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favor of the respective candidates, and
pending debate the house adjourned.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 13.-The seu-
ate was in session one hour. No bills
were passed. An unsuccessful attempt
was made to pass the bill a%ppropriating
money to establish a school for deaf
mutcs at Devils Lake over the governors
vote. The house passed the bill fixing
the state tax at 1 mills. Governor Miller
GERS the trustees of the various state in
situations, basins his principal objection
OH the unconstitutionality of a state
officer acting as a state trustee.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 1.-THE SEN
ate did not accept the resignation Of the
seed wheat commission. A bill was
passed placing the management of the
state agricultural college in the hands of
certain state officers. The bill redistrict-
ing the state for legislative purposes was
also passed by the senate. The most inn
portant, if not the only, change in the
whole state is in Grand Forks county,
which is changed so as to pat Senator
Winship's residence in a Democratic
district now represented by Senator
Mccormack. In the house a commune
cation was received from State Auditor
Bray refusing to sign the vouchers for
the per diem of members during the hol-
iday recess, and stating that he based
this refusal on the decision of the attor-
ney general. House bills were passed
authorizing elections in unorgaaized
counties, and the taxation of personal
property in the same counties. At the
evening session the house passed the
pharmacy bill and the militia bill, and
all senate bills were read first and second
times and referred to committees.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 15.-The sem
ate passed the house bill appropriating
SGT, 900 for the salaries of state officers.
The bill for a school for deaf mutes was
passed over the governors veto. The
bills for the penitentiary. insane asylum
and university. In this bill the
insane asylum and university are
required to buy North Dakota
coal, provided coal is used for heating
purposes, if it car be delivered for $685.
per ton. The house defeated the senate
bill placing the management of the agri-
cultural college in the hands of the
states officers. Congress was petitioned
to sink an experimental artesian well st
Edgerly. A bill wa passed taxing sleep
ing cars. The railroad bill was passed,
and n feature of it is that the orders of
the state railroad commissioners, when
appealed from by any railroad company,
may be set aside by the courts pending a
decision by such courts regarding the
propriety Of the order from the commits
sioners. This does not apply to orders
regarding freight rates.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 1.-THE leg
islature held three sessions to-day, and
under the rules neither house could con-
slider its own bills. The most important
bill passed during the day was that
which submits to a vote of the people an
amendment to the constitution raising
the debt limit of the state from $500, 900
to an amount equal to five mills on the
dollar of the entire assessed valuation of
the state. In the house there was a
protracted struggle over the bill requir-
ing that proxies in county, district
or state conventions shall be
residents of the district or precinct
represented. The opponents of the
measure were in the minority and
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speaker was finally obliged to threaten
the arrest of members to procure order.
A roll call was at last obtained and the
bill passed by a vote of 33 to %. A bill
also passed organizing the state militia.
The report of the lottery investigating
committee was placed before the senate,
but it will not be made public before the
close of the session.
BISMARCK, N. D., March 19.-The
North Dakota legislature adjourned at
midnight. There was quite time in
the house over the bill taxing railroads.
The bill had been referred to the com
mittee of which Mr.. Stevens was chair
man, and had not been reported by him.
At the afternoon session the house de-
manded a report. Mr.. Stevens had left
the bill at his room, he said, and was
granted leave to go and find it. He did
not return and the sergeant-at-arms
failed, after a long search, to find him.
a certified copy of the senate bill was
provided, however, and rushed through
within an hour of ad journment.
The bill extending time of redemption
of real estate sold at mortgage sale from
one to two years was passed in the final
shuttle. This is the bill which the
money loaners fought so hard, and de-
clared that it would result in immediate
foreclosure of all mortgages due. The
friends Of the measure consider that Il. e
threat of immediate foreclosure was
only made for a bluff. The bill applies
only to sales made during the years 1890,
1891 and 1892. There was a large mum.
Der of other bills hurried through during
the last hours, but they were mostly Of
minor or local importance only.
BISMARCK, N. d., March 19.-Gover.
nor Miller had ninety bills left for his
approval when the legislature adjourned.
To-day he approved the railroad bill,
which is practically the Minnesota law,
and five minor bills, among them the ap.
preparation for state Office and mainten.
ance of the capitol building. The gov.
ernor has appointed on the Bismarck
penitentiary board the same gentlemen
whose nomination the senate failed tt
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