Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-02-23

fifth assembly, and If passed by the
senate will be submitted at the coming
election. The house also passed the
following bills:
Fixing the date. of annual township
meetings; providing for the granting Of
right of way by municipalities to tele
graph companies; for the creation Of
new school districes; increasing the
penalty for Sabbath breaking; for the
creation of new election precincts; reg
ulating the salaries of county auditors
and clerks of county courts.
In the senate the concurrent resolu-
ton for reduction Of the minimum
price of school lands to So an acre was
indefinitely postponed on recommends
ton of the committee. Senator POr-
ters proposed amendment providing
for taxation of grain in elevators was
recommended to pass by a majority Of
the committee, and the minority de-
sired higher limit of the tax rate.
The majority report was adopted. A
resolution was adopted testitying to
the fidelity and worth of Ma. Frank
White, of the North Dakota troops at
Manila, and commencing him to the
president for appointment in an official,
executive OF advisory capacity. The
senate passed the following bills: Fix
ing the dates for terms of court in the
Second judicial district; providing for
the teaching of physical education in
the public schools; amending the me-
chanics' lien law. The following bills
We're introduced:
Ames, providing for the government
of orphans homes and for the regula-
ton of deeds to land sold for taxes;
SanDorn, providing salaries for county
judges having civil and criminal juris-
diction; McGillivray, providing for the
duties Of the state fish commissioners
and appointing fish wardens; McDou-
gal, amending the law governing the
salaries of clerks of the district court
and OF county judges; McCanna. to
make provision for the purchase OF
tools and machines for road work
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 17.-The tenn
perance commissioner bill, in which
the Prohibitionists Of the state are
deeply interested. had a narrow es-
cape from coming to an untinely end
in the senate yesterday. The bill was
reported back from the committee on
temperance and with it substitute
measure offered by the committee in
its stead. The amendments to the
original bill We're so numerous that the
committee decided to formulate new
bill, covering the changes the principal
of which arc the reduction of salaries
and number of deputies to be en-
ployed in the enforcement Of the pro-
hibition law. When the bill was re-
ported there was parliamentary Skin
mish over the adoption of the report,
and Senator LaMoure finally moved
that the original bill be indefinitely
postponed, since the committee had
recommended substitute.
The motion was carried by the SEN
ate and it was not for some minutes
that the supporters of the bill realized
that the indefinite poStponement OF the
original bill prevented any further con-
sideration of a similar bill covering
the same subject for the present scs-
sion. There was no disposition on the
part of the opponents of the measure
to take an unfair advantage. and the
motion to indefinitely postpone was
afterward eXpunged from the records
and the substitute bill regularly intro
duced and referred.
Both house and senate adopted the
anti-Roberts resolution.
The house committee disposed Of q
large number of bills. covering no very
important matters, and passed two
bills by Halel for Il sinking fund and
interest tax in school districts; and by
the committee, amending the law fix
ing the salaries of county treasurers.
A resolution to pay the jantors and
r, Of Jn hn,1 70,
81 day was defeated by the house,
but will be RECONSTRUCTED.
The bill to require foreign building
and loan associations to deposit tax
able securities to the total OF 100000
With the state treasurer before doing
business in the state was amended to
S25.UO0, and has passed both houses.
The house cOncurred in the proposed
amendment to the constitution permit
ting investment of permanent school
funds in county and municipal bonds.
Bills introduced in the house We're:
Delsems. by request, providing that no
person shall be a member Of the legis-
lature against whom there are unsat-
istied judgments docketed equaling
$500; Gronvled, for a uniform form Of
real estate mortgages; Touslry. regu-
lating orphan societies; Stevenson, pro-
viding for highways TO ferry landing;
Swenson. permitting building of eleva-
tors or warehouses on railroad right of
way without permission Of the COM
pany by giving bond to insure mninte-
nance of such buildings, and insuring
payemnt Of fair rental; Allen. provid-
ing for collection of special assess
mcnts by county trcaSurers: Sanford,
authorizing the issuance of $4,000
bonds on the lands of the insane asy-
lum, to secure funds for the erection
of new buildings; Bacon. regulating
the printing of public documents; and
Thomas. governing the investment of
permanent school funds.
The senate committee on appropria-
tons reported a number of appropria-
tons as stated in yesterdays reported
agreement The initiative and refer
endum was reported back without rec
ommendation, and the bill providing
for holding terms Of the supreme court
at Fargo and Grand Forks was re-
ported to pass with amendments that
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