Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-03-01
DRY BILL NOW LAW
GOV. NoRsEck SIGNS BILL PUT
TING BAN ON LIQUOR IN
STATE.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE

A Review Of the Work Of the STATE
Government At the Capitol and
at the Various STATE
institutions.
Pierre
Gov. Norbeck has attached his sig
nature to the bill which will make
South Dakota bone dry after the first
Of next July. 1t was signed In the
presence Of the members Of the tenn
perance committees Of the two houses,
Lieut.. Gov. McMasters, Speaker Rob-
erts, members of the state w. c. T. U.
and prominent temperance workers,
who started the song, Nobody Knows
How Dry l AM" as the governors
signature was attached and followed
with the doxology A flashlight OF
the party was taken Immediately after
the signing. This formality was fol-
lowed by the signing of the bill which
makes Frances Willard" day par
tial legal holiday in South Dakota.
It is a quarter of century since
South Dakota tried constitutional pro-
hibition and which was repealed with
in a few years as failure because OF
non.enforcement, but the sentiment
has changed in that time and the pro
hibitionists now believe they have
bill which has come to stay.
BY the terms of the law, which be-
comes operative July /, 1917. intoxicat-
ing liquors cannot be manufactured
within the state for any purpose. nor
imported for purposes other than me.
dicinal, mechanical, scientific or sacra.
mental. The act is declared by nation
al anti-saloon league officers to be the
most drastic prohibition legislation
yet adopted by any state.
1t provides that only registered
pharmacists in drug stores established
one year or more may sell liquors Tor
the purposes allowed. and violation of
the provisions will forfeit the seller
his certificate as pharmacist. His
clerks or unregistered assistants may
not sell liquors. Physicians who issue
prescriptions to quench thirst may
suffer loss of their license to. practice
medicine in the state. Only those
pharmacists and physicians accepta-
BILE to the prohibition commissioners
created by the bill to enforce its pro.
visions may possess licenses to sell or
to prescribe liquor.
Soil Survey Appropriation.
The Senate passed a Senate bill
calling for an appropriation of $4,000
and authorizing soil survey of the
state for the coming two years. This
started controversy as to whether
the people of the state really desired
1t and would stand for the expense
and whether it would do the good
claimed. Question was also raised
about the farmers demanding 1t. A
contest between the supporters
of the State college and the state uni,
versity to place man in charge of the
work finally resulted in the Brookings
school winning.
Convent Bill Passes Senate.
The Senate passed H. B. 1855, the
Birch convent inspection bill, after 1t
had been amended to make it more
general in its application. Boreson
Of Davision offered the amendment
making it apply to "all denomination
al" institutions, and adding colleges"
TO the list. Amsden, Birch's col.
league. thought the bill a good one.
Waters thought it was loading pref
ty big load onto the w0man's commit
tee of investigation. which should do
the work. Dowdell opposed the bill.
City Manager Bill Passes.
The house passed the Lyon city
manager bill after cutting out the pro.
vision which limited 1t to cities of
10000 or more. and allowing it to ap.
ply to all cities of the state. Some
objection was raised to the feature
which required nine commissioners in
the smaller sized cities. but this was
finally allowed to stand, and 1t went
through without material change 9TH
or than the one amendment.
Shares In an Estate.
State Treasurer Helgerson has re-
ceived a check for $4,000 as an in
heritance tax on the estate Of the late
William Deering of Chicago. This
sum was declared by the courts to be
due this state upon property which
Deering owned in South Dakota, and
Is the largest single payment Of inner.
itance tax ever received by this state
TO Transfer Turner County.
The bill transferring Turner county
from the First judicial circuit to the
Second circuit has passed the lesis
lature and petitions are extant asking
the governor to appoint Attorney L
Fleeger Of Parker as the second Judge
for the enlarged district, the legisla
ture giving the Second district two
Judges now.