Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-02-06
SATURDAYS SESSION.
Both Houses Strike their Best
Gait and Transact Much
Business.
Walsh County Farmers ask for
this Planet Oh Which we
Live.
A Column or More OF Interest
ing Bismarck News Briefly
Stated.
They Earn Their Per Diem.

Stated.
They Earn Their Per Diem.
BISMARCK. Feb. 2.-[Speciall-A day
of hard work was witnessed in both
houses Saturday. The senate bill to
regulate the number of county commits
sioners was indefinitely postponed by the
house. In the senate the most of the
afternoon was occupied in the consider
alton of the railroad bill, the long pro-
visions of which were read. amended and
sections one to eighteen adopted. ~
In the house petition from Pembina
county farmers was read which, among
other things, prays for legislation as fol-
lows: ......
That the rate of interest shall not be
more than 10 per cent per annum, and
that the penalty for violating the same
shall be fine and Imprisonment, and
that it shall be the duty of the county
attorney to prosecute the party or parties
Prohibiting taking zeal estate and
chattel mortgage property for one and
the same debt.
To reduce all railroad freight on grain
and merchandise at least 25 per cent OF
the present rate.
Compelling county treasure:s to notify
township and school district treasurers
every three months of the amount OF all
moneys in their hands belonging to said
townships or districts.
Nhnt ckn nf1 ha ov
empt to tho amount of $1,000 and that
be S1,5OO.
That owing to the fact that a great
many farmers who have tave taken up
their homestead and pre-emptlon rights
ave now, owing to succession Of failures
inS crops and the high rate of interest and
bonuses they had to pay, are about to
lose the land they now have. Therefore,
We trust that you will take such steps as
will place them in a position to take up
another homestead, as many OF them
will be compelled to leave our country
in order to obtain another home.
Measures Recommended Pro and Con.
The irrigation committee reported IA
voring the passage Of the bill levying
tax on organized counties for irriga'
tion purposes Also house bill No. 142,
authorizing county commissioners to
purchase artesian we'll boring outfits for
their counties, recommending amend
ment SO that the outfit shall be purchased
on petition Of not less than one-fourth of
the legal voters.
The committee on military affairs
recommended that house bill authorizing
school boards to purchase United States
flags for the school buildings do pass, with
MINOR amendments limiting the purchase
to one flag for each department. The
committee reported house bill No. 1873,
defining the duties of county commits
sioners in the building of bridges,
recommending that the bill do pass, after
being amended so that each township
shall keep bridges In repair when the
amount of repairs does not exceed slOO.
The bill which wo1a< give two convicts
of the state pen their liberty each 4th OF
July failed TO get recommendation
The veterinary surgean bill, abolishing
the office, was recommended to pass. The
committee on counties reported the bill
authorizing township supervisors to let
township funds out at interest, recon-
mending that it do pass, after being
amended as to details. Also that PEN.
sion money be exempt from attachment,
do pass; also bill requiring county
commissioners to give bond, do not
pass
A resolution to adjourn February 26th
was referred to the committee on state
affairs. The pages of the house got a
"jacking up for inattention to duties
live Ris,narclx TODics
The bill providing for the salary of
the reporter of the supreme court passed
the house today, slightly amended. Mr.:
Camps legislative friends are glad
enough to hurry the measure along. 1t
will be signed by the governor as soon as
presented to him.
Lieut.. Gov. Dickey calls the attention
oe The Alert to the fact that there are a
good many farmers n the senate, and
that in the vote on the exemption law,
many of them voted to reduce the
amount to $500. It is observed that the
senate is comprised OF an unusually large
percentage OF sensible, we'll informed
men and nearly any reasonable and just
measure will pass that body.
Gov. Hannain is happy. An extreme
man on all OCCASIONS, he is extremely
gratiied now. He has half section of
land near the capital good land too
which be bought of the Northern Pacific
railway company in early days. Taxa
ton has been the ghost that haunts the
governors dreams at night, and has
never entirely faded from his conscious.
ness during the day time. He will sell
his land to any who will buy it,--cheap
and then be loser, he says. "Come buy
of me" sings Denny. But he IS afraid that
the United States government will have
to take back it's land off his hands, or the
county get it as a present. The contri-
button box in the east for the sntfers,
and the cost of an expensive state COVER
ment are, in the governors mind, condi-