The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-03-04
VOTE ON EQUAL SUFFRAGE
shall Women Have the Ballot Will
be Determined by Il Popular
Vote i'll 1910 Election.

Vote i'll 1910 Election.
Pierre, March 1.-l1qual suffrage
is an entity; at IN rate 1t has pass
ed both houses and will be submit
ted to the people at the next election.
Its passage through the senate
scarcely caused a ripple. The roll
call revealed thirty-three for and ten
against. There We're no fatalities in
the ladies lobby.
The Senate bill extending the pow
ers of the capitol commission passed
1t was pretty hctly contested by
Forbis and Hebal, and held up by
Newell and Larson of Minnehaha,
the opposition being to paragraph
four which empowered the commits
sion ID buy additional land within
a limit of three thousand dollars.
The house cleared its calendar be-
fore noon and begal after dinner
upon a calendar of only thirty-five
senate bills. Most of the senate
bills are now out of the senate and
most of the house bills are through
the house, and there is not a large
accumulation either way. The pros
pect of clearing up most of the bust
ness by Thursday night is very good;
in fact never was better as so near
the close.
The inebriate asylum bill is prob
ably gone to rest. In the senate an
asylum provision was tackled onto the
! bill sending inebriates to Yankton
and when it came up for concurrence
Hebal moved it's indefinite postpon-
! ment. The motion prevailed, but
later was found to be contrary to the
rule which requires an amendment
to be concurred In or not concurred
in. An attempt was made to ex-
punge the action from the record,
but the members would not have 1t
and it stands indefinitely postponed.
The fat rate freight bill by Bar
tine which passed Saturday evening
fixing freight rates IN a mileage
basis, has stirred up the whole
salers to great activity and a large
representation of the wholesale men
of Aberdeen and Sioux Falls arrived
on Sunday to oppose the measure in
the senate.
The wholesale grocers are also in
terested in the senate pure food bill
which passed today. They have been
at variance with the millers relating
to. the provision prohibiting blended
goods. The millers simply can't
abide blended -four, for it gives the
outside millers a great advantage,
but the grocers can't get along with
out blended coffee. A compromise
was finally reached and both parties
are content.
An important bill to the dairy in
terest is Mr.. Trumbo's dairy expert
proposition which puts the dairy
affairs of the state in the hands of
the dairyman at Brookings college.
Several bills met up with indefinite
postponment in the house, among
them Larson's limiting the number
of saloons to one to seven hundred
inhabitants, also licensing real es-
tate dealers, establishing counties
on Standing Rock and Cheyenne Re-
servations and prohibiting druggists
from selling beer.
The leading senate bills passed in
the house we're for the appointment
of a Bee %Inspectator; providing for
continuous investment of school
moneys. the banking bill which en-
acts most of the recommendations
made by the bank examiner i'll mis-
annual report.
The senate passed House bills di-
viding the state into two congress-
ional districts; and creating a divi-
sion of public accounting in the aud
itor's office, which relieves the bank
examiner of the examination Of
county and state officers.