Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-06
The House.

menus TO mouse DlllS ~ and ".
A pretty dry day in the senate.
The House.
MORNING SESSION.
The house was raped to order at 10
o'clock a. ~, with Speaker Allen in the
chair.
On motion of Mr.. Lutz the house went
general orders.
Mr.. AXVIG was called to the chair, and,
his b%ashfulness causing him to hesitate,
a committee of three, consisting of Messrs.
Brooke, Oliver and Lutz, conducted him to
the seat of honor.
The first bill considered was house bill
14O, relating to the acquisition of cemetery
sites, and without debate it was recon-
mended to pass.
House bill 70, relating to foreclosure of
mortgages, was debated by Messrs. Burke,
Strom, Fay, Tufts, Allen and Oliver, after
which it persisted by indefinite postpone
ment.
Now Farmer Kearney is seen to gather
himself together. He readjusts his spec
tacles, arranges the papers on his desk,
and rolls up his sleeves. An air of ex-
pectancy ~overspreads the faces of the
members. Extreme quiet comes over
the house. The clerk reads and the
cheese-branding bill is before the
body.
AT this point in the proceedings Mr..
Axvig gets tired and quits, and Mr.. Oliver
is called to the chair.
Mr.. KEARNEY made a strcng plea for
his bill. There is a cheese factory in
jamestown. 1t produces a first.class ar
ticle, and makers of poorer cheese sell their
stuff az the product of the jamestown
factory. The expense of labels would not
cost manufacturers much, and it would
enable those makers putting out a superior
product to have the benefit of the reputa-
ton that such product would bring.
Mr.. GRADER wanted to know why the
committee had reported the bill unfavor-
ably.
Mr.. TUFTS said that the committee had
labored under a Misrepresentation, hal
lucination, or something of that sort. He
now thought the bill all right.
Mr.. McKENDRY wanted to substitute
"may'' for the mandatory provision.
Mr.. KEARNEY Informed the rash youth
from the west country that he would better
Kill the bill at once than to strike out the
'shalI."
Mr.. FISKE thought the manufacturers
of the state could not be compelled to label
their output.
Mr.. STROM took a fresh chew of gum
and moved to strike out section l.
Mr.. HILL liked the bill, and his sermon
in its favor was clear and to the point.
Mr.. FAY made an attack on it.
The sire OF the measure hit back hard,
but called Mr.. Fay "Mr. Gill;"
Then Mr.. Fay arose in his "wrath" and
demanded an apology from MIR. Kearney
for the miscalling.
At this juncture Mr.. Brooke rose up and
smote the bill beneath the fifth rib. He
said Mr.. Kearney was his friend; but, not
W~ithstanding the relations of amity ex-
listing, he was compelled to say that he
believed the bill to be unconstitutional. A
decision in which the Singer Sewing Ma
chine company was principal covered a
like point and had been adverse to a law
with similar provisions. In all legislation
tween residents Of different states.
MI. kEARNEY suggested that the
gentleman from Satan's inland sea could
not read, and he (Kearneyl there
upon read from the bill to show that the
matte of legislation was thrown over all
people alike.
MI. BURKE also had the temerity to
utter a feeble and subdued protest against
the constitutionality of the bill: but catch
ing MI. K%earney's eye, he sat down with
out finishing his speech.
Mr.. HILL was not a lawyer and there
tore could not enlghten the house as to
constitutional points. He also strove to
make Mr.. Kearney stepfather of the bill
by lntlmating that it was the New York
law; and if it could be enforced in the
Empire state, why not in North Dakota.
AS the bill was read section by section
some minor amendments were made, and
everything was running along smoothly,
when Mr.. Douglas, the bold Celt from
Park River, asserted that the bill was a
farce, and moved indefinite p"ostponement;
put this audacious suggestion was crushed
by. an overwhelming "no," in which the
voice OF the elder gentleman from Suits
man could be heard above all like the fog
horn of q lighthouse.
All the sections were adopted until the
emergency clause was reached; and that,
too, after being treated to a surgical Oper-
alton at the instance OF Mr.. LutZ, was sent
to safety along with the preceding para
graphs:
recommended for passage, whereat the
popular agriculturist from the banks of
the Jim smiled sweetly and approyingly
upon the youths who had assisted his pet
measure into a safe harbOr.
House bill 1856 was a bill in relation to
mutual insurance companies. After re-
marks by Messrs. Gill, Foss, Strom, Lutz,
Fiske and Richie the bill, instead Of being
re-referred to the committee on insurance.,
as moved by Mr.. Gill, was sent to the COM
mittee on agriculture on motion of Mr..
| LutZ.
House bill 159, relating to compensation
of assessors, was debated by Messrs. Den
nett, Strom, Fiske, Wallen and Richie.
The latter, addressing the chair, said:: "Do
l understand" etc. Whereupon Chairman
Oliver replied: 81 am not prepared to say
what the gentleman from Dickey under
stands" And the crushed gentleman from
Dlckey Spake no more.
The bill was recommended to pass, .
House bill 220, tO print 500 copies Of rev.
enue law for use Of county officers, was
recommended to pass.
House bill rs, providing bounty for wolf
scalps. There having been another bill of
the same kind passed, No. rs was, on mo-
ton OF MIR: McKendry, indefinitely post
p0ned. ,.'t .,'.. TI0
The governor returned house bill .29, for