Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-02

revenue measures. They favored legis
lation that would relieve the taxpayers
and none would have served the purpose
better than the lottery project. Let ut
see what the records show:
The revenue law, the most important
measure passed by the legislature, was
introduced by a lottery man.
The new school law was introduced by
a lottery advocate.
The law regulating the use of proxies
and making it impossible for corruptpol
iticians to thwart the will of the people
may be credited to a lottery champion.
The new banking law which will in,
crease the wen of the state over $50,
600 was got through, after a hard fight
by a lottery leader.
The new law regulating the practice Of
medicine was introduced by a lottery
man.
Fargo owes the success Of her agri,
cultural college bill to the lottery men.
Devils Lake can thank the lottery men
for her deaf and dumb school.
The law regulating common carriers
and defining the duties of railroad com
misunderstanding the commission all
the power it needs to protect the people
from corporate oppression-owes it's be-
ing and passage to a lottery man.
The forestry bill was introduced by a
lottery fend.
Mayville got her normal school from
the lottery men.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gov
ernor Miller vetoed one bill taxing the
cattle kings-who have heretofore es-
capped t%axation-in the unorganized coun-
ties, the lottery champion who intro
duced the measure, and his fellows
pushed another bill through by such an
overwhelming majority that the governor
did not dare veto it.
The author of the anti-pool and trust
lava measure similar to the one intro
duced by Senator Sherman in the U. S.
Senate-was a lottery champion.
Grand Forks can credit the lottery
champions with giving her the state fair
and the an~ti-lottery men for the veto of
the appropriation necessary to pay
premiums-the oily appropriation asked
for a purely agricultural measure.
The law, which requires the payment
of fees into the state treasury by corpora
ton upon filing articles of incorporation
or upon increase of capital stock-adds
several thousand dollars to the
was introduced by a lottery champion.
The pharmacy law was introduced by
a champion of the "hydra-headed mons
ter"
The author of the law fixing the
maxium freight rate on native coal was q
man.
The oil inspector bill which gave Jim
Anderson a soft snap was introduced
by a lottery member.
The bill authorizing the publication Of
laws in the newspapers of the
state-demanded by the farmers alliance
was introduced by a lottery man;
passed the senate, but was killed by anti
lottery men in the house.
The author of the law taxing sleeping
measure adding 5000 to the
revenues of the s~tate-voted for the lot
terry.
The Q brands or earmarks law, in
stockmen are interested, owes it's
to a lottery man.
The act ~suspending the militia laws
thus saving ten to fifteen thousand dol
lars annually-was introduced by a lot
terry leader and passed, Notwithstanding
the threatened opposition-at the begin.
ning-of anti-lottery hypocrites.
The gross earnings railroad law was
introduced by a lottery champion.
The author of the direct railroad tax
law was also a lottery man.
The state library bill and the UNIVERSE
ty library bill were introduced by a lot
terry man and both became laws.
Sheep husbandry and it's protection
found warm champions among the lot
tory men, and both bills we're introduced
by lottery men. -"
The author of the new estray law saw
nothing wrong in the lottery.
The bill providing for the lease and
sale Of school lands was introduced by q
member who believed the lottery was a
good revenue measure and would give re-
lief to the a x-burdened people.
The bill requiring warehouses to pay
licenses-bear their share Of tho public
burdens--was introduced by a lottery
champion, who believed in revenue
measures.
The usury bill, introduced in the house
by a lottery champion, became a law,
notwithstanding money-loaning, three
per-cent-a-month, anti-lottery people op-
posed it. I@'
The bill regulating the buying, selling
and grading Of grain was introduced in