The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-18
THE LEGISLATURE
GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL
ORDERED TO BE REPORTED
NOT LATER THAN FIJI
TENTH DAY.

TENTH DAY.
Pierre, Jan. 18.-The first demand
for early action on the general APP
preparation bill came in the resoiu-
ton by Roberts that the house APP
preparation committee be instructed
TO prepare and present that bill to
the house not later than the fifteenth
day of the session, and on his plea
that the house should have time 10
consider this act the resolution was
unanimously adopted.
Efforts to give the governor power
of summary removal of county Off
GERS for cause have always been
fought in this state. and now effort
is TO be made to give circuit court
judges this power. Bills were intro
duced in the house by Norby and i'm
the senate by Waters, giving the
power of removal of county and city
officers for several causes, among
them being refusal to comply with
the dutie S imposed upon them by
law and for drunkenness.
Ever since the enactment OF the
antipass law In this state efforts have
been made by different interests to
break over the lines and get within
a class which might be given pass
privileges. These have always been
voted down, and the effort in that
line for this session appears to be i'm
the way of allowing railway COM
panies to give passes to watch in
speetors of their lines, which came
in the way of a bill by Patterson in
the house.
1t remained for Waltner of Hutch
inson county to spring the bill to
wipe out the Springfield normal
school. 1t abandons that school so
far as the state Is concerned, author
ICES the transfer of the personal
property and Libraries to other state
institutions, and authorizes the sale
of the buildings and grounds. with
the proyiso that the city of Spring
field is TO have a preference right at
a bid which is equal to any private
bid made for the place.
Representative Anderson of Cor
son has sprung an innovation in the
manner of conducting civil township
affairs, authorizing the officials of
such organizations TO pass and en-
force ordinances in the same manner
as for towns, giving them power to
provide penalties for refusal to COM
ply with their regulations in the way
of ordinances.
The senate committee to investi-
gate the relation between news cor
respondents and senate clerks has
called a meeting when the clerks OF
that body will be placed upon the
grill.
The deficit of $4,000 in the farm
ers' institute fund is causing some
trouble in the appropriations COM
mittee. Some members of the COM
nlittee want the dates already made
for institutes cancelled, but the farm
er members are Directing strenuous
ly. They will object TO other appro-
priations to deficits il the farm
ers' institutes are not treated as well.
They demand a larger appropriation
that this important work may not
be crippled for lack of funds.
The free text book bill prepared at
the instance of the State Educational
association is an optional bill accord
ing to the statement of Geo. r..
Farmer of Madison. its author. Each
school district may decide for itself
whether it will have free text books
or not and each district will decide
on what books ii shall use in its
schools. The passage of the law, &C
cording to Mr.. Farmer, will undoubt-
eddy result in the adoption OF the
plan all over the state as that has
| been the experience in Minnesota
and North Dakota where the law ir
! force is similar to the one sought tt
be passed in South Dakota.
Representative Bilger in a bill
asked that the deer hunting season
be reduced to one month, from No
vember Is to December Is, the pres
ent provision giving an open season
of two months, from November i tt
January 1. In one other bill he at
tempts to cover the complaint o.
practical nonresidents crowding the
soldiers home by increasing the time
of residence in the state from one
veal to three years for admission tt
the home.
The senate appointed Messrs
Beebe, Brown and Daley on The
joint committee to take up the mat
ter of a house for the governor. Tive
! years ago when this same matter
came up, Gov. Byrne did not approve
of it, but 1t has been found that in
city the size of Pierre none of the
best houses are for rent and the gov
ernor and family are forced to pu'
up with something decidedly SECOND
rate.
The system of letting contracts fol
bridge building may come in for con
sideration at this session with legis