The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-01-25
CARLISLE F7EV
NEUROLOGICAL
INTRODUCED BILL TO APPRO.
PIRATE 500, 900 FoH AeRicUL.
TURAL HALL AT S. D. S. C..
FIGHT ON BONE DRY LIQUOR MEASURE
Stock Judging Pavilion For State COL
Iege-Suffrage Under Way-Con-
%servation Of Lakes New Measure

Pierre, S. D., January 81, 1917.
Special to the Register.-While most
of the legislative members are out of
the city until Tuesday, or until train
operations will allow them to get back,
it is certain that they are most of
them trying to get views of the peo-
pie on whether they want an actual
bone dry prohibitory bill, or one
along the lines of the anti-saloon
league bill, which allows any individ-
ual in the state, under a lot of red
tape and restrictions to get as much
as a quart of red likker" or a case
of beer in a month. At least that
would be the indication from the bales
of the new bills which were carried
away by most of the members when
they started for home. The issue has
been discussed, cussed and otherwise
considered ever since the members
first came to the session but the issue
was not settled down to anything per-
manent until the new bill drawn by
the head of the anti-saloon league was
finally out in the open. There is a
little bone dry bill already in, intro
duced by Representatives Kaas, Of
Marshall, and Eggen, of Roberts,
which is a short measure and is a copy
of the national act prohibiting the tax
ing of liquor upon an Indian reserva-
ton, except that it applies to the
state instead of the reservations, and
they say such a bill would cover all
the needs. The anti-saloon league
measure allows individual shipments,
but ties them up with such regulations
and puts such a degree of responsible
ity on the agents of express comnanies
that getting a drink would mean more
publicity and trouble than the average
man would care to take. But just
which slant the members will take
when they come to the final vote is
the question.
Senator Carlisle on the last day be-
fore the recess introduced bills in the
senate, and the Bookings county dele
CATION in the house, appropriating
500, 900 for a new agricultural hall at
the State College, at Brookings; and
appropriating $4,000 for a stock judg-
ing pavilion at that institution.
When the house elections commit
tee finally was ready to report the
equal suffrage resolution which had
mittee was divided upon the report,
Chairman Titland, and Representative
Shultz, of Kingsbury, signing a minor
ity report against action upon the reso-
luton. But the house turned down
their minority report, putting the reso-
luton on the calendar, but at so late
a date that it did not get to a vote be-
fore the recess, and will be up as one
of the first bills to be voted on in the
house after the recess.
The Fish and game committee has
introduced a bill in the house which
will be of interest to many communi-
ties in the eastern part of the state,
as it's main provision is to allow the
state fish and game commission to
condemn lands required in carrying on
their work. This in effect mean that
if the state commission deems it advis-
able to place a dam across an outlet to
a lake and raise the water surface 1t
will have the power to condemn the
land required for this, and as well to
secure right of way in case they de-
sire to turn water from a stream into
a lake. Both of these plans are under
consideration at points in the lake
region of the state, and if the leglsla-
ture gives the commission the power
asked, work which has been delayed by
the refusal of individual interests to
grant concessions can be pushed re-
CARELESS of the individual objections.
One of the issues which will be up
prominently at the resuming of bust
ness is that of an attempt to get a
general revision of the constitution
without the expense of a constitutional
convention. The general idea is that
under the provisions of the constitu-
ton as they exist there is nothing
which stands in the way of submitting
practically a new constitution to the
people for a vote with a circle at the
head to allow them to vote for the
whole proposed new document IL they
SO desire, but with a circle before each
individual proposition allowing the