The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-02-06
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS


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Pierre, Feb. 3, 1919.-The Ruben
bill to relieve county treasurers and
auditors from the necessity of show
ing the state taxes paid, on a receipt,
stands on the house record as passed
but up for reconsideration on the Sth
of February. all because several OF
the members who are recorded as yot-
ing yes on the bill claim that they
are recorded as voting for the bill
when as a matter of fact they voted
against it. This bin is causing more
or less comment on account OF its
so-called political nature. 1t was
passed when political fakirs insisted
that the heavy increase in taxation
over the state was all due TO cXtrava-
CANT state expenditure. The require
ment showed that the heavy increase
was in local and not state taxes, and
that issue or attempted issue went
out OF use. The claim is that by now
the people are educated along that
line and that as the law was a politi-
cal one il should be wiped out. The
opponents to repeal say that the
present move looks like a political
one TO open the door for another such
a campaign, and they arc not in IA
vor of it. and it will take the final
vote on the eighth to settle the fate
of the measure,
One of the bills which Will mean a
lot more hard work and yet more talk
ing before it is finally disposed of is
the new highway bill. If the state
puts mp the limit Of bonds, about sew
en- and a half million dollars, the fed
eral government will put up a Ike
amount for highway construction in
the state. While a bill has been drawn
which gives the state department eX.
tensiye powers, the joint highway o n
mittees of the two houses are build
ing a bill of their own to. hand out
for consideration when they have It
completed. The whole situation ap
pears to revolve largely around the
lSSutS Vi Oldit NClllldl GUILTY. Ny a
state department or placing the larg-
err part of the control in the hands Of
county commissioners. The legisla-
tive committee of the county commas
sioners association of the state is on
hand asking for commissioner con
troll. The opponents of this are bus y,
and just where they will land between
the two will take the future to de
velop.
The women of the state have been
busy the past week in a series of meet
ings in which they have discussed
changes in laws which have in the
past Disseminated against women, and
putting all such laws OF an equality
basis. They are meeting IA different
reception since they have been given
the voting power, than they were
wont to receive in the old days when
they were asking for this privilege.
Beside this they have been studying
political and ballot issues. This Is
new to many of the women and they
find matters along hat line far more
interesting TO them than would a
group of men who have been accus-
toned to handling ballots and gener-
ally know their use. They want to
learn what will be required of them
and while many attended the republi-
can Mckinley banquet. it was with
the understanding that they came as
guests and not as partisans as they
have not as yet landed at any partic-
ular place so far as partisanship Ia
concerned.
The discussion in the senate over