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

larger counties; fixing salaries of
clerks of courts; making the sheriff
sealer of weights and measures; pro-
viding for the establishment of public
scales; fixing the number and cOmpen-
sation of legislative employees; creating
a county board for the purpose of pur-
chasing printing! supplies; making the
state oil inspectorship q salaried office
$4,000 year; providing for the ap-
pointment of conservators for drunk
ards and spendthrifts.
The house defeated the bill to fix 3
cents a mile as the maximum passen-
ger rate in the state by vote of 80 to
II.
Speaker Baker was presented with
the chair in which he has presided
during the session, the day being his
fortieth birthday, and a resolution was
passed expressing the confidence and
esteem of the members of the house,
to which he responded gracefully.
The following house bills were passed
by the senate and go to the governor
for his approval: Providing for publ
cation of election returns by precincts;
regulating orphans home; fixing sal
aries Of county auditors; authorizing
the payment OF extraordinary expenses
of prosecutions of tie attorney general
from the genera! fund of the state;
governing reinsurance; providing for
joint maintenance of poor farm by
counties and fir casinty apportionment
of 2-mill state tniIicn tax.
Senator Greet i;i..roG.'ced a concur
rent resolution anpropriat ing $500 for
the state regiment st iJanila, which
passed the senate and is in the hands
of the house for consideration. At the
present time about fifty senate bills
and thirty-five ho~se bills have passed
the two houses. and the total number
of laws made at the session will reach
not far from one hundred, The total
number of bills introduced is about
four hundred. About the only matter
Of interest before the assembly is the
report Of the committee investigating
the Glaspell charges, and this is prom
Used by members of the committee for
tomorrow.
The senate killed the bill changing
the location of the state fair from Man
dan to Valley City. Lakes primary
election bill, abolishing all conventions
and providing for nomination Of all
officers directly by the people. was also
killed in the senate, as was the house
bill reducing tie maximum contract
rate of interest to 10 per cent. The
governor to-day signed the following
oils: Fixing salary Of supreme court
reporter at $1,000 annually; appropri-
ating $4,000 for the state insane hos
pital; appropriating $4,000 for the
state penitentiary; appropriating $4,000
to pay expenses OF the state exhibit at
the Omaha exposition, and the apprc-
priations for tie deaf school at Devils
Lake, the Valley City normal school.
the Mayvilie normal school, agricul-
tural college, soldiers hc;ne, repairing
executive mansion, state university de-
tciency. state Industrial school and the
two-fifths mill tax for the state uni
versity-
Bismarck, n. D.. March 3.-The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges against Judge Glaspell yester-
day afternoon filed it's report with the
house. The report made no recon-
mendations and merely stated the pro-
cedures and filed the testimony for the
consideration Of the house. The re-
port was ordered printed in the jour
nal and will be considered as special
order tomorrow. The report accom-
panying the testimony is as follows:
Your committee have to the best of
their ability confined the investigation
to the prayer of the petitioner, namely,
the newspaper report given herewith.
All witnesses presenting themselves
have been examined under oath and
their testimony is hereto attached and
made a part of this report. together
with the correspondence between the
committee and the petitioner. Your
committee have to the best of their
ability studiously avoided the bringing
up of any matter not contemplated
by their appointment. None Of the in
formation contained in this report has
been given to the public because in
the opinion of the committee it would
result in injustice to the petitioner to
have the same printed and commented
upon until the same could be con-
sidered in it's entirety, thus avoiding
inference and conclusion that might
be drawn when only a part of the mat
tiers the committee was considering
were proven to the public. Your COM
mittee make no recommendations as
to what action the house should take
in relation to the subject of this re-
port for the reason it is beyond the
scope of authority given to them by
the house in their appointment as your
committee understands the same
"Your committee begs leave to fur
Their report that after having taken the
testimony aforesaid, which was given
by witnesses who voluntarily ap-
peared before the committee, the pc
titioner's attorney was informed what
the testimony in support of the verac-
ity Of Peter p. Pearson was, he being
before that time in possession of what
the balance of the testimony had been,
and was asked if he desired to have
further evidence taken and whether or
not Judge Glaspell would appear be-
fore the committee. He informed the
committee that he had not and that
Judge Glaspell would not appear as a
witness. The committee accepted no
testimony except that of witnesses
who appeared before it and testified
except the report of Public Examiner
Langlie. hereinbefore set forth, for the
reason that it believed an ex parte af-
fidavit is not such evidence as should
convict or acquit a person charged
with an OffenSe and that injustice