The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-11
NEW PRIMARY ACT
AT ONCE SUFFRAGE
AGAIN ON BALLOT
House Makes Emer-
gency Repeal of the
Richards Primary.
BOOK BILL LOSES
Senate Rejects House Text
Book Scheme. = Senate
Vote on Suffrage.

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the thompson county printing bill
this morning by Indefinite postpone
ment.
The code bill is being rec~onsidered
IN the senate, most of the morning
session being devoted to that meas
ure.
Pierre, S. D.-The house yester-
day afternoon took un in ~reconsid-
GRAFTON S. b. 29l, the new primary
bill. The motion to strike the
emergency clause from the bill! Was
lost, and a call OF the house was
ordered to get in The absentees to
vote on the bill. After a long wait
the call was raised, and on final vote
the bill secured 10 favorable votes.
carrying it through as an emergency
measure. This prevents the use OF
the referendum by Richards to keep
his primary in operation. The house
killed the county optional free
range bill, II. b. 273, and II. b. 39S.
appropriating money for a laundry
buildings at the state reform school.
S. b. 279, the senate general APP
preparation bill then came up and
most of the rest of the afternoon ses-
sion was taken up with discussing
its provisions, the house finally pass
ing the bill. The house passed H.
b. 2S9. providing for payment for
horses killed on accoun o. dourine:
and S. II. 215. authorizing county
n township authorities TO buy jus
tice codes; S. b. POI. on reconsider
alton, requiring the State Fire Mar
shall, Veterinarian and Food and
Drug Commissioner to be on the
fair grounds during the State Fair:
S. b. 177, reconsidered. to pay Law
renee Patterson $500 for money
paid to state when he thought he
was leasing state lands to which the
state had no title.
Pierre, S. ID. At afternoon ses-
sion of the house, an effort was
made to get the old original "Bible"
bill off the table, where it was set o
long time ago. as there does not pa
pear TO be any point of agreement
between the TWO houses on the bill
as amended by the senate.
Mcfarland moved hat the journal
of yesterday show that there was
an adjournment early in the evening.
The speaker declared the original
motion to adjourn as out of order,
and the motion to correct as out of
order. Mcfarland then asked that
the record be cleared. to show him
as absent and not voting. instead
of being excused, which the house re-
fused to accept so long as he admit
ted being in his seat and not voting
for the session last evening. The
journal was then corrected to pres
ent and not voting where it stands.
Quarry tor Pcnitcntiary
At the afternoon session Il vain
effort was made to get Il reconsidera-
ytN,, - ,-@t h. la, ~ - -, -n
priating 100000 for IA building at
field, failed. The senate also reject
cd Stephens motion to reconsider the
Dog bill. S. b. 1872, the sheriff sal
airy bill. Went down on the Howell
motion to indefinitely postpone; the
senate passed S. b. 1856, appropriate
ing $4,000 for a training school at
Madison Normal. Like action was
taken on S. B. 119, appropriating
$4,000 for repairs on the state fair
grounds. The house passed S. j. H.
8. memorializing congress to allow
over five year leases on government
land for coal and iron purposes and
S. Il. 500, appropfiating $1,000 to
open a stone quarry at the penltcn-
tiary. Mckinnon protested against
cutting out the house Irvine plant
bill and giving the state a quarry not
wanted. Warwick thought lhe twlnc
plant cost too much and that it lock,
ed to the committee rs if Sioux Falls
wanted to build up q big factory at
state expense TO draw trade. Me
Kinnon continued his opposition but
Mclean helped. in backing the bill
and it went through.
With only three more days the
senate continues to hand in new bills
yesterday starting S. B.. 313, pro
hibiting the conducting of private
business in court houses: Sl4. EN-
powering the railway commission II
investigate common carriers without
specific complaints: BIS, regulating
duties of county officers in relation
to admission OF patients to Custer
sanitarium and BIG, appropriatint
$500 for astronomical observatory
at the University.
On roll call on II. b. IS, the ole
"Bible bill'. the house. by Il vote o.
ga 10 so took it off the table where
it has been reposing for a long time
and placed the bill on the calendar
suffrage Amendment Put On Isal!ot
The Senate took up the third read
ing of House bills, and passed II. b
329, transferring $500 from TIT
maintenance to salar.' fund OF thu
national guard.
The senate took up II. j. Il. II fol
an equal suffrage amendment 10 thu
constitution. II passed 1t with :;
vote of 30 to Is, Browpe opposing J
and Waters supporting. This mean
it will go on the ballot AT the i3l'
election.
The senate passed II. y. 1aS. pro
yiding for bridge leyies 23o. to re
auire a quarterly report from th'
insane hospital to each county whicl
has patients in the asylum-
The senate then took up the nous'
text book bill, Fl. 3. 81, Laursol
supported the measure, and explain
ed it in detail. Brown declared TN
Aberdeen school board was for TN
bill, and Bobb said the same mn
for the Mitchell school board, bu
that county superintendent were op