The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
STATE SO[0NS ARE
ALL BUSY MEN
FUNDS FOR NEW HOSPITAL At
WATERFOWL HAVE BEEN
VOTED
CARLISLE IS FOR TORRENTS system
New Suffrage Measure Before Senate
-. w. VS. Can Still Travel
In State

Pierre, S. d.. Feb. Z, 1917. Special to
the Register:-The one feature of the
past week in the house which created
more discord and probably bad feeling
than any other issue was that of the
soldiers home at Hot Springs. The
bill was pushed as a patriotic one, by
those backing it, and would no doubt
have passed had it not been for GER
tain features, or rather one certain
feature, that which allow wives and
widows admission to the home on the
same basis as old soldiers, except that
in case their presence would bar any
old soldier from the home he was to
This was looked upon by many men,
bers as a trouble breeder for the
home, and their contention was that
the admission should be absolute equal
ity or not at all. The issue came near
wrecking the appropriation for a sol
der memorial monument on the CAPT
tol grounds, which the G.. A. r. has
been asking for the past several SEES
sions, the feeling being so strong that
the senate unanimously was put over
rather than to put it to a test vote.
The original wives and widows"
bill was finally defeated, and the
monument bill passed, but the other
bill will be up in different form the
coming week.
The |. w. w. bill which attempted
to bar all these gentry from the state
was brought out on the floor of the
house, but when it came time to dis
cuss it while the members from the
towns where they had trouble a year
ago were willing to support any kind
of a measure which would stop their
travel, the farmers preferred to suffer
the ills they knew rather than to try
others they knew not. They feared
that the bill would stop the movement
of harvest hands into the state and
leave them helpless when they wanted
to gather their crops, and as the line
of discussion indicated defeat for the
measure it was sent back to the judic-
larry committee to frame a sitting
amendment, which would sift the
wheat from the chaff and allow the
actual workers to come in and keep
the trouble makers out.
The board of health bill regulating
sewer construction called out a long
argument as to the amount of pollI-
ton of the Jim and Sioux rivers by
sewerage from Aberdeen, Redield and
WATERFOWL, and the bill went down
after the spirited attack which was
made against it.
The Lyon bird refuge act, which
opens a way for the establishment of
game bird refugees on the small lakes
of the state where the property own
ers desire such action, has passed the
house.
After as many senators as cared had
told of the needs of beginning work
on a new insane hospital, the bill APP
propriating fifteen thousand dollars to
begin Improvements on the grounds
for such a hospital at Watertown was
oecn anI thD indications arn that
the house will accept it, and the bill
will at last become a law at this ses-
sion, after having been knocked down
and dragged out at several previous
sessions.
Representative ShultZ, of K~ingsbury
county, has a record, which if followed
by other members would not swell the
number of laws on the statutes to any
great extent, as he is now serving his
fourth term as a house member, and
has never introduced a bill. But that
does not mean that he is not one Of
the working members Of the house by
any means. He knows what bills he
believes deserve support or an adverse
vote, and it is safe to say that he not
only knows, but that he is always to
be found voting his convictions, and
on most bills is a mighty good Judge
of what should be done. OF course
the equal suffrage forces refuse to ad-
NIT he Is always right, as he opposed
their amendment. but outside Of that
1t would be hard for anyone to find
fault with the way he votes.
Among bills presented by members
Of the eastern part Of the state the
past week. are provisions for assess