The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-02-01
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owned cars is likely to be inserted is
an amendment to the bill to relieve
school buses from taxation as state
owned care and Federal cars are now
held, This for the purpose of allowing
the wayfarer to know whether a JOY
riding party is using public property
for that purpose. OF course the av-
erage school bus would hardly be
picked for such pleasure, but the plan
is to brand all state owned cars with
the initials of the state, and the school
cars with the number Of the district,
to make certain that they are not be-
ing ~wrongfully used without such use
could be known to the public gener-
ally. There has been complaint that
publicly owned cars are now being
used as pleasure cars by those having
them in their control, and it is to cut
down this expense that the amend
ment is being asked.
The members will likely have 20
after they resume operations, as pc
titions from all over the state have
been poured into the office of the gov
ernor the past week, both sustaining
the board of charities and corrections
in the stand they take and others ask
ing that no change be made.
The members are drifting back af-
ter the recess, and while most Of them
were on hand by Saturday morning,
neither house attempted anything or
special import at either the Friday ev-
ening or Saturday sessions, but will
start the real work again Monday. The
principal action at either session a
in the way of new bills which had
been prepared by members who did
not take advantage of the recess, and
among those is one by Senator Cock,
in which he is asking for the truth in
fabric bill. The bill requires all ia
brics which are placed on sale in the
state, which contain wool, to be
marked as to the percentage Of virgin
! wool used in them. 1t in no way at
tempts to limit the character OF the
n uu' VI pog ia pei NCiitd6C Vi
wool shall be used, just states that
the per centage shall be shown when
the goods or suits are placed upon the
market.
The highway commission is in a
tangle over disposal of the gasoline
tax among the state, the counties, and
the towns for highway or street pur-
poses. The farmer members can't
see the claims of the towns in the
same light as the town members do.
The farmers say that when a town
man starts out on a trip it is over
roads which have to be maintained
by the territory outside Of the town
itself. and that highways built by the
county to the different towns are a
return to the town itself by opening
the way for trade. Just how they
will come out in the controversy Is a
question, but up to now they have not
mittee. and when the committee
agrees, the members may not be of
the same view when the bill comes
out.
Senator Amsden, in the bills he in.
troduced after the session attempts to
regulate registration of voters for pri
mary elections. limiting those who
vote the party ticket at the primary
to those who claim allegiance to the
party in which they claim member
ship, this to prevent such instance.
where at the primary practically al
of the voters Of a precinct vote fol
the candidates Of n particular par
ty, and at the general election most O
them cast their votes for a differen'
party. The bill along with the one
which changes dates of the primary
activities from fall to spring, appear
to be all the primary legislation t.
date. although there is also a bill t.
eliminate the party circle. this coming
from the minority.
Two bills have been introduced Il
attempt to hamper auto thieves. One
of them provides for registration Of
the car by number and other charac
teristics. while the other yoes farther
and practically follows the Wisconsin
flaw requiring q description Of thu