Show 1 South South Dakotas Dakota's Scheme i io o t SOUTH COUTH DAKOTA already ady an interesting 1 O laboratory of experimental politics ls is discussing discussing dis dis- cussing abolishing its present legislature of oft t two houses of 46 and members and setting setting Set- Set 4 ting up a single house of perhaps sixteen to sit r all lL the time or r so much of L it as QS may be necessary ary Similar schemes ha have ve often been discussed The trouble with a them all is that they do not think the problem r through ti Ii Because present methods are inefficient 1 and arid this would be efficient and would escape the fhe dictation by the governor to which we have submitted because nothing else in the i. i existing scheme wor worked ed the te temptation p tion is to jump Jump at the conclusion that this is the way 7 1 out ut A little tittle observation of the experience t of f the world worM ought to show that the place to o get small numbers and efficiency is not l Fl in hi th the l legislature but in a cabinet or ministry It L sitting with that legi legislature lature and subject to toj toI j I it its constant qu question stion and supervision f Under such a system the l legislature gisl will dare del delegate gate enough power to the cabinet If to tb make it eff efficient and may itself remain f ff numerous enough to be representative Effi Effi- 4 A de cy and are not possible f in ill the same body We need both The only way Vay to get them is to have two bodies and I ft to H w make the efficient one operate under the I constant o s ant inspection of the representative one |