Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-07
The Senate.

Convened at 2. p. m
Prayer by the chaplain.
All members present except the members
excused for cause.
The reading of the journal was dis
pensed with and Messrs. Belyea and Stew
ems were appointed to examine and cor
rect the same.
Mr.. LAMOURE called attention to the
fact that the governor had several times
| given information that bills had reached
him in an improper form by reason of the
omission of amendments and in other re-
spects, and he was DESTROYS that the SEN
ate should set itself right and that proper
care should be used to prevent errors.
House bill No. 158, reported from the
conference committee yesterday, was un-
finished business.
MI. LITTLE moved that the roll be
called on its final passage. Adopted.
Mr.. LAMOURE raised the point of order
that the bill was not before the senate and
that it was not proper to vote upon it until
it had been engrossed with the amend
ments.
The CHAIR asked the senate to rule
upon the matter.
Mr.. WORST moved that the point of
order was we'll taken and the senate so
agreed.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
The president pro TEN. in the chair.
The committee on warehouses, grain and
grain grading reported on Nos. 1876 and
1862 that they do not pass, the ground being
covered by house bills. -.
The committee on public printing re-
ported favOrablY No. 1872, relating to news
papers in which notices should be pub
lished and No. 20l, providing for the publ
cation OF supreme court reports, with
amendments.
.Judiciary-house bill No. 2S4, oaths of
civil oficers-do pass.
State affairs.house bill No. 1871, provid-
ing clerk hire for state OficeS-dO pass.
Mr.. SWANS TON moved that the vote by
which senate bill No. 1856 was adopted, be
reconsidered, which was agreed to, and he
then moved that the bill be made a special
order for tomorrow afternoon at 4 O'Clock,
which was adopted.
SECOND READING AND REFERENCE.
No. 2O7, to regulate railroad corporations
and other common carriers, etc.-to COM
mittee on railroads.
Mr.. SMITH, by consent, moved that the
anime as to the proper engrossment of SEN
ate bill No. 1873, (that unfortunate bill hav-
ing evaded all the efforts of the chairman
Of the ~engrOssing committee to get it into
shape to become al avn
The PRESIDENT appointed as such
committee Messrs. Worst, Rowe, Winship,
| LaMoure and Smith.
=, THIRD READING.
No. ITO. to license peddling and provid.
ing penalties for the violation thereof
passed. Ayes, %; nay, 1. Mr.. Smith vot-
ing no
No. 1911, to appropriate money for the
maintenance of the public offices of the
Sta 4 maspaep faem sffh|o e hdnsa sdnouncea
that the house had passed senate bills Nos.
6, II, " and los without amendment
The committee on municipal corpora
tons asked permission to report, which be.
ing granted, reported favorably No. 1859,
relating to city water works:
Mr.: SWANSTON presented the follow.
t9n isSh: JOINT resolution and moved its ad0p'
WHEREAS, A concurrent resolution asking con.
gress to pass the blair Educational Bill" was
recently introduced In the senate and was imme'
diately ordered laid on the table by a unanimous
vote, thereby showing our disapproval of such
legislation; and tn
WHEREAS. We are informed by the public press
that our worthy, senator, the Hon. Gilbert A.
Pierce &c has INTRODUCED 9 petition signed by sew
said Blair educational bill,
Therefore We. the members Of the senate q
ask our senators and member of congress to use
all honorable means to prevent the passage Of
said bill, the opinion of our state officers 70 thf