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

motion. He said the state had been striv-
ing for some time to work under a prohibit
ton law. Convictions for infringing the
law cannot be secured because the penal
ties are too severe. This bill cuts down the
severity of the punishments. In the pro-
hibition law the provision requiring the
destruction OF innocent property is repug-
nant, not only to juries but to judges. He
believed it was time to provide a punish
msnt That was not r%epugnant to every one
verify Of the punishment for infringing
the prohibition law was a good thing. 1t
is dlStesteful to men to go to Jail.
SENATOR ROURKE was surprised and
amazed that a man OF the intelligence of
senator Burke should use the argument he
had urged. He insisted tllatthe only clause
in the law Of 1890, under which prohibition
could be enforced, was that which provided
Tor "lnJunctlOns and destruction of prop
erty. This proposed law would strike out
the clause providing for injunctions and
fsfsS1I'T r 5 S5f2sE!Y: favored The bill.
He pointed out defects in the present law,
and insisted that under this law blind pigs
could be closed which cannot be closed
now. He was as good a prOhibiti0nist as
there was In the state, and in the interest
OF prohibition he favored this bill. He
who had criticised him for his vote upon
the resubmisSiOn question, and urged that
this law be passed and thereby Wipe out
the blind pigs of the state.
SENATOR GREGORY replied to SEN
atOr DObie, and he said there was not a
blind PPiigger in the state who was respect:
able. The laws on the statute books should
De such laws as can be enforced. The laws
there today are not enforced, and that is
because the laws are too stringent. Cues
tions of selling liquor have gone to juries
in which there was no defense. and YER
diets of not guilty had been brought in,
and why? Because juries will not make
felons CT men for selling liquor.
SENATOR DOBIE delivered a ringing
speech in reply to everybody who had
talked on the other side.
SENATOR STEVENS said if it is true
that the prohipitory law is not enforced
because of the severity of the law then he
favored bill No. l6O. But the senator in
sisted that the reasoning was not correct.
He claimed that the destruction of property
is Just what is needed in the law.
The bill was indefinitely ~postponed-16
to 10.
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
Senate bill No. ITO (Hanscom): REIN
bursting messengers for expenses.
HoUsE BILLS PASSED.
House bill No. 4 (Svensrud): Cutting
down the personal property exemption to
$25 instead of 5000.
House bill No. 80 (%Simpson): Relating
to appeals to supreme court. ..
H MILITARY BILL. ~ =
House bill No. l2l (McLachlan): Amend
ing the military code. The bill was
amended by the senate committee n
Senator White advocated the adoption of
the amendments. The amendments were
then adopted and the whole matter was re-
ferred to the attorney general.
THE COUNTY BOUNDARY BILL.
SENATOR BURKE handed in a report
on correction OF journal which, if adopted,
would have the effect of %expunging from
message of senate bill No. so. Senator
Burke held that the message was not re-
ceived until after the senate had taken a
recess. Mr.. Burke moved the adoption of
the report.
The motion was ruled out of order on
the ground that the journal OF the legisla-.
tive day in question was not complete until
2 p. m. of Wednesday,.
A series of interrogatories and nswer
were then taken down by the stenographer
n ordered embodied in The journal.
These questions and answers developed
the fact that the message was received and
recelpted for by Assistant Secretary Smith
at 6:l5 p. m. of Tuesday, after the senate
had taken a recess.
The govern Or's record shows that he re-
ceived senate bill No. so at 4::25 D. IN. Tues
day and returned it to the senate at 6 o. m.
Tuesday. The senate adjourned at 6 b. M.
and the bill was delivered at 6:15.
Adjourned till 9 a. m. today.