The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-22
IMAM MADE" SUFF
BILL KNOCKED OUT.
Women Held Back Support on
AIseth Measure, 1t Is Said
-"Dry" Bill UP
Tomorrow.

Pierre. S. D.. Feb. 21.-The statutory
suffrage bin was killed today when the
senate carried the Alseth motion to in
definitely postpone action on all COM
mittee reports on his own bill. The ex-
PLANTATION was made that the bill pre-
scented was a man made measure with
out the backing of the su~ffragists and
had not received their support. 1t was
believed if the bill was passed it would
act as a drag on the general suffrage
constitutional amendment at the cleo
tons. 1t was concluded the bill should
be killed.
The senate had a morning session
which was devoted to committee re-
ports. The senate adopted a por
placing the bone dry bill on the cal
endar for tomorrow.
Favorable reports came in on the bill
establishing a commission for uniform
legislation with other states. The legis-
lative district apportionment committee
expects to have its bill presented today
or tomorrow. The general appropria-
tons bin is promised in about the
middle of the week.
h senate today viii consider the
city manager plan by Gunderson, and
a bill providing for the establishment of
the Bonesteel normal in the Rosebud
country.
EA= - 1-r
APPROPRIATE BIG
SUM FOR TROOPS
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 21.-The house has
passed a bill appropriating $4,000 to
be paid the members of the Fourth
South Dakota regiment for services on
the border. Each membe of the regi-
Eient is to receive SIS Gu his being
mustered out.
A djspotch received here from San
RaDifn. Tax SfafaS that tho roCiroo-.
left its border station Saturday for
Fort Crook, Neb., where 1t will be mus
tered out of the government service
The principal discussion on the APP
preparation bill for the guard was from
Kaas, who opposed it. Swanson ia
vored ii, while Patterson questioned it's
conStitutionalty. Larson said he would
be against the bill, as he believed there
would be plenty of farm work for the
approved the bill. Parrot thought the
government should care for the troops.
and Anderson, of Clark, chairman of
h appropriations committee, felt that
he should hang onto the purse strings
for the bill-the people who are paying
tho taxes want it, he said. The bill
passed with 10 yes
Against Early Returns.
The house has refused TO approve the
auxiliary election board plan OF secur-
Ing early returns by putting one board
to counting while another is receiving
votes. 1t was argued that this would
assist in securing early election returns
in the precincts with the heavier vote,
as 1t applied only to precincts which
east 100 or more votes, but the farmers
thought they could wait until the next
morning to learn the news. They did
not care enough about it to incur the
extra expense and defeated it de-
cisively.
Pass Convict Bill.
The house considered II. b. S46. au-
thorizing h warden of the peniten-
tiary to work the convicts on roads and
the bill, and said it would meet with
the approval Of the prisoners. Sandys
wanted TO amen SO that the prisoners
would get 60 per cent instead of 40 per
cent of their earnings. and when that
lost moved to mend SO they would get
half. This carried. Then johnson
amended to provide that it should be
paid to their fasnilies. Eggen opposes
convict contract labor as a bad policy.
while kaas termed it slavery. Sted-
ronsky tried to amend by striking out
the provision that they could do farm
work. but failed. and The bill passed as
it was.
Uniform Road Rules.
House bill 249, by Best, fixing uri-
form road building rules so that farm
ers, as Mr.. Best said. would help in
stead OF ruin h Dad on which they
worked. johnson objected but Swan
SON felt there ought to be such a sys-
tenn. Buchholz, of Butte, objected to
q effect it Woal have in the Black
Hills, but Hursh, of Lawrence, lie the
tliis people were perfectly satisfied
with bill and 1t passed.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has been re-
csiyed here of the death at Grand Rapids.
Mich. of Edmund Croak, a prominent
y. a. II. man, who, for many years, lived
IN Garretson. He was one Of The pioneer
settlers of4the Garretson territory. AZ
one time he was a merchant at Palisades.
near here and WAS the last postmaster OF
that place. serving up to the time the PAIL
saues postoffice was discontinued. He IS
survived by a widow and one son. Fred
sCroak, Of Dubuque. In.
SIOUX FALLs-Because he could not
control his appetite for strong drink, Jo-
seph Nesby, OF this city, Will have 70 serve
aAterm Of one year In the Sioux Fails
penttentiarys Several weeks ago he was
convicted Of forgery IN the third degree
and Wal given q term In the pe~nitentiary.
The sentence. however, was suspended On
condition that he would conduct himself
properly. He was picked up IN the street
In IN Eantoxicated condition and now viii
have 70 seryelii term In the p~enitentiary.
MITCHELL-IItgh schools Of South:
Dakota have been advised BY Dakota
Wseaeysn university authorities . the
coming extemporaneoNs speaking contest,
which will be held under the auspices 81
the tnstitution IN Mitchell on April n. Az
ready rs high schools have sigr,ifed their
itention4Of participating Entrants will
Pc gfven IA list of - subjects of popular
Interest 10 stndy.
son.5of Violin. S; D. has entered the 1avai
|4hQSpit4f here for q course Of spet.iai siil,3v