Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-01-16
SPECIAL PLEADING.
4 Tecllnicality POstpOneS for
two days the Capital
Removal Bill.
Legislators are Thought to be
DevOting Much UnneceS-
Sary Time to Trifies
Reduction on Coal Freight
Rates to Various Dakota
Points Secured.

AAileS 10 NTlOlS 1JatNOlH
| Points Secured.
Stale, Flat and UnprOfitable.
BISMARCK, Jan. 14.-[Special Con
trary to general expectation, the house
did not give an exhibition of the game of
razzle dazzle today on the proposition to
put the capital on wheels. When the
order of unfinished businesss was reach
ed, it was announced that the disposition
OF the motion for the previous question
on Zimmers proposition to amend the
constitution and submit the question of
the location OF the seat of government
to vote, which was pending when the
adjournment Was taken yesterday, was as
the business before the house. Williams,
however, had been looking into the mat
ter. He found that the bill had only
been reported from the engrossment
committee yesterday and, further, that
the house rules provide that in such
cases bills shall lie over two days before
action is taken on them. He therefor
raised the point of order that under the
rules the bills could not be considered
until tomorrow and the point was decid-
ed we'll taken. That settled the capital
question for today.
The house session was not productive
of much good news. The members have
recently fallen into the habit of suspend
ing the rules after the reading of the
journal and keeping them hung up until
adjournment, 70 recall a day where the
regular order has been proceeded with
without interruption, would necessltate
clearing the dim vista of the past and
peering back further than the memory
Of your correspondent runneth. This way
the house has of doing business is even
less logical than the Irlshmans PROPOSE
tion that the ''longest way around is the
shortest way across" The only
thing they really accomplish is to make
Al unnecessary amount Of work for the
clerks, without increasing the volume of
business transacted. The house might
well profit by the homely old adage,
make haste slowly"
The senate bill, creating the office of
boiler inspector, regulating the care of
steam engines and requiring engineers
to procure licer ses, passed the house,
with the amendment that boilers should
be cleaned once in seven days and was
made an emergency bill.
Lilly introduced a resolution calling
for the appointment OF a committee to
inquire into the number of house clerks,
how many and and whether all are need
ed, and whether they are all competent.
The resolution has an ominous sound.
and it is surmised that something may
drop ere long.
The joint seed wheat committee made
its report today. 1t recommends the
passage of two bills-the house bill, pro-
viding for liens on crops and for the levy
Of taxes to secure payment for purchase
price of seed, and the senate bill, author
izing counties to issue bonds to procure
seed wheat for poor and needy farmers,
resident thereof
Walsh's revenue bill was taken up and
Uuo uOllSo SpcuG several uOuTS III SOlur
through dozen sections.
John Milsted will tomorrow introduce
a bill prescribing the manner of assess
ing railroad property and collecting
taxes thereon. 1t declares that the fran |
stock of any railroad company
shall be assessed the same as
any other property: that the assessment
shall be made by the state board of
equalization; that for the purposes of as
sessment, they shall have access to- all
reports, estimates and surveys filed in
the office of the railroad commissioners;
and that they shall be governed by the
same rules as those laid down for the
government of county and township as
SCISSORS
The seed wheat bills prepared by
George p. Wilson of Minneapolis, were
introduced today. One provides form
Of tax to secure the elevator companies
oaning the seed and the other provides
for bonding counties. The passage of
.hese bills will settle the seed wheat
question and give the needy farmers of
he state d reasonable supply. 1t will ,
'equire about 100000 bushels, worth
about S20O,0OO The grain will all be
furnished by the Minneapolis elevator
IncidentaIs.
The North Dakota railroad commits
;ioners have secured material reduction
n Northern Pacific rates for Transporting
he West Missouri Ignite. The company ;
will hereafter carry coal from Sims and I
Dickinson to points east of Bismarck as {
ollows: TO jamestown S1.7J per tor; !
Fargo S235. Edgeley and Oakes S2.25.
The coal will be mined and placed on
BOARD the cars at Sl.OO or Sl.lO per ton.
President Dickey today appointed !
Iohn Waugh, A. G. Mcmillan and Nal {
'ome Sinclair assistant enrolling and en-
crossing clerks of the senate
Attorney General Goodwin's opinion
hat neither employees nor members IN
can draw per deim or mileage