Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-02-26
WEEK AT PIERRE
Correspondent Gives Resume of Doings Dur
ing Week -Apportionment Bill
Source Of Several MixupS

Pierre, 5. D., Feb. q The new ap
| portioument bin for the memb ers of th,
Senate has been the source Of seyera
btted committee mix ups the past week
although the measure has not yet come
out for fight on the floor The Sena
tors from the northern Black Hills are
especially opposed to that part Of the
bill which places Lawrence, Butte anc
| Meade in one senatorial district, witt
Two senators, and cuts Ziebach away
from Meade where it has been attached
for the past five years, tieing it tC
! Dewey, and giving the northern part o
! the state west OF the Missouri greater
! representation in the Senate than it now
has The change is not looked upon
! with favor especially by Senator Ers
kline Of Meade, or in fact by the sena-
tors from that part OF the state, but the
Meade Senator is the one who has been
the warmest in hls denuuciatiou of the
Din as it has been drawn.
The soldiers bonus has passed both
| houses, and as soon as it has been sign
ed by Governor McMaster, and the
| board created for handling the funds
hey will be in position TO place the
bonds, and while 1t will be several
months before the cash Is available, just
as soon as the machinery Is completed
and the money secured, those, who uu-
Ter the provisions OF the constitutional
amendment are entitled to the payments
viii begin to receive the money due
diem. While there vas some opposi-
ion to The measure IL was at 40 time
likely to stop action and the bill went
through with few dissenting votes.
The row over the state live stock
sanitary board has reached the 'lnves-
'igallon stage, aud committee OF the
iouse and senate has been appointed
20 investigate tue workings OF that de-
Jartment, IN view OF the new bill which
makes Ihe department one OF stockmen
instead OF veterinarians as 1t has been
'ver since The board Was created. The
ne" biiI provides that the board may
Employ such veterinarians as they re-
iulfe IN Their work bat only allows one
'uch on the new board, all the rest to be-
1cIiYe operating vestock men. Wheth-
sr tue ne" bill goes through is probably
argeIy dependent upon what the inyes-
Igatlng committee finds and reports on
he line OF activity OF the board the past
eg years,
The big fights Of the past week were,
n the House over the moving picture
censorship DILL, and in the Senate over
he so-called sunday bill" both going
At the same time and keeping the spec.
ators IN the galleries shifting from one
house to the other in their attempts to
!et all Of it, The House 10y heavy
majority pushed across The censorship
)iI after a long discussion, and the Sem
ate wiped out the Wagner SUNDAY Bil"|
which attempted in its provisions to
split sunday az two o'clock in the after
noon, and allow sports after that hour.
An attempt to bring the bill back to life
he next day did not get far. But it did
ome back in the way of a house com
nittee bill by which base ball and NOV
ng pictures are to be egalzed after two
o'clock Sundays, which will get a try
lut soon, bat with little prospects Of
success.
One Of the bills which went through
-he House the past week was the one
which appropriates five thousand dol
ars to investigate into the possibilities
Of the beet sugar industry of the estern
part Of the state, in which Representa-
tive Wall Of Butte was strong cham
pion. There vas move the following
| day to get II back by reconsideration,
which was headed of by Representative
| Buell. Of Pennington in motion to
''cinch the vote on the BILL and it now
goes to the senate to find if that body
is ready to give its sanction to the bill.
While the House is no longer present
| ing new bills the Senate is yet pouring
| them into the hopper, and in the list is
one OF the judiciary committee which
egalizes an election in Custer county
| bonding the county to repair and sur
face the highway system Of that county.
The mlxup over the state live stock
sanitary board has resulted in the ap
pointment OF ar investigating commit