The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-12
The LEGISLATURE
DEADWOOD EDITOR IN THE IN
TEREST OF REFORM-VET-
ERINARIANS AFTER
QUACKS.

pierre, Jan. LIS. l.. Sem, VINO
has been deyoting his time and his
paper for the last two years in an
attempt to clean up" Deadwood.
has arrived here with several ideas
which he wants enacted into legisla-
ton, with the view OF helping him
in his efforts to reform Deadwood.
His bills will be ready in a few days,
and his line of effort revealed when
they are placed on the desk of the
clerk.
An appropriation of $12,5e0 a
year for good roads work will be
asked by the state good road; com
mission. which has been working for
the past two years without compen-
sation. They desire to employ an
engineer and be allowed compensa-
ton when they are engaged in state
business.
The special contest committee has
heard testimony and arguments and
expects to be able to report to the
house on its findings by Mondays or
Tuesdays session.
There is a possibility the suffrage
resolution will not come up at this
session of the legislature. AS a
matter of fact some of the members
who supported a suffrage resolution
at the last session and probably will
do so If II is submitted again At this
session, are rather hoping that il
will not come to the front. as they
feel that there should be a wait
over at least one election after a
vote is taken on a constitutional
question before 1t again comes up.
The old question Is getting started
again in relation to the rights of the
old fashioned 'hoss doctor" i'm prac-
tice in the state. At the last session
the "hoss doctors" won out, and the
vets have been sulking i'm their
tents for the past two years. but the
| issue promises to come to the front
again and will bring on practically
| the same contest as of old before il
Is settled.
One of the issues is the right or
| possibility of use of hog cholera Sc
runs, as the rules of the present
state board restrict the right of its
use to either graduate veterinarians
or others who can show that they
have taken a proper course of in
struction in its use, which is declared
TO be an Interference with rights.
There are rumors of attempts to
change the medical laws of the state
to loosen up on some of the restric-
tons now in force.
Representatives from some of the
sparsely settled counties in the west
ern part of the state are framing an
act to reduce election expenses. They
say that in some precincts in their
counties where there are only a few
voters ID costs the county as high as
$40 for each vote cast. The plan of
reduction suggested is to authorize
the county commissioners to CONSOLE
date several small precincts into n
voting precinct. They have that
power at present except where there
are civil township organizations, in
which case each such township Is a
precinct under the law, and the de-
sire is to allow such consolidation,
| even though there are civil township
| organizations, and allow one set of
| general election officers TO handle
the vote of several townships.
The discussion of employment of
| relatives by state officials, which was
made a part of the campaign last
fall, promises to bring out a bill
which will prohibit any public of
| fetal employing blood relatives as as
| sistants in his office force, and put
a stop to what was declared in the
| campaign to be a scandal in polit-
ical management"
The date of the midseason recess
| appears to be a matter of consider
| able difference of opinion, some OF
the western members wanting il so
they can be out on the 26th TO at
tend new county organization cleo
| tions in which they are interested,
and others from different parts OF
the eastern section desiring il TO fiji
into different local meetings in heir
| various sections.