Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-02

school funds in county or municipal
bonds; licensing peddlers; providing
for q tax for fire protection in the
building o fire breaks by counties; fix
ing boundaries and terms of court in
the Second judicial district.
The house passed the bill requiring
teachers to keep a record of visits of
county superintendent as check on
bills for mileage in visiting schools, and
defeated the bill for the publication of
quarterly financial statements Of coun-
ty auditors and treasurers, whose pas
sage was requested by the state press
association. Speaker Baker appointed
Messrs. Wallace, Wolbert and Stevens
as a legislative steering committee to
select and urge those measures that
demanded first attention as the session
draws to a close. A Substitute bill pre-
sented to the house by the committee
on education proposes an entire read
justment of the method Of apportion-
ment of the 2-mill stase school tax,
amounting to hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually. The bill proposes
that all funds raised shall be appor-
toned by county superintendent in
the counties where collected, to be ap-
portioned generally through the state.
The senate passed the La Moure bill
providing that the provisions of the
new divorce aw requiring twelve
months residence shall not apply to
any case in which the complaint is
filed prior to July. Other bills passed
were: 10 pay Leck & Leck $500 for
work on the agricultural college, and
to require counties to pay the expenses
Of extradition of prisoners. instead of
payment by the state. Bills introduced
In the senate We're: Luke. providing
military instruction in public schools;
Arnod governing the issue of bonds by
cities.
In the house the bills introduced
were: Chacey, amending the herd law;
Allen, authorizing church corporations
to hold 100000 worth of property.
The senate committee has reported
favorably the bill to create a perma-
nent encampmcnt ground for the state
militia near Devils lake.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 24.-The ap-
preparation bills passed the senate to-
day without change from the recon-
mendations of the committee and were
at once messaged to the house, by
which they were referred to the COM
mittee on appropriations and will be
passed practically unchanged within a
few days. The house DEBATED the bill
proposing Il state board of boiler in
spectors. Representative Sargent Of
fered bill providing for the appoint
ment of q special commissioner to in
vestigate reported violations OF the
laws in towns, cities OF counties where
the laws are not enforced. The bill is,
in effect, another temperance commits
sioner measure, although it is general
in it's provisions. The governor is re-
quired, upon complaint of citizens, to
appoint a special agent to investigate
and his evidence is to be reported to
the attorney general. by whom prose
clltionS are to be conducted. The bill
appropriates $4,000 for the salary and
expenses of the agent and as no appro-
priation bill can be introduced after
the fortieth day without unanimous
consent, a member requested that the
bill be printed, but reserved his right
to object to it's Introduction. The gov
ernor approved the bills establishing a
twinc plant at the state penitentiary.
The senate bills that have been APP
proved and become laws are:
Appropriating $500 for the payment
of reward to Sheriff Shier of Emmons
county for the capture of the Spicer
family murderers; increasing the sal
airy OF chaplain to So Il day; providing
| that the revocation Of an attorneys
license is forfeiture of office; enabling
the grantee of real estate to recover
from the grantor expenses of removing
a cloud from the title and the concur
rent resolution for the issuance OF
$50, 900 certificates of Indebtedness.
House bills that have become laws
are:
Enabling school districts to make a
tax levy for sinking fund; permitting
the appointment of permanent chap
lains at the state penitentiary; making
all warehouses public warehouses; ap-
propriating $4,000 annually for public
printing and providing for the republi-
cation OF the Revised Code.
Seven senate and ten house bills
have so far become laws. Bills intro
duced in the house yesterday:
Dwyer, providing for the issuance Of
$4,000 bonds ON the lands of the state
soldiers home; IcHarg, regulating
challenges of jurors, summons OF wit
nesses, qualifications Of Jurors and
payment of witnesses in certain cases;
Glasgow. general libel law; Bacon, pro-
viding for the redemption of real prop
erty sold for taxes.
Bills passed by the house: Establish
ing sire liens; permitting the transfer
of pupils from one school district to
another; governing the appointment of
sheep inspectors; governing orphan So
cieties; authorizing the lease of school
lands for the clearing of noXious
weeds; for the collection of real taxes
by action and regulating the appoint
ment of deputy officials.
Senator La Moure voted against the
appropriation for the agricultural col
lege when the bill was reached in the
senate order of business, and explained
his vote by the statement that he con-
sidered the president OF the college I'M
fit for the position. He said THAI
Worst while lieutenant governor of
the state, when first appointed presi-
dent of the college, had drawn a salary
of $1,000 from the state during eight
cen months Of his term and salary of
$4,000 from the government at the
same time. The state constitution pro-
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