The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-06-28
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Pierre, June 2S.-The joint COM
mittee on state affairs at a hearing
unanimously voted against the bills
proposing to put the North Dakota
ideas of state finance into effect in
this state, including a state bank,
with state commission backed by
bonds of $2,OD0,OO0 to carry out it's
plan.
There was a little furry in the
house and of the committee when it
was learned that the clerk had been
handed bills for introduction bearing
the endorsement of the "state affairs
committee" as introducers. when the
members had no knowledge of such
action.
Representative Best, the nonparti-
san member from Beadle county,
when asked as to his knowledge of
the manner of presentation of the
bills admitted that he was the one
who presented them and did so be-
cause the committee members were
busy and he wanted to get the bills
in Thursday evening.
He was then questioned as to the
actual workings and success of the
plan in North Dakota and while he
defended the idea. he admitted that
he. had no personal knowledge as to
the actual success and practicability
from others.
After the whole matter had been
threshed over and the nonparuisan
members had been given an oppor-
tunity to tell what they know in re-
gard to the plans the committee
unanimously voted against presenta
tion of any of the bills.
On a bill to amend the law author
izing the cement plant bill to allow
sale of securities at less than par,
both the senate and house took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to express
ideas as to the whole public utility
idea.
They went wide of the bill to ex-
press views not only as to the cement
idea itself, but all the others along
with them. When the shouting and
blaring of trumpets had died down
in both houses the bill was killed
on the general plea that it is not
long until a general session and there
is not the necessity for haste when
the money market may be in an en-
trely different condition by the time
the regular session meets.
Ransom tpnk nooa cipn tn
express his ideas of an appropriation
bill which came up in the house Fri
day, where a Brown county farmer
wanted the legislature to appropriate
$3.15, which he claimed to be due as
wolf bounty. The idea expressed by
the speaker was that there was not
much money to the state or any one
in it to spend the money necessary
to get a bill through a legislative
body for the amount involved.
Incidentally it has been estimated
that it costs not less than $50 to
enact law or kill the bill if it gets
past one house and into the other,
and to pay a few cents at cost OF
more dollars than the cents involved
apparently stirred the economical
views of the speaker.
Among the plans proposed to the
session is one to provide a home for
the governor while at the capital.
Governor Norbeck told the appropri-
ations committee that on account OF
the owner selling the house which
has been used as the residence of the
governor for several years, he had
been compelled to move his family
to Redfield, and he asked that a
proper tract of land be secured and
the preliminary work be started on
such an improvement so that future
executives of the state would have a
place which they could call home
when called to the capital, and such
a bill has been introduced to start
such improvement.