Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-12-21
FARMERS, ALLl.NcE LEG1sLAr1oN,

or should be carried out by the legisla
ture which meets next month. The de
mands of the Alliance are so radical tha
a fair compromise is the most that car
be expected. The Alliance Legislative
programme as prepared by the James
town meeting is as follows:
We recommend that the board of regent.
of our agricultural colleges should be com
posed Of practical and operative farmers.
That the Russian thistles should be in
cluded in the law providing for the de
structiOn Of nOXiOus weeds.
That the territory loan to any counties
in the territory for the benefit OF farmers
! who lost their crops by frost the past sea
son, an amount SUFFICIENT to procure seed
| for the coming year-the rate of interest
not to exceed per cent per annum.
That law be passed to enable nlutua
| insurance companies to organize and de
business in the territory.
That the immigration bureau is an ex
pensive luxury and serves no good purpose
and should be abolished.
We recommend that all contracts tainted
with usury be null and void.
| That all insurance companies in case OF
total loss, be required to pay the full
amount provided for in the policy.
That the date OF tax sales should be
changed to the first Monday in November
| That the present commissioner system OF
county government be abolished in all
counties when township governments are
or shall be organized and the township
torily tested in most of the states east of
us. be adopted.
Ihat all county officers should be i'll
eligible to election to Office for more than
two consecutive terms.
That chapter number one hundred and
sixteen, (relating to notaries public),
and hundred and fifty-three, (allowing
travelling expenses to justices OF the
supreme court), and one hundred and
eighty-six, (making appropriation for
clerical work in the executive office), of
the session laws of 1887 should be repealed.
That i'll addition to the notice now re-
quired by law before tay deed can issue,
personal notice must be served upon the
owner Of the land, if resident of the
county; if not, a notice shall be mailed to
the owners last known postoffice address
sons. If any, occupying or cuItivating said
lands: at least sixty days before deed shall
sSue.
That to make the taking of usury or con-
lractlng to receive it. a criminal Offense,
punishable in all cases of conviction by
Imprisonment and also by fine not less
than the cost of prosecution.
10 make all contracts for attorneys
fees contained in any note, mortgage or
other evidence of debt absolutely void and
providing in lieu thereof, that in actions
prosecuted to judgments in district court,
the judge may allow to the prevailing
party such attorneys fees as he may deem
just.
To repeal the law which now author
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cages by advertisement and sale and pro-
vide that such foreclosure shall be by ac-
ton in the district court.
That redemption from mortgage sale Of
real estate may be made within one year
from date of judgment, instead of date OF
sale as now provided, and that no steps
toward sale or to make any costs after
Judgment, shall be made until the year for
redemption has expired, and then if not
redeemed, the sale to take place and be
final.
whereby the debtor undertakes to give to
any person the irrevocable power of
attorney to sell and convey the property
described in the mortgage. shall be deemed
against public policy and void.
That any and all provisions in any note
or mortgage empowering the owner of
such note or mortgage, or his agent or at
torney, on the non.payment of any inter-
est or installment of principal due, or
upon the non-payment of any taxes due
upon the mortgaged property, or of in
surance on the mOrtgaged property, to de-
clare the whole debt due and payable at
once and to proceed at once to collect the
gage shall be deemed against public policy
and void, saving to the creditor the right
to collect, and for that purpose to fOreclOse
any mortgage for interest due and unpaid
or lnstallment of principal as it shall fall
due, or for any mortgage he may have been
called upon to advance to protect his mort
gagged interest by payment of taxes or in
That any provision in any note or bond
or mortgage for the payment of any debt
Widened by such note or bond or mortgage
shall be void, and any such note, bond or
mortgage shall, notwithstanding such pro-
vision, be payable i'll any money in the
United States of America, that shall, by
the laws OF such United States, be legal
lender naid at the the date of the maturity Of such
note or BOND or mortgage, or other evl-
dence of debt at the time when tender of
payment is made.
To establish the fees that may be charged
by any person or officer for fOreclOsing q
chattle mortgage and establish reasonable
limits to same.
To provide for more thorough notice of
S'. AZ c.Ae1ooio aAoieSdkC CdocS, duu lOt Illc
filing of chattle mortgages in the Office of
the clerk Of organized townships, cities
and villages instead of with the register of
deeds as heretofore until such towns shall
become organized.
That a chattel mortgage given upon
property not in existence or not owned
and possessed by the debtor at the time OF
giving the mortgage shall be void for any
purpose whatsoever.
To reduce interest on taxes after sale Of
land from 80 per cent. per annum, as al
present, to IL per cent. per annum.
10 change the time for assessment from
the lst day of April for one class of prop.
erty and the 1st day of May on another
class, as now provided, to the lst day OF
February. A
That every person shall be assessed and
taxed upon the equitable interest he has in
any property, real or personal, whether
such interest be represented by deed, mort
gage or otherwise and for no more. Thai
the amount of such Indebtedness on any
mortgage be deducted from the assessed
value Of the mortgaged property and The
taxpayer assessed for the monied interes,
ne actually has in such property, after de
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