The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-01-20
DOINCS ATiTHE
LEGISLATURE
Bill Passed Making Armistice Day
Legal Holiday

GlerrG, Jan. l4.--1ne present SeS-
sion of the legislature will cost the
people of the state or South Dakota
S70,700 If they pass the legislative APP
preparation bill introduced in the
house today by the appropriations
committed of that body as III. B. AZ.
Legislatures before have set a pre-
cedent of passing appropriations for
legislative pay with hardly a dissent
ing vote. II is anticipated that the
present session will not break the
precedent.
Other new bills introduced in the
house we're.
Fl. B. IL, Rearick, giving residents
of ~unorganized counties a vote on
state and national tickets.
H. B. AZ. Rogness. repeating the
registry mortage tax.
III. B. A.. Otte, charging the terms
Of court and boundaries of the third
judicial circuit.
II. B. As. Otte, authorizing a two
mill levy by a municipal corporation
on vote Of the people for Fairgrounds
and ametuer athletic purposes.
H.. b. 46. Swanson, repeating the
debate provisions of the Richards pri-
mary law.
The senate started off with the in
PRODUCTION by the committee on public
health of S. B. SO, providing for a
preliminary examination of all per-
sons who may hereafter desire to prac
tlce medicine, surgery, osteopathy or
any form of the healing art, and Gre
ating a state board of preliminary ed
u~Cation and defining its powers and
duties.
Other new senate bills were:
S. b. Freelove, relating to the pro-
secution of mortgages on personal
property.
S. B.. "a. Myers, repeating the mort
gage registry tax and providing for
exemption from taxation of mortgages
which have been registered.
S. b. 35. Erskine, placing all state
highway funds in Sc on state trunk
lines.
S. b. So, Klefnsasser, defining will
full trespass and the penalty thereof.
S. B. 81. Berg, providing for the
organization or admission and regula-
ton of mutual insurance companies
handling other than life policies.
Another law was made when the
house passed S. b. A, removing the
6 per cent maximum interest limit
off state hail warrants.
The house also passed, unanimous
iy, II. b. II, raising from $50 to $3.50
the expense allowance of supreme
court judges.
The senate acted on a number OF
senate bills. Passed.:
S. B, z, requiring record to be kept
Of branded hides in slaughter houses.
S. b. 5, making Armistice Day, Nov.
IL, a state legal holiday.
S. b. IL, providing a 81 900 revolving
fund for state institutions to care for
small expenditures.
S. b. 81, CHASING aliens with ION
residents prohibiting carrying of fire.
arms.
The twentieth annual review of pro-
gress of the state just III from the
state historical department shows the
financial effects on the farmers of the
present existing conditions.
The showing cuts the market value
of production of farm products, $161,-
o19 600, over the market value OF the
products of the farms the previous
year.
The marketing figures show a reduc,
ton of $52,053 900 owe the marketing
value of the products Of the previous
year. The production figures are TAX
en- from the Federal department fg-
ufes on cereals, potatoes and hay but
the figures on other products are state
estimates.
The vital statistical figures of the
year as shown in the report indicated
a material increase of population from
natural birth rate over death rate
with births given at 14,0S1 and deaths
1T 5,o52. There We're 1894 marriages
and $40 divorces.
For the year S07 foreign born resi-.
lents made their declaration of be,
coming citizens, and $50 final citizen
ship papers were granted.
The Review is a brief summarys OF
the activities of the various state de.
partments for the past year, showing
what each has been doing in the way
of business along with a summary OF
the financial affairs of the state and
its subdivisions. In that line. one
interesting feature is the showing Of
the character of tax demand made fol
the year 1920, which places the state
demands at $3,755,203; for general
county proposes the taxes called for
amounted to $9,326,666; for school pun
poses $S,900,54S; township taxes tool
~$2.394,915; and municipal takes So,
21z,979. In other words out of a tota
CT twenty-seven and a half million
dollars Of demands over eighteen mil
lion was for county and school pur.
poses, and the demand for state pur-
poses and municipal purposes were
I,nf far onorf