The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-11
SENATE FILIBUSTERS
ON PUNISHMENT BILL
AND PREVENTS Shift.
Members Had Lineup to Defeat
Measure Providing Repeal
of Death Penalty.

Pierre. s. d.. Feb. 10.--In the first
hlibuster of the session, the senate
spent two hours preventing a recon
liberation OF the vote by which the
bill abolishing capital punishment had
passed. The vote by which the bill
was passed a week ago was "a to is.
only one more than the required ma
jority. Senator Morris, who voted for
the bill, is absent and the three or four
senators have reversed their position,
so that the opponents OF the measure
are in the majority. Strenuous efforts
were made to put through motion TO
reconsider, which was prevented By
an all afternoon filibuster on the part
Of friends OF the bill.
Ziebach moved to reconsider the
vote by which action on the bill had
been postponed; carried % to IS. Bee-
be's motion to postpone until Monday
was lost, 10 to 81. A call of the senate
was ordered, a motion to adjourn was
lost and the filibuster was on.
After seven calls OF the senate and
IS roll calls, friends of the bill finally
succeeded in securing an adjournment.
A determined effort was made in the
house to defeat the text book bill,
which was before the house on a mo-
ton to reconsider. A debate followed
in which Speaker Christopherson, who
had taken the floor to oppose the mo
ton. engaged in a warm controversy
with Representative Benson, of Moody
county. The motion to reconsider was
lost, &c to 50.
Eusenics Defeated.
Eugenics had an inning In the house
when the bill introduced by request Of
the Social Science club, of Aberdeen,
came up for final passage. Jacobs and
Swanson, of Brown county, supported
the bill and Mcfarland led the opposi
ition. 1t was lost, 20 to SIS.
Catching some OF the spirit OF fight
from the doings in the senate on the
other side of the capitol rotunda, the
house engaged in a controversy over
a proposal to print the report OF the
investigating committee appointed by
the governor two years ago in the
house journal. There was one call OF
the house, and the members sang Tip
perary'' while the sergeant st arms
was searching for absentees.
1t was claimed that 1t would cost
$1,000 to print the report in the daily
and permanent journal The final de-
cision was to print the report in the
daily journal This came after John
E. Nipple. printer, had been invited
onto the floor of the house and gave
assurances that the total cost would
not exceed 800.
The vote by which the house had
rejected the bill to discontinue the
practice OF legislators giving away
scholarships was reConsidered on mo-
ton of Patterson, of Potter, and the
measure was again put to sleep after
discussion by a vote of 80 to 81.
$50 House Routine.
The house passed the following bills:
Extending the corporate existence
of mutual insurance companies.
Appropriation of $4,000 for the
Flankinton reform school
Permitting county boards to pay up
to 80 per cent Of the contract price for
county buildings before completed.
Providing for education of children
in unorganiZed counties.
Appropriation for paying balance on
heating plant at Plankinton reform
school.
Exempting flood water dams from
fishway requirements.
The house rejected the following
bills:
Providing for inspection of private
institutions in which children are kept.
Three bills providing for extending
jurisdiction Of county courts.