Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-01-24
STATE LEGISLATURE.
NORTH DAKOTA LAWMAKERS AND
THEIR WORK.
The Proceedings of Both Branches
of the Legislature, Arranged nnd
CONDENSED I'm Convenient Form for
Rapid Reading.

! Rapid Reading.
Bismarck, N. D.. Jan. 16. - In the
senate a committee was appointed to
investigate the matter of the reform
school contract. The attorney general
announced that he had secured re-
straining order preventing the reform
school board from taking further ac-
ton.
Bills introduced in the senate: Ar
mold, providing that chattel mortgages
must be renewed within three years,
not within a time limited to twenty
years as now; Strom, providing for
the condemnation of sites for ware
houses OH railroad rights of way:
Plain, having the effect to make the
cost of destroying Russian thistles
and other noxious weeds a lien on
land; Haggart. appropriating. 500. 100
for the agricultural college; White,
$4,000 for the normal school; Fuller,
Wishek, regulating the fees Of county
surveyors; strom. prohibiting officers
and employees of state institutions
from being interested in contracts;
McGillivray, dividing unorganized
counties in the western part of the
state between Mercer, Stark and Bill
ings counties. with view of taxing
herds of cattle in the Bad Lands and
reaching the railroad lands for taxa
ton. The senate concurred in the
house resolution to send committee
to confer with the Minnesota legisla-
ture in order to harmonic the laws Of
the two states with view to reducing
grain and coal rates. Senator Hag-
CART presented a resolution calling on
the auditor and treasurer for esti-
mates Of probable revenues, expenses,
etc., of the state with view to cut
ting appropriations to fit the financial
condition.
Bills introduced in the house: Tof-
stend, requiring quarterly statements
to be published by the state and coun-
ty auditors and treasurers, including
receipts and expenditures; Sharpe, de-
filming the duties of states attorneys,
and fixing the salary at $500 for TO-
600, 500 Tor each additional 1000,
but limiting at $4,000; Simpson,
changing the boundaries of western
counties in accordance with the bill
in the senate; Guinam, requiring an
agent to be kept at railroad sidings
where freight receipts are $4,000;
Wineman, prescribing a form for
bonds issued by the authority of the
state; Hogan, fixing the responsibility
for the default of company employees
or employer in case of damage, also
providing for the publication of the
price Of wheat and insurance. freight,
cost of shipment to Duluth Or Su-
perior and Liverpool; Rasmussen, re-
pealing the law fixing coal rates.
Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 17.-The SEN
ate committee reported bills granting
the governors office a stenographer
and reducing the salary of railroad
commissioners to $1,000; also Senator
Haggart's resolution for adjournment
Feb. %, and Mr.. Titles amendment
raising the debt limit. An amendment
extending penitentiary investigation
to cover four years was adopted. Bills
introduced in the senate: Little, ap-
propriating 75,1O0 for a penitentiary;
Dogs, $51 400 for a school for the deaf;
Bourok, $4,000 for a soldiers home;
being bills which passed the house
last session, but failed to reach the
senate; boy, reducing the closed sea-
son to game and protecting against
pot hunters and sportsmen from other
states; Valentin, providing for free
text books; Bourke, repeating the act
creating courts of Cancellation; boy,
providing separate ballot box for wo-
men voting on school matters; Stew
ems, requiring railroads to keep the
right of way clear from grass and
weeds liable to distribute fire; Hans
com, prohibiting license to reach to
persons not citizens unless they have
resided in the United States one year.
In the house of representatives:
Logan, for free and uniform text
books; Hill, making labor day 1agal
holiday. Messrs. Brainerd, Colby,
Svensrud, Brown and Purdon were ap-
pointed members of the joint commit
tee on Russian cactus with McCarten,
Valentine and Bourke of the senate.
Messrs. Little and Burke are the SEN
ate committee to confer with the Min
nesota legislative committee on grain
and coal rates. Senator Haggart has
learned that the railroads in North
Dakota have practically granted Far
20 and Grand Forks distributing rates,
placing these cities on the same foot
ing as the Twin Cities in that re-
spect. Numerous letters were re-
ceived from Fargo asking for copies
of the Edwards-Irons freight bill,
ella ming that it should be examined
by Fargo business men if in their in
terest.
Bismarck, N. D., Jan. Is. - Among
the bills lost sidetracEed or stolen
during the last legislature was the
substitute for the Mclean warehouse
| bill. 1t passed both houses and
reached the governor on the last night
Of the session. but did not have the
signature of the lieutenant governor
and therefore failed to become a law.
1t was hotly contested throughout. 1t
provides for the condemnation of
warehouse sites on railroad right of
way. ,rhe measure has been intro
known as senate file No. 10.
Another important measure required
railroads to provide platforms for the
shipment of live stock or grain at sta
tons, with the object of relieving ship
pers from elevator monopoly. This
it's passage on it's way from the SEN
| introduced by Senator Strom and will
Senator Haggart's resolution to adj
Journ Feb. % was practically beaten
I, by q motion to defer consideration un-