The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-03-03
CLEARS
UP CALENDAR
Considerable Work Left I'm House For
Last Week. VIII Adjourn
March 3rd

Pierre, Feb. 2S.-The senate cleared
up its calendar Saturday afternoon
leaving 1t free to start the last week
with a clean slate. The house barely
started on a 20 bill calendar, leaving
them a slate most soiled.
The senate passed S. b. lat, pro-
viding SIS a day for the superintendent
of the child welfare commission, S. b
1876, $125 for travel expenses of. state
officers not living at the capitol, S. b.
l55, combining state reports in one
publication, S. b. 32S, making attorney
fer the railroad commission deputy
attorney general, s. b. 344 regulating
salaries of employees of a~ttorney-gen-
erals office, S. b. 313, legislative re-
apportionment, III. b So, uniform sales
law, or reconsideration, III. b. 200, reg
ulating time of making reports on mo-
tor vehicle license funds, III. b. 1875,
fixing fees and perdiem of sheriffs,
ii. b. $40, $13 600 for accredited herds
work, II. b 27S, extending work of
state bonding department to all public
officers. III. II. GS, a chiropractor IL
cense bill. II. b. 26S, permitting COM
missions TO be issued in default cases.
II. b 276, limiting time for presenta-
ton of motions for new trial. III. b.
2o9, regulating original notices i'm
county court. II. b. 326, ST.. 900 for a
farm elevator at State college III. ID.
523, transfer of funds i'm salaries of
banking department. II. B. 342, rails
ing price to public of supreme court
reports from So to 1925. Fl. b. 229,
m II y q 4 n fn1Anxv nrssI H. A.AyX
imprisonment for 10 years to life, to
enter a banking room in daylight
when people are around, with the. in
tent of committing a felony. They in
troduced one bill by unanimous CON
cent, S. b S45. appropriating money
for the expense Of the coal mining
commission.
The house spent so much time talk
ing over their refusal to concur i'm the
amendments of the senate, adding the
emergency clause TO II. B. %, that
they didn't get much farther. There
had been considerable talk on other
things Of the kind so that after the
movie bill was out of the way the
house entered upon a gentlemens
agreement that debate on any concur-
renee be limited five minutes. They
adopted a conference committee re-
port on 500, a month, expense. money
for circuit c dges, decided to put
on the calendar S. B.-142 giving cities
power to regulate dancing outside the
city limits, and refused to reconsider
the vote by which they had the day
before killed II. b $50, fixing county
officers salaries on valuation and pop
ulation-all these after much talk.
And then on a vote they killed II. b.
134, the Bryant hard-surfaced road
bill.
They passed II b. 147, putting the
state board of education in shape to
meet federal aid on vocational training
and civilian rehabilitation III. B 1913
fixing the salary of the insurance com
missioner at $4,000, and II. B. 357,
authorizing the insurance commission
or to permit certain livestock insur-
ance companies with small capital to
40 business in the state. And the state
affairs committee introduced the bill
submitting to the people the Richards
legal merit system of morality, an
initiated law.