Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-03-01
PIERRE POINTERS
House Passes Sl44 900 Appropriation Bill
for Improvements at Sanatorium,
Also SIS, 5,75o Deficiency.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 24.--Some of the
members from the northeast part of the
state who know wheat farming and con-
slider the state and its needs from that
standpoint alone, attempted to play the
George Egan stunt when the bills in re-
lation to the bee inspectors were up in
the House at night session. After each
one bad aired the amount Of knowledge
| which he did not have in regard to bees
and honey, Representative Cock, of
Butte, gave them a few facts TO study
over, and when he had finished, the
leyity was gone, and the bills went
through with only few votes in opposi.
ton. Apparently il is hard to pound
into the heads of some members that
there is any section or interest of the
state which requires attention outside
the lines of their own townships
When the Senate trapping bill came
up, Wentzy, of Pennington, was for the
boy trapper and presented his amend,
ment exempting boys under fourteen
years of age from taking out licenses
This was opposed by several from the
lake regions of the eastern part of the
state, who alleged that il was too hard
to keep boys in school in the trapping
season at the present price of muskrat
hides, but the amendment went through.
Before it got to vote the Outlawing Of
the skunk was added to get all changes
in one amendment, and the odoriferous
little animal of that name has to carry
his own protection with him from this
time on.
Senator Helm, of Custer, has started
two bills in relation to the state game
park, one sppropriating S5,l45.00 to re-
imburse residents on the tract for dam
ages to crops done by tbe animals in the
park, and the other appropriating
100000 for additional fencing on that
tract While there is no specific appro
priation the possibilities are that other
privately owned tracts in the park will
be purchased before the end ofthis year,
gradually reducing the number of hold
ers of private tracts in the area of the
state holdings.
The fishermen of the Hills will be in
terested in the Senate bill which pro-
poses to place fishermen under the
license regulation now governing hunt
ers. The general plan is to make the
license the same, and to include both
fishing and hunting, this will put both
the fisherman and hunters on the same
level. There has been considerable
complaint from those who have been
paying for hunting licenses against the
use OF such money to build up the fish
interests, and demand that If such use
is TO be made of the money the fisher
men help carry the burden.
Details OF affairs AT the State Soldiers
Home are cared for in series OF COM
mittee bills in the House on the last day
for such bills, in deficiency bills for
various purposes at the home, and others
covering payments TO veterans who are
not able to go to the home for various
reasons, and the manner of distribution
OF this fund among those entitled to the
same.
The Senate finally decided that they
we're willing 10 allow counties TO eln-
ploy rodent pest exterminators, but cut
the salary from five dollars day TO four
dollars, evidently feeling that they were
willing but not ~ the extent of allowing
such effort to be paid at the same rate
per day as the law maker gets Tor his
services.
Black Hills institutions were looked
after by the House passing the bills
appropriating Sl44, 10000 for improve
ments at the tuberculosis sanatorium
and caring for deficiency of $l5, ,750. 90
at the same institution for the past year
also by two deficiency bills for The spear
fish Normal School carrying about seven
thousand dollars
Tie movie question was a live one for
part of the past week in committee on
the movie censorship bill, which has
not yet got out onto the floor, and the
bill prohibiting Sunday shows. The
latter got onto the floor of the Senate,
and had close call, but went down oy
tie vote of 2l to q, but requiring %
for a majority. The vote was then
''sinched," which places it where it re-
qures two-thirds vote to get it again
on the floor, and it is out for this ses-
sion. The censorship bill will go the
same road if it ever gets out onto the
floor of the House.
To the counties with the larger towns
in their borders the Larson bill which
requires county commissioner districts
to be fixed on area instead of popula-
ton will make a material difference,
but it will have no effect on counties
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dsrs.
The Senate finally passed the state
hail insurance bill, which places all the
land and crops OF the state under its
provisions, unless the owner specifically
exempts himself when the Assessor
makes his annual rounds in the spring.
This will put several owners under the
law for the first year or two until they
have learned the workings of the law,
but apparently no such law has ever
been found workable which does not
make the insurance compulsory to an
adopted by the Senate, with the House
farmers waiting for it to get into the
open on that side of the capitol.
With the date for introduction of bills
gone by in the House, and limited to
committee bills in the Senate, most of
| the work from now on will be in clear
ing up the bills already in, and while
the machine grinds out prist with ease
and rapidity at times, there are other
occasions when some one insists in
throwing sand into the gearing, and it
some times takes lot OF clearing before
this is all out and the machine going
smoothly again. In fact day started
with the bearing ''sanded" is hard to
get cleared out and the grinding con.
| tinues all day. The indications are that
the work will be pretty well cleared up
without an all night session at the end,
but there is yet plenty to do and there
may be delays which will force this situ-
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