The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-01
STATE COLLEGE
GETS BUILDING
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL.
LARS FOR NEW AGRIcUL-
TURAl BUILDING
FEATURES Of NEW CREDITS LAM SET OUT
Legislature Getting Very Busy as
Term Draws to a Close-Many
Measures Considered

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 26, 1917. Specia.
TO the Register.-The principal points
of interest in Legislative work for the
past week were the general prohibition
act, and the rural credits act, both OF
which are now laws. The prohibitory
bill when on the floor of the senate
was milled over along the same lines
as those of the house line up. The
bill was slightly amended from the one
which passed the house, but not in any
feature which would change its inn
port. Warwick of Grant, tried to get
the amendment back which would al
low a little drop of e~Xhiliartion come
along the desert occasionally, but this
was opposed by Carlisle, among the
many others, and the amendment went
down. ON roll call the bill vas passed
by a vote of %forty-one for to four
which was made against its provisions
while it was u for discussion.
The rural credits bill, in general,
places the administration in the hands
of a board to be appointed by the gov
ernor, and of which he is to be the
presiding officer, and puts the work
ing operation of the law under a coE-
missioner, and a treasurer, who shall
be salaried officers on the job, with
the other members advisory. 1t allows
loans to be made for sums ranging
from 500, up to $4,000 to any one
person, and allows loans for purchase
of land; for making improvements on
same, or for taking up mortgages:
more than thirty years. The long time
loans to be paid back on the amortiza-
ton plan, including principal and in
terest, though the interest must be paid
specially for the first five years. One
popular feature to the small investors
Of the state is the power to issue Sc
curitles in denominations of $25, $50,
800, $500, $1,000 and other denomina-
tions if the commission sees fit, these
to draw five per cent and to run for
periods fixed by the commission, not
less than five years, which will give
the man with a few dollars an oppor-
tunity to get a safe state investment at
five per cen for long time.
1Nhn nnti- aiOnra q 1am which nrn-
hibits selling to minors, and prohibits
any owner of any business place from
allowing minors to congregate at his
place and smoke cigarettes, started a
lot of talk for the bill before it was
finally disposed of among the advo-
Gates being Ruben, Dalthorp and Swan
son, of Brown, who wanted the use of
pipes and cigars included, and eve
the smoking of coffee, but would not
The bill appropriating money to be-
gin work on a new insane asylum at
Watertown, which has been a fight
ing proposition for the past three SEES
sions, vent through this time with
practically no protest from any source,
and has now passed both houses and
is il shape for the work to begin as
soOn as the appropriation is available,
fifteen thousand dollars having been
set aside to begin improvements upon
tho grounds
The senate has passed the house bill
authorizing the state game department
to condemn lands for carrying out the
projects which they deem proper for
the benefit of the state, and this now
gives the legal power required to carry
out the project of ditching to carry
food waters from the Sioux river into
Lake Poinsett and putting that a k
back into the class which can be made
a popular fishing resort for the east
ern central part of the state.
The senate has passed the White
more bill, which seeks to make a mar
riage illegal so far as this state is con
cerned, when residents of the state
who are barred from marriage in
South Dakota, go to some other state
to have the ceremony performed, and
then attempt to return to South Da-
kota to reside. 1t has also passed the
Carlisle bill prohibiting an attorney
from practicing In a justice court,
where the justice is his law partner.
The house passed the Ruben bill,
which makes seven months the COM
pulsory school year in the rural
schools of the state.