The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-02-09
THE LEGISLATURE
FuIBUSTER IN SENATE ON THE
DEATH PENALTY-EUGE-
MICS BILL DEFEATED.

Pierre, Feb. 9.-In the first fill
buster of The session, the senate
spent two hours preventing a recon
sideration of the vote by which the
abolishing capital punishment had
passed. The vote by which the bill
was passed a week ago was "a to Is.
only one more than the required ma
iority. Senator Morris, who voted
for the bill, is absent and the three
or four senators have reversed their
position, so that the opponents Of the
measure are in the majority. Siren
uous efforts were made to put
through a motion to reconsider.
which was prevented by an all after
noon hlibuster on the part of friends
of the bill.
Ziebach moved to reconsider the
vote by which action on the bill had
been postponed; carried % to Is.
Beebe's motion topostpone until Mon
day was lost, 10 to 81. A call of the
senate was ordered. a motion to ad-
iourn was lost and the flibuster was
on.
After seven calls of the senate and
eighteen roll calls, friends of the bill
finally succeeded in securing an ad
journment.
A determined effort was made in
the house TO defeat the text book
bill, which was before the house on
a motion to reconsider. A debate
followed in which Speaker Chris
topherson, who had taken the floor
to oppose the motion, engaged in a
warm controversy with Representa-
tive Benson of Moody county. The
motion to reconsider was lost, 46 to
SO.
Eugenlcs had an inning in the
house when the bin introduced by re-
quest of the Social Science club of
Aberdeen, came up for final passage.
Jacobs and Swanson of Brown oun
~ supported the bill and Mcfarland
led the opposition. IT was lost, %
to SIS.
Catching some of the spirit of
fight from the doings in the senate
on the other side of the capitol TO
tunda, the house engaged in a con-
~troversy over a proposal to print he
report of the investigating commit
tee appointed by the governor two
years ago in the house journal. There
was one call of the house and the
members sang "Tipperary" while the
sergeant at arms was searching for
absentees.
1t was claimed that it would cost
$1,000 to print the report in the daily
and permanent journal. The final
decision was to print the report In
the daily journal. This came after
John +. Nipple, printer, had been in
yited INTO the floor of the house and
rave assurances that the total cost
would not exceed $500.
The vote by which the house had
rejected the bill to discontinue the
practice OF legislators giving away
scholarships was reeonsidered on mo-
ton of Patterson of Potter. and the
measure was again put to sleep after
discussion by a vote of 80 to 81.
An appeal for financial relief for
the farmers, couehed in striking Ian
guage, was read to the senate in a
petition which was signed on the
back by a number of residents of
Faux county. They asked In partic-
ular that the legislature pass bills
which would permit the farmer to
get none at less than IL per cent.
Inasmuch as several bills reducing
the maximum legal rate of interest
in the state to 10 per cent have al
ready been killed there is little pros
pect OF these farmers getting relief in
hat direction, and the petition was
passed on to the committee on state
affairs.
The control Of the artesian waters
of the state was the effort of Presi-
dent Il. c. Perisho of the State Agri-
cultural college, in a talk before the
legislative members on the bill in the
house to that end. He asks that the
state take action before the artesian
supply is entirely exhausted and not
to wait until Ii is too late before
making a move for conservation.
Representative Quickstad unwit-
tingly helped a lot of members out
of a bad hole" Saturday. The bill
was up for inspection Of private asy-
lums and converts, and a lot of
members wanted to do anything but
go on record on the bill. Several
, amendments were being offered
; which had delay as much as any 9TH
er reason for their being offered, and
when one which was especially OBJ
sectional to Quickstad was offered he
moved to table the amendment. His
motion was quickly seconded, and
carried with a sigh of relief on the
part of a numbers of members.
!, Quickstad then desired to offer an
amendment OF his own and vas stop
ped on the raising of a point OF or
DER that the bill was out Of play.
having been sem to the table by the
Quickstad motion. and the represent
alive from Deuel. was left wondering
Just where he had fallen down on
parliamentary practice. a position, by
| the way, which has troubled more
J than one member in different ses-
sions who fell into the same trap
without thinking Of the real effect OF
? his motion.
The bill to replace the circle at the
head Of the party ticket in this state
will soon be out for action, and in re-
: lation TO this the state reference de-
partment has been called upon to find
out how many states carry the party
} circla on the ballot. 1t has beer