The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-01-31
HAIL INSURANCE
LAW INTRODUCED
PROVIDES FOR INSURANCE ONLY
ON APPLICATION INSTEAD
OF INSURING ALL CROPS.


TO the State hail insurance law to
provide insurance only on applica-
tion, is provided in bill introduced
in the senate by Senator Erskine OF
Meade county. Under the present
law all crops are insured, unless ex-
empted.
The senate passed the bill making
bank robbery or burglary a felony
with a maximum penalty of life i'm
prisonment and $4,000 fine.
An amendment to the compulsory
education law is proposed in a bill
introduced by Senator Verg of Min
nehaha county, permitting children
to be out of school half day per
week for relief or moral instruc-
tion.
A bill has been introduced by SEN
ator Crawford of Beadle county re-
pealing soldier moratorium, except
as applies to tax exemptions during
service.
The senate bill authorizing fra
ternal insurance of children passed
the house after long debate. The
bitter fight on the floor on the ad-
visibility of permitting anyone to
have insurance on small children
ended when a baby in the gallery
walled, and on the plea that "chil-
dren cry for it," the bill passed.
A solution of the city mana ger
problem in South Dakota is deemed
in sight by interested members of
the legislature who have been study
ing bill prepared for presentation
by Senator Danforth of Minnehaha
county South Dakota has in its
1919 revised code a city manager
were heretofore declared unconsti-
tutional by the courts, since the title
of the bill, as introduced by Repre-
sentative Lyon of Minnehaha coun-
ty, was inadequate. Re-enacted as
a part of the, code by the session OF
1919, the law stood. But it was va
que in many points. There was some
feeling that no direct authority was
given anybody to call the election on
the question of change to the city
manager plan, and some other pre-
liminary provisions were vague,
while the duties and powers of the
manager when elected were not
clearly defined. The measure pro-
posed by Mr. Danforth is aimed to
correct these defects, and to make
the city manager plan practical and
possible for such South Dakota cities
as desire to try it.
The Dawson county delegation is
considering a situation arising IN
their home county, where the coun-
ty. commissioners discharged the
county nurse and urged the abolition
of the office of county highway sup
erintendent as expensive and use
less. The commissioners announced
that they intended to ask the legis-
lature to repeal the law Grating a
county highway superintendent and
nut the roads back under commits
sioner supervision. Their reasons
will be asked by the legislature, and
the Dawson county delegation will
endeavor to secure statement o1
both sides of the case and throw the
information they obtain before the
highway committee in its endeavol
to work out an equitable and effi
cient highway law for South Dakota
honortiopp,opt committees of the
two houses are seriously considerins
their task. Every sixth and then ev
cry fourth year the apportionnen
committee has a task on its hands
and the rest of the time 1T is purely
honorary. After every national cen
sus, and after every state census
and after every state census which
intervenes, it must figure out proper
legislative representation for thu
people of the state. The 1917 ses
sion figured on a basis of the l9ls
state census; this session will fig
ure on the 1920 basis, and theil
figures will stand till 1927, after th'
1925 state counting of noses. Coun
ties which have shared in the av
erage growth of the state in the las
five years show little interest In thu
proceeding, but from counties which
Jagged behind or had a considerabl,
lead, members report a divided re
cess howl that their several right
be respected, and it is here that an,
fight will come.