Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-14
THE LEGISLATURE.
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from the commissioners of Walsh county
against having the western boundary line
Of the county extended, and moved that
the bill be amended so that the question
shall be submitted to a vote of all the peo-
pie interested. Carried.
Mr.. BOWEN moved that the committee
OF the whole recommend the passage of
the bill as recommended. Carried.
The committee rose and the report was
adopted.
PETITIONS AND PROTESTS.
Mr.. MONTGOMERY presented protests
against the passage of the lottery bill from
Walsh county.
Mr.. WALSH: A petition from W.. H,
Brown. president of the Grand Forks
chamber of commerce, and forty-four
Mr.BUCHANAN: A protest from thirty
four citizens of Sargent county.
Mr.: DISCARD: A protest from Nelson
county.
Mr.. LANCER: Two petitions from citi-
zens OF Cass county, praying for the pass
Mr.. HOYT: A petition from Lyman W.
Carey and 800 others of Morton county ia
voring the bill.
Mr.. PINKHAM: A remonstrance from
the officers of the w. c. T. U. Also a pro-
test from citizens of Cass and other coun-
ties.
Mr.: Foss: Protest from citizens of cass
county.
Mr.. HAUGEN: A remonstrance from
the lyceum at Grand Forks.
Speaker WELLMAN received a peti
ton from Clark & Barton representing
S.hundreds of tax payers" and from mum
per OF citizens Of Valley City, praying for
Mr.. BEARD: A protest from Cass coun-
Mr.. STROM: A protest from forty citi-
zens of Trail county. Also from citizens
Of Grand Forks and other counties.
Mr.. MCDONALD: A petition from Daz-
ey: Also from citizens Of Valley City and
Mr.. UELAND from LaMoure county
citizens protesting against the passage Of
Also, a petition from Edgely and other
points praying for the passage of the bill.
Speaker WELLMAN: Protest from a
meeting of citizens of Fargo.
TO INVESTIGATE FARGo's MAYOR.
A protest from Mayor Newman of Fargo
placing the lottery on a par with houses of
prostitution was read.
Mr.. STEVENS: Mr.. Speaker l see that
this petition is from the mayor of Fargo
and that he speaks OF houses Of prostitu-
ton. ! move you that a committee be ap-
pointed to investigate the prostitution
question in Fargo and see whether or not
Mayor Newman has permitted the licens.
ing OF houses of ill fame-in effect at least.
Carried.
MI. ALLEN: Protest from citizens of
Nj. CHR!Sr1ANsoN: A protest from
citizens of Cass county.
Mr.. MCINTYRE: Two petitions from
Cass county favOring the bill.
Mr.. STEVENS: A petition favoring the
bill-"the crOaking Of theoretical moral
lists to the contrary Notwithstanding"
Mr.. HAUGEN: A protest from the
women Of Ransom county:
MI. NORTON: A petition from Penn
Mr.. RICHARDSON: Protest from the
Mr.. GRONLI: A petition signed by
over 200 citizens of Grand Forks-favor-
Mr.. sELBY: A petition from 100 citi-
Mr.. STADLEMAN: An endorsement of
the bill from Pembina county; also am en-
dorsement from Drayton and pembina.
Mr.: HEGLlE: A remonstrance from
Nj: EsTABR6oK: Petition from Grand
Forks county fav9ring the bill; also a re-
Mr., MOORE: An endorsement OF the
bill from the majority of the people of
Nj. PiNKHAM: A remonstrance from
q citizen of Casselton; also from Frank
Leach, Of Casseluon. calling the legislature
a lot OF "cheaP chumps:"
Speaker WELLMAN: Endorsement
from j. Farmhouse, stating that he had
just returned from st. Paul and that the
leading business men of ST. Paul and Min
neapolis favored the bill.
Mr.BUCHANAN: From Banker William
son, OF Sargent county, begging of him in
God, to oppose the bill.
Mr.. MCCORMICK: Protest from
Church's Ferry.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The committee on state affairs reported
senate bill 108, authorizing the governor,
secretary of state and auditor to provide
furniture for the state offices, recommend
ing that it do pass.
House bill 1l6. requiring county commits
sioners to deposit moneys in public deposit
tories, providing that not more than $15, 900
shall be deposited in any one bank-do
pass. Adopted.
H LOTTERY BILL.
MI. COLE moved that senate bill 1857 be
returned to the senate with the informa-
ton that it is unconstitutional. The bill,
he claimed, embraces more than one SUBJ
ject. 1t is known as a revenue bill. Again
it establishes lottery companies. 1t pur-
ports to be a civil act and at the same time
amends a part Of the penal code. The con-
stitution says that a bill cannot be so
amended eas to change its original purpose,
hence the bill should be returned to the
senate. He said that he expected his mo-
ton would be voted down.
Mr.. WALSH raised the point Of order
that the motion should have been made in
the upper house. Again, we are not sitting
here as a judicial body to decide constitu-
tiOnal points.
Mr.. COLE did not agree. He thought
the house had tho right to return the bill.
Mr.. WALSH said that it was not only
unparliamentary, but ~discourteous.
Mr.. SELBY raised the point that the bill
could not be returned to the senate with
out a suspension of the rules.
The speaker decided Mr.. Coles motion