The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-03-09
Dakota SOlOnS
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fSilS, NiCtlNli -. y Nol bSAOAS
midnight the fifteenth biennial
session of the South Dakota leg
islature adjourned. Among its
important enaCtmentS are bone
dry" prohibition law to make eff
fective on July | the constitution
al amendment adopted in the last
election; a law creating a state
constabulary to deal with the |
w. w. problem; a law creating
an organization for enforcement
of prohibition; a rural credits act;
workmen'S compensation le9lSla-
ton, and provision for cities to 90
un d e commisSioner-mana9er
government at will. A joint reso-
luton was adopted submitting the
equal suffrage issue to the test
again in the 1918 election.
Both houses adopted the con-
ference report on the apportiOn-
ment bill, reducing the west river
counties and giving Minnehaha
county seven house members.
Both houses cleared their cal
endars of bills for final action"
soon after the noon recess, but
with nothing special to do for the
day, there was no hurry to con-
cur in the various amendments
which had been made by one
house or the other on various
bills. The main issue between
the two houses was the appor-
tionment bill which the senate
tackled on to the |. w. w. bill Fri
day night as an amendment. Sew
eral conference committees were
appointed on this bill and each
brought back a report which the
house would not accept, and it
hung fire until the night session
before it was finally disposed of,
and the members from west of
the river, who were making an
attack on it, were finally subdued.
The only appropriation bill left
over until yesterday for action
was the highway appropriation
for a quarter of a million dollars,
which was authorized by vote
of the people at the last election.
1t went through without any op-
position. The appropriation of
$4,000 for extension and inn
provements on the state grounds,
which developed considerable op-
position yesterday, was smoothed
over and went through this morn
ing without any opposition except
a few negative votes.
After all bills had been dispos-
ed of and the members were
waiting for a report of the con-
ferees on the different bills sever
al leaders about the statehouse
were called upon to talk to the
members.
The farmer movement has been
dominant all through the session,
and whatever the farmers wanted
they got in every instance, as
they had control and could have
forced their desires if anyone had
suggested opposition, which in no
case presented itself. The leeis-
lation along the lines they desire
covers a wide range, including
rural credits, by which the man
who desires to begin farming with
a small capital may purchase land
on long time payments; created
a bureau of state market commits
sioners, extended the powers of
the farmers organizations in en-
ployment of county agents and
gave liberal appropriations to the
state agricultural college in the
way of live stock features, giving
them a stock pavilion and appro-
priations to engage in the raising
of blooded stock, and stock feed
ing, besides creating a poultry
department, and besides this
made provisions for the erection
of stock judging pavillions at
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