Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-02-24

taxation of telegraph companies. Au.
thOrizing the board of equalization tC
assess Where they fail to take out license
MIR. THEEXToN: Amending section 7
laws OF 1890, relating to marriage license
| Allows certificate to be obtained through
attorney and ceremony to be performed ut
| any place in the state.
MIR. TOWERS: Amending law in re-
lation TO the inspection OF illuminating
oils. Raises the test from 100 to 12O.
Mr.. SOUTHARD: Providing for the
collection of the just amount to be paid
where the tax proceedings have not been
in accordance with Law.
Mr.. NEWMAN: Relating to trials be-
fore district court without q jury and max;
and providing regulations for the same.
uOUsE BILLS PASSED.
Substitute for bill Nos. IS and IS, chang
ng the time for holding the annual meet
ing Of mutual insurance companies to
June.
Mr.. NEWMAN'S bill providing for the
better assessment of real aud persona
property in cities.
Mr.. LOHNES' bill amending game laws
BY allowing BRAT to be shipped out of the
state.
Mr.. SOUTHARD'S bill making appro-
priatiOn OF $500 or So much as may be nee
essary to pay for committee rooms and
other legislative expenses.
MIR. SIMPSONS bill defining the bOun.
darles Of the several counties III the stale,
Compilation committee Dill making verbal
changes, adapting law to the state instead
OF territory, On the passage of this bill
Mr.. Hangar asked unanimous consent to
amend H.. ip,artipr 1y,lIShnrN a. c,unt,
seat OF Trail county, but Mr.. Hurley re-
marked: Not by - Sight."or words
to that effect, ana the amendment was nol
permitted.
Mr.. COCHRANE: Authorizing adjourn.
ment OF district court by order made dur
Mr.. GOCHRANE's bill: Authorizing
Mr.. BILLIARDS DILL: Relating to the
levy OF taxes, their extension OF tax rolls
etc, being a compilation committee bill
revising the laws on this subject.
Mr.. WlNEMAN'S bill: Creating state
board OF auditors, consisting OF secretary
OF state, state auditor and attorney gen
eral. Provides for deposit OF funds i'll the
banks of the state: deposits not to exceed
assessed capital stock. Interest not less
than 3 per cent. nor more than 1 per cent.
to be paid on deposits. Maximum rates OF
interest fixed in order to protect legitimate
banks from unfair competition OF wildcat
banks.
HOUSE LOST.
Mr.. LOHNES' bill: To encourage the
live stock industry was indefinitely post
poned, a similar bill having passed the
senate, which will receive consideration
instead.
Mr.. JOHNSON'S bill: Amending gamt
laws.
MIR. BOYNTON'S bill: Relating to
boiler inspection.
UNORGANlZED TERRITORY.
There is a breez. that is not a gentle one
gathering daily greater force, on the ives
side of the Missouri river. Mr.. McGillivraS
introduced 4 bill in the senate known ii:
senate file No. 10, attaching u%norganizec
territory to the counties OF Stark and Mer.
Ger, the object being to reach for purpose:
Of taxation the herds of cattle which dr.,
kept in these counties. Yesterday petition:
were presented from Oliver county, one Of
the smallest counties in the state, askin!
that a portion OF this territory he attached
to Oliver county. but in order to effect thi
ii would be necessary to detach a portion
of Mercer county and attach to Oliver. bein,
a portion that Oliver county claims Shout,
have been attached to that county instea,
of to Stark two years ago. The petition
and the bill were referred to a specia
committee yesterday, and that committe
had not yet acted on the subject. Shar)
words had passed between the representa-
Mr.. COCHRANE moved to recall tn
bill from the special committee. Stains
that it had been before the committee Ol
towns and counties and had been unani
mously adopted by them.
Mr.. BURkHARDT said when this bill
came from the senate he examined it AM
found that it did not interfere with tn,
boundaries of Oliver county, which is il
his district, and so had no objection to tn,
bill, but later he received communication
and petitions and an neutrality-suspicious.
and communications cOuched in respectful
language-asking that a wrong b
wrIghted-a wrong which had closed t
them a vast u~norganized territory geo
graphically belonging to them-a wron,
Perpetuated through railroading bill
through BECAUSE The representatives dil
not attend to their business. The peopl
of Oliver county ask that this Legislative
body give them a respectful hearing and t
give them that hearing, the bill should b
left in the hands of the special committe
where it was placed yesterday.
MI. BENTLEY insisted that it was dis
| COuI CcouS " INlS COLulnltCee and TO tn
people who desired to be heard on the bill
to recall it in this manner from the CON
mittee before they had had an Opportunit,
to consider the bill, besides such action wa
unprecedented. II this was insisted upO]
he should move to commit the bill to
committee consisting of the senators an,
representatives from the districts west O
the Missouri.
Mr.. SIMPSON said the senator
and representatives from Starl
and Mercer counties were elected uDO1
this issue. The people desired to reach fO
purposes of taxation, the millions worth O
cattle in those counties, unorganiz.d
owned by persons or corporations in Paris
New York, Boston and other distant point
who called upon the authorities of Starl
and Mercer counties to give them the pro
lection of the laws and yet contributed
nothing in return. He detailed the diff
culties IN the way Of changing count,
boundary lines by a vote of the people anC
said the law of two years ago was PARTIAL,
defeated by cowboy votes. If the gentle.
man wanted to enlarge the boundaries O
Oliver county, let them take territory from
Morton, but they knew the people of HIOr
eon would oppose, and they certainly ough'
to know that the people of Mercer wOult
oppose a proposition to take from tina
county, and that to do what Oliver u
asks, would defeat the objects of this bill
He said the gentlemen from Burleipf
owned a tOwnsite in Oliver county and hi
interest in the bill was apparent.
MIR. BENTLEY said the county seat OF
Oliver county was named for him without
AnV solicitation nm hio wort AEn~.o,