Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-01-31
The Paramount Editor Virtually Ne
comes Lieutenant GOvernoF-1t,s IA
10 Thought That Gov. Nell
son Will Resign thc VA
GOvcrn0rshlp Soon.
LAW MILLS OF THE xoRrAwEsT.I
Proceedings In the Minnesota, Wiz.
c0nSin and the Two Dakota
I.e8lslatureS. ss

ate to elect president pro teH 49,
once. This was q straight tip thatN,
before the senate meets again, Mon
day evening, the lieutenant governor III
will be governor, and Knute Nelson
free to assume his duties in the sem
ate ut Washington on March 4. AZ
move was made by several senator's
who are opposed to the election ofSs
Senator Day, to postpone the voting,#
but this was not successful. Senator
Yale made motion that the business
of election of a president pro tenn De-
made special business Of Tuesday,,
but this was thwarted again upon it
being stated by the president that that
date was too late. Upon vote being
taken SO voted for Senator Frank AL
Day of Martin and II for Senator
Barr of Blue Earth. Mr.. Days cleo
ton was then made unanimous.
President Day then assembled the
desk and thanked them for the high
honor conferred upon him. No one
knew so much about parliamentary
usage but what he could learn more,l
and he asked their forbearancc. He
should be conscientious and treat all
with courtesy, and trusted that the
session would be a pleasant one. 5s
Six financial measures were intro
duced by Senator Wyman to straight.
en- out the finances Of the state in all
the departments. Probably the most
important Of these was a bill approprf-
ating $25O,000 to pay the revenue and
building bonds of the state now due.
There were two bills making appro.9
priations for the payment of the sal
aries of supreme and district court
{v,Eyo ~, se NHnnl
been short, and there is now a $68,-
600 deficiency in their salaries. The
second was an appropriation of $137;-
appropriation for their future salaries.
A third bill in the same line simply
orders the state auditor to draw his
warrants for the deficiencies in these
two bills. Still another transfers the
surplus in the school text book fund
to the general fund. In relation to the
$4,000 additional appropriation for
the salaries of the supreme and dis
trict court judges, it may be stated
that the old law makes an annual APP
| has long since become too small,
through the increase in the number Or
! district judges. so the legislature has
been obliged at every session to pass
deficiency bill. The addition Of the
$137, 900 to the standing appropriation
will do away with the necessity for
the biennial deficiency appropriations.
Senator Pottgeiser introduced his
long lool1ed-for liquor license bill. Itj
is sort of high license, local option
measure, providing that the minimum
license shall be $500 in cities Of To-
! 600 or more inhabitants, and provid-
ing that the councils of these cities
may make the license as much higher
as they see fit. 1t is expressly pro-
vided that the bill shall not in any
way ir terfere with the operation of lie:
local option law.
The House. Ss4ssI
In the house Representative Staples
introduced a series Of joint resolutions
directly aimed at the taking Of tim
Der from mineral lands under mineral
leases and contracts, and they were
unanimously passed under suspension
of the rules. The state has been de-
frauded Of two millions of feet Of val
liable pine by the Vaccinations OF
certain cliques of men operating under
the law allowing leases and contracts
| to be made for mineral lands, and
the action of the resolutions, If they
i become law, in Immediately stopping
the further issuance of such leases iu
the auditors Office will preserve to-
Minnesota extensive tracts of pine
land yet untouched, but which these.
| operators are now scheming to denude
of its forest growth.
Mr.. Staples introduced joint reso-
luton calculated to hold up the miner
al leases until the legislature can act
upon some Of the recommendations OF
the pine land committee with regard
to changes in the laws. The resolution
prohibits the auditor from issuing any
more permits upon timber or mineral
lands until the legislature has disposed
Of some of these bills, which will be
introduced shortly
Wisconsin,.
| Madison, Wisconsin, January d..
| There was a number Of new bills
introduced in the assembly this morn-.
ing, among them being those allowing
counties to establish joint warehouses
| for the inspection of stationary steam
boilers, for the purchase outside the
city limits of land for the isolat ton of
contagious diseases; providing for the
selection Of all jurors by commissions
ers instead Of by county boards; Inn
posing a license for companies operat-
ing palace cars in this state, and maxi
ing the fare charged by the 500 line
cents per mile. Several bills We're re-
ported Cor indefinite postponement BY
assembly committees, among them the
one prohibiting the employment of
Pinkerton men in this state. ;sS
In the senate a number of new bills
were introduced. among them the one
appropriating $4,000 for monuments
of battlefield of Ch:camaGua In mem-
DRY Of Wisconsin soldiers. Others re-
lated to the licensing of plumbers, re-
ducing the salaries of the employees
in the offices of the railroad and in-
surance commissioners, and for the
care Of insane by Incorporated VILLAGES
| and cities. But few reports were male
by committees. The assembly resolu-
ton calling. for n statement of state
finances when the new administration
came In was passed with dissenting
votes of the Democratic senators.