The Dickinson press., 1890-02-15
THE STATE LEGISLATURE

BISMARCK, N. d.. Feb. 6.-The lottery
bill reached the house, but was not read
OF referred. A great many kilograms
both for and against the bill have been
received from all owe the state. Wick
hams bill, making the first Monday in
September a holiday to be known as La
Dor Day, was amended to the first Mon
day in June and passed by the house.
The senate bill authorizing counties to
bond to procure seed wheat for needy
residents: Williams bill to prevent pay
ment with orders of laborers in mines
and manufactures: Lilly's marriage bill;
the bill to compel all state institutions to
burn native coal; bill providing that all
fees of state officers shall be covered
back into the state treasury, and Will
ans bill exempting pension money
from judicial sale, levy OF attachment,
all went through the house. The bill re-
curing commissioners to give bonds was
lost. Nedrud presented a petition from
1884 residents who pray for reduced
rates on the transportation of coal.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. There wasa
short and lively session of the house.
The lottery bill was the issue. The op-
ponents of the bill tried to prevent the
first reading in order to get more time
for circumstances. Mccullough, of
Walsh. led the opposition. There were
thirty or forty motions and roll calls.
showing a strength of 81 for the bill, 90
against and 3 absent. Friends of the
measure succeeded in having the bill
read the first time, and then the house
adjourned. 1t will, therefors, be read
the second time and referred to the com.
mittee, and probably be reported
hacL. f0 fho ho,,co nm Nfo.Jo.
The necessary two-thirds to pass
the bill is forty-two. Mr.. NJ. N.
johnson, of Lakota, has arrived, and is
working among his friends in the house
against the lottery bill. Petitions pro
and con were received. The Walsh
county central committee wired Roger
Allen, who voted against the bill in the
senate, that his course was Endorsed. In
the senate the school bill was discussed
and reco:nmitted. The issue is the
township system. Barlow's bill to es-
tablish boards of Cancellation and arbi-
tration passed. The house bill providing
for liens upon crops and for the levy Of
a tax to secure payments for seed wheat,
prepared by George p. Wilson, of Min
neapolis, passed. A mass meeting at the
city hall adopted resolutions indorsing
the action of the Burleigh county dele
CATION in supporting the lottery bill.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. s The clerk
of the house was kept busy reading for
an hour and a half petitions for the
lottery bill and circumstances. The
number of requests for the passage of
the bill, but the total number of signers
to the latter is the greatest, the figures
being 1873 for the bill and 1,434 against.
By request Mr.. Roney, of Steele county,
introduced a resolution calling for a
committee of five to investigate the ru-
mors current that members are being in
fluenced to vote for the lottery bill
by mea I. of bribery and other
unlawful means and report the re-
suit at the earliest moment. The
resolution vas adopted and Roney,
Thompson of Cass, Sllby. Walton and
thinner appointed as the committee. An
amendment by Lilly to the lottery bill,
making room for all lottery companies,
young and old, was ordered referred to
the committee that the bill itself would
be referred to. The lottery bill did not
reach its second reading and was not re-
ferred. 1t is confidently claimed by the
opponents of the measure that it is daily
losing ground and its friends are afraid
to pass it. There are not two-thirds for
it in the house, and Winship claims three
accessions to the senate minority, max.
ing eleven in that body, sufficient to de.
feat its passage over the governors veto.
BISMARCK, Feb. 1O.-The house at {
o'clock voted to indefinitely postpone
further consideration of the lottery bill,
Leading friends of the bill agreed during
the forenoon that they would kill il
themselves. At the afternoon session
George Walsh, of Grand Forks. to the
great surprise of the minority, the audi.
ence and many of the supporters of the
bill, moved that it be indefinitely post.
poned and the senate S 70 advised. E. A.
Williams advocated the adoption of the
resolution. 1t vas unanimously adopted
and the bill indefinitely postponed.
Senator Bell, Democrat, introduced
resolution for the investigation of alleged
corruption in the nomination of state
officers, United States senators and in
regard to the lottery bill. The resolu
ton named Senators Robinson. Haggert
Hammond Mccormack and Mcbride a.
the investigating committee. 1t wa.
adopted.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. lit was s
tame day in the legislature, but the sen
ate investigating committee has beer
running full time. The committee sit
with closed doors. Senator Robinson
the big lumberman of North Dakota, Ii
chairman, and ex-Judge Francis is attor
ney for the committee. Robinson say,
he was not consulted before he was ap
pointed on the committee, and that Ii,
will get to the bottom Of the facts il
every branch of the proposed investiga
ton. Several witnesses were examined
but no important facts were brought out
They all denied that they knew anythin,