The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-02-02
NEWS FROM THE
So. OAK. CAPITAL
DOikGS OF THE LAWMAKERS
AND GOSSIP AROUND THE
CAPITOL AT PIERRE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
There 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 l to September
Is. 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 it 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 70-cent corporation insur-
ance instead of the 35-cent brand
offered by the state. There are two Of
these in the senate, the Atherton
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
nounces a refusal on the part Of the
interstate commission to increase the
corn rate from South Dakota points
to Pacific coast points, from SO cents
to Ga cents, which was asked by
Sioux City interests on the grorAd
c~riminatory 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. They
ask for either an increase to South
Dakota points or a decrease to Sioux
City, and if they can get the latter no
n will object, but as to the increase
there is decided objection.
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Indians OF the Sioux tribe feel, that
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-
senting 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-
bility that they will put this demand
before the Legislature and ask for
action.
New senate bills were: S. b. AZ,
Atherton, increasing the gasoline tax
to. 2 cents; S. B. As, joint %appropria-
tons committee, $4,000 emergency
appropriation for state training
school; s. b. 40, appropriations COM
mittees, $S1, 961.S5 deficiency in sal
aries at penitentiary; S. B. so, ap-
preparations, for the installation Of a
generator at training school, $4,000;
S. B.. 81, appropriations, $4,000 de-
ficiency in salaries, school for the
blind; S. B. 81, Bogue, relating to
verdicts in civil cases.
Ever since there have been automo-
biles there has been n 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, it seems, the
auto men want it, and some times
the folks who have sleds want it. They
never get 1t.
Peyote prohibition passed the sen.
ate but may develop into a red mems
temperance fight before it gets
through the house. According to
present indications at the capitol,
Indians said they were not getting a
square deal in the Dill prohlDltlnS the
possession or sale Of peyote beans,
They want a hearing, which has been
promised them, they said.
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A large delegation Of residents OF
Todd county was in this city in con-
ference with Governor McMaster in
regard to affairs Of their local gov
eminent. 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 power
70 permit 10-round boxing matches in
| South Dakota is sought in "a bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator
| Charles S. Mcdonald, OF Minnehaha
county.
Appropriations ~totalling $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
49,. hoard made inst before adj