Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-02
MAN MADE" STUFF
BILL KNOCKED OUT
Women Held Back Support on
AIseth Measure. It Is Said
-"Dry' Bill Up
Tomorrow.

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suffrage bill was killed today when tho
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 h suffragists and
had not received their support. 1t was
believed il 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 devOte to committee re-
ports. The senate adopted a report
placing the bone dry" bill on the call
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 it's bill presented today
or tomorrow. The general appropria-
tions bill is promised in about the
middle of the week. +;
The senate today will consider the
city manager plan by Gunderson, and
q bill providing for the establishment OF
the BOnesteel normal in the Rosebud
country.
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 member of the regi-
,ment is to receive SIS on his being
mustered out.
A dispatch received here from San
Benito, Tex. states that the regiment
left it's border station Saturday for
Fort Crook, Neb., where it will be mus.
tered out of the government service.
The principal discussion on the ap.
preparation bill for the guard was from
Kaas. who opposed it. Swanson ia
vored it, while Patterson questioned it's
cOnStitutiOnality. Larson said he would
be against the bill, as he believed there
would be plenty of farm work for the
men when they returned. Mcfarland
approved the bill. Parrot thought the
government should care for the troops.
and Anderson. Of Clark, chairman OF
the appropriations committee. felt that
he should hang onto the purse strings
II the state n vote No" Withee was
for the bill-the people who are paying
tho X want it, he said. The hill
passed With 73 yeas.
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 it applied only to precincts which
cast 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. BAG. au-
thorixing the warden of the peniten-i
farms on contract. Groth explained
the bill, and said it would meet with
the approval Of he prisoners. Sandys
wanted to amend sc that the prisoners
would get so per cen Instead OF 40 per
cent OF their earnings: and when that
lost moved to amend so they would get
half. This carried. Then johnson
amended to provide that it should be
paid to their families. Eggen opposed
convict contract labor as a bad policy.
while Kaas termed 1t slavery. Sted-
rOnsky tried to amend by striking OUT
the provision that they could do farm
work, but failed, n the bill passed as
1t
Uniform Road Rules.
House bill 249, by Best, fixing uni-
form road building rules SO that farm
ers. az Mr.. Best said. would help in
stead Of ruin the roads on which they
worked. johnson objected bu. Swan
e0n felt there ought to be such a sys-
tenn. Buchholx. Of Butte, objected to
the effect It would have In the Black
HUI. but Hursh. Of Lawrence, said the
Hills people were perfectly satisfied
with bill and It passed. I
Observation-Disclosures has been re-
ceived here OF the death q Grand Rapids,
Mich. OF Edmund Croak. q prominent