Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-03-12
CLOSING SESSION
Movie Censorship, and So Called Sunday
Bills Killed-0ther Actions Taken
in Last Hours

out as one composed Of men who as q
rule compared more than fayorably with
many sessions Of the past The mem.
bership as whole can be fairly said to
be above the general average Of years as
10 quai fcations This statement will
no doubt be challenged by some of those
who did not get what they wanted, or
got what they did not want from the
session, and who looked upon the men
who were making LAWS largely from the
view point OF personal prejudice and
feeling, but from the side lines and with
The actual experience of years in watch.
ug legislative bodies at work there il
uo question that the membership Of the
session just closed was up to or in fact
above the average for years. IN some
sessions through the mutations Of poll
ics voters have sent representatives,
Who could hardly be cassed as Ideal
legislators 10y any means, and the ses
sion Just closed was certainly free from
mis- criticism
The work of the session has been any
thing bat picnic for the membership
and they have worked ont some lines OF
.egi-ation which is likely to haYe a far
reaching effect on the people Of the
stale i'm iis workings. The home build
ing plan, While criticized from many
sources, is the beginning of a system
which viii bring homes to many moi
now able to secure this privilege The
| bin is first draft, and no doubt will not
work as smoothly as desired, but it is
confidently believed that it will work
and oe the basis OF a law which expert
ence may show needs change from the
IDEAS embraced Ia the present act
The cement plant which was provided
t5r Will help the people of the state in
rhe thousands Of dollars even il it il
uot as successful as predicted by the
optimistic It's effect will be similar to
ruat OF the state coal mine which has
reduced coal prices wherever its pro
iuc, goes, even though in limited guam
titles
The failure to push the power posi-
biIlues Of the Missouri have been criti-
clzed ia some quarters and praised in
! Others but through The referendum the
people VIII be given an opportunity to
say az to whether or not they desire to
| take up this expenditure, when they
vote in November of next year.
The highway situation promised to be
IA problem for time, but the gasoline
TAX plan suggested by Representative
! kneelaud, Of Custer, and the auto regis
tration tax to supplement this made the
continuation of tie road plan success
| ful, and allowed the taking up Of the
| Federal Aid without a direct appropria.
! tion, and the use Of money collected by
general taxes. The auto man may not
| agree that h2 should bear the brunt OF
| highway taxes, even if he does use the
| highway more than the non-auto owner,
| but that is the plan devised to meet the
situation and will be in force for time.
In the closing days Of the session con-
| siderable friction developed between the
Senate and the House, one of the causes
| being the legislative apportionment bill,
| aud as no agreement could be reached,
as a compromise both houses accepted
The re-enactment Of the present appor-
| tiOnment. The fight was over the Sen
ate aPportionment which attempted to
| place Meade and Butte counties in one
district, add Bennett county to the dis
! trict of Fall River and Custer, and Gre
ate new senatorial district Of Dewey,
| Iiebach and Corson counties, cutting
| these three counties loose from ties
y hich are not close enough to do them
much good. There was also fight over
| reduction Of the House membership in
| Lawrence county, but after wrangling
until midnight of the last night Of the
session the compromise bill was agreed
on and passed
The moving picture censorship, and
50 called sunday bills went down TO de-
| feat largely on this rock of legislative
| dispute. The Senate insisted that the
| censorship bill must have an emergency
to prevent the referendum, and was will
/ ing to pass the bill to allow sunday base
/ ball and moving pictures without an
emergency The House wanted the re-
verse as 10 these two bills, with a final
result that both went down and carried
the bill along which would egalze box
ing contests.
The laws enacted 90 farther into the
matters OF extension of rights and bene.
! fits for women and children than any
former session, aud considerable atten-
1 ton was paid 10 moral laws, which reg
ulate public dancing, and amusements,
while another phase was that of public
health, granting The right of quarantine
in cases OF yeneral diseases, and ex.
tended powers in control of feeble
minded
The work Of stock salesmen over the
state tor the past few years called out
more radical legislation covering the
work OF the state Securities Commission
and OF the organization of corporations
within this state.
The bill TO provide for the soldiers
bonus went through without any oppo.
stion, and as soon as the machinery for
securing the money and allotiing it is
under way those entitled to secure pay