Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-08
N DAY.
SENATE.

FIFTY NINTH DAY.
VI SENATE. @
Senate convened at 2 p. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
THR POLITICAL CODE.
SENATOR LAMOURE gotin an amend
ment fixing the license fee for hunting at
so cents after Aug. LIST, and $25 prior to
that time.
SENATOR WHITE secured the in ser
ton OF chapter 1876, laws of 1890.
SENATOR ROURKE moved to strike
out the house amendments which provide
that the school treasurer shall handle
funds instead of the county treasurer.
SENATOR STROM spoke against Sena-
tor Rourke's amendment.
SENATOR BURKE said under the old
law there was machinery provided defin-
ing the duties of school district treasurers,
and that has now all been done away with.
The law would be left in bad shape.
SENATOR ROURKE Withdrew bis
amendment.
SENATOR GREGORY secured an
amendment to the effect that if the leasing
of school lands in certain counties will not
realize enough to pay for advertising the
notices will be posted.
Also an amendment making all taxes
due on Dec. LIST and delinquent on June
LIST; also making a discount of l per cent of
all sums paid within fifteen days after the
same becomes due, and One-half of l per
cent if paid within thirty days of Dec. LIST.
SENATOR HANSCOM secured an
amendment putting back the abstract of
title business into the hands of register of
deeds.
SENATOR HITLER secured an amend
ment to the states attorney salary bill,
having the effect of cutting down the
Walsh county states attorney by 5000 from
the sum fixed by the code.
SENATOR STROM tried to get an
amendment so as to list personal property
in May instead of April. He commended
that it was against the farmers interests.
wheat assessed: wheat in elevators would
not be taxed under the code, because they
would ship it out ahead of April l.
SENATOR GREGORY said the farmers
were hard to please. The time had been
changed to April l to please them, and now
SENATOR STRoM's amendment was
SENATOR SiTROM secured an amend
ment adding s'prOmiss0ry notes, mortgages,
etc" to taxable property.
SENATOR GREGORY tried to secure
the striking out of section 578-a provision
making n precinct OF each incorporated
city. This was Major Edwards provi-
sion.
SENATOR RoURKE supported the pro-
vision.
The section remains.
The code then passed by 80 to 1-SenatOr
LaMOure voting nc.
Tho oonoto did pof ooro,,r IN tho h0uco
amendments to Senate bill No $50 (pro-
viding $1,000 for expenses for the COVER
nOr's mansiOn). The house cut the figures
to $500. A conference committee was ap-
pointed.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
House Bill No. 14O (McDonald): Making
an appropriation to pay Nellie Mcdonald
for labor as clerk for commissioners of
railroads. The bill passed without suffi-
Gent votes to carry the emergency clause.
House Bill No. las (Hanna): An act to
of North Dakota.
HI VETO MESSAGE.
SENATOR LAMOURE moved that the
! senate proceed to consider the veto mes
sage of the governor OF Senate Bill No. SO.
SEQATOR BURKE made SOM remarks
opposed to sustaining the veto. He claimed
that when the governor vetOes a bill the
senate has a right to reply to the argu.
ments OF the governor. He desired to call
attention to the message. He did not believe
the governor had studied the subject care
fully or he would not have had so many in
constituencies in his message. The governor
claims that Senate Bill No. "a covers the
ground, and the political code also covers
the ground. i s9,,why did q not ths governor
No. "a was before the senate the senator
questioned its constitutionality. The
changing of county lines must be done,
under the constitution, by general law, and
cannot be done by Senate Bill No. "a. The
provisions of the constitution demand Of
the legislature that it shall pass a general
law for the changing of county lines. Is
Senate Bill No. "a such a law? This law
only refers to the counties of Stark, Mercer
and Billings. Our own supreme court has
passed upon this question in the Trail
county case. The senator quoted at length
four various authorities sustaining the
portion that n ate Bill No. "a is unconsti-
tutiOnal.
SENATOR McGlLLIVRAY made a
speech fav0ring the veto and brought down
the house with his earnestness and elO-
quence.
The veto was then sustained by a vote of
Is to 8.
TULLER DISCUSSED. =.
SENATOR WHITE was not satisfied
WIN Attorney General COWanS reply 10
questions put to him as to house bill l2l.
Questions that had been put to him as to
whether a man over As years of age could
hang on to the supply department. were
not answered and Senator White wanted
these questions answered before the bill is
passed. His motion to defer the bill was
lost by a vote of s to 16.
The salary of the keeper of supplies was
cut down to 500 a year in lieu of all other
salary or emOluments. House bill 12l then
passed.
Recess was taken to Q a. M.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS.
Action was deferred till 2::SO p. m. today.
after some discussion, on the house concur
rent resolution calling on the railroad COM
missioners to compel the Gseat Northern
railroad to carry coal at the ans rates
charged by the Northern Pacific and 500
railroads.
The resolution calling for $4,000 from
congress for irrigation purposes was con-
CURED in.
HOUSE.
The House met at 10 a. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.