The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-02-25
WILL TAKE CHANGE
OFFICERS CAN LOBBY AMONG
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BILL DEFEATED.
NORMAL MEASURE DOWNED
Springfield Institution Given an Add
Z tionai Two Years Lease on Life
Half-Mile Team Limit Proposition
Put to Sleep in House.

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
Pierre.-The senate committee does
not believe in the theory of Senator
Berndt that no m in the list of state
officers or employees save the governor
should be allowed to disturb the mem
bers with their plants and woes IL
the way of legislative action. His bill
attempted to prevent heads of state
institutions and members of state
boards coming to the capitol durins
a session and to keep all others away
from the members, but the committee
apparently is willing to take a chance
That the everyday merchant car
handle paris green, formaldehyde ant
such poisons without any harm to the
public is the opinion of the senate il
passing the bill by Amsden allowing
that privilege in the small town:
where no druggist is located.
The house refused to consider thu
proposition of wiping out the state i'm
migration department OF the floor ant
stood by the committee report that the
bill be killed, regardless of the pro
test of Representative Muhlbeier, the
~introduCer.
Normal Sill Beaten.
That the Springfield normal Is t
be given two o years of life IL
which to justify its right of existence
was made certain when the bill tC
abolish that institution failed by tive
votes to secure the required constitu
tional majority. All the votes tha'
could be mustered for the bill were so
and only "A registered a protest.
The house refused to put a limi'
on the length Of freight trains in the
state by indefinitely postponing con
s~ideration of Magness' bill to limi
the length of trains to one-half mile.
The two days fight to abolish tn,
State Normal school at Springfield OF
the grounds that the institution is 10
Gated on the border of the state anC
is too small to pay for its upkeep wa
lost in the house when the bill failet
FOR a second time to secur the neces
sary majority. There were so vote,
for the bill, three less than a majorit!
Of the house.
Suffrage Question.
Before crowded galleries the senate
threshed out the suffrage question ant
rejected Waters bill 20 permit womeI
to vote for presidential electors, mum
cipal Offices and municipal questions
Is to "a.
Bank Guaranty Bill.
The senate passed the bsnk guar
anty bill known as the administrator
bill. 1t provides for the establishin!
OF a department of banking and fin
ance and a banking commission, tn
difference between the bill just passe,
and that favored by the bankers as
sociation of the state. The commits
sion is to be appointed by the govern
or from a list of II submitted to thu
bankers association. 1t consists O
three members and the bank examin
er. In case of a disagreement in thu
BOARD the governor casts the decidin;
vote. The bill was passed with tn
emergency clause by a vote of 81 TO !
Birch Bill Passed.
One accomplishment of the hous'
was the passing of Birch's house bill
SO, to take the joker out of the saloo,
license act of 1913. The bill changet
the 1913 law in no way except remov
ing the four words, voting on tn.
ronne;s;lp - urb;,I o-Nsal,, I-~u
the percentage necessary to vote il
saloons in any town.
This bill furnished what is perhap
the first real strength of the salool
and ~anti-saloon advocates in the house
It VAS admitted by the opponents o
the bill that it had passed the hous,
in 1913 without the four words. bu
the words were in the bill when H. wa
passed by the senate and approved b,
the governor. IL was strongly hinte,
by some members that trickery ha,
entered into the error that was mad
at that time, and the history of tn
passage of the bill in 1913 was thor
oughly reviewed. Ruckman objecte,
tc the hints of trickery and said b
had offered in good faith the amend
melt in 1913 to insert the words "vol
ing on the proposition" which was dc
featCd and did not know they were il
the Jaw until his attention was Gale
20 them in the session laws.
The vote on the bill was 81 to 90, no
a sufficient majority to pass il wit
The emergency clause. This was strict
en- out and the bill passed, 50 to 20.
First vote on liquor license vot
bill: III. b. SO:
Yeas-Anderson of Clark, Anderso
of Corson, Baldwin. Berdahl, Benson
Homestead Law.
Belle Fourche.-The proposed GA
acre homestead law is creating niue
nxcifanonf and novpp,apt th-z,Lz.,