Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-01-31
SPRINGER'S OMNIBUS BILL.
The Time for Payment ofTaxes Ex-
tended Trouble Ahead for
The Governor.
Shall Jamestown Support the ON.
nibus Bill-Full Details Of
the Measure.
The Bill to Repeal the Gross
Earnings Law Signed by the
Governor.

Governor.
BISMARCK, Jan. 2S-ISpecial Long
winded speeches on comparatively un-
important matters have been the actual
order of business in both houses today.
In the house about dozen bills were
placed on their final passage and as US
ual every servant of the dear people felt
himself called upon to demand an ex-
planation Of the measure from somebody
or other, and express his sentiments i'm
mediately upon his enlightenment.
Among the bills passed were several un-
intellie1ble and probably uninteresting
amendments to certain sections IN desig-
mated chapters of the code, session laws
and compiled laws. The bill making an
appropriation of some $2S0O in payment
for a band of cattle killed in Oliver
county by order of Governor Pierce dur
ing the pleuro- pneumonia scare some
years since, shows an altogether too for
ward disposition to rush into the arena
of legislative discussion. It has prob
ably occupied more time than any other
measure before the house and seems
about as hard to down as Banqlos ghost.
FIetcher's bill for joint committee to
visit all the territorial institutions was
voted down, the bill amending the nox-
ious weeds law to include Russian this
ties was passed and so was the bill CIV
ing county commissioners authority to
compromise delinquent taxes where prop
erty has been offered for sale several
years IN succession without being bought
in. Aiken's bill which has for its object
the publication Of the legal profession, is
another measure which ran the gauntlet
of the lower house with safety. This bill
provides that any attorney or counselor
who collects a fee for foreclosing mort
gage or other instrument in which he,
lis wife, or. the firm with which he Is
connected, is interested shall be guilty OF
misdemeanor punishable by fine and
Imprisonment. The gentleman who in
troduced the bill said in urging its adop-
ton that there were a good many shys-
ters IN his part of the territory and that
one object OF the bill was to
straighten out those crooked
gentlemen. The house wound up its
afternoons work-by considering two
bills IN the committee of the whole. One
of them was the bill providing for the
publication instead of posting of notice
of sale by chattle mortgage. The bill
was discussed at length but nothing was
done with it. The newspaper men, for
whom Fred Adams was the spokesman,
naturally wanted the bill passed but the
lawyers-who 90 MIR. Adams said, were
probably influenced in their action by
their dealings with the newspaper men
during the last campaign-thought the
journalists were evolves with bushy
tails" and would soon become bloated
monopolists if permitted to publish such
notices at the exorbitant price OF s2.2I
per notice.
In the council the main part OF the
afternoon was consumed in the consider
alton of the memorial to congress adopt
ed IN the house Saturday. The bill was
cut and slashed and finally passed in al
| almost unrecognizable condition. The
senators also passed the house printing
bill over the governors veto and sal
| down on bills presented by Crawford eX'
| empting land from taxation when certain
! requirements in regard to tree planting
! and fire breaks are complied with. They
got tired and adjourned after INTRODUCING
bills to the following effect: BY Dollaro
providing method Of taxation and as
sessment for telegraph companies similar
to the White house bill previously re-
ferred: by Walsh to provide method OF
insurance of crops against hall through
county commissioners; by HALEY tc
amend the political code, making tax 8
perpetual lien against real estate. Point
dexter slid in five bills. Four OF them
| are merely bills. The fifth seeks
| to regulate the sale of liquor by druggists
and provides formula to be signed by
the purchaser.
| The house mem berS got III the uS'ial
number of bills Mcneil wants an agri'
| cultural college at Casselton and names
| five trustees for the same in the bill. He
| wants $4,000 from the territory and per-
mission for Casselton to bond herself IN
an equal sum. Miller asks for S3l, ,fN
| for maintenance of the Madison normal
school, Newman has still another assess,
! ment and taxation scheme for telegraph
and telephone companies and Fletcher
| wants to protect hotel men and landladles
against dead beats by making the obtain
| ing of board or lodging under false pre-
lenses felony. The last house bill
introduced by Hunter provides an en-
tirely new system of laws governing edu'
| cation and instruction.
The most important news item OF the
day can be stated as briefly as it was an
nounced to the house j. e. the governor