The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-03-09
SESSION WAS
UNUSUAL ONE
LOWER HOUSE LIKE A NEW ENG
LAND MEETING.
LITTLE is ACCOMPLISHED
THIS SESSION IN THE WAY OF
MERlToRIOUs LEGISLATION.

Inc tWeItn legislative session which
came to a close last Saturday is with
out parallel since the beginning Of
statehood, says a Pierre dispatch.
1t is the first session in which there
has been no organized following. The
senate has not been as bad as the
house, and there was not quite the
chaos in that body as in the larger
one, but even in hat body no one
could predict just what any group"
would do on more than one bill, the
men working together on one PROPOSE
ton being opposed to one another on
the next bill.
The house has been a regular old
fashioned New England town meeting
from the start to the finish, the only
point at which any cohesion has been
shown being on the question of special
appropriations for different state in
situations, in which the representatives
from the counties wanting something
pretty generally stood together, but
they could not be counted on to vote
as a solid vote, some Of them break
ing out Of the corral at times, and re-
curing a new roundup before they
could be called certain.
The session had before it no great
reform" measure to hold the attention
of it's members, unless the Richards
primary bill a SO be considered, but
that is not taken seriously enough by
the members to call 1t a great issue,
and with individual bills as the prime
motive for most of them, it is not sur.
prising that there was no greater evil
dences of organization.
The only law enacted which will
probably be of greater importance to
the people Of the state than any other
one proposition was the good roads
law, which, while bearing that name,
is only the first step in that direction.
1t only opens the way for future ses-
them to build upon.
The constitutional amendments to be
submitted at the next election will be
few in number, the equal suffrage
amendment going down with a number
Of others which were presented. The
amendment to allow the taxing of
franchises, incomes and gross earnings
will be one of the few which will go
to the people, and the referred laws
are likely to be few in number, the
headlight bill being probably the only
one which will be brought up.
The game laws have been materially
amended, cutting out county game
wardens and substituting in their
stead state wardens. The number of
chickens or ducks for a days kill have
been reduced to five a day. For big
game the hunting season has been re-
duced to one month-November-and
the Kill of any one hunter for the
month reduced to one male deer, with
females and does absolutely protected.
Antelope and elk are put under the
protection Of the law, with a Jail SEN
tence as the penalty of killing either.
Numerous measures have been en-
acted which affect different sections Of
the state locally, and much has been
done which will be of little merit ex-
cept to those individually concerned.
But as for general purposes of re-
form or great general benefit, the ses-
sion will fall behind those of two and
four years ago..
Below we publish a complete list Of
laws passed at this session:
HOUSE BILLS.
House Bill No. 7, by Millett, pro-
lection OF antelopes.
House Bill No. 10, by Glassner, legal
izing Tyndall bond election.
House Bill, No. II, by Cranston, per-
tanning to witness fees.
House Bill No. 10, by Hursh, reim-
bursting Sol Star.
House Bill No. %, by Tyler, day
light saloon law.
House Bill No. 81, by Tscharner,
carriers in state to pay claims within
sixty days.
House Bill No. 80, by Hicks, to eX-
pedite apprehension of horse thieves.
House, Bill No. So, by Cranston,
storm insurance by county mutual
companies.
House Bill No. 80, by Swanson,
storm insurance by county mutual
companies.
House Bill No. A, by Newton. food
and dairy to food and drug depart
ment.
House Bill No. As, by Newton, re-
lating to sale of adulterated foods.
House Bill No. So, by larson, $7.61
tax refund to PlankintOn Telephone
company.
House Bill No. 50, by Groth, board
OF supervisors to regulate pool halls.
House Bill No. ~, by appointive
committee. $5,O65.16 repairing state