Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-03
THE LEGISLATURE.
A Complete Record of Several Days
Proceedings in Both Houses and
Notes on the Side.
Full List of Bills introduced by the
Various Members and Their Pur-
port and Object.
A Little Lobby Gossip Gathered Here
and There by the Tribune's Corps
of Reporters.
The Senate.

The Senate.
From Fridays Daily.
After a recess of a week, the senate re-
convened yesterday at the usual hour.
A number of the members were absent,
some of them detained by illness and
others engaged upon the committees to
visit the Saltwater penitentiary and to
confer with the Minnesota legislature
with regard to grain grading. All men,
bers were excused on motion.
The only business transacted by the
assembly was the introduction of three
bills, two of them of especial public in
terest. The bills were as follows:
Senate Bill No. SO, by Senator Luke.
Provides for a primary election law. The
bill provides that all county or city Of
ticials shall be nominated by the people
without the ~interposition of a nominal
ing convention and that delegates to
state conventions shall be selected in
the same way. The measure provides
that not less than ten days before the
fourth Tuesday in June the political
parties shall apportion the number of
delegates to the several counties. Prim-
ary elections shall be held on the fifth
Tuesday before the first date set for a
presidential nominating convention for
the election of delegates thereto, and on
the fourth Tuesday in June before the
date set for a state convention
to nominate state officers. Judges and
clerks of the primary election shall be
provided in the same manner as at gen.
eral elections and they are to be con-
Quoted in substantially the same manner
as general elections under the present
laws. Notice of the election shall be
given not more than thirty or less than
ten days before, and the polls shall be
open from a. ~. to 5 p. III. Not more
than forty or less than twenty days be-
fore the date set for a primary election
to nominate candidates for county or
city offices, any person eligible to the Of
flee to which he desires to be a candi-
date, shall present to the county auditor
a petition containing not less than five
per cent of the votes cast for the office
for which he desires to be a candidate
for nomination by the party he repre-
sents, and or the payment of a fee of $40
his name shall be certified by the county
auditor on the primary election ballot.
The same procedure is had in cases of
election of delegates to state v
lions, except that the fee is $3.50.
The names are then arranged
on an official ballot for the primary cleo
ton and the ballot is prepared by the
county auditor and voted for by all per-
sons having the qualifications of cleo
tors at the general election. The vote is
to be canvassed by the same canvassing
board that canvasses the general election
returns and the persons receiving the
largest number of votes shall be the NOM
ines or delegates as the case may be.
Senate Bill No. SO, by Mr.. Arnold,
Provides that a tax of two-fifths of a mill
shall be levied against all the property
in the state for the creation of a fund
for the state university in lieu of an ap-
preparation and shall be paid by the
treasurer to the board of trustees.
Senate Bill No. 60, by Mr.. Arnold.
Temperance commissioner bill. Provides
that the office of state temperance COM
missioner shall be created and be filled
by the governor by appointment, for
a term OF wv years at a salary Of $1,000
a year and actual expenses. The COM
missioner is to have charge of the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law in all
parts of the state and to give a bond of
S5,OOO for the faithful performance of his
duties. He is vested with the powers of
states attorneys and attorney general
and may file information against vio-
lators of the law with these officers or
make the prosecution himself. He is to
appoint as many deputies as he may
deem necessary who are to receive 1856 a
month, or So a day when employed for
less than a month. The governor, attorney
general and ssate auditor are to audit
all bills of the temperance commission
er's office, and they are to be paid out
OF the temperance commissioner fund,
which is not to exceed $1,000
a year from the state
treasury together with such fees as are
paid into the Office under the law. The
bill also takes the granting of druggists
licenses from the county Judge and
places it in the hands of the district
Judge, but applications for permits have
first to pass through the Office of the
temperance commissioner, who records
the applications and then files them
with the district judge who sets a date
for hearing of the application, at which
time the temperance commissioner shall
have informed himself of the representa-
lions of the applicant and recommend
or contest the application as circumstan-
ces warrant. All permits existing ex-
Pire within ninety days within the TAX
ing effect of the law and must be re-
neWed in the manner provided.
The bills were read and referred and
the senate then adjourned until today.
The House.
At an early hour yesterday morning it
looked as if not enough members had
come in on the early train to make a