The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-17
THE LEGISLATURE
NEW REGISTRATION FEATURE
IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION
LAW PROPOSED.

registration feature Is in prospect In
the primary law bill that will be in
troduced by a joint committee on
elections. 1t is understood that the
plans at first agreed on for the same
enrolment as that in the Crawford
law has been changed. Registration
must be made thirty days prior to
elections. but most liberal arrange
ments are made to get the full reg
istration, extending yer about four
months. Voters may register with
town clerks, the county auditor and
city clerks and as a last resort by
mail. 1t Is made the duty OF the
county auditor after a certain date,
to notify by card all who have failed
to register. 1t is believed the plan
will secure a fairly full registration.
1t makes ii the business of officials,
rather than party workers, to get
voters to register.
Lawyers in the first and second jul
dicial circuits here are trying to get
an extra judge to take care OF the
large amount of court business. 1t
is the plan to take Turner county out
of the First district and add it to the
Second, giving the latter two judges.
The house was not feeling in a lib
eral mood and several measures pro-
viding for additional salaries and
perquisites were ruthlessly slaught-
cred. A majority of the committee
on appropriations had recommended
the passage of III. b. 226, allowing
minor state officials $50 a month as
expense money. A minority, Baldwin
OF Lake and Swanson of Brown, of
fered a report against it. The latter
was adopted, Ga to Is and visions OF
an extra 5000 a year for state Of
icers went gIimmering. The house
also voted down the Gudahl bill al
lowing county superintendent ex-
penses and followed the committee
recommendation to cut the bill in
creasing the salary of the insurance
commissioner. making the amount
$4,000 instead of $4,000. This in
crease of 5000 in salary got through
by a bare majority.
Ten jurors out of twelve may here
after bring in a verdict in all civil
cases il III. b. 203, by Labrie, which
passed the house, becomes a law.
The original bill called for three
fourths verdicts. but the author of
the bin accepted the amendment for
five-slxths.
A bill licensing practitioners by
Groce of Lake got through against
the opposition of physicians after
Rinehart scored the doctors in a hui
morous history of the rise of the diff
ferent schools of medicine. He said
il was a Ease of the ms against the
outs.
The municipal suffrage bill in the
senate was tabled, clearing the way
for consideration of the house bill
passed by that body. II is on calen-
dar for Tuesday.
Divorced mothers were voted into
the class of eligibles to receive moth
ers' pensions by the senate.
The health committee in the senate
proposed an innovation in county
health work, by senate bill $50.
which provides for a new county of
fcer to be known as the health Off
Ger. He must be a physician, but
cannot practice while in office. His
salary is to be not less than 81, 500
in any county, with a limit of $4,000.
The attempt to get the %chiroprac-
tic bill back on the floor by reconsid-
Grafton of the vote by which il was
passed was probably saved only by
the talk OF Rinehart as TO what he
knew about chiropractic physicians
In his part of the state.
A majority and minority report of
the temperance committee of the
house has been returned on the bill
to prohibit saloon licenses outside of
incorporated towns. Liquor men say
ii will wipe out fifty saloons in the
state II enacted.
A bill is being prepared to appro-
pirate the section of old Fort Sisse-
ton on which the buildings stand as a
game bird refuge. and to prohibit
shooting on adjoining lands which
have been set aside for the use of
different state institutions, the pur-
pose being to give the eastern part
Of the state a game bird preserve
along lines similar to the big game
preserve on the state forest reserve
in the Black Hills.
The house appropriation commit
tee has practically completed its fig
ures on the general appropriation
bill, and Ii is hoped thai the bill will
be brought in early in the week,
which will give the members time to
look 1t over thoroughly before time
for final action comes, and a number
Of members of both houses will at
tempt to get action on this measure
before the last day of the session,
and save the scenes of forcing 1t
through" which has made a pande-
monium of many a last night session.
Two fights are on the house SEIZED
ule. One is over whether the Spring
field Normal shall continue in exist
ence as a state institution or be
wiped out. n provision being to
change 1t to a girls reform school.
thus segregating the sexes Another
fight is over the provision in the sta
tute which requires a vote OF a ma
jority of all the electors to secure a
liquor license. instead of a mere ma
jority of the votes on that issue
alone. which has been the law for the