Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-03
SENATE ATTITUDE ON
NEP0TISM NOT tanned
BY ACTION OF HOUSE
Upper Branch Adopts Urdahl's
Bill Prohibiting Giving Jobs
to Relatives.

Pierre. $. d., Ian. So.-Althcugh the
rouse decisively voted down a bill
Wednesday afternoon prohibiting state
olnclais from giving places To family
reIatiVes. the senate yesterday after
noon countered on the proposition by
slN1ng almost unanimous support to
Senator trdahrs bill. applying the
same restrictions. The house must. at
least, Kill the proposed reform, the sec
oii'' tline to keep ii in check AT TINS
session. Following the house defeat of
the nepotism bill. a number OF mem
bers received kilograms and letters of
protest from their constituents and
there Is Il bare possibility of Il reversed
verdict at the second twist with this
proposal.
May Repeal Dance Bill.
~ technical difficulties in the way
or keeping Legislation up to date are
Illustrated by the bunny hug" bin
acted two Years ago. This bill speciii-
ualsy prohibited such dances as the
bunny hug, grizzly bear" SNAKE
wrestle" and turkey trot." Not me of
me designated dances is in g now,
AT least not under the original title.
ana many of the legislators think the
south Dakota enactmen, has outiivsd
!ls usefulness. On account of the rap
ldly changing STYLES in dances no
menbe seems Willing, to undertake an
amendment of the dance regulation law
ana IT now seems probable that the
l'l" enactment will be repealed. with-
u much opposition. The bunny
mug bill was one of the entertainment
FEATURES of the 1918 session.
eonesteel in Earnest.
The citizens of Bonesteel are i'm dead
earnest about that Rosebud normal
school and those who were inclined to
scoif at the idea of another normal
school in the state find that the Rose
bud people are determined To BRING
their heed before the legislature in
form. They nave sent a
regular delegation here to lobby for the
proposition. There is Dr.. H. r. Kenas-
ton. =. j. Donahoe and S. Nj. LindleN.
of Ronesteel and Peter Heggestad. OF
Carter. all hustlers who are on The
grounds and are carrying their propn-
ganda to the members of the legisla-
ture. These lobbyists are not registered
ana say they have the word of the az
torney general for it that it is not nee
essary for them to register as there is
no financial advantage i'm their PROPOSE
ton for themselves or the interests they
represent.
Scanning Deficiencies.
A deficiency of about $4,000 in the
adjutant generals department coming
over from the administration of q. III.
Englesby, is being investigated by n
subcommittee of the committees on
military affairs of both houses. When
IT has been aScertained what caused
the large expenditure of money for the
militia beyond the amount of the 1913
appropriation. a special report will be
made b. this subcommittee giving thu
legislature full information. No charges
have been filed intimating misak-
preparation of funds out in some cases
II is said reports on expenditures have
not been as specific as they might be
and the committees on military affairs
want to be in Il position to repor in
diligently on the need OF the rather
deficiency appropriation. There
is a decided tendency at this session to
give all deficiency demands most care
full scrutiny. and Il desire to place u
check Oh possible future overrunning "f
accounts.
Important Routine.
That the Milwaukee Railway COM
i)any should be compelled to build a
safe bridge across the Missouri at
Chamberlain is the expression of the
house in the resolution requesting %
gress to compel such action on the part
Of that railway company.
State aid for common schools took up
a lot of house time before it was dis
posed of. and then only on a secon
vote and after the annual amount was
reduced from $780, 900 to $4,000.
Most of the senate session was de-
voted to the bill attempting to fix a
10 per cent interest maximum in the
state. which finally went down by a
vote on two different measures
to that effect.
The senate accepted the house joint
resolution for a committee to investi-
gate the charges Of extravaganza in
state accounting and business systems.
and the committee will soon be at work
to find what can be done in the way of
reduction of state expenditures.