The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1920-07-01
Following is a partial list of bills Tn.

iHucpeHuSHl SCHOOl ulSlTlCtS III CltleS'
Legslizing act for Hayti independ-
ent school district No. 2, Hamlin.
Providing a city t~reasurer's bond
shall be for the sum he handles in
stead of twice that amount.
Raising fees OF shorthand court re-
porters.
Permitting county judges to prac-
tice in courts superior to them.
Regulating the cure Of defects or
COMMISSIONS in records Of instruments
affecting title to real property.
Validating certain guardians sales
Of real estate.
Validating certain DEGREES settling
final accounts Of executors and ad-
ministrators, DEGREES Of distribution
and notices published.
Fixing limit on lease on land and
real property at 100 instead Of 20
years.
Regulating trials before railroad
commissioners, and appeals.
Appropriating $1,000 for deficiency
at soldiers home.
Appropriating $4,000 for state hos
pital, s10,0 900 for root cellar and $1S,-
900 for furniture woman's infirmary.
Appropriating s1S,1OO, paving as
sessment at State college.
Appropriating $500 maintenance
deficiency school for feeble minded,
Fixing salary of executive accofht-
ant at SO, 800.
Consolidating all funds in the de-
partment of history for maintenance.
Appropriating $4,000 to purchase
Sylvan Lake and $4,000 to improve.
Appropriating $4,000 for expenses of
10 circuit judges.
Appropriating $1,000 deficiency,
power house at Spearfish.
Fixing salary of deputy industrial
commissioner at $4,000.
Providing for expenses up to SIS
of funeral of soldiers, sailors, marines
and aviators whose estates are not
sufficient to pay them.
Appropriating $S5.1S for certain
blanks for tax commission.
Fixing salaries Of state live stock
board.
Fixing salary of state engineer at
$4,000.
Fixing salary Of food and drug
commissioner at SO, 900.
Appropriating s1,17O for pianos at
Spearfish Normal.
Appropriating $4,000 for new en-
ntpn nrI nrnrnfnr nnVifNl rnuyn~
plant.
Fixing salaries of railroad commits
sioners and secretary.
Ap~propriating $621.5O for legislative
supplies, special session.
Fixing salary Of secretary OF tax
commission at $3.50.
Fixing salary secretary Of histori-
cal society at 5 5000.
Gov. Norbeck in his comment
On the much heralded nonparti-
san league petition in boots" calls
attention to the inconsistencies Of the
three principal features of their de
mands" upon the legislature. In
quoting the 1918 platform of the re.
publican party, charging that 1t prom
Used state owned elevators and mills,
the demand ignored the pledge Of that
party to use the same prudence in in
vesttng state funds as that of pri-
vate money. The department Of mar
keting has investigated the North
North Dakota experiment and other
features Of the elevator and mill stu
alton and will report to the legisla-
ture in full. Demand was made for
a flat tax in the state hail insurance
but the governor shows that this
would penalize the owner Of land in
western South Dakota. He states
that there is room for improvement
in the present law but that undoubt-
eddy changes will be made in the
light Of practical experience and not
based on pure theory. The petition
demanded a state bank and claimed
n has been promised. No such
pledge has eve been made. A state
bank is supposed to finance the farm.
er but the North Dakota institution
oHo"S HO inulCdllOH VI fulfilling the
function while South Dakota had a
successful rural credit system before
the nonpartisans invaded the state.
Gov. Norbeck calls attention to the
fact that the league had twenty mem
bers in the 1919 legislature and not
one OF them introduced a bill in fur
therance Of the league program. He
states that the republican party has
kept its pledges to the people, but
that the league has made no effort to
keep its pledges to it's members.
The temperance committee Of the
house is framing a bill which has for
it's purpose the repeal Of the act of
the last legislature which has been
stayed by a referendum petition, and
a further amendment which especially
covers the matter of the search of
private residences.
The bill to repeal the referred pro-
hibition law of the last session was
introduced in the senate and IL Il
passes there is nothing left to vote
upon so far as that issue is concerned
next November.