Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-02-22
Efforts TO Amend Measure in
House Unsuccessful.
PROHIBTIONISTS ARE PLEASED
Sufficient Power Lodged in Hands Of
Governor to Enforce Provi-
sions of Statute.

Pierre -(Special) The prohibition
measure was the special order for
Wednesday in the house and occupied
the entire session. The joint temper
ance committees have worked diligent-
ly over it from the opening of the SEES
sion and every one interested has been
given the opportunity to be heard. The
result of these hearings have much
changed the bill since first introduced
and as it came from the committee 1t
was deemed by the temperance lead
ers as nearly perfect as the wisdom OF
the people could make 1t. The consid-
Grafton of the measure really began
tempt was made to smoke out OF the
committee several other bills upon the
subject, and a motion did prevail after
a hot discussion requesting the com
mittee to report the other bills. The
committee, however, stood pat and re-
fused to bring the other bills out
When the hour for the special order
arrived an effort was made to throw
IT into committee OF the whole, but
this the house refused to do. Upon
the test vote to go into committee of
the whole 1t was made evident that
the friends of the committee measure
were in control.
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Representative Kaas moved to strike
out of the bill the provision for a pro-
hibition commissioner and to place
enforcement In the hands of the attor-
ney general, and he supported his
proposition in q well considered ad-
dress, but failed TO impress the requi-
site number. Lyon tried to inject into
the easur a provision for municipal
d~ispensaries, but got very little sup
port, Stedronsky proposed to cut out
the power of the governor to remove
incompetent and delinquent officials,
but the bill stood unframed. McFar-
land earnestly pleaded for Increased
maximum penalties-the bill gives
from thirty days to six months in Jail
for the first ofiense and from six
months to two years in the %peniten-
tiary for the second oifense-but the
bill Supporters stood q stone wall
against any change whatever and at
a late hour the bill passed. SIS to 10. II
carries the emergency clause. II is
said the senate is ready to likewise
accept it in its present form. The
chief feature OF the bill. aside from its
b~onedryness, is the power lodged in
the hands of the governor to make it
effective.
There is popular misunderstanding
OF the nature of the educational clinics
bill which passed the senate. Ii sim
ply provides that one not a physician
shall not make a physical examination
of child except upon request of its
parents and In the presence of the
parent or physician. This conforms
to DIR. Jones' practice and is what he
asked the legislature to do it, in part.
He wished the law to explicitly gov
ern educational clinics and that prae-
titioners be licensed.
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There are twenty.six bills upon
highway matters and the committees
are well nigh %swamped. Joe Parmley
of the Yellowstone trail is here assist
ing In sitting out the mass OF mate
rial and one comprehensive act may
result which will eInbody the good
features OF all the proposals. Yank-
ton county is asking for a general
bending bill for good roads under
which a county, by a blanket bond,
may hard surface or pave its high
ways.
The educational survey bill, which
passed the senate two weeks ago, is
progressing satisfactorily. 1t has been
approved and f~avorably recommended
by the house appropriations commit
tee and referred to the committee on
education. II Is expected that it will
be upon the calendar before the end
of the week.
IA $4,000 memorial arch to the vet
Grams Of the Civil war win be erected
upon the capitol grounds. the bill for
that object having been approved BY
the governor. II viii probably be
erected at the entrance Il the capitol
grounds ut the west front.
A bill providing for . stateafar for
delinanents, to be located sbetween,'
the ~penitentiary and reform school.
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