Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-02-28
RAISED A RuMPus.
Bank Depository Bill Sent to
: House Before Passed by
the Senate.
Pen. Investigating Committee
Find Allegations Un-
supported.

$4,000 Dollar BOND AppTO-
priation Bill for Asylum
Passes Senate.
BISMARCK, Feb. 26.-There was GEN.
sation in the house this afternoon over
the bank depository bill. The bill was
eut by messenger from the senate with
out having been passed. An investiga-
tion has been ordered. It was claimed
that it was clerical error and the bill
recalled.
BISMARCK, Feb. 25.-The penitentiary
investigating committee handed in its
long looked for report to the senate
, today. The charges against the warden,
and reflections on the trustees. are found
to be without foundation. The report
ssys that y thorough examination OF the
charges and the witnesses was made, a.
we'll a. of the management OF the peni-
tentiary for the last four years. A slngu-
lar statement of the report is that the
afidavits, on which the state examiner
made his charges, were made by five
persons, whose names are given. They
reside in or near Bismarck. and are Jas.
DIETRICH, T. Lennlhan, D. Donnelly, Jno.
Wray and Tim O'Conpor. They we're all
subpenaed and the report states in no
slnRle case did the testimony of any of
these men before the committee sustain
IN any degree whatever the allegations
contained in their afhdavlts." The pub.
lie examiner is not wholly blamed for the
charges, as he took the OK. Parte state
ments as true. He should, says the COM
mittee, have more thoroughly investigated
the case and laid it before the attorney
general to have the officials removed, If
guilty, before publishing it in his report.
The committee recommends that the
parties making the atfidavits be prose-
cuted for perjury. The conduct of the
penitentlary has been found, by an ex-
animation OF vouchers and other evi-
dence, as entirely satisfactory and the
warden, Clark Haggert, the board and
all concerned. fully exonerated OF any
charge of malfeasance of office brought
against them.
Senator LaMoure mas introduced q
bill to provide an historical commission
for the state. The society is to gather
historical information, to have room at
the capitol, aud no appropriation. The
governor, auditor, secretary and preei-
dent Of the society to constitute the
same.
Senator Burke introduced q bill in.
tending to regulate the voting OF Fort
Totten indians to some extent by
defining what the severing OF their tribal
relations meant-whlch is required t0
become voter. When an Indian is no
longer under control of an Indian agent
or chief he is SAID to have severed hie
tribal relations. There is probably not
an Indian on the reservation who would
give up his rations to vote.
Senator Clarke bill, No. SO, providing
for system of higher education, passed
also Little's veterinarian bill, No. 81
alec senate bill 13S, determining the
southern boundary of North Dakota. II
merely accepts for the state the govern
ment survey.
The senate thistle bill, l25, passed
with an amendment allowing western
counties to have tirebreaks made with
out consent of owners OF land; and
another including "French weed" The
appropriation bill on this subject, grant
ing $4,000 for determination OF the
thistle IS not likely to pass. The Other
bill is the one drawn by the JOINT thistle
committee aud the provisions have been
given in The Alert before. The bill IL
carefully drawn, is complete exposition
on the subject of cactus annihllatiop
and gives special powers to county com.
missioners to handle special noxious
weed. The bill to loan school funds on
farm lands came up and was indefinitely
1r,l To- 0oSontoA n
loaning funds on farm lands in such
counties as Billings where the equalizine
board figures it worth So cents an acre
In Dickey and Burleigh counties the
lands are not worth much while IN the
Red River valley they are. No money
vet has been realized for the eale o1
school lands west OF the eighth guide
meridian.
The dog license bill was tabled; the
bill preventing the use OF free passef
lost; the reduction of the militia appro
pristion from Sl1 900 to $1,000 also lost
and the bill amending the military code
vetoed.
A new bill to reduce the equalization
board to three members was introduced
BY Prosser Of Ramsey. It makes the
governor, auditor and attorney general
members, and does away with the ap
pointive members.
Representative Nierling introduced q
resolution to pay Messengers Boyntou
and Strong go each for conveying pack.
ages to and from the printing Offices.
Logan wants the Bismarck bridge
assessed, and condemned in . resolution
the equalizing board for not doing %.
There have been 48 house clerks en-
ployed mp to Feb. Is. Total compensa
ton $500.
The attempt to repeal the irrigation
commissioners Law was champi0ned by
Winemsn, but the bill was referred. Tht
Law has many staunch supporters, to-
the good the department can do at
ANAL cost.