The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-01-13
STATE LEGISLATURE
BAR RED FLAG FROM PARADES
ROUTINE BUSINESS.

R AoS SiR1pNiNA III
this state is the purpose of a bill by
Senator Engstrom, who makes it a
misdemeanor TO carry or display any
flag except the American flag in any
parade or demonstration of any char
acter within the state and especially
prohibits the use of the red flag in
any manner.
The first report of the state budget
committee will be ready at an early
date and it will carry approximately
$6,000,000 as the needs of the state
for the next biennial period, this be-
ing an increase of $1,000, 900 over
the appropriations of the last session.
These figures will not cover any of
the proposed development plans.
In the senate, chairmen of the
leading committees to be announced
today are: Apportionment, Doreson;
judiciary, Urdahl; temperance, John
ston; ways and means, Lincoln;
mines and mining, Stoner; fish and
game, Gardner; interpretations, Gun
vohal; public health, Trip; banks,
Miller; dairy products, Brooks; edu-
c%ational, Wawell; e~ngrossed and en-
rolled bills, Hamm.
That the state should pay for
stamps to mail out legislative rec
ords is the hope and expectation of
the senate in it's resolution requir-
ing the messenger of that body to at
tend to this feature for the members
on a promise that they will see the
appropriations committee about the
pay. In the meantime the messen-
ger is under orders but shy the cash
to carry them out. The joint COM
mittee on adjournment has proposed
a recess from the afternoon of
Thursday to the forenoon of Tues
day, January %, this giving the
members an over Sunday home visit.
The meeting of the nonpartisan
members of the two bodies was not
SO well attended as was hoped for by
the leaders. When possible legisla-
tive action came up for discussion 1t
was decided that this was not the
time to start" anything.
The house of representatives unan-
imously adopted a resolution which
memorializes congress to land troops
returning from Europe at some port
other than New York.
Representative Dalthrop in intro
ducing the resolution, said that it
was desirable to use some other port
because the mayor of New York had
placed William Randolph Hearst at
the head of the committee of recep-
tion to returning soldiers.
There are only two lobbyists regis
tered SO far, and they are for the
same cause They are Z. E. Gunter
and Hans Helgerson, representing the
South Dakota division of the Farm
ers Educational and Cooperative
Union of America, boosting farmer
Farmers union has most of it's
strength in the southeastern part of
the state.
There are only 10 old senator's in
the AS this session; but there are
several others who, in the last or for
mer sessions, have been here in the
house. The former house members
in the senate this year are Trip, of
Aurora; Scott, of Brown; knight. of
Clark; B~artels, of Deuel.; Charles
Gardner, of Hand, who has been clerk
of the house for several sessions and
is strictly on to the ropes: Johnston,
of Clark, and those who not only
have had house experience. but have
been tried in the senate before are
E. III. Odland, of Turner; Labrie, of
Sphinx; Stoner, of Lawrence, and
Boreson, of Dawson.
Reports coming into the state inn
migration department after its adver-
tisement for the state rural credits
plan, show that people generally do
not know that the department has al
ready closed loans amounting to APP
proximately $4,000, 900, and addi-
tional applications which would
bring the total to sri. 900, 900. They
have just sold $4,000 900 more of
bonds, which they estimate will meet
the demands of the loans desired to
May /.
J.. II. Wooley, a field man for the
department, has prepared a map
which indicates the number Of loans
made and the specific location of
each tract which is used as security
for it. There are over 2,100 such To-
cations shown to date, about equally
, distributed both east and west Of the
Missouri, but the amount loaned east
of the river is far greater than that
in the west, as the amount which can
be loaned is based on the assessed
valuation Of the land, which means
that there are many $1,000 loans in
the west while there are many loans
of $4,000, the limit allowed. on
eastern farms. Only a few loans up
to the limit have been made in the
western part OF the state, and these
are on large ranches.
Whau the rural crndffs law was