Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-02-15
"BONE DRY"
BILL IS PREPARED
Measure Will Be introduced in
House Today-Thirty New
Bills Are Passed by
the House.

/ IlltleS VI Inc yOlIlt temperance COIillIltl-
tees appointed to prepare a new bone
dry measur have the bill framed pre-
paratory to its introduction today.
The house In a long session yeSter-
day passed so measures, including some
| OF the constitutional amendments. The
amendments are to be submitted if the
senate ratifies the house vote. The
amendments passed provide for the
classification of property for taxation
purposes. which was voted down at the
last election; a provision for raising the
salaries of state officers to $4,000, and
for the governor to $4,000, for supreme
judges to $4,000, and 3 5000 for other
state officers, and the amendment elm
mating the constitutional restriction of
he state taking part in internal i'm
prorements to permit the taking of ad-
vantage of the rural credits acts OF
congress. The house killed a resolution
to increase their w pay to $40 per day
and extend terms to four years.
Guy F.. Livingstone. of Yankton, is
here as q member of the state board
OF optonletrists looking into measures
of interest to them and working for acts
which will make it impossible for takers
to practice and require more genuine
qualifications in applicants for licenses
in this state.
Two desks were quite ornately dec
Grated in the legislature today. In tho
scSllStNC L II hcS, VI lDSaGiC.
The senators Clipped in a nickel apiece
and bought him some flowers--the
event being the arrival of a daughter i n
his family Tuesday night.
Swine as Legal Tender.
A resolution has been framed. and
it's hackers will Try to get the COM
mittee on agriculture to introduco it,
memorializing congress to legalize The
products of swine as legal tender. by
fixing tho ~nerTnaQaDt value of live pork-
ers at $40 per 100 pounds: and memori-
allzing congress to appropriate the
sQueal of such pigs in some such way
IS saltpeter is manufactured out of the
air in Norway, hat the said sQueal may
not be wasted. If the squeal can be
converted they want it VALIDATED at So
per 100 pounds; n at all events the
resolution does petition the honorable
congress to take steps to conserve the
squeal of hogs for the welfare of the
nation. and further this legislature
prayeth not"
The house spent most OF the morning
on a bill putting the public utilities Of
the state under the control of the rail-
road commission. Numerous attempts
We're made to exclude municipality
owned or comparatively controlled util-
tiles from the provisions of the act with
generally the same arguments offered
every time, but they were voted down.
Pass Drainage Bill.
The house passed a bill providing for
a tristate drainage project between
North and south Dakota and Mime
sofa. The legislative committee APP
pointed from South Dakota will meet
with NORTH Dakota and Minnesota
committees TO further consider the
proposition in st. Paul the last OF this
week.
Editors Overjoyed.
Editors will greet with joy a bill put
in the house by Holmes, of Pennington,
providing for bids on county printing
n bids for privilege of being county
| paper. Another bill presented regulates
the seed growers of the state. and an
other, by J~effries. provides for registra-
ton and control of the alfalfa seed
faisers of the state, to the general end
that no fake grading may be resorted
to in selling South Dakota seed.
Shriners in Session.
Shriners of Sioux Falls, Aberdeen
and other places are here for their big
meeting ana initiation this afternoon
and evening. 1t is planned to have the
legislature adjourn at noon so that the
members nay take part in the f~estivi-
ties.
Drastic Hunting Bill.
Byron, of Day, put a bill in the house
this afternoon making it unlawful for
any person to hun or trap on the farm
VI dilOlltei WITHOUT LiISI EGcuTln writ
ten permission from the owner of that
farm SO to do. The penalty for vio-
lation is fixed at $40 to $50 fine and
Imprisonment in the county Jail not to
exceed five days. This measure. along
with the Lyon bill authorizing the Gre
alton of game bird preserves where
land owners may so petition, are both
brought about through the ruthless
| lack OF consideration Of many hunters
coming in from outside the state, or
another county, who disregard the
property rights and the wishes of the
owners of the land on which they hunt.
For a State Pension.
A state pension of 81 a week for
wives and widows of old soldiers is the
| purpose OF a bill by Senator Anderson.
of fall River. The bill provides that
wives married to veterans prior to 1900
or widows who have not remarked,
who are So years or over, incapable of
| supporting themselves, and have in
| comes of less than $500 a year, shall
receive pensions OF "a a week, payable
quarterly.
Blake. Of Beadle. introduced the
Richards primary law in the house.
while Haas, OF Marshall. put in a meas
ure requiring a majority Of all votes
cast at mn election to stop by referen-
| dunn the effect OF a legislative act.
| Now the requirement is only a ma
jority OF those voting on the particular
| question.
Senator Dowdell is not satisfied with
the giving OF municipal suffrage alone
to the women of the state. but wants
them to have the right to vote for ey-
cry office which the constitution Toes
| not prohibit. He has introduced a bill
to give them the right to vote for presi-
dent, members OF congress and ali state
officers except judicial.
More Power to cemmandant.
~ -. H5tN-r rA
h mate today passed a bill en-
powering the board OF managers OF the
soldiers home at Hot Springs TO sus.
pend OF eSpel members of the home
guilty of infractions of the rules. Tho
commandant at present. has no means
OF enforcing discipline. Thebiil provides
for a final appeal TO the governor on
expulsion.
G%nilfoyie, OF Fall River. r~ssntroduced
in the house today his tin providing
for the admission OF wives and widows
Of old soldiers to the soldiers home. The
lin was killed in the house last week
after a three-day fight in which its
hackers failed by two of the necessary
majority vote.
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