The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-02-08
NEWS FROM THE
So. OAK CAPITAL
OOiNGS OF THE LAWMAKERS
AND GOSSIP AROUND THE
CAPITOL AT H.cRRE.

"N' EenSDaprf bhhoh NEWS Sefsicc.
Their was a furry OF hail insur-
ance amendments at the opening
session of the South DAKOTA legisla-
ture. One OF them changes the law so
that insurance Is in force all over
the state from June / to September
10. Another one exempts alfalfa from
the provisions of hail insurance. Then
there is a group of bills which Com
missioner of Insurance w. N. Van
Camp is opposing. They are those
which seek to make the insurance
elective rather than optional, and Mr..
Van Camp says ii would be efficiency
and economy to repeal the whole
business rather than this; and those
which, he points out, benefit the land
owner while practically putting the
tenant farmer up against going back
to the old 78-cent corporation insurr
ance instead OF the 35-cent brand
offered by the state. There are two of
these in the senate, the Anterior
senate bill No. 6, which provides that
If the land owner is sole owner of the
property he shall have the sole right
to exempt.
The state railway commission an
interstate commission to increase the
corn rate from South Dakota points
to Pacific coast points, from So cents
to "a cents, which was asked by
Sioux City interests on the ground
that the South Dakota rate was dis
~criminatory against Sioux City. This
complaint on the part of Sioux City
interests was opposed by the state
commission, which is now taking the
same stand in regard to the demand
of Sioux City that the coal rates from
Lake Superior points to South Dakota
points be changed to give them the
same rate, on the ground that the
present rate is discriminatory. The
ask for either an increase to South
Dakota points or a decrease to Sioux
City, and if they can get the latter no
one VIII object. but as to the increase
there is decided objection.
1ubAdlO Oh lnt oIOuA II IbC iCSt' saal
as the original residents Of Dakota,
they should have representation in
some commemorative form in the
South Dakota state capitol. They
point to the fact that statuary repre-,
s~enting leading whites OF the state
has already been located in the build,
ing, and feel that they are entitled to
a like showing, either in the way OF
the statue of some one of their lead,
ing men of the past DAYS, or a sta
tue commemorative of the Sioux in
some other form. There is a proba-
bill ty that they will put this demand
before the legislature and ask for
action
New senate bills we're: S. b. AZ,
Atherton, increasing the gasoline tax
to 2 cents; S. B. As, joint %appropria-
tions committee, $4,000 emergency
appropriation for state training
school; S. B. 40, appropriations com
mittees, S1,96l.S5 deficiency in sal
aries at penitentiary; S. B. so, ap.
preparations, for the installation of a
generator at training school, $4,000;
s. 3. 81, appropriations, $1,000 de-
ticiency in salaries, school for the
blind; s. b. 81, Bogue, relating to
verdicts in civil cases.
+ Ever since there have been automo-
biies there has been one bill appear
ing each legislative session, and each
year meeting with the same frosty
reception. 1t is a bill requiring bob
sleds to conform to the gauge OF auto
mobile wheels, that the ruts may be
the same. Some times, 1t seems, the
auto men want IL, and some times
he folks who have slsds want it. They
aeyer get 1t.
Peyote prohibition passed the sen
ate but may develop into a red mems
temperance fight before Ii gets
through the house. According TO
present indications at the capitol,
indians said they were not getting a
square deal in the bill prohibiting the
possession or sale of peyote beans,
They want a hearing. which has been
promised them, they said.
A large delegation Of residents Of
Todd county was in this city in cor
ference with Governor McMaster in
regard to affairs Of their local gov
srnment. The delegation contained
representative citizens both white
and Indian, and covered a large par.
Of the county.
Establishment OF a state athletic
! commission which would have powe
20 permit 10-round boxing matches in
South Dakota is sought in a bill in
troduced in the enate by Senator
Charles s. Mcdonald, of Minnehaha
county.
Appropriations ~total,ing $9,315,343
are recommended for the operation
and Improvement of state depart
ments and institutions for the next
two years, under the report OF the
budget board, made just before adj
journment for the weeks recess. This
Is an increase of $1,750.0 900. or 20 per
cent, over the appropriation OF the
last session. with a corresponding 81
per cent increase In the population OF
state institutions reported. The az