The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-11
The LEGISLATURE
BILLS BEGIN TO MAKE THEIR
APPEARANCE IN Roth
HOUSES.

| Pierre. Jan. 1.-THE bitter on
| test over printing bills OF the last leg
~islative session showed it's teeth
| again Saturday in an innocent look
| ing resolution increasing the number
| OF house bills printed for distribution
from $50 TO 10000, and another pro-
vidtng for extra house journals. Be
fore IL got far Oh its o a dozen
Observation-Disclosures. Withee. John
son of Sphinx. Benson, Patterson and
others were taking part. The final
result was the adoption of an amend
ment for a joint committee TO adjust
the number of bills printed between
the house and senate.
The resolution fixing Day days
started a lot of discussion as TO just
when the members Nigh: be absent
on a recess. The date of January p
as the first recess was objected 10,
Indicating that the expectation of the
members Is TO take their recess on
that date. The whole matter finally
went over TO a special committee
after all who desired had discussed
it.
The house adopted a resolution by
lQuickstad setting the fortieth day as
the last for receiving general bills
and the forty-ifth day as the last for
committee bills, which is the earliest
closing" date ever fixed.
Among the senate bills was one by
Hagen of Beadle, which gives cities
which have adopted a commission
form of government the right to back
up and again adopt the council form
If so desired by a majority of the
voters of their city,
Widlong presented a bill in the
house fixing the liability of low
ships and counties for damages by
| defective bridges dividing the re-
sponsibility on the line between
structures built by the different sub
divisions.
The senate accepted two new bills
and several committees were an
nounced. the ehairmen of which are:
Health. Miller; cities under commits
sion. P%rintup; education. White
more: agriculture, Lincoln; mines
and mining. May; charitable institu-
tions. Morris.
Tipping senate pages for service
was placed under ban in that branch
of the Legislature as a result of COM
plants made by Senators Amsden
and Mclean, who objected TO such
conditions at the last session and
served notice that il would not be
tolerated this session.
The printing issue got on the floor
of the house again Saturday morn
ing on the motion of Anderson of
Clark. to provide a proofreader for
house bills. He announced hat his
motion was based on a statement as
to the necessity, made by the public
printer. but he finally allowed the
motion to go over to Monday with
| out a vote.
The first initiative petition to get
to the members for action was fled
with both houses Saturday by the
secretary of state-the "Coffey"
bank guaranty act-which was filed
with the secretary more than a year
ago. Along with this came as a di-
rect bill the bond guaranty act which
Is being put forward by Gov. Byrne.
and is very similar to the bill which
has been initiated by the State Bank
ers' association.
One bill Saturday. by Benson,
would revelutionize the procedure OF
~notaries and other officials ~authoriz-
| ed TO take Acknowledgements. his bill
requiring all such officials TO keep a
permanent record of their transac-
ltions and make such record evidence
OF their acts IN courts.
Tscharner started a house bill
which will allow work on streets and
highways as a part of the penalty
which may be imposed for convic-
lions of violation of ordinances oil
cities and towns.
Howe offered a bill which provides
for reduction of election expenses by
authorizing the county auditor Ia
forward the ballot boxes and election
supplies to precinct officers by parcel
post instead of personal delivery by
the sheriff, and Anderson of Clark to
make combinations to prevent com
petitive bidding on public contracts a
conspiracy act.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate TO grant local wholesalers the
right TO deal in %cigarets. The pres
ent law prohibits that right to them,
but allows wholesalers from other
states to ship to dealers anywhere in
the state, which is declared TO be a
discrimination.
The question as to who shall have
the right of way has arisen between
the prohibition forces and those oil
equal suffrage. The prohibitionists
hold that the equal suffrage people
had their opportunity in the last leg
| islature and election, and should step
back and allow prohibition to be the
issue TO he tried out for this session
and that equal suffrage should wait
for two years. The s~uffragists dc
not appear to be DESTROYS of getting
off the track. and the situation is not
for harmony between the two ele-