Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-15

lies, and the personal property tax is re-
duced One-half in his county.
SENATOR SrROM'S amendment was
lost.
of an amendment striking out the repeal
ing clause.
The bill then passed.
HOUSE.
The house met at 2 p. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
PETITIONS.
/ BY Mr.. HANNA: Remonstrance from
Page and Rochester against house bill
No. 9.
BY Messrs. NIERLiNG, McLachlan,
Ray, against resubmissiOn.
1t was Mr.. Tyler who presented the 500
petition from Fargo in favor OF resub mis-
sion.
THE A. INCOL COMMITTEE.
Messrs. NIERLING and Cooper were
appointed to investigate the charges
against the Valley City Normal school
professor, who is charged with traducing
the name of Lincoln.
THE GAME BILL.
Mr.. TWICHELL'S game bill was re-
ported favCrably by the house committee.
Ito llC1lloC lCdLuICo w llUb Apply W Ouc
hunting on his own premises.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. RINDE'S clerk hire bill was inde6-
nitely postponed.
Mr.. HANNA'S sheep growers bill, lost
yesterday, was revived on motion to recon-
slider by Mr.. Lindstrom, and was recon-
mitted.
THE CAPITAL COMMISSION.
Mr.. COOPER offered a concurrent reso-
luton to give the capital commission an
~uneXpended balance of $704.68 Tor their
services, the governor, auditor and secre-
tary of state of the last administration, be-
lug the proposed benefciarles. Mr.. Cooper
said they had done their work well, had
spent much time and had incurred some
expense.
Mr.. WINEMAN opposed. If it was nee
esSary to increase the salaries o. these Of
ficers he was in favor of doing it by law,
not by a resolution giving them mex
pended balances. They had only lone
their duty.
anything, and he thought this ought to be
given them as a premium. He was sur
prised that they did not hold on to it when
they had it. He believed they had per-
formed their duties honestly and faith
fully.
The motion was lost, % to q.
Ill INTRODUCED.
Mr.. PROSSER: House bill No. 148; ap-
propriating IS, 1000 annually for the salaries
and expenses OF the state land department..
Mr. RICHARDS: Authorizing board of
| prison trustees to use cOnvictS in making
brick for public improvements.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Mr.. EDWARDS in the chair.
THE DIVORCE BILL.
Mr.. WINEMAN'S divorce bill was taken
up for consideration under its special order,
He said North Dakota is the only state in
Union where a divorce can be obtained in
three months after coming into a state to
gain a residence. One can come into the
state married, and after a short residence
OF only three months depart in a state of
single blessedness. This law was all right
in territorial times, when only three
months was required to give all the rights
OF citizenship, but now it requires one
years residence to ATTAIN a legal residence.
He noticed in a Chicago paper divorces in
three months advertised with instructions
to inquire at the Sheridan house. Bismarck,
and noticed that the arrival at Fargo of a
count from Cuba had been heralded
throughout the land. The divorce laws
are strict enough in all other features. and
require no other amendment in other re-
spects, but it is in this matter Of residence
that the fraud comes in. Notice to non
residents is published in some obscure cor
ner of 4 newspaper, and it is easy enough
to forget their former address and send the
paper where it will never reach the de-
PENDANT. In nine cases out of ten the de-
PENDANT has no notice whatever of the ac-
ton. He called attention to the cOrrnnt
practices of attorneys at Grand Forks. and
to the fact that some had been debarred
and others suspended, and said no matter
how able and true the judge may be he
was sometimes imposed upon by corrupt
attorneys. He spoke of Judge Templeton
and his fidelity to justice, and vet
mat was not enough 10 protect. He
read from an associated press dis
patch Of the recent action Of a Chicago
court in holding the Durham divorce IN
valid for the reason that she went to Da-
kota wholly for the purpose of obtaining
divorce. not to become a bOnafide resident
and commenced an action here while one
was pending there.
After various efforts to move this bill il
was left on its third reading without orders
for engrOsSment.
RESUBMISSION.
Various points of order were raised with
a view to warding off the vote on resubmis-