Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-12-12
A Legislator WSuld Envelop
Marriage with Much TrOble-
some Red Tape.
Walsh wants a School OF Mines
in Grand Forks Agricultu-
raj College Fight.
The Judiciary Committee MUIR
ders in Cold Blood LIttz' At
tOrney- y-License Bill.
They Draw Their Salaries.

BISMARCK, Lee. -lopeclal Corfes-
pondence. The house now has seventy
three measures before it. thirteen OF that
number having been introduced today.
The senate has about sixty. The most
important bill introduced today was
Lilly's, relative to marriage. and provld-
ing for marriage licenses. 1t is entirely
orthodox. It takes strong position
against consanguineous marriages and
declares any person issuing licenses for
or solemnizing such a marriage is guilty
of misdemeanor. Any person perform
ing marriage ceremony without author
ity to do SO, is also held subject to fine
and imprisonment. Indian marriages are
declared legal where the buck and squaw
are living together. The bill further
provides that any persons living togeth-
er as man and wife without a marriage
certificate are guilty of a misdemeanor
and liable to be jugged for from thirty
to ninety days and fined any where be-
tween 500 and $500. Lilly also fathered
a bill defining the duties Of the super
intendent Of public instruction.
Currier introduced local bill to define
the boundaries OF his county Ramsey.
Hoyt wants all of the Sioux reservation
in North Dakota attached to Morton
county for judicial purposes. thinner
defines homesteads, and cuts down both
the value and area Of homestead exemp-
tions. Williams tries his hand at state
matters and gets in bill providing for
the incorporation of parishes of Episco-
pal churches. Walsh got Grand Forks
to the front in prospective, by bill es-
tablishing school Of mines, as located
by the public building article OF the CON
stitution, and another bill, appropriating
$4,000 for construction of the same.
Bowen wants regulations laid down,
governing the transfer of freight and
depot facilities at railroad crossings.
Roney gives promise of filing the long
felt want, noticeable in Dakota legisla-
lures since the political demise of''Goph-
or Tail Shook" Roney today followed
in the wake of the illustrious gentleman
from Benson and fatbered a measure to
authorize county commissioners to offer
a bounty of from two to five cents each
for gopher tails. He calls mis- bill an act
for the destruction of gophers.
The judiciary committee killed George
Lutz bill requiring attorneys-at-law to
take out yearly license of $25, and the
bill repeating the seed grain law.
The governor approved House Bill No.
4, providing payment of salaries, mileage
and per diem. Vouchers for the men,
bers were already made ont and an IN
formal recess was taken while they walk
ed up to get their warrants and sign the
vouchers. The clerks time will come
tomorrow and, if there is enough money
in the treasury to 60 around, a good
many who have been flying low will soon
be sailing with every inch of canvas to
the wind.
Senator Worst today introduced a bill
to govern primaries. 1t provides that
candidates for county offices and dele
gates to district and state conventions
shall be elected by their respective par
ties or associations in manner similar
to the holding of elections.
The Fargo agricultural college bill
met with some opposition in the senate.
Mr.. Deisem made vigorous speech
against the appropriation, on the ground
that the state was not in a condition to
increase It's bonded Indebtedness or
current expenses. The bill was adopted
in committee OF the whole and will pass
the senate tomorrow.
The temperance bill came up, but was
referred to the engrosslng committee
before receiving final action.