Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-14

passed. all votes being in the affirmative.
THE GOVERNORS APPROVAL.
A communication was received from the
governor, notifying the house that he had
approved house bill No. 70, to suppress the
selling, lending, giving away or showing
ton principally devoted to illustrating
or describing immoral deeds. Also, house
bill No. III, to protect mechanics, labOrers
and persons furnishing material for the
construction of public buildings and max
ing public improvements.
TO SUPPORT MARRIED WOMEN.
Mr.. WILLIAMS bill providing for the
support Of married women, compelling
husbands to support their wives and MAX
ing provision in case the husband is I'M
able, was read the third time and passed,
all votes beng in the affirmative with the
exception of Mr.. thinner, who voted no.
AFTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
House Bill No. 203, requiring county COM
missioners to give bonds in the penal sum
of $1,000 to be approved by the county
judge was read the third time and while
the roll was being called on its final pas
sage.
Mr.. BOWEN raised the point of order
chat a man who is a county commissioner
cannot vote on this question.
Mr.. STEVENS demanded a decision on
that point and then he wanted to know
who was the county commissioner
The bill was lost, the vote being a tie.
MIR. STEVENS rose and insisted that if
county commissioners had voted he wanted
to know it.
Mr.. COLE read from the constitution
and said that it did not bar county COM
missioners from membership in the legis-
lature.
Mr.. WILLIAMS: The chair has ruled
on this question that a member who is a
county commissioner cannot vote on this
bill, and it there is a county commissioner
in the room he should divulge that fact to
the house.
Mr.. MCCULLOUGH: If a man is a
county commissioner and when he is
elected to the legislature he resigns, how
does the question stand?
Mr.. STEVENS: Was the resignation
Mr.. MCCULLOUGH: No sir.
Mr.. STEVENS: Then he is still a county
commissioner, isn't he? Mr.. Stevens
county commissioner in this body is. To
whom do you refer, Mr.. McCullough-is
it yourself?
Mr.. MCCULLOUGH; No sir.
Mr.. STEVENS: Who is it then?
Mr.. Mccullough made no answer, where
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and asked: MI: Walsh, are you a county
commissioner
Mr.. WALSH: Yes sir.
Mr.. STEVENS: Then | challenge that
vote, and demand that the name of Mr..
Walsh be erased.
Mr.: rooney moved to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was lost.
During the call of the roll Mr.. Stevens
explained that he discovered that the bill
did not apply to commissioners now in
office and therefore there could be no OBJ
lection to Mr.. Walsh's voting. He there
fore withdrew his objections.
o. THE COLLECTION OF WAGES.
House bill No. 217, to facilitate the COL
lection of wages, was read the third time
and passed.
THE SALARIES.
House bill No. 1877, providing standing
annual appropriations for the salaries of
state officers.
The bill fixed the salary Of the reporter
of the supreme court at $500.
Mr.. SELBY called attention to the fact
that the house had already passed a bill
fixing the sal airy at $500 and asked unani-
nous consent to have the bill amended to
conform.
Mr.. STEVENS moved as a substitute
that the conslderation Of the bin be post.
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senate bill on the same subject, just re-
ceived by the house.
FOR LABORERs.
House bill No. l7S, to secure to laborers
in coal mines and other industries in the
collection of their wages at regular in
tervals in lawful money of the United
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
House bill No. 81, providing for the issu-
ance of marriage licenses and defining
what shall and what shall not be legal
marriages, was read the third time and
passed.
House bill No. 2s2, a marriage law, but
not providing a license system, was also
Mr.. THOMPSON of Cass explained that
in 1885 congress passed a marriage law for
the territories. This law is full and COM
plete and house bill No. 1882 simply re-
enacts it. HI thought No. 81, providing
for a license system, should be indefnitely
postponed.
Mr.:LILLY hoped that No. 81 should be
passed. He favored the license system as
it threw safeguards around the marriage
ceremony.
Mr.. COLE favored throwing all possible
safeguards about the marriage ceremony.
Mr.. ALLEN could see no reason for
puoolAIR OllO llCcuSo Ullls Liz pC6ScUG law
is complete and he was in favor of re-
enacting it.
Mr.. WICKHAM: You can see why the
lawyers are opposed to this license bill.
There would not be so many divorces if it
should pass.
The motion to postpone indefinitely
house bill No. 81, providing for the issu-
ance OF marriage licenses, was lost and
the bill was passed.
House bill No. 2S2, also a marriage law,
but not requiring the license, was then laid
on the table, to be considered if the senate
fails to pass the license bill.
MUST USE ALIVE COAL.
Mr.. WILLIAMS house bill No. 1OS, CON-
polling the public institutions of the state
to use native coal, was read the third time
and passed by a vote Ut A to 6.
Mr.. HAUGEN moved that the house ad-
journ.
Roll call was demanded.
The motion to adjourn was lost by a vote
of "a to 80. -,
THE CONVENTION DEFICIT.
House bill 205, providing for the pay
ment Of the expenses of the constitutional
convention above the amount appropriated
by congress, was indefinitely postponed, as
a bill covering the same ground had been
passed by the senate. 49,.