Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-12-19

l9 1889
pleted. Scores of amendments were
offered by the opposition, one OF them
being to strike out the entire bill after
the twelfth line of the first section.Th
fighting the bill charged that it had been
drawn in the interests of the lawyers
and druggists and that it's effect would
be to transfer the liquor traffic from the
saloons to the drug stores. In the fill
clustering the friends Of the bill showed
from sixteen to eighteen votes. Twenty
one are necessary to give 1t i two-thlrds
majority, which it must have to take
effect before July 1st. May lst is the
date fixed by the house, which body
passed the bill last week. The senate
will most likely pass the bill without the
emergency clause The friends OF the
measure succeeded in voting down al
the important amendments proposed by
the opposition.
The house held long session and
cleared up all the work on the clerks
desk. Very little of it, however, was Of
general interest. Three bills we're intro
duced: One by Hankinson, providing
regulations for the government of the
state librarian; by Watt, making it
misdemeanor to sell cigarettes to boys
under 16 years old and fixing the penalty
at 80 days in Jail or a fine Of $50; and the
last by Mr.. Milsted. This is probably
the longest bill yet introduced. It relates
to educational matters and it's purpose
is the revision and harmonizing of the
existing school laws. The bill is similar
to 2O5, the educational bill which cut so
large fgnre in the proceedings Of the
last legislature.
The Fargo agricultural college bill
was made special order for tomorrow
at p. m. ~
Coles elevator bill was considered in
committee of the whole and re-cOmmit-
ted. It was too rank for the members
and some OF it's provisions contrary to
law.
school La4ds.
Legislation in regard 20 school lands
has been under extended discussion in
! the house. Mr.. Buchanan's bill is to
prevent trespass upon school and public
lands and to recover damages therefor;
prevents cutting hay or timber, or break
ing or cultivating the land, removing
fences, ETC., and gives those now on these
lands till April 18th to get off.
! MI. Milsted opposed that provision Of
the bill making it misdemeanor to cut
grass or hay standing or growing on the
land.
I Mr.. Thompson said the object was to
protect the school funds as well as the
lands.
| Mr.Stevens said the passage of this bill
would put several thousand school dollars
into tine treasury, resulting from the sale
of hay lands in Ransom county.
Il Mr.. Allen said that without this law
every one can rush upon the hay lands
and cut the hay before it is fit to cut
ard no one gets any benefit, but il
they can be leased, the state will get the
benefit and the person leasing will get
the hay.
The bill was passed. Messrs. Mllsted
Moore, Olsgard and Renaud voting no
A bill for the sale of school lands pro-
vides that they shall be sold on twenty
years time at 6 per cent interest. Ore
fifth shall be paid down; One-ffth in five
years, one-ffth in ten years, one-fifth in
fifteen years, and one-ith in twenty
years. The lands can not be sold for less
than SO per acre. The interest must be
paid in advance. That is to say a person
buyiag school lands must pay, for mini
mum hands, those sold at $40 per acre. the
sum of 50 per acre at time of purchase
and forty-eight cents for interest and
each year thereafter for the next five
years he must pay forty-eight cents per
acre. At the end of fiye years he must
pay 80 more per acre and the sum of
thirty six cents per acre every year in ad-
vance for the next five years. At the
end of the next five years he must pay 50
per acre and twenty-four cents per acre
every year in advance. At the
end OF the next FIVE years, 81 more per
acre and twelve cents per annum per acre
in advance for interest until the end of
the next five years, when the remaining
81 per acre must be paid.
Action on this measure was postponed
until after the holidays.
In Cass county, over one-half of the
school lands are now under cultivation.
Some of them have been IN crop for
fourteen successive years and would not
sell today for more than two-thirds of
what the lands would sell for if raw
prairie. In Walsh and Grand Forks
counties, the school lands are being cul-
tivated, or are fenced in for hay or pas
ture. In some instances these lands are
rented for $1.50 or $500 per annum per
acre, to persons who have just as much
right in them as the people who assume
to control them. Hay lands are occu-
pied by two or more parties often, and
sometimes the hay is hauled off by per
sons who do not cut it, on the ground
that they are as much entitled to it as
the other fellow. This bill will protect
the lands and Mr.. Thompson's bill will
protect those who lease the land and
give to the state whatever of value there
may be IN the use of the land, either for
hay, pasture or cultivation.
Incidentals.
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