The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1921-03-18
The South Dakota
legislature

Legislature
The Asoss aAs3tsA he h&use bill
calculated = pat teeth in the eecuri-
ties oonnAoSioa Law and keep out seal
swag stock sAlssMeA. 1t requires ala
stock ss4A = g through the ofIlce OF
The ssnmissioa - that they may know
wAsa he amsAAt authorized HAS been
ssA. Il requires dealers in stocks to
dspestt eSS.eeo il securities and sales
men u put ~ @lee .00o BOND Is 70 their
good faith In selling In the state. 1t
Prohibits resale q additional anauth-
sri1sd stock within the amount permit
ted ~ tie eenmissien, aaA generally
permits = mere careful scratiny into
the affairs q sxsA companies, with
stronger peaAlities thax the present
law.
Neither he senate nsr ~ house
yss Nav sAow1 any intention 0f let
ting g their hold IN the Sunday base
sAu-novis censorship deadlock. Sen
ators contend that the Sunday base
ball bill would be no good IL the emer-
gency were net left In ~ the ques-
ton could not 10 submitted in NUM-
cipalities under the local option fea-
turs this spring. and the house has not
yet been able to get the majority ne
cessary - pass it ~ N emergency
measure. The senate contends tina,
the emergency IL necessary OIL the
movie bill II 1t II to be at all effective.
and the house still insists that there
should be left provision for submission
OF the question to the people.
Charges Of cruelty to prisoners, mis-
management. carelsssness and ireffi
cheney on the part OF management Of
the South Dakota penitentiary at
Sioux Falls. under former Warden G..
c. Redfield were contained in The re-
port Of the legislative investigating
committee. submitted 10 the legisla-
ture. Instances whore prisoners were
tortured to such an extent that they
became mental and physical wrecks"
were brought to the attention OF the
committees. the report stated. One
method Of punishment. the report
went on. was to leave doors and WIN
dows OF the coils open in the winter,
causing prisoners to suffer from the
cold.
The house had it, second fight on
h question Of exempting from taxa
lion OF religious and benevolent Or
CARNATIONS not used exclusively by
them. A bill requiring exclusive use
for exemption was killed In the ses-
sion leaving the law applying TO all
property owned BY them. Hagg of
Corson had . bill in specifically ex-
emptinE church parsonages and Park
q sought - amend By eating out
the provision tor exemption whether
% used or not. The amendment was
killed and the bill passed.
linking q Ne western part OF the
state with the eastern hah received a
great boost when the house passed H.
B. "a. authorizing q levy Of One-tenth
MIL upon assessed valuation OF the
state to rovfds fer state bridge funds.
Under this Dian It 10 hoped to raise
enough money 10 build across the Mis-
sourt river every five years. One
bridge will opsa up the Mobridge
country. another the Rosebud region
and another will be located ut Pierre.
Approximately Is years win be re-
QuireA to consammate the plan.f
G&uth Dakota will continue her pres
ent road building program. highway
committees Of both houses have de-
cided. Funds viii be raised by a grad.
uated automobile tax and a tax of l
cent a gallon on gasoline used In mo-
Q vehicles to meet the 81, 7O0,0 600 fed
eral aid in the coming years. The
state has funds sufficient to meet fed
eral aid during the present year and
next year, but must be assured by the
present legislature of money for 1923
and 1924 80 that contracts may be
signed up with the government.
The house passed q bill which il not
deferred will be effective in the com
ing campaign on numerous initiated
and referred laws. 1t prohibits candi-
dates from spending their campaign
funds to boest or oppose any consti-
tutional amendment or initiated or re-
ferred laws. The trouble has been in
the past that while it vat not legal to
spend much money for or against
these laws, partisans OF nj side or
the other could favor candidate for
tightly paid offices and spend con
siderable funds In such propaganda.
The house passed the senate bin
creating q department os agriculture
TO replace and enlarge the activities