The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-02-18
INTRODUCE
many BILLS
Some of Which Have Much
Merit
ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT BILL PASSED
BY the House After a Warm
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The house was easy the center
of attraction Wednesday afternoon,
v len the electric headlight bill was
up for action. A vote was not Sc
cured until o'clock, small and
active minority opposed to the bill
putting up contest in which amend.
ments more or less pertinent were
presented and motions to adjourn help
ed to kill time. The bill was cham.
picned by Morris, Bartine, Larson of
Minnehaha, and Larson of Union, with
Fowler Englesby and Wkrner, the
floor managers for the opposition.
Morris in his remarks against post
lponement of action, said that mem
bers of the senate who had voted for
the bill had been lobbying against it
on the floor of the house, and that
those who opposed the bill were in
several cases working under coercion,
amounted to was a desire to club
and that all the demand for delay
members into submission The debate
warmed up before it was finished and
was shut off by the previous ques-
ton, when the bill passed by vote
of SO to IS.
The senate passed the house resolu:
ton for submitting to the people an
amendment to the constitution allow
ing state lands to be leased for agri-
cultural purposes. This measure
called out a debate on the best inter
ests of the state, being opposed by
Lockhart and Byrnes and supported by
Bates. That body passed several other
minor bills without any furry.
Among the house bills introduced
was one by Morris re-enact.ng the
primary election law, to cut out two
primaries in presidential years, and
such other amendments as may be
deemed best.
The house passed the Simonson bill
to make it a misdemeanor to- drink
Intoxicating liquors or be drunk on
a passenger train, and giving the JUS
tices general jurisdiction to deal with
such cases; and postponed the bill
f the insurance of bank deposits
until Wednesday of next week, the
bill being opposed in the present shape
by Speaker CLANCY, who left the chair
to take part in the discussion.
The proposed new supreme court
districts have been practically agreed
upon by the subcommittee, and the
bill creating two new districts will
likely be reported this week by the
committees of both houses. The lines
of the proposed districts have been
changed slightly from those in the
original bill, but materially follow the
original lines.
In passing the state depository bill
through the house without debate, and
with no opposing votes, was decided
change from past sessions, in which
such bills have always met defeat.
The alleged opposition to former bills
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state treasurer This time nothing of
the kind developed.
Mcdonnell has started another rail
road bill, in which he requires all
railroads to maintain scales at divi-
sion points and weigh all cars of
stock, grain and merchandise, and furn-
ish certificate of weight to the party
to whom the shipment has been made
He also asks for the creation of the
counties of Nash, Todd and Sherard
out of portion of the Rosebud and
Pine Ridge reservations.
Whiting introduced bill which has
for its purpose the cutting off of the
publication of insurance statements
which, if enacted, will take away a
large amount of political patronage
which has been used on the country
press of the state for years.
A bill in the senate Thursday pro-
vided for a state flag, to be blazing
sun on blue field with the words,
Sunshine State" in an arc, the flag
to be one and one-third times as long
as it is wide.
Gov. Vessey Thursday sent to the
senate the names Of T. B. Fitzpatrick
of Rapid City, A. B. Nelson OF Pierre
and Arthur Linn of Canton, as mem
bers of the soldiers home board, and
the same was confirmed by the senate.
About the only bill which created
a ripple in the house Thursday was
one defining partition fence and the
manner in which 1t shall be paid for.
This called out the farmer voice, and
after number of attempts to change
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