The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-02-05
Pierre Pointers.
South Dakota Legislators Making
Some New Laws.

South Dakota Legislators Making
Some New Laws.
| Pierre, 8. Dak., Feb. l.
At $50 on Saturday evening
following three hours and q half OF
fervent debate, led by Beebe and
Stephens on the Affirmative and Van.
Denmark, Daley on the negative. the
South Dakota senate enacted the
Beebe bill abolishing capial punish
ment, N-16--by one vote more than
the necessary majority Of oil senators
elect. The house earlier in the week
passed the identical Steele bill by
big majority. It is likely that the
Beebe bill will be showed through the
house without difficulty, and - it 10
pet standardization measure, the
Governor will sign It, and South Oak.
ots will soon become the eighth state
to have abolished the death penalty.
Thursday the house turned down by
lsrge majority Swanson slproposition
to prohibit employment OF relatives
in their ofhces by state onicials.
Within twenty-four hours the senate
passed, almost without dissent !,
Urdahl's identical bill, which will
now 20 through the house gauntlet.
The Mclean Birch joint resolution
for the appointment of On investiga.
ting committee 70 probe into ex-Aud-
itor Anderson's charge that the state
could save e5O0, 900 annually by bust.
ness methods passed both houses.
The senate representatives. appointed
are Stiles, vdnDemark and Anderson.
Governor Perer Norbuck offered q
place on the committee to several
democrats, including Zieback, Stuten-
roth and DALEY. Ziebach stated that
as the recent investigation had found
no graft, there was no need for an i'm
mediate successor. It is understood
that the four house members will be
largely Democratic and stalwarts, so
that the anti-Administration forces
will have the majority.
The Berndt measure, abo!ishing the
1913 voluntary Highway Commission
has attracted much attention in the
senate, and was carried to final con-
sideration over an adverse committee
report; but fical passage was post
poned until the commission could be
| given q thorough hearing.
The anti-liquor forces have sprung
some OF their measures during the
week. These include statewide pro-
hibition by constitutional amendment;
daylight or 700 O. clock closing in
stead of 900; law enabling the
league to get a liquor selling pharma-
cist; and law prohibiting sale of
intoxicants within five miles of the
Soldiers Home.
The McClintook and Hagen bills
fixing maximum interest rates at 10
percent were both defeated in the SEN
ate, after vigorous and prolonged de-
bate.
A great fight occurred in the house
over Roberts bill appropriating $4,000
to cover deficiency for Farmers Insti-
tute work for the remainder OF this
year; It was defeated once, and was
again reconsidered, again failing to
get the necessary two.thirds vote for
q special appropriation.
Senator Isaac Lincoln's anti-cigar-
cite measure, repeating the present
statue, stringently forbidding the
smoking, sale or giving away OF Gig.
arettes to minors; but legslizing sale
to grown.ups IL attracting much at
tention.
E. w. Anderson's Free Text Book
bill, endorsed by the State Education
81 Association, has been reported
favorahly out of the House Ednca.
tional Committee.
The Richards 1913 Information
Bureau law has been repealed in both
houses.
senator L. L. Stephens would place
the circle back at the head of the
party tickets on the general election
ballot The Australian ballot was a.
dopted in 1891, with the names placed
in alphabetical order; the names ar.
ranged in party columns in 1893; in
1901 the circle was placed at the head
of the ticket, and in 1913 it was re-
moved.
The Bilger bill requiring old SOL
diers to establish three years resi-. !.
dence in South Dakota for admission
to the state Soldiers Home which has
passed the house, was occasioned by
the fact that many patients at the
Battle Mountain National Sanitarium,
residents of other states when discharg-
ed, camp in Hot Springs until they
become Dakota citizens, and then de.
mand entrance to the home.
A township option herd law, spon-