The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-11
LEGISLATURE HANGS
on TILL $50 A. NJ.
UNDER A DEADLOCK
House Holds Out That
That Long Against
Interest Suits.
REVIEW OF WORK
Shows Primary and Bank
Guaranty Acts Are Most
Important.
REVIEW OF WORK

Pierre, S. d. With the hands OF
the legislative clocks pointing at Mid
night and those of individual watches
at three-thirty, the sine die adjourn
ment of the fourteenth legislative
session. of South Dakota was taken
with practically everything closed up
except the difference ON the item
for. pressing the suits for collection
of interest from former state treas
urers. The senate insisted upon that
item and the house for a long time
refused to consider ii bat finally ac-
copied the senate position and the
closing preliminaries were commenc-
ed which ended in the last adjourn
ment OF the session.
Most Of the members rushed for a
a train which left within an hour.
and are by this time at home. with
few of the members waiting until
afternoon trains before tnckling the
snow drifts which are hamperipg
travel.
The final result was that The APP
preparation for the interest prosecu-
tions was not adopted and is not part
of the bill.
Pierre, s. D.-What has been the
most important legislation of the
session, depends upon the view point
OF the individual interested. The
session has been a quiet one in every
way, and what is probably the most
daring innovation in law making is
the enactment of a complete primary
law, repeating root and branch a
law which was placed upon the stat
ute books through the medium OF
the initiative provision of the state
constitution. While the work OF the
session itself is completed it has
left q mass of enactments upon the
desk Of the governor, which, he has
ten days to dispose of in some NAH
ner.s The session not having been
called upon to handle as many bills
!. ny over two hundred, as at the SEES
sion Of two years ago, and the volume
or. the session laws will be smaller
After the primary law, probabl,
the enactment of the most state wide
interest is the bank guaranty act
which was passed with very slight
opposition, the bankers Themselves
assisting in framing the act. Beside
the legislation enacted or this line
two different acts have been present
ed through the initiative to the
same effect.
The act of greatest importance
along agricultural lines is the ap
preparation of $4,000 to take full
advantage OF the S~mith-Lever funt
ii Congress-, which changes the cen
tralized system of such work int
vide spread work in the ields ant
Kitchens of the state.
The state tax commission ha!
asked and secured the presentation
to the people of a constitutions
amendment to change the whol'
system OF taxation by allowing classi
fcation of property by he legisla
ture; and several enactments to as
sist them as far as possible under tn
present constitutional limitations
Other constitutional questions in
clude that of the holding of a con
stitutional convention for general re
vision; constitutional prohibition
and equal suffrage.
Railways and insurance companie
have not received the attention o
former sessions. and very few act
affecting them have been even intro
duced, and a valuable number en-
acted.
In penal and court affairs, radica
departures we're in the abolishmen
Of capital punishment in the state
and In providing for n FIVE sixth jur,
verdict in civil suits, preventing
hold out by one man as In the past