The Dickinson press., 1891-02-07

law; Haggart, standing appropriation
for salaries of state officers; Mccormack,
$1,000 for Devils Lake mute school;
Palmer, appropriation for expenses of
selecting and acquiring title to public
lands donated by the government TO this
state: Haggart, appropriation for an an
ual tiremen's tournament; Cashel, au-
thorizing the transfer by state treasurer
of 81 900 from special fund to general
fund; Little, regulating the practice of
Medicine. Bills passed: Providing for
state c~anvassing board; salary and per
diem of members and clerks; attaching
purposes: appropriation to enforce law
relative to handling grain: amending
agricultural college law. Weiser and
johnson of Trail were appointed as SEN
ate members of the committee on ware
house laws.
Attorney General Spencer has APP
pointed F. j. Thompson, Of Fargo as his
assistant.
Friday, Jan. 80.
In the house a remonstrance against
repeating the state bank act was pre-
sented. The military committee reported
favorably the bills to prevent the sale of
arms to Indians and to loan guns to G..
A. r. posts; also the memorial for the
strengthening and maintenance of Fort
Lincoln. The bill for state hail insrlr-
anc was referred to the attorney gen
eral for al opinion as to its constitution
ality. Richie proposed a request to our
representatives in congress urging them
to labor for a national amendment pro-
hibiting lotteries in all states. Bills in
troduced: Locating blind asylum in
Pembina county at the town receiving
the largest vote at an election for that
purpose; appropriating $50, 900 for i'm
provemepts and $4,000 for the mainte-
anc of the state university at Grand
Forks; to permit townships to bond for
artesian wells; amending brands and
ear marks law; providing for township
supervisor system of county govern
ment; state bounty for tree planting.
ellis game law amendments were
passed; also divers law regulating
credit companies and mercantile agen-
cies, and Little's senate bills regulating
appeals and practice in the supreme
court. A joint resolution passed both
houses providing1 for a committee to in
spect the Jamestown asylum, and
White, Richie and Triplitte We're APP
pointed by the speaker.
In the senate the state bond bill to
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but a special committee recommended
that bills be not foated abroad under
the present depressed condition of the
money market, but held until the school
fund can purchase them. 1t was esti-
mated that that fund would be able to
take the entire lot by next June. Bills
introduced: Amending the revenue and
county court laws; to make railroads
liable for fires started by trains; appro-
priating S15, 900 for bounty for the man.
ufacture of potato starch; to appropri-
ate for per diem of members and en-
ployes during a recess of last years ses-
sion. The last is to secure pay for the
time occupied in a junket to the coast
last winter. Attorney General Goodwin
ruled that no pay could be drawn for
that time, and the auditor refused to
issue warrants. Both houses adjourned
until Monday in respect to the death of
Secretary Window.
Monday, Feb. 2.
At last the constitutional amendment
prohibiting lotteries has passed the sen
ate and reached the governor for his ap-
prevail. 1t will have to be submitted to
the next legislature and then to the peo-
pie. Among bills introduced in the SEN
ate were the following: To authorize
county boards to fix the boundaries Of
| election precincts; to subdivide the
Sixth judicial district; to appropriate
$500 for the state superintendent lib
rary. The bill to prohibit illegal brand
ing was passed; also extending the time
for the payment of taxes for the year
1890 and giving county boards power to
fix the salaries of county judges and
auditors in counties of less than 1000
population. The bill against foreign de-
tectives was indefinitely postponed on
recommendation of the committee on
state affairs. The senate agreed to the
house amendments to the supreme
court practice bill, but demanded a con-
ference committee on the bill regulating
appeals.
In the house Oliver and bennett both
INTRODUCED long bills to fix railroad
vide for supervision of private banks; to
class of property in the same instru.
ment; for prevention of cruelty to ami.
mails. The attorney general ruled that
the state hail insurance bill was nncon'
stitutional. A special committee re.
ported appropriate resolutions on the
death of Secretary Window. which
were adopted. Inc senate memorial te
congress asking for the maintenance OF
Fort Lincoln was agreed 70. Bills
passed: To require railroads to erect
platforms for shipment of grain on peti
ton of citizens to the railroad commits
sion; appropriation for per diem ant
mileage: providing for a wool market
under the direction of the commissions
of agriculture and labor, and regulating
admission Of attorneys to practice. Spe
cial Committee OH Election Reform
Gill. Beardsley, Brooke, Burke, Den
nett, Strom and Fiske.
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
In the senate the following bills wer
introduced: Amending the oil inspec
ton act; to compel railroads to us
safety couplers on freight cars: requir
ing civil suits to be brought only in til
county where the defendant resides, fix
ing minimum term of sentence to stat
penitenfiary; limiting salaries of count
auditors to $1,000; regulating use Q
marks, brands and trade marks: amend
ing the school land lease law. The bill
lowering exemptions from SIS, 900 t
10000 was defeated. Arnold's motto,
to draw lots for long and short term
was adopted and Lieutenant Governo
Allin and Senators Worst and La Mour
] were designated to rrang the method