Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-03-21
Fl LEGISLATURE.
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ment on certain amendments, and the bill
House bill No. 1877, amending section 2,
of article Is, chapter 70, laws of 1889,
passed, 81 to l.
Senate bills 2s7, 70, SO, 1870, 1893, So, 17s,
212, l26 and 22S. were on motion taken up.
Senate bill 2S7, providing for a more eco
nomical management of the Fargo agri-
cultural college, lost-28 to 81, it not re-
ceiving the constitutional number.
Senate bill ITO, licensing peddlers, passed
40 to Z.
Senate bill 90, relating to registration of
death and births, lost-2S to 20.
BILLS APPROVED.
The governor approved house bill 2S3,
Mandan reform school; alsol26S, amending
sections III, 172 and 17S of probate code.
On roll call fixing the time of adjourn.
ment to 7:SO this evening, there were ayes,
"a nays IS.
Mr.: SELBY moved to proceed to the
consideration of house bills on third read
ing. Carried.
House bill 81, establishing board of
Z charities and corrections, was laid on the
table.
81 THE SALARY BILL.
House bill S41, fixing the salaries of state
officers, was taken up.
MI. MCCORMICK moved to amend by
striking out all after the enacting clause
and insert senate bill As.
Mr.. NORTON moved to lay the motion
on the table.
Roll call demanded. Ayes, 81; nays, IS.
Mr.. COLE moved to adopt the committee
amendments which placed the railroad
commissionersasalary at $1,000 each and
the judges at S $4,000. Carried.
Mi. MCCORMICK moved to increase the
salary OF the railroad commissioners to
$1,000.
Then followed an oratorical display sell
dom equalled in the history Of this session.
Mr.. WILLIAMS led the aggressive. He
had a library in front of him. He showed
by statistics of other states that the salar-
les fixed in the constitution of North Da-
kOta were all out of proportion. He COM
pared the wealth and population of other
states with that of North Dakota and made
aforcible argument.
J he believed the laborer worthy of hislhire,
whether in the lower or higher stations of
life. He said that the gentleman from
Burleigh was a member of the cOnstitu-
tiOnal convention, and the debates would
not show where the gentleman had raised
his voice against these ~extravagant sal
aries.
Mr.. WILLIAMS: I'm a repentant sim
ner.
Mr.. SELBY: You're working the "rec-
Mr.. MOORE moved to lay the motion of
to 49,
This showed the strength of the econo-
mists. and Mr.. Mccormick jumped into the
ring with a whoop, saying "all right, we'll
put you economists on record"
MI. LILLY moved to raise the salary of
thu H11Nt~tD,>11 ,,k 90 = = 49, -
$500.
The motion was tabled with a hurrah.
Mr.. HANKINSON was in the chair. An
attempt at raZzle-dazzle was made, but
HankinsOn was equal to the occasion. He
pounded the desk for order until the bust
ness end Of his mallet rolled out over the
chief clerks desk.
MI. MCCORMICK moved to amend by
fixing the salary of the secretary of state
at $1,000. C~arried-With a WhOOp.
Mr.. MCCORMICK moved to fix the sal
aries of the auditor and treasurer at 81, 5OO.
Carried with two whoops.
Several motions to adjourn were put and
lost, and finally a vote. on the passage OF
the bill as amended carried. The bill
passed-37 to Is.
The house then took a recess until 7:SO
p. m.
EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. WILLIAMS moved that the house
proceed to the first and second reading OF
senate bills. Carried.
THE RAILROAD BILL.
Mr.. MCCORMICK moved that the house
recede from its amendments to senate bill
Al 1.-THE senate railroad billy which motion
prevailed. The bill was then p~assed-ayes,
80; nays, none.
NO MILITIA.
Senate bill 1873, %suspending the militia
laws, was then read the third time and
passed.
Mr.. MCCORMICK moved that senate bill
294, naming and describing the legislative
districts Of the state, be indefinitely post
Mr.. ESTABROOK offered a resolution
providing that the salary of %janitors fixed
by resolution at SIS shall commence from
the date Of their appointment.
the resolution be postponed until Monday.
Carried.
Senate bill 1856, licensing sleeping cars,
was read the third time n passed.
On motion the house adjourned.
The Senate.
MONDAY, March 18th.
Convened at $50 a. m.
A quorum present. Mr.. LaMOure eX
cused on account of illness.
The journal not having been received
Mr.. Stevens moved that the reading be dis
pensed with until printed.
Mr.. WINSHIP moved that the house
amendments to senate bill 16S. relating to