St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-29
BILLS IN AT BISMARCK.
Very Few of Them, However, 4 re
at All Startling.

Very Few of hem. However, re
at All Startling.
BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 29.- Senator
Hillier's bill regulating warehouses aud
elevators on railroad right of way WAS
again referred to the committee on
warehouses. Valentines bill relating
TO petitions for the sale of intoxicating
liquors was amended to require 30 per
cent of the voters, and passed. The
resolution of Senator Dobie raising a
committee to report Oh ways and means
of relrenchment was adopted. Senator
La Moure desired to make the investi-
CATION retroactive.
Bills introduced: Senator Little. 10
prevent the spread of infectious dis
eases among animals. creating the Office
OF chief state veterinarian; by commit
zee, substitute reducing the amount OF
personal property exempt from taxa
ton; Lamb, repeating the wolf bounty;
Haggart, prohibiting contract labor at
the penitentiary; Young, repeating the
gross earnings tax; Enger, repeating
militia appropriation; Clarke, appro-
priating $4,000 for the promotion of
higher education. substantially the
Cashel bill of 49,
In the house: Hodgson's bill, re-
pealing the gross earnings tax, was
passed without dissenting voice. If
the bill becomes law it is claimed that
it will require the roads now paying a
gross earnings tax to pay Oh valuation
fixed by the state board of equalization.
Wineman'S bill, providing for the de-
posit of state funds, was passed. Ed.
wards, Hanna, Mclaughlin and Porter
voted no. The house also passed Neir-
ling's repeating law, requiring 80 cents
as fee Oh redemption from taxation;
Guinan's,. requiring railroads to keep
an agent at sidings where the freight
amounts to $4,000 per annum; Wines
mans. repeating the Newman act of
1883 relating to appeals from trials by
the court; Svensrud's bill extending
the time for paying taxes Of '94; HIPS,
to pay South Dakota for North Dakota
children III the reform school, and the
senate bill extending the boundaries of
Stark. Billings and Mercer counties.
Bills introduced in the house: Nc
Laughlin, regulating the practice of
dentistry; Wineman, regulating the
movement OF traction engines, re-
quiring planks for STRENGTHENING
on crossing bridges; Edwards, pro-
hibiting passes and reducing rates
to public officials, and providing
a penalty of $1,000 for giving and
loss of office for taking; Hanna. pro-
viding for loaning permanent school
fund on improved farms-limlts to one-
third of value, cannot exceed $1,000,
time ten years. one-tenth to be repaid
annually, rate 6 per cent; Rasmussen,
approprating $25, 900 for the state print
ing office. and providing for the election
Of state printer; Smith, reducing SAL
aries of employees of the legislature Is
to 25 per cent; Gunderson, providing
bounty of 81 per ton for sugar beets
grown i'll the state and delivered to the
factory.
In the house ninety-two bills have
been introduced. Thirteen of these
have passed. In the senate eighty-nine
bills have been presented, of which
only two have reached the governor.
III the Butler-Callahan controversy
over the office of superintendent of
schools of Cass county. Butler wins in
the supreme court. The penitentiary
investigation was delayed by the abb
sence Of the attorney general. There
fore there was M antiOn todaV