Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-02-06
APPROPRIATION ITO
Mines SCHOOL
PASSES HOUSE
Registration Tax On Mortgages
Passes Senate. Propose Trans
fer Of Black Hills Forest Reserve
to Control Of Park Board. The
eTachers' Pensions.

SldCleIS TenSlOnS.
Pierre, S. D.-The long fight of
of Rapid City for greater recognition
for it's School of Mines appears to lie
getting to a point whcr> it en- see
clear sky. The house, w.taCu a DIS
senting vote, passed the bill to "
the school an APPROPRIATION Of 10000
for the new engineerirp building. TIE
chances of the bill passing the sena e
are bright.
Registration Tax on Mortgages
After two days of discussion the SEN
ate parsed the first Of a series of Ills
preparing for a state tax C MN ssi N
to cover the psovis.ons o. the arre d
ment adopted last fl. It is the mo :
gage registration tax a t. wlcl pc.
vides a tax of nnprax +. ITO y h IL 6
mill each year for he life ef tie
mortgage in Leu o. all otter tax ltltn
or this cass Of prorert,. The t * ]
10 be paid at the time CT recording tt e
mortgage.
Representative Kool l.as iIr du
I'd a county HOSPITAL , II The Ire
towns in The more sparssly sttald
sections of the state fond they ada
heavy burden to carry when infsue z
was prevalent last fall. Tie bill opeHs
the way fer a::dling aE suca ST a.
tons through county crsanfietcr
instead of leaving tie town to pay
iii expense.
Forest Resolve Transfer Pr0pes I'd.
A new b..l tran fra tae stlte ( r
est reserve in the Black Fl II; TO
the sch, OF land department to the con
troll of a i ark boarl. AT pre- ent tee
and is state school land, ard u siiea
Of timber are turned into the iTc omf
fund for the schools. The new II II
propo les to sell this land to the new
park board at a reguiar aolr a 9
price, all revenues from the p TX to
80 into the general fund G, the Sat
N return for the money tfa1sser e
into the permanent scicol IND. :
trasaction so far as it Is faaaeialy
cocerned would be a trans OF CT state
;ast from one fund to another, SO ia
is he purchase price y 20 ce mel,
md q switch OF tae r dsl. We
rom sac of t mber or from sny o her
uorce from the park j to the gen
a fand instead % the sals Irise
aking the pace CT t e prere t ret S
RON the forest ressrvs to re mbu s
The school inc me fu d
Senator M Inc is preparing ALL 10.
y state cooperative ere lis board. with
safeguards thrown er@usG a y flu d
advanced to such an estent tha t ere
an be no loss, he Gays.
May Bond on Majority Vote
To lessen the difficI at es. from no
good roads. Representative Larson OF
Yankton has a bill ready for iatrcdpc
ion providing that colntias may BEN
Tor hard suriacing county hig3Fwsys
with only a majority vote Of the res
tents, instead of a three fosfrths vote,
$ the present law requirss.
County high schools Will be NOR
5eneral in the st tie If a bill provii G
or better legal provision; for the e.
Enlistment If schools become q Inv.
Representative Harry Ferry, father 81
the bill, declares that the Indians in
mis- district are anxious to avail taem
selves of higher e%sucation tn n is noN
FURNISHED.
Christian Science forces contesfing
the county nurse bill won a concession
from house members in making sub
mission to All examination optiona'
instead Of compulsory. It will go te
the senate in this shape.
Teachers, Pensions
Teaching in this state will rot PIE
sent the aspect 1t sometim dee
now, of giving the best Of the teach
ars. life to the education OF thesycunE
people and the upbuilci Ing Oh gcod arr
satisfactory schools and the be ~
replaced by younger blood whSa th:
work becomes too heavy. with the OF
teacher cast out without anyth n I
10. often practically dependent Nirsr
ie has given everything re Ind &c
yond that actually needed for Y ne
back TO the school he has b ipsd Y
ouild. Representative Warren Of LIw
sence county has introaucsd hi
providing for q te-cilers pen ion
Whereby after thirty We rs De te z
ng service, at least fife q the Il
lis state, teachers may retire and r.
z2rtess I'D S.OtS