The Dickinson press., 1890-02-01
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 23.-The house
adopted a resolution instructing Auditor
Bray to honor vouchers for the holiday
recess per diem, ""the opinion of the at.
torney general to the contrary notwith-
standing" Bray promptly replied that
the attorney general was the advisory
officer Of the state officials, and in view
of his opinion the auditor must again re-
fuse to issue warrants on account of the
recess vouchers. Bray's response was re-
ferred to the Judiciary committee with
the request that the whole question be
investigated. Hoyt, of Mandan, intro
duced a bill prohibiting corporations
from keeping a black list of discharged
employees. The Donald bill to prevent
bribery Mt elections, the bill increasing
the county commissioners from three to
five, and a bill fixing the liability of
railroads and others for setting fires
passed. The bill licensing lawyers was
killed on a close vote. Senator Little
introduced an amendment to the consti-
tuition reducing the number of railroad
commissioners to one.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 24.-The mem-
bers of the legislature left on a special
train for grand Forks to visit the univer-
sity. Sunday they will inspect the in
insane asylum at Jamestown. In the
senate the committee on ways and means
reported a bill providing for county de-
P%ositories. No particular business was
done in either house. Governor Miller
has approved the bill extending the paw
ment of taxes of 1859 to Oct. Is. While
While this relieves the individual and
was the universal request, it leaves the
treasury in bad shape in the mean time.
The estimated revenues of $241, 600 will
not come in before the tax penalty at
taches, Oct. Is, and when they do come
they will be less than half the expendi-
lures.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., Jan. 25.-The
legislature arrived here this morning on
a special train owe the Northern Pacific,
breakfasted at the Hotel Dakotah and
spent the forenoon principally in sight
seeing. AT oon they were conveyed in
a special over the Manitoba road to the
university, where speech making, etc.,
continued till : O'Clock. At 3 a banquet
was rendered the members in the Hotel
Dakotah. Several toasts were given,
that of Editor Quinn, of Bismarck, on
the press, and Senator Thompson, of
Cass, on Flicker tail, being immensely
humorous. In the evening a grand
promenade concert was rendered, The
elite of the city We're in attendance.
They left at midnight for Jamestown.
Senator George B. Winship was made
the recipient of an elegant morocco
lined easy chair by senators and repre-
s%entatives. MIR. Winship was taken en-
tirely by surprise.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 27.-In the SEN
ate Stevens, of Grand Forks county,
moved a vote of thanks for the happy
and impartial way the citizens enter
tanned the excursionists. Senator Swan
son opposed the motion and said it was
not an impartial entertainment. He did
not recite it all, but it was so well un-
derstood that even Mr.. Stevens seconded
Swanson's motion to lay his Owl motion
on the table. 1t was agreed to without
division. Among the Sights was the
fact that three members of the house
were called on at the banquet to respond
to toasts and only one member of the
senate. Another incident was the omis-
sion of q complimentary mention of Sen
ator Winship by the orators. This was
so noticeable that his friends and others
brought him a chair and presented it to
him. Still another trouble was the
charge Of IS for the Pullman car. It
was understood the ride was to be free.
A motion by La Moure to expunge the
senate's action from the records was de-
feated. The woman suffrage bill was
defeated by one vote. The bill authorize
ing a tax on land to secure the payment
of seed wheat loaned was passed.
Wyckham introduced a bill in the
house to make the first Monday of Sep
TENDER q legal holiday known as labor
day. Thompson, of Cass, introduced a
bill fixing the maximum rate on native
coal at half a cent a ton per mile.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 2s.-A sudden
shift of sentiment in the senate carried
the woman's suffrage bill through bv a
vote Of Is to Z. The senate also passed
the bill cutting down exemptions to $500;
also the bill making the husband and
wife equally liable for household debts.
In the house the proposed amendment
to the constitution resubmitting prohi-
bition was indefinitely postponed by an
overwhelming vote. Only nine voted
for resubmission. The negative votes
were: Hoyt, Lutz, Murphy, Renard,
Stadleman, Thompson, of Cass, TYLER,
Walsh and Wickham.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 29.-The senate
passed McCormack's bill locating the
state fair at Grand Forks permanently
by a vote of 81 to 5. 1t also adopted an
amendment to the bill fixing salaries of
state officers, reducing the salary of the
attorney general from $4,000 to 800.
This is construed as a hint to that officer
that his opinions are not pop
ular with the senate. Reeds bill
creating the office of township
warden, Milsted's estray bill and
a bill making corporations liable for
damages to employees, passed the house.
Nedrud, of the house, introduced Col
toms bill fixing native coal rates at rs
cents per ton for the first fifty miles,
three-quarters of a cent per ton per mile
for the second fifty miles, and half a
cent per mile the subsequent distance.
The Northern Pacific has given the rail
road commission a coal rate of a cent
per ton per mile after the first hundred
miles. 1t is equivalent to 1925 per ton
from the mines west of the river to
Fargo.
ENGLISH EXTRACTION.
Mr.. Blaine's Treaty with Great Britain
Sent to the Senate.