The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-02-04
RAILROADS RECEIVE
MUCH ATTENTION
AT the Hands of Present Legislature Some Thirty Bills
Being Aimed at Them
G0vERN0R VESSEY MAKES A NUMBER Of APPOINTMENTS
WhedtOnS Drug and Food Bills Strenuosy Opposed
BY Manufacturers and Jobbers

--cent rate bill, it was so badly man
gled IN the operation that the house
refuses TO recognize the child. While
II is possible that the house may CON
cur IN the bill as it has been retlrn-
ed, il will not be without igst o.,
! the part Of some Of the members who
insist that their bill was a better one,
and will insist upon a conference. If
they succeed the bill will not get to
the governor for several DAYS vet.
A favorable report was returned i'm
the mouse on the bill by SmonsOn of
}rookings, making the drinking of in.
, toXlcatlnS liquors. or the Offering of
the same on train operated in the
state misdemeanor but amended to
exclude buffet cars for its operations.
/ The bill is desired by trainmen, and
not meeting any visible organized op-
position, is likely to get through.
The house passed the Ranum bill
authorizing an increase Of one mill i'm
the ieyies Of county and township
bridge funds, on the ground that the
old law Is not equal to meet present
day conditions in the eastern part O.
the state. and that many nocessarv
bridges cannot be constructed on ac-
count Of limitations Of levy for that
purpose
: The fight on the pure drug bill in
troduced by the druggists association
started early Friday and lasted for
more than an hour, Food Commission.
er Wheaton being an interesting listen
er. Attempts to amend to put the en-
J fc ment of the law under control
Of the commissioner We're voted down
and after cutting out the appropriation
part OF the bill it was passed by a
vote OF IS to 9. This practically set
ties the fate Of the drug bill prepared
by Commissioner Wheaton,
The house passed the bill to allow
terms OF court to be held in other than
county seat counties when the same
are three miles or more from a rail.
road affecting Hutchinson county
alone
The house sent the hopes of the
equal suffrage contingent soaring into
the realms OF JOY Monday when they
cut the property qualification from the
senate resolution granting suffrage.
only to drop them into the slough Of
despond a few minutes later when they
killed the resolution by vote of a
against - for the submission of the
question TO the voters at he next gen
eral election,
After keeping quiet since the open
ing of the session, the bill to allow
attorneys and physicians to crawl
under the fence so far as the anti
pass law is concerned was presented
in the senate Monday afternoon by
Curtis Of Brown county, and will be a
factor in legislation for a few days
until it is disposed of.
The senate passed railroad bills re-
curing railroad companies to report
tatal wrecks to the railroad commits
sion; authorizing the railroad COM
mission to appear in cases in which
the state is interested; requiring rail
roads to report to the commission the
number of elevators along their lines,
and requiring railroads to maintain
toilet rooms at their stations.
The house passed the appropriation
bill for the completion of the state
capitol and tangled up on the bill pro-
yding for hotel licenses, with tan
gle was ended by an adjournment in
the middle of the miXup
Farmers generally will be interested
in the fence bill now before the legis-
! lature for the time has come in South
Dakota when farm fences are nec-
essity. We have a fence law on the
statute books adopted by the session
of 1903 but it is cumbersome and ex-
pensive and does not apply in all cases
SO that the necessity for simpler
and broader and less expensive pro-
cess is manifest
The Arnold bill provides that every
owner of agricultural lands from
which he derives beneficial use must
maintain half of the partition fences
abounding it,
That each shall build and maintain
that half of the partition fence which
is upon his right hand when he stands
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