The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-03-11
LEGISLATURE
GETS THROUGH
FINAL ADJOURNMENT WAS TAX
EN- EARLY LAST SATURDAY
MORNING
BANK GUARANTY BILL BECOMES LAW
Crawford Primary Bill Brought Back
to Life, With Registration Feat
ure Added-RevieW of Session
Pierre, March Z, 1915.

Pierre, March Z, 1915.
At 8 a. m. Saturday, March 9th, the
Fourteenth session of the South Da-
kota legislature adjourned sine die.
The general calendars in either house
had been cleaned up in the early even
ing. SO that adjournment was held
up for the passage of the General APP
preparation bill, which was in dead
lock, due to the house adding $4,000
to the senate bill, for the purpose of
prosecuting the interest cases, nov
pending against former state treasur-
ers, and their bondsmen. The senate
stood pat against it, sc that towards
morning, with the members in a hurry
to get home on the outgoing trains,
the house agreed to strike out the ap-
preparation. Governor Byrne messag-
ed both houses about midnight urging
the expenditure. From the clean up
of the calendars until adjournment the
houses were at their ease and INDUCED
in the traditional last night" frivol-
ity, including singing of popular
ballads and engagements in friendly
physical encounters.
The general appropriations bill this
year carries a little over two million
seven hundred thousand for the sup
port of state institutions and Offices
for the next two years; an increase Of
about $4,000 or five per cen over
two years ago. However, the ak fell
on special appropriations, so that the
total expenditure is slightly less than
that in 1913. Some of the larger
specials passed were $4,000 for taxes
for COMMON schools on school lands;
$55. 900 for model school, Madison nor
NAL; $685. 900 for addition to main build
ing Northern normal; $74,606 for ex-
pense of the legislature; 10000 for
new boilers, University central heat
ing plant, $10,0 00 to complete Chemis-
try building University; $40, 900 for i'm
~provements to the capitol grounds;
$4,000 for general printing of the
state for the next two years; $4,000 for
additional land, deaf mute school;
10 extend walls, $500 for new
quarry; and $500 to purchase stock
for the ~penitentiary; and 5000 for
new dormitory at State College. There
We're a considerable number of small
n ~ ~ y, fiNrn fo inIn -, ,ifr, q, ~
for horses killed for CHAMBERS.
There were SO e~nactments, includ-
ing constitutional amendments, and
resolutions; the principle of which are
herewith synopsized:
Several bills drafted by the tax
commission extending powers secured
in 1913 became laws. Hereafter the
state tax will have to be endorsed on
the back of all tax receipts.
The Observation-Disclosures bank
guaranty bill became a law; and the
Bankers and Coffey democratic init
lated laws were referred to the people
without change.
The auto license is fixed at $500 to
be principally expended by the COM
mittee for repair of roads.
The capitol is to be taken from the
custody of the secretary of state and
given to the governor to be managed
directly through a deputy. Consti-
tutional amendments which will be
submitted to the people at the next
election are: Statewide prohibition;
equal suffrage, twenty year leases for
school lands; legislature may TX com.
pensation of constitutional officers;
state may engage in rural credits;
land adjacent to same water
shed may form irrigation districts;
and new constitutional convention.
Changes in educational laws of i'm
portance were the closing of white
schools to Indian children; provision
for transportation Of children in the
country; and compulsory education
raised from fourteen to sixteen years.
Important changes In election laws
were: rejuvenation Of the old Craw.
ford primary with registration fea-
ture; passed with emergency to 1t
cannot be referred, which repeats the
present Richards primary; some in
itiated amendments to the Richards
primary; the circle Is restored to the
head of the party ballot; poll books
are to be returned to Auditor, ballot
boxes to Clerk Of Courts; procedure
for direct election of U. s. senators;
and Attorney General 10 to make plain