Griggs courier., 1889-02-15
Legislative Notes.

Legislative Notes.
BISMARCK. Feb, 8.
The war between the governor aul
the house is waxing fiercer every day
All bills, nearly, are vetoed and passed
at Cnce over the veto. The house on.
day discharges bomb loaded with sar.
casm and centempt.at the executiye;the
next day his hot headed and indiscreet
excellency spits fire at the house. 1t is
cat and parrot time. The railroad
bills are all buried in committee but
will be unearthed next week.
The constitutional convention goes to
Grafton. The vote Will be taken April
9th. The fight between Fargo and Val-
lev City over the agricultural college has
assumed a new aspect. Hugh Mcdonald
the rustling democratic senator from
Valley City, has had a slnch on the To-
cation until lately. Now there is way-
ering in his followers and the council
has sent a committee of three to inves-
tigate the sites offered. Hughes, Miller
OF Richland, and Cameron are the COM
mittee. The struggle over the prize
leads one to enquire what the prize is.
The prize is 1000 acres of school lands
vho go with the location under the
Springer bill. Casselton is dark horse
for the location. Fargo is more central
with better railroad facilities but Valle v
City has CLAIMS to counterbalance this.
Casselton has good site, offers 1GO acres
OF land worth $25 an acre. 1t IS also
the home of Joe b. and has a good race
track on which the agricultural students
can exercise their fast horses and get
ready for the agricultural horse trots.
The Jamestown Asylum investigation
affords matter which is always called IN
the Police Gazette erich, rare and racy.''.
The testimony saows q loose state of
morals at the institution, and expendi-
lures upon such loose and stupendous
plan that 1t is not at all strange that the
Institution requires Sl50,O0O per annum
to run itself, The report on the institu-
ton is not in yet and there is no know
ing whether it will be proyen to be a
model OF not. The Yankton asylum is
said to be worse yet. Among other bills
introduced is bill establishinga normal
school at CooperstoWn. -Four other
normal schools are called for. Repre-
sentative Adams is accused of introduce
ing the former bill to aid in the killing
Of the other normal school bills. This
is probably malicious SANDER, but you
cannot always tell. The seed wheat
bill is law. It has been driven through,
and will afford reliet to many counties.
II Griggs countys warrant indebtedness
Is not greater than the balance in the
treasury it can issue bonds. Otherwise
relief will have to come from congress.
The railroads will ship the grain free OF
cost. A representative of the railroads
has been in the city this week.
Senator Harstad has bill preventing
the playing of billiards, plgeon-hole,
ETC., in saloons. He is very active in
temperance work. Many of the mem
bers who are satisfied with the local op-
ton law are opposed to prohibitory
law prior to admission. The people in
terested IN such things oughtsto inform
their representatives what they want. |
Ii they want a prohibitory law the way
to get it is to apply for it. Otherwise a
member by sustaining the present law
is likely to disappoint the radical tenn
perance people.
President Loucks has letter in the
Tribune roasting Tom Elliott. Tom
and Loucks have fallen out, and the
balance of the farmers in the legislature
seem to be opposed to Mr, Loucks, and
have refused to invite him to address
them. Representative Smith is one of
the most independent men in the house.
lie asks for nothing and votes as he
pleases. Bills of all conceivable kinds
are now pending in both houses, and
the probability is that few new bills
will be introduced. Mr.. Adams has
only two bills pending besides the nor
NAL school school bill-one to revise
the methods of chattel foreclosure and
another to revise Section 677 of the Code
of Civil Procedure. Both bills are
fought hard by the interests they cut
into but they will, by careful handling,
pass both houses. Their fate after that
is problematical. The governors ire IS
such that he will perhaps injure him
self among his friends by a regardless
exercise of his veto power.
ELI CLOvERDALE.
BISMARCK, Oak, Feb. 14th, 1856.
Special to Courier.
There has been mistake made in
the indebtedness of Gnggs county. To-
day a memorial was passed through
tho 1,oucn ond will pocs ooupn,1 %o,oor