The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-01
AbONE-DRY BILL
WILL co THROUGH
SENTIMENT CRYSTALLINE IN
THIS DIRECTION IN BOTH
HOUSES
APPROPRIATION FOR THE COLLEGE FARM
Change in the Law With Reference
To County Superintendent
Taking Office

Pierre, S. D., Jan. 90, 1917. Special
to the Register:-The Lyon bill in the
house, authorizing the state game com
mission to establish ird refugees in
any section Of the state where they
think that game birds are being wiped
out, is intended to cover some of the
smaller lakes of the state with the eX-
pectation on the part of the introducer
of the bill that they will become the
nesting places of game birds; and is
likely to affect several of the lakes in
the eastern part Of the state in case il
is enacted. Another bill by Evander
of Roberts county, if enacted, would
affect the lake section, as one Of its
game birds to any n person at fifty.
K~ingsbury county treasurer, or some
drainage district in that county, will
receive owe two thousand dollars
from the state through the bill which
has passed the house, carrying the
necessary funds to pay the drainage
assessments on state lands. most of the
amount going to Kingsbury.
Magnus of Hand, introduced a bill
in the house Saturday appropriating
$4,000 to purchase a half section of
land at the agricultural college to
carry on the farm experiment work az
that institution.
Among bills of the past week were
one by Dalthorp, of Brookings, re-
curing all auctioneers in the state to
secure license from the secretary of
state, paying a license fee Of $25 for
that privilege and another by h same
representative requiring town and viii
lage boards to publish a detailed state
ment of their proceedings with a finan-
cial showing.
The Kingsbury county delegation is
not strong on speech making, and it is
charged that this is one of the reasons
why there was no argument on the
suffrage bill when it was up in the
house. Representative Peter Schultz
had signed the minority report against
the adoption of the resolution, which
had been voted down by the house, and
the majority report adopted. The op-
ponents of the measure say they We're
waiting for him as the minority report
advocate to put up his opposition TO
the bill, and they expected to back him
up, but he either forgot his cue, or
didn't want to use his opportunity and
while they were waiting for him to
start something the clerk beat them
out and started the roll call, and the
noise was over without getting started.
Representative Ruben, of Deuel.
county, got his bill through the house
20 change the time of taking Office by
the county superintendent from the
first Tuesday in January to the first
Tuesday in June. The bill went to the
senate where it was held up long
'IIOuSh W tIdhS' oit IL
bill provided that the new superintend-
ent take up the duties of the Office
he first Tuesday in June, and that the
outgoing officer held until the first
Monday in June, and the question rails
ID was what would happen in case
June begun with Tuesday. That there
would be several days when either,
neither or both the superintendent
would be in or out of office at the
same time, and this vas Strengthened
up before the senate acted On the
measure.
When the bill to allow county boards
Of equalization to make reassessments
of property not properly assessed by
local officers started the farmers into
action, and while opposition was pre-
sented from several cities, especially
from Watertown. the farmers, backed
by Mcfarland, stood for the bill, and
it went across easily. Mathieson, Of
W~atertown, attempted TO get the bill
indefinitely postponed, but Mcfarland
opposed such action, and stated that
so far as he knew the opposition came
from his home city. but he was not
afraid of that feature and believed that
the bill should go through. A dozen
or more farmers stood for its pro-
visions and endorsed 1t not only by
their talk, but by their votes. and 1t
went through easily.
One OF the issues of the session
which will probably get a start at
least on real action in one house or the
other before the end of the week Is