The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-01-21
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FROM PIERRE
ROBINSON REPORTS ON THE DO.
lNGS OF THE LEGISLATURE
DURING WEEK =.
INVESTIGATORS OF ALLEGED GRAFT BUSY
Many Important Matters Come up Dur
ing Week-The First of Taxation
Reform Measures Introduced
Pierre, II.

Pierre, January II.
Governor Peter Norbeck and Speak
er c.. A. Christopherson have appoint
ed all the permanent committees for
the session. Important chairmen ire:
Senate-Medicines and surgery, Mil
Ter; Appropriations, Warwick; Banks,
Temperance, Whitlock; Taxation,
Ways and Means, McMaster; Elec-
tons, Urdahl; Judiciary, Hayes; Rail
roads, Van Denmark; State Affairs,
Stephens. House-Appropriations,
Knight, Hamlin; Capitol, March; Char
liable Institutions, Trip; Corpora
tons, Buchanan; Education, Roberts;
Judiciary, Tscharner; Railroads,
Blake; State Affairs, Bielski; Temper
anoe, Withee.
Alleged graft investigation has been
the keynote of the second week of the
session. Mclean in the senate and
Birch in the house have sought com
mittees to investigate ex-Auditor An
derson's charge that proper business
methods would save the state $500, 900
annually. A probe into alleged conni-
vance between county commissioners
and bridge companies and the collec-
ton of double and triple mileage on
the same swing through the country
by county physicians, is whispered.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1913 legisla-
tive investigating committee which
has gone into a number of the deeper
mysteries of state finances is expected
to report at any time.
The State Board Of Charities and
Corrections estimates that it will re-
quire $772,310 in 1915 and $460.0S0 in
1916 to run our charitable and penal
sum includes new buildings at the
Redfeld School for Feeble Minded,
Gary Blind School and Penitentiary.
Northern Normal is asking for $685.
900 for a model school addition to the
main building; Springfield Normal
wants $4,000 for a new wing: the
university is said to be after a new
administration building and a girls
dormitory addition; State College
wants a new girls dormitory; and
the School of Mines, a shop building.
Nepotism-the practice of employ
ing relatives in an official capacity is
whacked at by Senator John G. Stoner
of Perkins who would prohibit employ
ment of relatives by state officials to
the third degree of consanguinity.
f. l.. Sem, the Deadwood editor
and reformer, has been in Pierre seek.
ing the enactment of the Iowa Cosson
laws, whereby, when local officials re-
fuse or fail to enforce vice laws, the
state officials may be called in.
q lobby from the Rosebud country
is at hand to secure a new state nor
NAL for Bonesteel. Another owe
ment, headed by Waltner of Hutchin-
SIN would abolish the Springfield nor
NAL, and sell the property to the high
est bidder or create a girls training
school there.
A joint resolution, memorialiZing
congress to force the Milwaukee to
construct a permanent steel bridge at
the Chamberlain Missouri river cross
ing, on its Rapid City line has been
presented by Representative e. c. Hall
of Lyman.
The governors mansion proposition
has bobbed up again, in the form Of a
site, etc. It's advocates urge that it
is too much to ask the governor to pay
rent on a house appropriate to his
position out of his 5000 annual consti-
t~utionally limited salary.
Sen. Donald Mclean Of Day, would
prevent further contracting of prison
labor by the state-as suggested by
Governor Frank M. Byrne in his mes
sage-limiting prison activities to the
Irvine plant which the state runs as its
w business, the state farm, state
quarry, and the possible use of con-
vict labor on the highways.
Bartles of Deuel. has three measures
which will make the county court-a
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 probate
In all counties and a court Of law and
equity only in the larger counties.
The ~artesian supply OF the atafe IN