Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1889-03-07
ed at length. This bill was reported
from the committee room with the re-
cOmmendation that il do not pass.

| from Cne com m1CLee room W1th Jl9 re-
commendation that il do not pass
BISMARCK. March5- Especial The leg
islature today devoted itself principally
to matters relating to prohibition, ap
| preparations and railroads. Inthe house
the session opened with motion made by
Mallory to reconsider that portion IF the
report Of the committee of the whole,
adopted yesterday, which relates to the
amendment providing that Patton's pro-
hibitlon law should go into effect imme-
dlately upon its passage and approval.
The motion was discussed at length, and
temporarily disposed of by motion to
make its further consideration a special
order for the afternoon session. The re-
consideration was then carried. Where
upon the enemies OF the bill demanded a
call OF the house Only one member was
absent, and after short time, proceed
ings under the call were dispensed with
and the bill put on its final passage and
carried by d vote Of 81 to 13. A number
Of members explained their votes.
Aiken s said he did not think the bill as
law worth the paper it was written on,
but he thought 1t desirable that the leg
islature should 60 on record as favoring
prohibition, and therefore voted aye.
Swanston said he voted against the bill
because it was mo good" The bill as it
passed the house is the same as when it
came to it, with the exception Of an i'm
portant amendment striking out 'sacra-
mental from the list of purposes for
which the manufacture of liquor is ex
cepted. he amendment providing that
the law shall go into effect Immediately
having been reconsidered, the bill stands
as originally, providing that it shall be-
come operative on the first Of next Janu-
ary. AS there will be two states instead
Of one territory at that time, it Is plainly
seen that the bill as far as operative law
is concerned is already dead letter. It
vas frankly admitted on the floor Of the
house by the friends of the bill that the
only object sought was to indicate that
the people of the territory, through their
duly elected representatives, desired a
prohibitory law with the hope that the
influence of its passage might result In
the incorporation Of such an article in
the constitn ions which will be framed
for the new states next July. .-s..
The legislature finally agreed on an
appropriation bill today. A conference
committee was appointed and the house
and council omnibus bills compared and
the differences adjusted. The committee
submitted its report in the shape of
bill It was introduced in the council.
rushed through there and in the house
and delivered to the governor few min
utes before five o'clock. There has been
considerable anxiety about this bill. 1t
was feared that if it was not placed in the
governors hands today so that he would
have to return it before the legislatures
time expired, and there would be no OPP
portunity to pass it over his veto, he
would use the advantage thus gained, by
giving the council the choice between a
veto and the confirmation of his appoint
ments. The governor had on previous
occasion informed the legislature that
his office closed at 5 o'clock, and hence
the desire to get the bill ready for trans
initial before that time. When the bill
was finally ready to so to the executive,
the hands of the house clock pointed to
twelve minutes to five, and the bill was
taken down stairs by "Prime Minister"
Patton of the council, on dead run,
amid the applause of the relieved mem
bers. The totals of the amounts apppro-
prlated for the various institutions, as
f,,11,1re.