Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1918-03-28
SPECIAL SESSION
# WAS A BUSY ONE
ADJOURNED SATURDAY, WITH RE-
CORD OF MUCH WORK
ACCOMPLISHED

The short Legislative session
which closed Saturday afternoon
passed fifty one bills and six
joint resolutions covering con-
stitutional amendments which will
be submitted to the voters at the
coming general election.
The total appropriations grant
ed reached $536,s47.93, of which
1929, 900 was for the twine plant
revolving fund, and 100000 in
the highway revolving fund, and
will be returned by the general
government after it has been
expended on highways which are
built under government joint sup
ervision with the state highway
department..
Outside the app1 p1opriations for
the various state institutions, the
legislation covers matters of
education, and war measures, pri-
ncipal among which being pro-
badly the laws giving drastic
powers to the state and county
councils of defense, the bill re-
cognizing the home guard as a
legal organization; the one auth
orizing the registration and list
ing of all unemployed in the
state, and their classification to
compel their entering into pro-
7uctive service of the countrv.
and the act DEFINING treason. ard
sabotage and criminal syndicalisr
and providipp penalties for. the
violation of the same. 4
Along educational lines. the
laws limit education in the COM
mon schools Of the state to the
English language; and require
instruction in all public or nriv-
ate, to conduct their educational
work in the English tonpue only.
Also provisions safeguarding the
rights Of teachers who enter th.s
service either in the trenches or
in Red Cross or War Relief work.
extending certificates which they
may hold when entering the
service to one year after the war.
Along election lines. the time
limit for filing certificates Of
nomination by candidates was
extended to allow certification Of
nominations in time to provide
for voting by the soldiers in
France extending the time for
sending in ballots by any absent
voter, and a strong corrupt prac-
tice act, adding to the existing
laws in that respect.
Highways were looked after
by the appropriation of 100000
for construction work which will
be repaid by the Federal gov
ernment after it has been ex-
pended; authorizing the highway
commission to secure tracts OF
land by condemnation, upon
which materials for highway con
strnction can be secured; and
authorizing the appointment OF
highway commissioners in unor-
ganized counties. oe 4
Several constitutional amend
ments will be presented through
the action of the special session.
Of these two only are new mat
ter, one ratifying and approving
the Federal prohibitory amend
ment, and the other authorizing
the state to engage in the deve-
lDpment Of coal deposits in the
northwest section Of the state
where such deposits are located.
The others are merely to cure
defects which have been located
in the amendments which were
submitted at the last Legislative
session. One of these to allow
the state to generally enter into
the work Of internal improve
ments, a right which the. pre-
sent constitution denies to them.
Another to authorize the state to
engage in water power develop
ments, another to authorize the
state to engage in development
Of the cement possibilities within
the state, and another to change
the equal suffrage amendment to
prohibit voting alien enemies of
the government.
The work Of the session has
the usual extent of q regular ses-
sion. The only contests Of any
heat were those in which it was
attempted to limit the working
powers Of the state council of