The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1921-03-11

20 SeSuieu tnlS session as the bill pre-
AIRED by the drainage committee.
'arrying an appropriation of $4,000,
as been approved by the appropria.
ION committee and has been reported
so TO pass. Battle for this legislation
the result of flood conditions in the
'oulnern part OF the state at certain
seasons of the year which cause great
.oss TO the farmers.
Inc old saying that all legislation Is
lone before the measure comes to the
floor was disapproved when the house
passed the foreign language bill by a
yote of s4 to S3, ending fight OF two
years made by the American Legion
to get adequate legislation in public
schools to insure teaching of the Eng
fish language in ,s,wer grades. The
bill was put through by carrying the
mouse in some of the best speeches
made during the present session.
Tom Ayers Of Mitchell filed with the
secretary of state an initiative petit.
ton bearing more than $4,000 sigma
lures and seeking establishing of the
Bank of South Dakota The petition
provides for submission of the ques-
ton to the people OF the state at the
next election. The bank would be run
along the same lines as that of North
Dakota. An appropriation of 100000
would be made to start operations.
A change in the educational proceed.
ure of the state was started on its way
when the house adopted resolution
amendment taking she county super
intendents out Of the list of other coun-
ty officers II the senate agrees on
submission of the amendment and the
people adopt IL, the legislature will
have authority to determine the term
and manner of selection of the county
superintendent
The Hanson bill providing for COM
missioner on feeble mindedness and a
survey of the state on this question
passed the senate. 1t would give the
county board of insanity authority to
commit feeble minded people much as
they do insane persons now and per-
NIT the state board to go further than
under the old law in segregating peo-
pie of poor mentality to protect the
rest of the state from them.
The senate passed the house moth
ers' pension bill with SO reduc-
ton. The house put a maximum of
$40 on the pension that could be paid
for the care of the first child, and the
senate cut it down to 500 This is still
a raise OF IS from the old law, and the
pension for following children is raised
from 81 to SO. Aid for expectant moth.
ers is also included in the bill, which
was not in the old law.
Sunday baseball, movie censorship
and the American Legion boxing bill
may all fall by the wayside as result
Of petty politics entering into the
fight. Representative Wall, of Butte
county, one Of the advocates of censor
ship. angered by the failure of the
house to adopt the emergency clause
to the censorship bill, is said to have
taken solemn oath to kill the other
two bills as retaliatory measure
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J The bill fixing county officers sal.
], aries on a valuation and population
basis was killed in the house. The
bugabo of higher taxes was raised
against the whole bill with some mem.
bers fearing that to fix their salaries
on all assessed valuation basis would
prompt officers to raise the assessed
valuation and that would be hard on
the tax payers, too.
The fight on the public utilities bill
! which would put electric and gas com
panies under the jurisdiction Of the
railroad commission may end with an
unfavorable report on this bill by the
municipal corporations committee.
The adverse recommendation has been
decided on by the committee and they
will fight for it on the floor of the
house.
The general appropriations bill
carrying $6,373,00O for the mainten.
ance Of state departments and insti-
passed the house withauOaficao EFT
buttons for the coming two years
passed the house without change or
debate. It had been amended in the
senate from the original figure to add
the salary of the parole officer omitted
in the original draft.
:. Possibilities of the development Of
rich unsettled lands in the Rosebud
country and northwestern South Da
kota was opened when the senate
adopted the house bill authorizing 10
,al bonding for building railroads. The
DILL authorizes counties, towns and
townships to issue bonds to build
.oads and then to take stock in the
.oads in return for the bonds.
Submission Of the present proposed
initiated laws in South Dakota will
add 800, 900 to the expense Of the next
general election. according to an esti
nate by Secretary of State @. A
3urkhart Five laws and a cOn0titu