The Dickinson press., 1889-12-07
NORTH DAKOTA COMMITTEES.

NORTH DAKOTA COMMITTEES.
Speaker wcllman Makes His Appoint
ments-Bills~ Introduced.
BISMARCK, N. D., Dec. A. In
the Senate Haggart of Cass intro
duced a bill authorizing railroad COM
panies to sell and guarantee bonds and
other securities of irrigating companies
and to aid the same; also authorizing
railroad companies to aid or assist In the
irrigation of laeds in the vicinity or ad-
Jacent to their line of railways. Very lit
tie business was transacted in the House
save the announcement of the standing
committees and the introduction of bills
on taxation, revenue, banking and mills.
Nh. Williams introduced bill providing
that all mills grinding grain for toll or
exchange shall be public and shall not
take more than one-eighth for grinding.
The banking bill provides how banks
other than national may be organized,
and fixes a penaly of 5000 each and
every violation, Mr.. Walsh's bill pro-
vides a complete new revenue system.
The prohibition bill in the house was re-
ferred to the committee on temperance,
which is friendly and from which it will
get a favorable report. A fight will be
made on the clause closing the saloons
Jan. l. In the senate a bill was intro
duced authorizing railroad companies to
hold, sell or guarantee bonds for the pur-
pose of irrigating lands.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Speaker Wellman has announced his
committees. There are %thirty-two of
them. j. +. Solby, the Hillsboro lawyer
who stood by johnson in the senatorial
fight and asked nothing, is given the
chalrmanship of the ways and means
committee. Frank Thompson, of Fargo.
Is chairman of the judiciary. f. S.
banks and banking. +. A. Williams. Of
Bismarck, gets first place on public
buildings, and a recognition on seven
other leading committees. Lutz is given
municipal corporations. r. N, Ink. of
Wahpeton, n home friend of Governor
Miller and probably his choice, is placed
at the head of appropriations. The 9TH
ers on that committee are Williams,
Walsh, Reed. Mcintyre, Selby, Foss and
Mcdonald. R. H. Hankinson is assigned
to corporations other than municipal.
George IL. Walsh is chairman on engross-
ment. r. N. Stevens, who was the only
candidate for speaker against Wellman,
is given his choice of committees-rAil.
roads. The other names of the commit
tee besides MIR. Stevens, are John Mil
sted of Stutsman, Walton of Wells, Esta-
brook of Grand Forks, Tyler and Court
of Cass, Rawlings of Burleigh, Hoyt
of Morton, Bowen of Sargent, and
Norton of Pembina. There will
be some very important measures
before this committee. A. P. Haugen,
the leading Prohibitionist of the house,
gets his choice, temperance. w. S.
Buchanan, of Sargent, takes the chair
manshlp of the committee on schools
and public lands; George W. Lilly, of
Mcintosh. gets education; N. b. Pink
ham, of Cass, gets rules and joint rules;
James Britten, state and federal rela-
tions; j. II. Mccullough, of Walsh. edu-
cation and institutions; j. d. Watt, of
W. Beard, Of Cass, ''f forestry 1;u John Sta M.
Gilman, of Pembina, labor; b. P. Thomas.
of Pierce county, public printing: E. w,
Bowen, of Sargent, enrolment. George
Lutz, of Stutsman, engrossment: A. G.
Nedrud. of Ward, agriculture. L. S.
Iceland, of La Moure, ap~portionment;
w. H. H. Roney, of Steele,
military affairs; L. L. Walton, of Wells,
irrigation; James Mccormack. of Ram.
sey, highways and bridges; George w.
Rawlings, of Burleigh, mines and min
ing; James Reed, Of McHenry, public
debt; DIR. John Montgomery, Of Walsh.
public health; F. Estabrook, of Grand
Forks, immigration; A. I. Cole, of
Dlckey, warehouses and grain grading;
G;urrier, of Ramsey, state affairs; w. w,
Beard, of Cass, elections; Mcintyre, of
Cass, charitable institutions; Duncan
Mcdonald. of Barnes. penal institutions.
The apportionment committee consists
of thirty-one members. The object is to
prevent any change in the present ap-
portionment.
Bills Introduced-The Liquor Question.
BISMARCK, N. d., Dec. 5.-The legis-
lature has got down to business and acts
like a working body, with few orators in
either house. In the senate the COVER
nor's message by subjects was referred
to proper committees. In the house bills
on railroads. warehouses and hail insur-
ance were introduced. Governor Miller
has signed the first law of the new state.
1t transfers the duties of insurance COM
missioner from the auditor to the insur-
ance commissioner. The supreme court
judges prepared a bill that was intro
duced in the senat that fixes the
first term, second Tuesday in Jan
uary, at Fargo; second term at Bis
marck, first Tuesday in May, and
third term at Grand Forks, first
Tuesday in October. The bill allows the
Judges $500 annually for mileage and
office rent. DIR. Belyea, of the senate,
introduced a bill that compels physicians
to take out a license. A bill in the house
compels the railroads to allow the build
ing Of elevators on right of way for a
nominal ground rental. The prohibition
bill must pass by q two-thirds vote if it
becomes operative before July 1. 1t is
conceded that it cannot pass the senate by
that vote and the liquor men can, there
fore, hold on without license until July,
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