft investigation has
been tho keynote of the second week
OF the session. Mclean in the senate
and Birch in the house have sought
committees to investiR ate ex-Auditor
Anderson's charge that proper busi-
ness methods would save tbs state
$500, 900 annually. A probe into
alleged connivsnce between county
commissioners and bridge companies
and the collection Of double and triple
mileage on the same swing through
the country by county physicians,
Is whispered. The Bogue Cheever-
Lyons 1913 legislative investig ating
committee which has gone into
number of the deeper mysteries Of
state finances is expected to report
at any time.
The State OF Charities& Corrections
estimates that it will require S772,3lO
in 1915 ard s460,OsO in 1916 to run
our charitable and penal institutions.
The 1915 sum includes nrw buildings
at Redfield, Gary and the Penitentiarv
Northern Normal is asking for
$50, 600 for model school and addi-
tion to the main building; Spring
wing: the University is said to
be after new administration build
ing and girls gymnasium: State
College want new girls dOrmitory:
and the schools of mines, shop
building.
Nepotsm practice of employ
ing relatives in an official capacity is
whacked at by Senator John G.
Stoner Of Perkins who would prohibit
employment Of relatives by state
officials to the third degree OF con-
sanguinity.
L. l.. Sem, tbs Deadwood editor
and refOrmer, has been in Pierre,
seeking the enactment of the Iowa
Cosson laws, whereby, when local
officials refuse or fail TO enforce vice
laws, the state officials may be called
In.
A lobby from the Rosebud country Is
at hand to secure q new state normal
tor Bonesteel. Another movement,
headed by Waltner, OF Hutchinson
couoty, would abolish the Spring
field Normal, and sell this property
to the highest biddsr or create girls
Training School there.
A joint resolution, memorializin
Congress to force the Milwaukee to
con struct permanent steel bridge ct
Chamberlain Missouri river crossing,
on its Rapid city line has been pre-.
sented BY Rep. E. C. Hall Of Lyman.
The Governors mansion proposi.
<ion has bobbsi up again, IN the
form OF JOINT committee to investi-
gate costs, site etc. Its sdvocates
urge that 1t 10 too much to ask the
Governor to pay rent on q house
appropriate to HE position out OF his
$1,000 annual constitutionally limited
salary.
Senator Donald Mclean, Day
would prevent further contracting OF
prison labor by the state as suggest
ed by Governor Bryne in his message
limited prison activities TO the twine
plant which the state runs as. It's own
business, the state farm. state quarry,
and the possible use OF convict labor
on the roads.
Bartels of Deuel. has three measures
which will make the county court
peoples court, open every day In the
year, with jurisdiction limited to $1,000
and operative In all counties alike.
At present the county court is for
pvobate in all counties, and a court
of law and equity only in larger
counties.
The artesian supply Of the state is
becoming exhausted is the belief OF
Senator Ziebach. Buffalo, who pro-
poses legislation to conserve this
recOurce.
Berndt in the senate, and Evenson,
Lincoln, il the house have introduc.
cd bills to abolish the 1913 State
Highway Commission.
Mc4astsr, Yankton has offered
The drst Of Tho TAx Commission