The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-12-29
COMING LEGISLATURE
'DRYS MAY BE BARRED-SUF'
FRAGISTS PLAN ANOTHER
FIGHT.

Pierre, Dec. 29.-The next event
of Importance in South Dakota VIII
be the session OF the state legislature
which will convene at Pierre early in
January. The session will be limited
to sixty days.
These sixty days promise to be full
ly occupied by the various matters OF
Importance which are to come before
the legislature. The practical GER
tainty that c. A. Christopherson OF
Sioux Falls will be elected TO the OIL
fce of speaker of the lower house
will result in the speakership being
settled without any red fire, but there
are numerous other matters which
doubtless will give the coming ses-
sion plenty of spice.
Leaders of the woman suffrage
movement i'm South Dakota will be
on hand in large numbers to urge the
legislature TO again submit 10 the
voters a proposed constitutional
amendment giving women the right
to vote. Representatives OF the state
a%ntisaloon league also will be present
to urge that the legislature submit 10
the voters at the general election in
|1916 a proposed constitutional
amendment providing for statewide
prohibition. These two questions
alone will take serenity out of the
coming session.
Recently ii was that
leading officers of the antisaloon
league will be at Pierre during the
session and will urge their views up
on the members of the legislature.
There have during the past few days
been hints to the effect hat those
who do lot agree with the views of
the leaders of the antisaloon league
will invoke the provisions OF the state
antilobby law to prevent these lead
ers becoming too strenuous In their
efforts to have the question OF pro
hibition brought TO a vote in South
Dakota.
Two initiated measures for guar
~anteeing bank deposits also will
come before the legislature, but
merely as a legal formality. The leg
islature 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 cas- has only recent
ly been completed by a committee ap-
nointed by the state bankers associa-
ton for the purpose of drafting such
a proposed law. 1t will be initiated
through petitions and filed with the
secretary of state. 49,.
The state tax commission also VIII
have a measure of Importance for the
Legislature to consider in reference TO
proposed improvements in the state
taxation system. This measure alone
because of its ~far-reaching enects
and great mass of details, will occupy
the attention OF the Legislature for
many days. There are other con-
structive measures to which the leg
islature will be required to give close
attention before enacting them into
law.
1T now is assured there will be no
railroad legislation at the coming
season. For a time there were ru-
mors 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 every
evidence that the efforts to have
these proposed measures pushed
through the legislature will be aban-
doned. This is partially due to the
fact that responsible political leaders
of South Dakota have decided the
state now has all the railroad legis-
lation it requires and that it would
be the part of wisdom to let the rail-
roads alone so they can again take
up the work of development in the
newer sections of the state which
was abandoned when the general
warfare was opened on the railroads
some years ago.