Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-31

uoticS VI IHlS OlHcc OH inc commissioner OF
agriculture.
No. 226. FIXING the maximum rate for
transportation of coal mined in Dakota at
0ne-half cent per ton per mile.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
BY Mr.. WICKHAM: No. 227. Estab-
fishing the first Monday in September a
legal holiday to be known as labor day.
BY Mr.. WALSU: No. 22S. Amending
the law governing the state university so
that the school of mines be included in the
institution. Also No. 229, allowing Judges
and clerks OF election - per day. The
same amount to be allowed the man who
carries the ballot box, in addition to five
cents per mile for distance travelled.
FIRST READING OF SENATE BILLS.
The following enate bills were read and
referred:
Regulating first. second and third class
judicial districts, salaries, ptc-iudiciary.
No. 80. Abolishing the office of veterin-
airy surgrOn-state affairs.
No. l26. Prescribing the fees of register
of deeds-judiciary.
No: u. Allowing organized townships
to raise funds for irrigation. Whenever
two,thirds of the voters agree, it shall be
streams, etc.-committee on irrigation.
No. 80: Relating to the selection of ju-
No. ios. Granting power to county
courts to direct the ~mortgaging of the eS-
tate OF a deceased person, minor or de-
mented person-judiciary.
NO. 10. Amending chapter II of the acts
of the seventeenth Legislative assembly.
NO. l3O. Relating to public printing and
binding for the state Of North Dakota,
No. 70. Reimbursing the sheriff of Bur-
leigh county for serving subpanas for the
eighteenth legislative assembly.
TREE CULTURE.
The bill granting a bounty per acre for
tree culture was considered.
Mr.. BEARD moved to amend the clause
requiring the trees to thrive three years be-
fore the payment of the bounty by making
Mr.. BUCHANAN opposed this on the
ground that it would keep the state poor
paying for dead trees.
Mr.. HANKINSON agreed with Mr..
buchanan.
Mr.. rooney said that tree culture in the
arid lands is very uncertain and three
years is short enough time within which
to pay.
Mr.. STEVENS acknowledged when the
bill came up that he knew nothing about
tree culture. But the remarks of Mr..
R0ney convinced him that the payment
should be made in one year. 1t is in these
so-called arid lands of the western part of
the state that the farmers needed encOur-
agement.
Mr.: STROM favored two years as the
longth Of time that should elapse after
| planting the trees.
twenty-five acres of trees, and he has
found that when trees live through the
flrSt year that they are in a good way to
prosper. Tree planting Will do more to de-
velop the country than anything that can
be done. We should give it generous en-
enlargement.
Mr.. COLE: In the southern part of the
state | know that we can tell nothing
obout the success of the trees at the end of
the first year.
Mr.. ALLEN said he had a tree claim
since he had been in the state. He had
tried for five years to raise trees, and dur
ing the winter he has been watching con-
gress IN the hope that it would pass a law
that Would allow him to prove up on the
claim as a homestead or to buy it outright.
Mr.. Unlisted thought The bill was all
right as it stOOd-three years.
Mr.. WILLIAMS thought they should
legislate in the interest of the many and
not in the interest of the few. The bounty
should be paid at the end of a year.
A vote being taken, the motion to make
the time one year was lost.
Mr.. BEARD then moved that the bounty
be paid one year from the first of August
succeeding the date of planting. Lost.
MIR. BOWEN renewed the motion to have
two years elapse between the time of plant
ing and paying. Carried.
Mr.. UELAND moved that the bounty be
made 81 instead of 50.
Mr.. BUCHANAN opposed this. He
thought that four dollars per acre was a
pretty good price for cultivating trees. A
man could make more cultivating a good
crop of trees than anything else and the
prairie would be covered with trees at the
expense of the state.
Mr.. STROM said, if you make the bounty
~ per acre, you might as well not pass the
bill at all. 1t will be no inducement.
MI. WILLIAMS: | move you that W.T.
make it $3.50 per acre. We of the Missouri
slope who have trees should not be too
hard on those Of the central portion of the
state who are struggling to raise a few
groves.
Mr.. HANkINSON moved to adjourn,
which motion prevailed and the house
stood adjourned.