Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-01-16
TAKES IT ALL BACK.
The ClSenate HecOMsiders the
Proposition tOAdjOurn on
February Sixteenth.
The House Members Engaged in
Manufacturing Records
for Each Other.
Mr.. Stevens Blocks this Game
with Resolution, PERTH
nent and Potent.
In the Senate.


In the Senate.
BISMARCK, January IL Special )-Ir
pursuance to the notice he gave yester
day, Senator Swanston today moved the
reconsideration of the vote designating
February 10th as the date of final ad
journment. The motion prevailed. After
little sklrmish over unimportan,
amendments the original motion to ad
journ on the sixteenth was put and lost
by vote of 8 to l9.
A message from the governor informed
the senate that be had approved senate
bills No. 13, regulating the practice OF
medicine, and No. 49, protection of pub
lie credit.
Among the bills introt. ,iced was one by
Mr.. Little, requiring the payment OF fees
into the state treasury by corporations
applying for authority to go into busi-
ness. Fifty dollars being required on a
capital of 1000, and an addition of S.
on every additional $4,000 capital or any
fraction thereof.
BY Mr.. Allin, to allow organized town
ships to raise tax for irrigating pur-
poses; two-thirds of the legal voters Of a
township being required to authorize
such expenditure.
BY Mr. Winship, giving power to coun-
ty courts to mortgage estates of deceased
persons, minors and incompetent persons.
In the House.
Tho hn,,co xpoofoI h,,f If Ia <;.,o %~xJo,,
in preliminary sparring and useless
passes. The fight began in earnest as
soon as Mr.. Reed offered concurrent
resolution calling upon the committees
to report back all bills in their hands at
the earliest possible date. SO that the day
of final adjournment may soon be reach
ed. Also, providing for two daily ses-
sions on and after January 20. This reso.
tuition was upceremonlously executed
after very few determined tits.
Mr.. Mccormick introduced concur
rent resolution prohibiting the auditor
from issuing warrants for the per diem of
members iurlng the holidays. There
was listless effort to delay action on
this by some of the more tender hearted
members, but when then sponsor became
SO indlscrete as to insist on immediate
consideration, it was Immediately muir
dered, and thrown to one side along with
number of others of the same ilk.
Mr.. Stevens asked unanimous consent
to offer the following resolution, which
was granted:
WHEREAS, It has been reported that
certain members of the house believe the
legislative assembly should adjourn at
early date, and
WHEREAS, Each member Is required to
take an oath faithfully to perform his
duties as member during the entire ses-
sion; now, therefore, to relieve any men,
ber of this house from blame or embarass-
ment, be it
Resolved, That any member believing
he should not receive pay during the late
adjournment. be not required to take the
same;
Resolved, further, that any member of
this house believing his further service
to the state are not worth the per diem
fixed by law, shall be excused from fur
ther service during the remainder of the
present session, provided his per diem
shall cease at the date of such excuse.
The resolution was passed.
House bill No ", providing for the
prosecution of offenses on information
and dispensing with grand juries ia GER
tain cases, came up for consideration and
provoked long and heated discussion.
Mr.. Roney wanted to have it indefinitely
postponed, but failed to accomplish this
purpose. 1t was finally made a special
order for Monday at 2 p. m.
Incidentals.
While the request for the repeal of the
timber culture law seems to be coming
from all quarters, there is no inclination
to abandon entirely the Legislative in
ducement to plant and grow trees on
the prairles of the state. Senator Win
ship has introduced a bill allowing the
owners OF real property who shall plant
to forest trees, not more than 6 feet apart,
and effectually cultivate them, and as
long as they are maintained in healthy
condition, an exemption from taxation
IN the sum of 500 for every acre so
planted, for ten years after each acre is
planted. The aspen poplar is excluded
from the list of trees, but the white
willow is included in the term ''forest
tree" There is also an exemption OF $50
an acre for fruit trees, and 500 for every
mile Of hedge Of deciduons or evergreen
trees planted, not more than two feet
apart and properly cultivated.
A photographer has caught in the Gun
ming tolls OF his camera the clean shaved
of nearly all the members
and officers of both houses. A large
sized gallery Of distinguished portraits
will soon be on exhibition. Nothing is more
to the membe to keep than
n souvenir of this kind.
A bill that grlnts counties lying north
west Of existing railroad lines the right
10 bond for aid in the construction of
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