The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-03-02
APPROPRIATION
BILL SETTLED
LEGISLATURE MAKES % BUDGET
FOR YEAF
PUBLICITY BILL 8 KILLED
BUT RURAL MEMBEF g ASS KERR
DEMONSTRATION ,M BILL.
BUDGET

ports are in, members have made up
their minds on important measures,
and the legislature is turning out
laws IS though it was being paid by
the piece. The appropriations COM
mittee have agreed on a general ap-
preparations bill carrying about ST.
200, 600. The budget for the support
of the administrative offices amounts
to $685. 600; for charitable and penal
institutions $S75, 900; and for the edu-
c~ational institutions, $672,100. These
sums are for the ext two years, and
are exclusive Of special bills for i'm
provements, new buildings. etc. The
general bill two years ago amounted to
$4,000 The legislature has been
very conservative in it's expenditures,
and has been forced to cut down some
of the departments to almost less than
is necessary for efficient administra-
ton.
Two proposed primary bills have
been put to rest during the week.
Bigelow's combination of the general
and primary elections aroused very
favorable comment on the part of all.
However, the house felt that it prom
ised too radical a change, and turned
it down. Both houses killed the Rich
ards primary bill on Saturday. Mr..
Richards was at hand with an initia-
tive petition signed by eight thousand,
and the secretary of state sent it i'm
mediately to either house, which will
enact it without question. Mr.. Rich
ards has purchased a sixty horse
power auto, and as soon as the roads
and weather will permit, will begin
a systematic campaign of the state.
Apportionment is causing a good
deal of discussion. The committee on
apportionment bill, which seems to
have been constructed with the utmost
fairness, is being attacked in some
places because it could not give every
community the representation it de-
sired. 1t passed the house without
amendment late Saturday. The SEN
ate has deferred action on it two diff
ferent times, and many express fear
that it will continue to do so until
adjournment. There are many mem
bers that would just as soon see this
as not, for it would mean that a num-
Der of the eastern counties would
maintain their present delegation for
another session.
Both the house and the senate have
adopted the electric headlight bill.
There was no decided opposition to it
in either house, and the members felt
that The vote on it last fall was not a
true expression of the peoples will,
and that it was a valuable life saving
device.
The house killed the Kerr-Millett i'm
migration commissioner bill. many of
the farmer members expressing them
selves as believing it to be class legis-
lation for the benefit of the real es-
tate men. Its friends very warmly
champiOned it as a necessity, for If
we do not advertise ourselves, the
~neighboring states which do maintain
publicity departments, will get far
ahead of us in population and wealth.
The herd law, of which so much
has been heard in the past, was ex-
tended throughout the state by the
Wyman bill which passed the senate
during the week. 1t requires that the
cattleman guard his stock by herding
or fences, or pay damages for crops
destroyed.
The senate, with n vote to spare,
voted to submit the suffrage question
to the voters at the next election. The
amendment was ably championed by
Senator Henault of Custer, a bachelor,
who has been promised a wife if he
will put the amendment through the
legislature. The house turned down
a proposition to give the franchise to
property owning women
The Observation-Disclosures Sol
diers' Home investigation committee
bill, taking control of the Soldiers
Home out Of the hands Of the old vet
erans, whom the committee charged
with being inefficient, and place it in
the control OF a younger board, was
killed in the senate by a narrow mar
gin. The friends of the measure urged
common ense, and business eff
cheney; it's opponents talked senti-
ment.
The Kerr demonstration farm bill,
whereby any county upon a deposit Of
$500 with the state a secure a
demonstration farm, where the latest
methods in agriculture are to be ex-
empliAed. passed the house with the
appreciation 81 the rural members.