The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-02-18
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IN TOWN ELECTIONS
IS BEATEN IN SENATE
House Bill Is Defeated
After Afternoon of
Oratory.
NORMAL is SAVED
House Fails to Abolish School
But Will Reconsider the
Vote Today
NORMAL is SAVED

Pierre, s. Through an error
on the part of the opponents to the
bin abolishing the Springfield Nor
NAL, that bill is up again this after
noon on reconsideration. and those
who are supporting the measure
claim to nave gained enough strength
| last night to put it over today.
Pierre, S. Din the legislature
yesterday the senate voted Gown the
house bill for municipal woman suf-
frage; the house failed by two votes
to pass the bill abolishing the Spring
field Normal but passed Il motion to
reconsider today; and the house le-
stored to the liquor license law words
requiring a majority OF all votes cast
in an election. whether on license or
not. before saloons can be licensed.
In the house yesterday afternoon
one new bill came in from the health
committee. n. b. 3l3, to allow county
boards OF health 10 delegate their
power to enforce health regulations
| to any physician in the county.
The House committee reported ad-
versely on the bill to abolish the State
| immigration department and against
the game fund among the counties.
| They reported favorably on establish
| ing a game bird refuge on the Old
| Fort Sisseton military reservation in
| Marshall county; and returned ma
| jority and minority reports on the
1 bill to appropriate money to open a
stone quarry at the penitentiary, and
to increase the capacity of the twine
! ,ln 20 ma t,-h Or
preparation, and the minority against
| it,
To Reconsider Salaries.
Lundquist moved that the vote by
which house bill 227 was passed Mon
day be reconsidered, it being the bill
| which increases the salaries in the
members backing the motion, which
carried, and the bill is back on the
| list for tomorrow. Weller came next
with a motion to reconsider the vote
! by which House bill ESQ was lost
Monday, increasing the travel pay OF
county superintendents, which car
ried. and that is back Knight then
wanted reconsideration of the vote
by which II. b. SIS was lost. this
/ changing the time of county supern-
tendents from taking office from Jan.
to to June l which motion carried.
Springfield Normal Wins
This brought up to the special
order on House Bill 90, abollsning
the Springfield Normal which took
the rest OF the afternoon. or most
of it. in talk. Waltner led for the
bill, quoting statistics to show that
the school is neither properly locat-
ed nor doing the proper work to war
rant the expense of continuing 1t.
Rinehart objected to .'the big fish
trying to eat the little ones" and
to granting part of the land given
this normal. to the state university
and the agricultural college, ana
moved by striking out al lof the sec
ton providing for the division, which
carried. Waltner than in his figures
showed that from 1901 to date the
school had cost the state 100000
: and that it is now asking 100000
J more as special and general appro-
=. prations, and charged that the op-
: position to the bill would come from
the appropriation counties. Greer
of Bon Homme replied with another
lot of statistics to show what the
| school is and has been doing. Weller
V, cited his figures to show that the av
S erage cost of graduating teacher a
/ Springfield has been $4,000 each
y and thought it not good bushes:
Y proposition for the state TO attemp
+ to turn out teachers at Springfield
: when it is securing the finish produc
/, at a far less cost from the other mar
. mails of the state. Knight, Stedron
8 sky, and Anderson of Corson opposed
D the bill to abolish, and Anderson o
Clark declared the location of tn
!, school at such an out-of-way plac
a was one of the trading deals of earl.
r day crooked politicians, and on
d which could not be sustained. Jacob
It was for the law and March against
=. On vote the record was 46 for th
II bill and As against The motion t
"sinche' the bill called out storr
e of portest, and Anderson of Clar
', asked that the motion be divided
n which was done, and on vote tn
house reconsidered and the bill wa
d mae a special order for this after
- noon again.
V. Vote on License An Issue.
III The next special order was o
II house bill Sc, which replaces in th
If liuuor license law the words whic
i are claimed to have been cut out b
Of some mysterious and unknown near
az thus changing the law to read
ID majority voting on that question il
G. stead of a majority of all vote
Z. Birch DECLARED what he was askin
was that the law be made just as
ne was passed two years ago. and whlc
It, had never been legally changed. M
de Farland stated that the bill as pas
sn ed by the house did not have ii
10 words in which were found to
- there when it was filed in the Off
OF the secretary of state, that he hi