Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-02-14
Half a-dozen North Dakota Towns
Would Like to Have the
Normal School,
Messages from the Governor to be
Refused-Kelth Makes
Good Speaker.
Resolution Introduced Asking for
Gov. Church's Removal It's
Passage Doubtful.

BISMARCK, Feb. 11-Special-G
| Church today affixed his signature to
four bills and thus added four new laws
| to the work OF this legislature. The
| bills came, three from the house and one
from the council. The latter, No. 123,
| makes physicians of the homeopathic
! school eligible to the Office Of superin-
| tendent of the territorial board OF health.
| The old school physicians have held the
''cinch' on this office heretofore. DR..
Reed of Sphinx county has been here sew
eral weeks looking after the bill and is
entitled to the credit for it's passage. The
| house bills were No. "a, an amendment,
| to the code of civil procedure; No. II
| limiting the term of Office OF county
treasurers and registers of deeds to two
terms; and No 2, the bill which author
ICES the holding of the constitutional
convention for North Dakota. The pro-
visions of the latter areor obably we'll
known. The convention will be held at
Grafton-unless congress gives us an en-
abllng act, in which case Bismarck will
be the place-it viii consist OF III dele
gates, one for each county and one addi-
| tionai delegate for each GOO votes or ma
! jor fraction thereof cast at the last gener-
al election. The delegates will be elected
in April and the convention held in
May
There promises to be an interesting
fight over the location Of North Dako-
ia normal school. 4 new candidate has
appeared in Devils Lake city At TIE
meeting Of the special committee of
North Dakota members to which the
normal school bills were referred, the
| eagerness Of some members to get the
| plum furnished circus. Lampman of
Valley City was chairman. After a
lengthy discussion and some heated re-
marks in reply to disparaging remarks
directed at the respective tin horn"
qualities of the ambitious cities vote
was taken on the location. Tom Elliott
says it resulted s to in favor of Lisbon.
zle,' and the result was new ballot
which stood to T. Chairman Lamp
man could have broken the tie and would
have given the school to Minor had he
not been tooscrupulous of gossip and fear
full of the agricultural college which his
city wants. He allowed The Minor boys
to half way talk him into
believing that the chairman had
no right to vote, and ordered anotherba
lot. That gave Minor s to Lisbon's Z.
Tom Elliott claims that it was not a
square deal for Lisbon. and demands that
another meeting be held. Today New
man called for the report OF the commit
tee, and Mr.. Lampman took the floor
and made an oral statement substantial
ly as above. He said that the chairman
was ready to report, but that there was
no report to be made, the committee hay
ing failed to recommend anything. The
result will be another meeting in a few
days, and the circus ring will be crowded
if Indications can be relied on.
The incident Of the day III the house
was the resolution introduced by Aikens
and his speechin support of i, 1t will
be remembered that Saturday Governor
Church set the house in a wLirl BY send
ing in 4 communication which purparled
to correct and strai-hten ont few little
matters OF history connected with en-
Gov. Pierce. Today Mr. Aikens got back
at the governor with resolution which
practically closes the door against any
further messages OF that kind. The res
olution makes the chief clerk and speaker .
a committee to inspect all communities |
tons or petitions not presented by Il !
member, and to withhold such as are not |
relative to business under consideration !
by the house, In moving the adoption
OF the resolution Mr.. Aikens said: Thir- !
ty-three days of the session have passed. |
There have been nineteen house bills |
placed IN the hands of the governor. |
Eight have been vetoed; two have be- |
come laws by limitation of tune; one has |
beeu TScalleu ioi cSTIeCtlOh, anu eight !
have been approved. I understand that |
upwards of 400 bills have been intro !
duced and are now under consideration !
in both branches. A great deal of the |
time of this body has been spent in com
munications that have no right in this
communications which pertain to |
10 business of this body-which suggest !
no needed or necessary legislation or in |
vestigation These might have been /