Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1915-01-23
The LEGISLATURE
Committee Chairman Selected Gov sfnor's s
Mansion-Measure to Make County
Court, Peoples Court.

Pierre.-Alleged. graft investiga.
ton has been the keynote of the second
week of the session. Mclean in the
senate and Birch in the house have
sought committees to investigate ex-Au.
ditor Anderson's charge that proper
business methods would save the state
$500, 900 annually. A probe into alleged
connivance between county commits
sioners and bridge companies, and the
collection of double and triple mileage
for the same trip by county physicians.
is whispered. The Bogue-C Cheeyer-
Lyons 1918 Legislative investigating
committee which has gone into mum.
ber of the deeper mysteries of state
finances, is expected to report at any
time.
Important committees were announ-
ced in both houses. House chairman
ship: Appropriations, Knight, Hamlin;
Capitol, March; Charitable Institutions,
Tripp; Corporations, Ruckamn; Educa-
ton, Roberts; Judiciary, Tscharner;
Railroad, Blake; State Affairsl Bielski;
Temperance, Withee; Ways & Means,
swanson. Senate chairmanships: APP
propriations, Marvick; Banks, Whitlock;
Taxation. McMaster; Elections; Urdahl;
Judiciary. Hayes; RAILROADS, Van Denmark;
State Affairs, Stephene; Temperance,
Whitlock; Ways & Means, McMaster.
The State Board of Charities and Cor
rections estimates that it will require
$772,3l3 in 1915, and S46O,OSO in 1916 to
run our charitable and penal institutions.
The 1915 sum includes new buildings at
Redfied, Gary School for the Blind and
at the Penitentiary.'
Northern Normal is asking for SCI, 200
for model school and addition to the
main building; Springfield Normal wants
$40, 900 for a new wing; The University
is said to be after new administration
building, State college a new girls dom
mitory, and the School of Mines, shop
building.
Nepotsm-the practice of employing
relatives in an official capacity is whack-
ed at by Senator John Stoner of Perkins
who would prohibit employment of re-
latives by state officials to the third de-
gree of consanguinity.
Z. L. Sem, the Deadwood editor and
reformer, has been in Pierre, seeking
the enactment of the Iowa Cosson laws,
whereby. when local officials refase or
fail to enforce vice laws, the state off,
cials may be called in.
A lobby from the Rosebud Country is
at hand to secure a new state normal
for Bonesteel. Another movement is
on foot to abolish the present Spring
field Normal and either sell the property
to the highest bidder or create a girls
Training School there.
A joint-resolution memorializing Con-
gress to force the Milwaukee to con-
struct permanent steel bridge at
Cham berlain on its Rapid City line has
been presented by Rep. L. c. Hall of
Lyman.
The Governors mansion proposition
as bobbed up again, in the form of a
Joint committee to investigate costs,
sites etc. Its advocates urge that it is
too much to ask the Governor to pay
rent on house appropriate to his posi-
ton out of his $4,000 constitutionally
limited salary.
Senator Donald Mclean, Day would
prevent further contracting of prison
labor by the state-limiting prison ac-
tivities to the twine plant which the state
runs as its own business, the state farm,
state quarry and the possible use of con-
vict labor on the roads.
Bartels of Deuel. has three measures
which will make the county court. the
peoples court, open every day of 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 court of law and
equity only in the larger counties.
The artesian supply of the state is be-
coming exhausted is the belief of Sena-
tor Ziebach, Buffalo, who proposes legis-
lation to conserve this resource.
Berndt in the senate, and Evenson,
Lincoln in the house have introduced
bills to abolish the 1918 State Highway
Commission.
McMaster, Yankton has offered the
first of the Tax Commission proposed
measures. The McMaster bill prescribes
means of reaching railways, public utili.
ties, sleeping. express and private car
lines, and telephone and telegraph com.
panies.
The Howe Irrigation amendment reso.
luton has been reported to the house
with "do pass" attached.
The State Educational Association
Free Text book bill has been introduced
in the house by Anderson, Clark; and
in the senate by Laurson, Miner.
HARRY A. ROBINSON.
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