Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-01-25
GETS DOWN TO WORK
Bill Introduced in the Senate for Sl46 900
for Buildings and Improvements at
tuberculosis Sanatorium


for Buildings and Improvements at
tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Pierre, s. d., Jan 2O-The report Of
the state budget committee has been re-
ported, and one of the recommendations
for buildings needed is new structure
az the State School Of Mines, which ls a
boost for the Rapid City people in their
efforts TO have that school one which
will be a credit to the western part Of
the state. Their bill has not yet come
up for the putting Of that institution TO
the front, but the sentiment is growing
among the members that the plan should
be carried out, and when the bill finally
gets out into the open, it will probably
80 through without any great trouble.
The budget committee also recom-
mends many Improvements at the state
tuberculosis Hospital at Custer, and a
bill has already been introduced carry.
ing an appropriation of Sl46, 600 for that
place
In the past the legislature has appro-
priated money for live stock payiious at
different locations over the state, and
the live stock interests Of the western
section feel that they are entitled to
consideration along tins line, and bills
have been introduced in the house by
Cock of Butte, and in the senate by
tibCh of Perkins, each asking for ten
thousand dollars for this purpose, one
such pavilion to be erected at Belle
Fourche, and the other at Lennon.
On account OF the need of new com
mitlees to look after the legislation Gov
cred by the projects voted on by the
people of the state at the last election,
several new lists were provided aud on
the senate list the Black Hills repre-.
-enlatiyes who get places are Coal
Mines, Milne of Butte, Hamm of Meade;
Packing Plants and Terminal Elevators,
Milne of Butte Cement Products Helm
of Custer.
The first field day" Of the house de-
veIoped several Black Hills orators on
the issue OF rate making for telephones
under government control, those from
the Hills getting into the game being
Guilloyle, Clark, Buell. and Weutzy, on
different phases Of the question, with
the general sentiment expressed by them
and others that the public was not half
SO much interested in who controlled
such utilities as they were in the rates
charged, and that the matter of rates
would soon fix tue issue of popularity of
control, Some OF the speakers pointed
out that the rate making as it is con
Quoted at present is an evidence of what
general government control would mean,
while others thought that there might
be an adjustment after proper time to
get lined up under government as well
as private control
A bill by Stoner of Lawrence, asks
that deputy state game wardens be given
higher salaries, and the committee on
mines and mining that the salary of the
state mine inspector be increased to
80, 400 year
While state hail insurance is looked
upon as strictly farmers measure, the
crop raisers in the western section of the
state would no doubt be materially in
terested in that feature of the proposed
measure which makes such insurance
compulsory, and places the tier Of corfn-
ties along the west side of the state in a
district with a rating of forty-fye cents
an acre on cultivated land for such pro
lection, giving them the highest rating
prices of any section of the state. The
proposed bill is getting thorough comb
| ing in the committee and the indica.
tions are that there will be optional
features in the bill before it is finally
brought out for action.
A bond issue for through state high
| ways appears to be the latest idea of the
highway committees Of the two houses.
at least that is the way they are looking
at the present time, with possible bond
issue of about seven million dollars to
.carry out the idea. While the county
commissioners representatives are max
ing hard fight to keep as wide con
| troll Of highway construction in the yari-
Gus counties, within their own hands,
the general trend appears to centralizt
it as much as possible and get state roads
under way for the first move.
The proposed county hospital bill i,
being shaped up, and will no doubt be-
introduced at an early date by Repre-
sentative Cock, who is looking after tha
plan. There are number of detail,
along thu. line which need consideration
to meet various conditions over the
state but the epidemic conditions over
the state the past season has given the
idea boost which will no doubt carry
it across at this session.
Along the lines of labor legislation
which will be of material interest tC
| many residents of the Black Hills is the
proposed amendments TO the state work.
mems compensation law which increases
compensation to a tiny.tive per cent
basis instead OF fifty per cent. rate as
at present, and which increases hospital
and medical relief from 500 to $3.50,
and reduces the waiting time to ten
days instead OF the present two week:
time.
Up to the present the representation
from the Hills has not been making
much record on the journals of the two
houses, but they are working along the
lines of legislation which they desire to
have enacted, and are making an i'm
| nressinn v hich will mPAn mnch easier