Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-03-11
The LeRislatur..
The work of general Importance last
week was as follows:

lne Work OF general importance lasI
week was as follows:
COUNCIL.
The Governors appointments-E. c. Caldwell
of Sioux Falls, as Auditor, and John w. Cowen,
Of Valley City, as Assistant Superintendent of
Public Instruction-were confirmed in executive
session; also, the nomination Of Hon. George
Rice, Speaker of the House, rs Attorney General.
The woman-suffrage bill was amended by pro-
vision submitting the question to q vote of the
people in 1885.
Introduced-Memorialt to Congress asking that
Gen. Grant be placed OIL tie retired list-rules
suspended and bill passed regulating the traffic
i'll intoxicating liquors This bill restricts the re-
tail sale of intoxcants TO one authorized dspens-
ary in each county, but there must be petition
of all the voters in county before the sale shall
be confined to such dispensary; one section fixes
the price of drinks sold by the institution at 10
cents per draught of two ounces. fluid measure,
for distilled liquors, and cents per draught of
1913 ounces-a "schooner'-for malt liquors.
Council bills passed--Adding throe Burleigh-
county townships to Mclean; taxing telegraph
lines, also sleeping and dining cars not owned by
railway companies; offering q reward of 5000
for the discovery and development of anthracite
GOAL in Dakota. s4.<.
Council bills LOST ducing psice for legal .ad-
vertissmcnts from 81 to 75c for first insertion and
from 75c to Soc for subsequent insertions appro-
priating 5000 to pay for furniture in tho capitol
House bills passed-Removing the capital to
Pierre-to take effect May l. 1886; authorizing
county treasurers to bid for the county at delin-
quent tax sales, and bid in property for which no
other offers are made.
HOUSE.
Ar>o >;r:o. -
mitted by the Attorney General, asserting that
the Northern Pacific road-bed, right of way and
improvements thereon are not taxable, under the
Southwick bill.
Misunderstanding county orders receivable
for taxes in Burleigh county, and bearing inter-
est after prescntation for the better
Of game in Burleigh county !; preventing changes
in boundary lines of organized counties; vacat-
ing part of Helmsworth & McLeans addition to
Mandan; making sale of Intoxicating liquors to
minors and inebriates punishable by inprison-
ment in the psnitentiary, and providing for de-
termining who are inebriates by proceedings be-
fore Judge of Probate; requiring county Offices to
be kept open from a. IN. to IL M, and from p.
m. to p. ln. providing that it shall not be law
full to foreclose mortgages by advertisement reg
ulating the receiving and transportation of fuel
OH railroads; to authorize the city of Bismarck to
issue $4,000 i'll bonds for building sewers.
Council bills passed-Memorial to Congress
| relative to retirement of Gen. Grant; authorizing
| a constitutional convention for South Dakota
providing for the organization of new counties.
Council bill rejected-Limiting County Treas
urers to two terms.
House bills passed-Removing the capital frsm
Bismarck to Pierre; among the appropriation
bills passed were 81, 600 for school of forestry al
Aandan, $4,000 for the agricultural college at
Fargo and $63 900 for the insane asylum at James
town memorial to Congress for improve ment OF
James river; appropriating $4,000 for perma-
nent Improvements on the penitentiary At Bis
lnarck creating the county of Winona; requir-
ing dealers in oleomargarne to label it as such.
VETOED.
The bills appropriating $4,000 for reform
school at Plankinton and $4,000 for an agricult-
! ural college at Fargo.