Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-02-21
WILL THEY ADJOURN?
Both Houses Discuss the Proposal
to Adjourn and Junket to
Washington.
Valley City Beats Fargo in the
Fight for the Agricultural
College.
Governors Veto Of the Grand Forks
Appropriation Bill Sustained
IN The House.

III Inc HOUSE,.
BISMARCK, Feb. 1S-Special-Alexan-
der Hughes today introduced in the
council a Joint resolution providing for a
legislative recess from Feb. 28th to
March 9th. The resolution was read the
first and second time but an effort to
give it the third reading and rush it
through was defeated. The adjournment
feeling seems to be growing. It is the
general impression that the resolution
will go through the council ultimately,
and if it does the house is almost sure to
concur. The house judiciary committee
today reported back favorably the
Fletcher bill, which amends the political
code SO as to permit an adjournment of
not more than 80 days, and provides five
cents mileage for members going to
and returning from home during ad-
journment. 1t has been held that there
is no authority for an adjournment and
this bill is calculated to meet that objec-
ton. It is the intention, if the Hughes
resolution goes through, that the whole
legislature shall visit Washington and
attend the inauguration of Harrison in
a body. Arrangements have been about
completed for a special train and free
transportation, SO that If the move
results otherwise than successfully it
will be due to the spirit Of ''self-denial'', ,
which some of the members have been
seen to exhibit before.
The councilmen finally settled the ag-
ricullural college muddle today, as far as
that body is concerned. There was a
warm fight over the location but Valley
City won by vote of Is to 5. There
was a long discussion over the two bills
Tie cae locating the coilegoe at Fargo
was indefinitely postponed. Among the
other council bills passed today were No
204, locating normal school at Ashton
No. ia, providing how taxes shall be
collect in incorporated cities. No. "a,
abolishing the Office Of public examiner
was indefinitely postponed.
The governor sent in messages ap-
proving council bills 149 and $50, the
Black Hills liquor laws, amendatory to
those now in force, and also $50, the bill
providing for the payment of certain wit
nesses called before the jamestown asy-
lum investigating committee. The gov
ernor's veto of council bill No. 1877, reap
propriating and turning into the general
fund certain unexpended balances at the
Grand Forks university and Rapid City
school OF mines, was considered and the
bill passed over his objections.
In the house several things in the ma
ture of motions and resolutions were
sprung and several interesting discus
sions resulted therefrom. The first arose
over Bixler's motion to reconsider the
vote of Saturday by which council bill
No. 8, bill to abolish the railroad
commission, was indefinitely postponed
After long discussion during which il
was frequently explained by the oppo
nents of the bill that the railroad com
mittee is now preparing bill that
will cover the ground in &
more satisfactory manner, the vote was
finally reconsidered. The second argu
ment was over a resolution offered by
Aikens, which after long preamble de-
clares that the territory is about to be
divided and that it would therefore be
unwise to establish any new institutions
for longer than one year, instructs all
committees before whom such bills would
naturally come to report in accordance
Herewith. This resolution drew ont a
discussion lasting an hour. Fred Adams
opposed it, and offered substitute which
covers about the same ground, bat great.
" nlodifos the original. Both were made
a special order for tomorrow, anil during
their consideration fur is expected to tiy
Some of the members who have been la
boring hard and long to secure the pas
sage Of favorable report on bills estab'
fishing such institutions were and are
| Justly provoked now that there is {
chance that one little resolution will
knock all their work and plans ''aglee."
/ The normal school bills. Nos. II anc
So. both came up for final passage today
The house has got itself into queer
tangle on these bills. One locates nor
NAL school at Lisbon and the other a
Minor, sixteen miles away. Both have
been considered in committee of the
whole and both have been recommended
to pass. The house decided to postpon,
the agony and made both bills a specia
order for tomorrow.
The house passed several bills of NOR,