Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1917-02-17
PIERRE LAWMAKERS
Brief Resume of Doings Of the Legislature
Written for the Chronicle by Its
Pierre Correspondent

plUlllblNbu Htl5 but lldI W a5 llte WuOle
issue Early in the session Representa-
tives Kaas, Of Mitchell, and Eggen, of
Roberts, had introduced a short bone
dry bill, and Hursh a bill regulating
sales by druggists, and later Kaas and
Eggen came along with another drug
gsts bill, and all these had lain in the
hands of the committee along with the
main bill, until the new committee bill
had been sent in, and Eggen started the
first "smoke OUT of the season on their
bills, and the Hursh bill. Johnson OF
the temperance committee made strong
protest. claiming that the only reason
for holding the other bills was to learn
the fate of the main bill, and have some
thing to fall back upon if that should
fail After long wrangle and first kill
ing the motion to require the committee
to report, and later reconsidering and
reversing, all prohibition bills were or
dered to be reported out for next We'd
nesday afternoon in committee Of the
whole to be discussed concurrently.
With Saturday as the last day for in.
PRODUCTION of bills, there was a food of
fifty, to add to the thirty-two Of the day
before fer the grand wind up. In this
list was one by Neyin, in which he asks
the state to pay So, 500 for the farm on
which the state tuberculosis hospital is
located which evidently has been neg.
Iected to date.
Ifsetters who are just making final
proof care to keep their titles in sim
pifed form from the beginning they
can have that opportunity under the
provisions Of the Torrens Title Act,
which wasiutroduced by Senator Reeves,
and which has passed both houses
Under the act registration is easy and
simple and inexpensive before any trans
fers have been made upon it, and from
that time on abstracts will be required,
but the records themselves will show
just where the title is, and transfer
merely means that the holder ofthe title
surrenders it to the registrar who is
sues new certificate to the purchaser,
aud the deal IS closed each transfer be-
ing on the same basis at all times.
The senate has passed the BuchoIz
house bill regulating the control Of waste
water flow from irrigation bitches and
artesian wells, providing for damages to
the property owner who is injured from
such flow
The house has passed the resolution
for constitutional amendment to au-
thorze the sale of state lands upon more
liberal terms than under the present
regulations. The provisions at present
are oue-iourth down, and the balance in
three equal pay ments in five, ten and
fifteen years. The new plan proposed is
on the basis OF ten per cent. down, and
the rest strung in equa biennial pay
ments running for a period of twenty
years This plan is proposed as one
which viii allow the poor man who
wants to get farm to have better OPP
portunty to make the payments, especi-
ally the initial one
The house has passed the house bill
prohibiting the state land department
from in any way attempting to dispose
of the one lone school section which the
state yet retains in the Black Hills, out
side the state reserve. This lies on
Rapid creek short distance from Ra.
pid City, and as the streams runs across
the section, its water power possibii-
ties are the basis for prohibiting the
sale
The bill in the senate authorizing the
board of control Of the State Soldiers
Home to use disciplinary methods in
case Of persistent infracton of the rnles
of the institution, passed after long
discussion among the members as to the
advisability of such action, and not until
it was amended giving the old soldier
the right of appeal to the Governor in
case Of expulsion. In the senate Ander-
son introduced a bill which provides for
state pension of four dollars week
each, and Guilfoyle has again started
his bill to admit the wives and widows
of old soldiers to the soldiers home.
Hursh, of Lawrence, wants to devote
his thoughts 10 the tbrongs other than
those of the earth when he goes to sun
day worship, and introduced bill max
ing it a misdemeanor TO discuss matters
of political nature in any church in the
state on sunday
Representative Jefries, of Stanley, is
an alfalfa enthusiast, and has intro
duced his bill to provide for the registra,
ton Of alfalfa fields with the county
court The object being to get certifi-
cate as to the field, the time it has grown
alfalfa, ana is general conditions, with
the kind Of alfalfa grown, copy Of
which certificate may te attached TO ad
vertising which solicits orders for alfalfa
seed, and give the seed go raised legal
standing az tG quality aud character
Besides the Evans bill in the senate
allowing towns to increase the levies of
taxes for town boosting purposes, the
house has passed the senate bin author
iling the voting of speciai taxes for the
support Of organized fire compa pies with
an emergency which will allow II to be
effective at the next spring elections,
} and another authorizing special tax