Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-09

which permits the loaning OF moneys
of the permanent school funds on farm
lands, of which already $115, 600 has
been loaned, was killed in the house.
The estray BILL changing the system of
advertising estray animals taken up,
and abolishing the publication of es-
tray notices, was another recommend
ed for indefinite postponement. The
house also knocked out the appropria-
ton for the Mandan fair and trans
ferred the appropriation of $500 an
nually for a fair ut Valley City. The
bill for the payment by counties of the
expenses of the eXtradition of GRIMM
ais was recommended to pass by the
house. The following bills We're passed
by the house: Requiring the building
of US by railroad companies on order
of the railroad commissioners; for the
creation Of a county board to purchase
supplies; fixing rates for the storage
of grain in elevators; providing for the
destruction Of grasshoppers, for the
payment of the expenses of the attor-
ney general in prosecutions from the
general fund; regulating the building
of platforms by railroad companies;
providing a penalty for concaaling es-
trays or defacing brands; granting
threshing machine liens for repairs.
Senate bills passed reducing the min
imum price of school lands to SIS an
acre; providing for the expense of adj
vertising and selling school lands and
for an appropriation to pay the eXpens-
es of clearing titles to lands mort
gagged to the state under the farm loan
law.
Bills introduced in the house: VOL
bert. for the appointment of conserva-
ton for drunkards and spendthrifts, to
have the powers of guardians; Laugh
lin, to repeal the law creating an Off
cial estray paper; McHarg, to require
proper care of cesspools and sewers
Bills introduced in the senate: Han
ma, providing for the study of foreign
languages in the public schools at the
request Of a majority of the patrons;
committee on appropria provid-
ing $500 for the purchase of a thirty
acre farm for the penitentiary: Laid
law, providing school terms: Arnold,
deciding eighty acres of land owned by
the state fair association ut Grand
Forks to the state university; Hegge,
to prevent trespass of animals.
The senate appointed n steering COM
mittec consisting Of MeSSrs. Little, La
Moure, Hanna and Twitchell. to select
for immediate action those measures
that are deemed the most important.
Bismarck March Another scalp
was taken by the senate yesterday
that of the Twitchell bill to provide for
the assessment of personal property in
the state at its true value. The bill
provided heavy penalties for assessors
who returned property for less than
they had reason to believe it was
worth, for owners who listed their
property in that fashion and for boards
of equalization that permitted property
to be equalized at figure lower than
its real valueT The bill was defeated
16 to IA.
The house put in nearly the entire
day in committee of the whole. The
principal matters of interest before
the body were two railroad bills. One
of them provided for the liability of
railroad companies for personal injury
to an employe through the negligence
Of a fellow servant, and was recon-
mended to pass. The debate occupied
several hours and earnest arguments
were made pro and con. Representa-
tives Allen, Wolbert and Tousley
championed the measure. claiming the
present law of the state was unjust
and unfair to railroad employees, while
Representatives Stevens, Wallace and
Thomas argued against the bill as a
discriminating liability against the
railroads. class legislation and not q
fair measure. Another bill recon-
mended to pass by the house was the
Deisem bill providing for q maximum
passenger fare in the state of 3 cents a
mile. The bill was agreed to he fa-
vorably reported after a brief debate.
Two other bills that provoked warm
debates were those to provide for the
calling of a judge from one district to
another upon the simple affidavit of
prejudice by client and his attorney.
The bill is aimed to reach judges in
certain districts in the state who. it is
claimed allow their personal preju-
dices to warp their legal Judgment in
the trial Of cases
Representative Thomas of Richland
county. arguing for the bill. stated that
he had in mind a Judge in the state
who could no more render fair de-
ciSiOn in case in which he had a per-
sonal prejudice against one of the eli
ents than he could go to heaven. The
bill was reported for passage.
Another squabblc arose over the bill
providing for terms of the supreme
court at Fargo and Grand Forks in adj
dition to Bismarck, the seat of govern
ment. Representatives Of the Red riv-
CT valley argued for the migratory
court, claiming that the greater part of
the litigation came from the valley and
it was unfair to compel litigants to
come to the state capt.. | to try their
cases. The bill was passed by the
house and goes to the go 'ernor.
The senate passed the following bills:
Prohibiting the sale OF cigarettes or
the smoking of them in public places
by persons under eighteen years of
age; fixing the compensation of JAM
tors and doorkeepers at 81 a day; au-
thorizing the purchase of thirty acres
Of land for Il penitentiary farm; to
transfer eighty acres of land fran the
state fair grounds to the university at
Grand Forks; for the issuance of 500
600 bonds for the soldiers home at