The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-03-02
GOV. NORBECk SIGNS BILL PUT.
TING BAN ON LIQUOR IN
STATE.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE
a Review Of the Work Of the state
Government at the Capitol and
at the Various State
Institutions.

South Dakota bone dry after the first
of next July. 1t was signed IN the
presence Of the members Of the tenn
perance committees Of the two houses,
Lieut.. Gov. McMasters, Speaker Rob
erts. members of the state w. c. T. U.
and prominent temperance workers,
who started the song, Nobody Knows
How Dry ! Am" as the governors
signature was attached and followed
with the doxology A flashlight OF
the party was taken Immediately after
the signing. This Formally was fol
lowed by the signing of the bill which
Frances Willard day a par
tial legal holiday in South Dakota.
1t is a quarter of a century since
South Dakota tried constitutional pro
hibition and which was repealed with
in a few years as a failure because Of
non-enforcement, but the sentiment
has changed m that time and the pro
h%ibitionists now believe they have a
bill which has come to stay.
BY the terms of the law, which be-
comes operative July l, 1917, intoxlcat-
ing liquors cannot be manufactured
within the state for any purpose, nor
imported for purposes other thar me-
dicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacra-
mental. The act is declared by nation
al anti-saloon league officers to be the
most drastic prohibition legislation
yet adopted by any state.
1t provides that only registered
pharmacists in drug stores established
one year or more may sell liquors for
the purposes allowed, and violation OF
the provisions will forfeit the seller
his certificate as a pharmacist. HIS
clerks or unregistered assistants may
not sell liquors. Physicians who issue
prescriptions to quench thirst may
suffer loss of their license to practice
medicine in the state. Only those
pharmacists and physicians accepta-
BILE to the prohibition commissioner
created by the bill to enforce its pro-
visions may possess licenses to sell or
to prescribe liquor.
Soil Survey Appropriation.
The Senate passed a Senate bill
calling for an appropriation of $4,000
and authorizing a soil survey OF the
state for the coming two years. This
started a controversy as to whether
the people of the state really desired
it and would stand for the expense
and whether it would do the good
claimed. Question was also raised
about the farmers demanding it. A
contest between the supporters
of the State college and the state uni.
versity to place a man in charge of the
work finally resulted in the Bookings
school winning.
Convent Bill Passes Senate.
The Senate passed H. B. 1856, the
Birch convent inspection bill, after it
had been amended to make 1t more
general in its application. Boreson
OF Davision offered the amendment
making it apply to 'all denomination
81" institutions, and adding colleges
to the list. Amsden, Birch's col
league, thought the bill a good one.
Waters thought it was loading a pref
ty big load onto the woman's commit
tee Of investigation, which should do
the work. Dowdell opposed the bill.
City Manager Bill Passes.
The house passed the Lyon city
manager bill after cutting out the pro.
vision which limited 1t to cities OF
10000 or more, and allowing it to ap-
ply to all cities of the state. Some
objection was raised to the feature
which required nine commissioners in
the smaller sized cities, but this vas
finally allowed to stand, and it wen.
through without material change 9TH
er than the one amendment.
Shares In an Estate.
State Treasurer Helgerson has re-
ceived a check for $4,000 as an in.
heritance tax on the estate OF the late
William Desring Of Chicago. This
sum was declared by the courts to be
due this state upon property which
Deering owned in South Dakota, and
is the largest single payment Of inner
itance tax ever received by this state.
To Transfer Turner County.
The bill transferring Turner county
from the First judicial circuit to the
Second circuit has passed the legis-
lature and petitions are extant asking
the governor to appoint Attorney l..
Fleeger OF Parker as the second Judge
for the enlarged district, the legisla-
ture giving the Second district two
judges now.
Convict Bill Passed.
s. B. No. 2O2, by Berg. to allow con-
victs to work on drainage projects
where state lands are benefited by
such work was passed by the Senate.
Berg explained that their work was
desired to assist in a spillway to han
lie flood conditions on the Sioux river.
Urdahl thought their work could be
used to advantage at several places
In the state on the Sioux and Jim
rivers. and cost the state nothing. Nc
Lead wanted to amend to include
roads, which was lost and the bill