Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-01-17

reIHseQ At lI2 ceuCe pei PouHu
and q higher price paid for
beef from the warden's ranch; that the
warden used convicts to herd his cattle
and make hay for them; in building
sheds and cleaning and fixing up around
the ranch; that prisoners were used lo2
days days o,, in putting up +ho nay y,;.on IN
but that the warden purchased for that
year sixty six tons, which was all the hay
needed for the prison stock; that in o.
tober, 1892, one guard and three pris-
oners we're employed on the warden's
ranch Two months; that $500 was paid
for a team worth only $3.50; that S76.5O
too much was paid for buggy and har.
ness; that 1856 was paid for rubber hose
in st. Paul on which discount of Is per
cent was obtained but not accounted for;
that several hundred dollars was realized
to the members of the board on account
OF $100 per ton for pipe purchased and
10 per cent for hydrants.
| SOMETHING OF AN ELEPHANT.
One of the dubious questions is what
is to be done with the report of the com
pllation commission. It makes stack
Of typewriter paper about eighteen
inches high, there being $500 pages, of
which about one-third is printed matter,
clipped from the old compiled laws. It
| is estimated it will cost about $500 to
print as bill, which must be done as
soon as it is introduced. The constltu-
ton requires that all bills must be read
in full at least once, and another ques
ton Is when ard how this is to be done.
1t would not be safe to skip the reading,
for some lawyer might attack the consti-
tutlonality of its passage and knock it
ont It has been suggested that the
two houses might meet in the same hall,
arrange for members to be present on
relays so that a quorum would be
always on hand, and keep on reading all
night until they got through. If the
clerks could read a page in minute
and keep it up at that rate they would
dispose of sixty pages en- hour, and it
would take forty-two hours to get
through.
There are some members who favor
the printing of the new compilation as a
bill at this session. but deferring all ac-
tion upon it until two years from now,
in order to allow the lawyers and people
of the state to become familiar with the
changes suggested, so that the defects,
if any, can be pointed out and amended.
One or two legislators have suggested
that new commission should be ap-
pointed to revise the work done by this
one; but this suggestion does not seem
likely to meet with favor, the present
commission being recognized as good
lawyers and straight men, even though
not republicans. AS far as their pay
ment is concerned any action the legis-
lature may taks cannot affect it, as the
courts have already decided that ques-
tion in the case of former commissioners
The senate committee has reported
bills granting the governors Office a
stenographeE, and reducing the salary of
the railroad commissioners to 81 600:
also Senator Haggart's resolution for
Adjournment Feb. %, and Llttle's
amendment raising the debt linit An
amendment extending the penltentiary
investigation to cover four years was
adopted, also resolution by White for
Il oHlmitlee from districts not having
public institutions, TO visit the state
university, the agricultural college. the
normal schools and other public institu-
tions. and investigate and report the
number OF students, course of studies,
! etc.
The senate adopted a resolution for 8
| Joint session on the occasion Of the
funeral Of Mrs. Hansbroush with applo-
pirate ceremonies.
SENATE BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Little of Burleigh, appropriating
| $4,000 for the penitentiary.
BY Day of Ramsey, appropriating
s5l, 400 for the Devils Lake school for
the deaf and dumb; also reducing the
closed season TO game and protecting
against pot hunters and sportsmen from
other states; also providing a separate
matters.
BY Valentine of LaMoure, providing
for free text books.
BY Rourke of Ransom, repeating the
act creating courts of Cancellation; also
appropriating $4,000 for the soldiers
home at Lisbon.
By Strom of Traill, detiringthe duties
Of clerk, fixing compensation, ETC., being
the bills that passed the house last ses-
sion but failed to reach the senate.
By Stevens of Dickey county, requlr-
ing railroads to help to keep the right of
way clear from grass and weeds liable to
distribute fire.
BY Hanscom Of McHenry county, pro-
hibiting license to teach to persons not
citizens unless they have resided in the
United States one year.
HOUSE BILLS INTRODUCED,