The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-12-31
he Coming Session
May Avoid litter
Fights.
sDRYo" ARE &C IlVF
Their Movemen.s Will At
tract Much lnterest-Chris-
topherson for Speaker.

Sioux Falls. S. D.-The next event
of importance in South Dakota will
be the session of the state legisla-
ture, which will V at Pierre
early in January. Under the law
The session viii, be limited to sixty
days.
These sixty days promise to be
fully occupied by the various mat
iers of Importance which are to come
| before the legislature. The practi-
cal certainly that C. A. Christopher
son, OF Sioux Falls, will be elected
20 the ONCE of speaker OF the dow
CT house. viii result in the speaker
snip pelng selt1ed without any RED
nre, but there are numerous mat
se1s wn.cn uouutAess will give The
coming session plenty of spice.
Leaders OF The women suffrag.
movement IN South dakota Will "
on hala III lafse NUMBERS 10 urse
nc fes4siatare to again summit u
the voters a proposed constitutional
amendment giving women the right
20 yote. Representatives oil the state
Anti-Saloon league also Will be OIL
hand to- urge the legislature to SUD
mt TO the voters at the genera
election IN 1876 a proposed consti-
.ut4onal amendment providing for
I s~,ate-wide. prohibition. These two
questions alone will make the COM
y =, - =, o~c4o t.,, f.o,,, n n,,tnt ann '
Are Called Lobbyists.
Recently 1T was announced thai
leading officers OF the Anti-Saloon
league viii be at Pierre during the
sessson and will urge their views up
on the members of the legislature.
There have during the past few
days been hints to the effect that
those who do rot agree with the
views of the ~leaderssof the Anti
Saloon league will. invoke the pro-
visions of the state anti-lobby law
to prevent these leaders becoming
too strenuous in their efforts to have
the Question of prohibition brought
to a vote in-Spqth Dakota.
~ Two Mstiafta measures for guar
santeeing Bank deposits also will
come before the legislature, but
merely as a legal formality. The
legislature must pass the measures as
{ initiated and submit them to the
voters of South Dakota at the next
general election. One measure,
which was fathered by the state
Democratic committee, was filed just
after the close of the last legislative
session. The second measure has
only recently been completed by a
committee appointed by the State
Bankers association for the purpose
OF drafting such a proposed Jaw. 1t
will be initiated through petitions
and filed with the secretary of state.
The state tax commission also
will have q measure OF Importance
for the legislature to consider in
reference to proposed improvements
in the state taxing system. This
measure alone, because OF its far
reaching effects and great mass OF
details, will occupy the attention Of
the legislature for many days. There
are other constructive measures to
which the legislature will be requir-
ed to give close attention before en-
acting them into law.
No Railroad Bills.
1t now is assured that there will
be no railroad legislation at the
looming session. For a time there
were rumors that efforts might be
made to have the legislature enact
what are known as the full-crew and
fifty-car-limit bills, but there now is
tevery evidence that the efforts to
have these proposed measures push
ed through the legislature will be
abandoned. This is partially due to
the fact that the people of Missouri.
at the November election this yea1,
voted down both measures by over
whelming majorities, and the fur
Their fact that all the responsible pol
itical leaders Of South Dakota have
decided that South Dakota now has
lall the railroad legislation it re-
Iquires and that it would be the part
of wisdom to let the railroads alone,
SO they can again take up the work
tiof development in the newer sections
of the state, which was abandoned
when the general warfare was opened
on the raiiroads;some years ago. The
responsible leaders are united in.
their determination not to waste the
time of the coming session of the leg
fislature with proposed railroad leg-
lislatton, and will frown upon all at,
tempts to push such legislation
Through the legislature.
- - utAAeVSO%IuG coming leE1Sla-
lture will be known In the states
history as the business session: that
the members will labor Increasingly
for measures for the benefit. OF The
Presidents of South Dakota. and that
personal differences and the fierce
fights which have marked previous
sessions will be lacking at the cons
Ing session, in the desire OF all men,
hers to rOmot the mafar;,l ;rtar
ests of the state and work for the
welfare of all the people of South
Dakota.
HEAVY CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Britton, S. D.-Fifteen criminal
$ are OF the calendar for a term
of state circuit court for Marshall
county, which will convene January
S. Among the cases is one In which
the defendant is charged with the
murder, which resulted from q drunk
en- row in the village of Eden. Three
other defendants Will he tried on the