Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-03-04

cipal Of the deaf and mute school.
The senate appropriations committee
introduced bill suspending the mill
tin law of the state until 1890. Other
senate bills introduced: Little, amend.
ing the constitution, raising the debt
limit to mills; Hanna. amending the
constitution authorizing investment
Of permanent school fund IN war.
rants.
In the house the rules were sus-
pended and Speaker Williams resO'
luton authorizing Supreme Court
Judge Bartholomew. Attorney General
Cowan and Secretary of State Falley
to adjust unpaid taxes with the North.
ern Pacific Railway company now III
dispute, was passed. The balance OF
the session was taken up by Mrs
Judge Bartholomew discourse on
the subject of cruelty to animals. AT
the close of her remarks a bill grant.
ing her police and other powers was
passed.
| Bismarck. \. d.. Feb. 2G.-A surprise
was sprung on the prohibitionists III
the house by the Introduction of a re
submission bill by Ryan of Grand
Forks. TWAS thought that the Ques'
ton was dead for this session when
the house adopted Speaker Williams
resolution ten day; ago declaring in
favor Of Il prohibitory law. The me,
mortal to congress introduced by MIR
| Speaker Williams praying that the
| government stop the issue of liquor
licenses in prohibition states was lost
on tie vote.
In the senate Tufts, Hanna and Wi.
shek presented petitions favoring the
passage of the Iowa railroad law,
which has already passed the house.
Strom introduced Il bill relating to lin
iting crop liens. The senate passed
bills appropriating $500 for plating
and leasing school lands; revision OF
game laws: amending Oil inspection
and providing penalty for sale of illu-
| minating oils below test.
The house passed a concurrent reso-
luton requesting the railroad commits
sioners to enforce the rates made by
them on Ignite coal; also bills rela ting
to compensation of officers for return
| Of fugitives from Justice; prescribing
| conditions upon which surety compa-
nics may do business in the state; pro-
| viding for special jury to assess the
damage under the law of eminent do
main; preventing the taking of a great
er rate of interest after note or other
! evidence of Indebtedness becomes due;
| new primary election law. Murphy s
bill providing for a wolf bounty of So
passed the senate. Wood of Grand
Forks introduced Il bill abolishing the
seventh judicial district. which was
created by the last session of the legis-
lature.
Bismarck. \. D., Feb GA concur
rent resolution amending the constitu-
ton and abolishing the railroad COM
mission was killed in the house-49 to
IL. The house passed bill preventing
all trusts from doing business in the
state, also the bill revising the election
laws OF the state and enacting the Min
nesota law on this subject. Lind
stroms bill repeating the Edwards
law defining the word precinct" in the
constitution to mean an incorporated
city provoked warm debate between
Lindstrom and Cole Of Cass. who OPP
posed the bill. House bills introduced:
Providing for the cuttin gof weeds on
public highways; memorial to congress
relating to the tariff upon articles man.
ufactured by trusts; relating to method
of loaning money by building and loan
associations. The committee ON ways
and means introduced bill cutting the
salaries of all county officials II per
cent. KorslEo introduced Il bill re-
lating to evasion of the law prohibit
ing the sale Of Intoxicating liquors. 1t
makes participation in the passage Of
an ordinance to license "blind pigs" q
misdemeanor. Haggart's senate bill
prohibiting the use of convict labor in
manufacturing articles in competition
with labor, passed the house.
The senate recOnsidered the bill pre-
scribing the salaries of clerks in the
state offices which was defeated yes
terday by 4 tie, and after an hours
wrangling settled on the following APP
preparations: Governors offices. $3.50;
secretary Of state, $500: treasurer,
$1,000; auditor, $500; attorney gen
eral, $500: superintendent of public
instruction. $1,000; commissioner of in
surance, 81, 100: commissioner Of agri-
culture and labor, $500; secretary Of
railroad commission, 500. This leaves
] the figures about as they We're Two
years ago. The bill cutting the salary
of the land commissioner to 81, 500 was
passed. Arnold's bill making extensive
changes in the educational laws was
passed; and also the bill cutting the
salary Of the supreme court reporter
$500 per year. Creels bill permitting
military companies to build armories
and eXempting them from taxation
was passed with a changed title. The
house had cut off the exemption clause
on the ground that it was unconstitu-
tional. The title now makes an ar
| mory a sort of educational institution
and the bill will now go through. The
bills introduced in the senate were, by
Geen. appropriating $4,000 for the le-
form school at Mandan, and by the re-
! trenchmen: committee making the
president of the agricultural college OK
otficio superintendent Of irrigation and
| forestry.
Pleasant for Farmers,
Mason City, Iowa, Feb. % - The
Northern Iowa Retail Implement and
Vehical association has just organized,
including dealers in thirty-tive coun-
ties The purpose of the organization
is to make the business more profit
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