Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-24
The House.,

The House.
The house met at 2 o'clock with Mr..
Sargent as speaker, pro tenn.
Prayer was offered by the chaplain.
The committee on state affairs re-
ported favorably the bill providing for
the destruction of grasshoppers-
Thomson's.
House Bill No. 81, providing for the
payment of a special wolf bounty tax of
one-half mill was recommended to pass
with amendments, limiting the tax to
the years 1899 and 1900.
House Bill No. 164, providing for ad-
ditional qualifications of members of the
legislature was indefinitely postponed.
The bill provides that no member shall
sit who has docketed against him $1,000
judgments unsatistied.
The committee on temperance report
ed the anti -cantcen resolution with tech
nical amendments.
The committee on elections and priv
leges% reported House Bill No. So, prohib-
iting sale or gift of firearms to minors,
with amendments providing for sale or
gift in casa of consent of parents or
guardians, with recommendation to pass.
MI. Stevens moved that the bill be re-
ferred to the committee on printing. He
said he did this because he wanted to
kill the bill. He was against it. The
bill finally went back to the judiciary on
an amendment of the first motion.
The committee on public lands re-
ported favorably on Senate Bill "a,
authorizing the charging of certain fees
by the commissioner of school lands.
House Bill 40, prescribing method of
investment and fixing liabilities of coun-
ties, was recommended to pass. The
bill is the Thomas bill. perfccting the
method of making loans on farm lands.
The committee on railroads reported
House Bill 1873, defining liabilities of
companies for personal injury, with a
recommendation for indefinite postpone
ment and the bill was killed. The pro-
visions are covered in a previous bill.
House Bill AZ, covering the same sub
ject, was recommended to be indefinitely
postponed, a minority dissenting and the
bill went to general orders.
House Bill 1Sl, to enable the substitu-
ton of papers destroyed by fire was re-
ported favorably by the judiciary COM
mittee.
Mr.. Stevens explained that the pro-
bate records of Burleigh county had
been burned and it was the object of the
bill to enable them to be replaced. The
bill was placed on its final passage and
passed.
Senate Bill 124, for the curing of dc.
fective acknowledgements was reported
favorably.
Senate Bill 121, relating to titles of
real property was reported with slight
amendments.
Senate Bill No. lis, appropriating
funds to pay school land drain benefit in
Pembina county was recommended to
pass.
Senate Bill No. lO7 and Senate Bill No.
SO, for peddlers' license, also House Bill
No. lib, fixing terms of court in the
Fourth judicial district, were favorably
reported.
Senate Bill No. ID, making unknown
parties defendant in certain actions, was
indefinitely postponed, the house having
acted on q similar bill.
House Bill No. Z, making incurable in
sanity grounds for divorce, was recon-
mended to pass by the Judiciary com
mittee, with amendments, and went to
general orders.
The Joint committee on charitable in
situations recommended an emergency
clause to the Sanford bill, providing
means for the erection of additional
buildings at the state asylum.
The report of the joint committee on
grain inspection was filed and 500 extra
copies of the journal with the printed
report were ordered placed at the dis
posal of the members.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
House Bill No. 1873, by Mr.. Reste-
mayer: Amends the law with relation to
tax sales.
Substitute for House Bill No. As, sub
stitute for text book law.
House Bill No. 169, by MI. Stevens.
Provides for purchase or maintenance of
water works by cities and limit rentals.
House Bill No. 100, by Mr.. Allshouse.
Provides that all public printing be done
by established printing houses in the
state. Violation of provisions a misde-
meanor.
House Bill No. 1911, by Mr.. Wolbert
Provides for consecutive numbering and
recording of all vouchers presented to
the state auditor for services.
W BILLS PASSED.
House Bill 100, Stevenson's requiring
burial of animals dying from diseases.
Substitute for House Bill SO, ameud-
ing the law fixing the salary of register
of deeds.
House Bill 14S, relating to township
road tax and road work. Poll tax to be
paid in all cases where township has
adopted contract system. Notice was
given of a motion to reconsider.
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