The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-14
THE LEGISLATURE
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL CODE
GOVERNORS MANSION
UP AGAIN.

Pierre, Jan. lathe new educa-
tional code, which was framed under
the direction of the State Education
al association by Geo. II. Farmer. a
Madison attorney. will be presented
in the house by Representative An
derson of Clark, the act providing
for district selection of text books
and optional free books. Another
bill for state uniformity may be pre-
sented by Huntley of BeadIe, in line
with a similar bill he presented two
years go.
Members of the state board of
charities and corrections and of the
state soldiers home board are in the
city preparing their estimates to pre-
sent to the legislature.
The construction of a governors
mansion in this city Is the final OBJ
Ject of a resolution which was intro
duced in the house by Withee, call
ing for the appointment of a joint
committee TO take first steps toward
selecting a site in the city of Pierre
Tor the location of a mansion for the
governor, the plan being to get the
measure under way at this session.
10 be completed by future sessions.
There is complaint that clerks who
are not residents OF the state are ne
ing given official appointments, and
this called out a resolution by Court
ney, requiring the speaker TO swear
all appointees as TO their actual resi-
dence for the past six months. and
that no clerk be employed who can
not show a residence in the state for
that length of time.
The special election committee re-
ported in the Mollitor-Donahoe case.
recommending that Donahoe, demo-
cratic sitting member, is entitled TO
retain the seat as a member from the
Trip, Mellette and Bennett county
district. The report went owe until
today under the rules for final action
by the house.
Birch in the house yesterday aft
ernoon, made the start toward an in
vestigation of the charge that state
Affairs are extrayagantly conducted,
asking for the appointment of a joint
committee to investigate and report
upon the complaints of extravaganza.
both specific and general.
That Good Friday should be added
TO the list OF legal holidays in this
state is the opinion of Representative
Mathaeson. who has started a bill in
the house to secure that end.
In the senate Whitlock introduced
the bankers guaranty act without
the amendments added to ii by the
governor and the guaranty issue is
one which will be amply discussed at
this session.
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That a new investigating commit
tee is needed is the opinion of some
OF the members, and a move to Sc
cure one is likely to be made at any
time. One reason given is the state
ment in the annual report of retiring
State Auditor Anderson that the
state could save 100000 a year by
the use of practical business methods
which some OF the members think is
worth saving, and they express a de-
sire TO call in the retiring official for
specific statements as to where the
saving can be made. The deficiency
asked for the statehouse mainten-
ance fund Is also a subject for in
v~estigation, in the minds of some of
the members, they claiming that the
expense for such maintenance is too
heavy.
Some of the suffrage advocates are
discussing the possibilities of mu-
nicipal suffrage by legislation along
the same lines as the suffrage pro-
visions of Illinois, and while the
leaders in the movement say they are
for a straight complete suffrage
amendment, the other idea is being
discussed.
p. l.. Hanson of ~Bridgewater, Sec
rotary of the State A~uctioneers' as
ISOLATION, is here with a bill for an
auctioneers' license.
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