The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-02-24
The LEGISLATURE

THE LEGlSlAT URE
mali.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 10. = There
will be no further session until to-mor-
row, to-day being legal holiday. The
sessions Saturday were again uninl-
portant. Under twenty members Of
the house were present and that body
adjourned without quorum. In the
senate no business was transacted be-
yond the Introduction of bills and q
few committee reports. The commit
tee on game laws reported favorably
the bill Of the joint committee, provid-
ing amendments to the present game
law.
Ellis introduced were: Amos, for the
proctice of physical culture in public
schools; relating to punishment pro-
ceedings in justice court, and McDou-
gall, making an annual appropriation
Of $1,000 for the annual firemen's
tournament. -..
When the two houses reconvene this
week will commence the business pc
riod of the session. The temperance
commission bill will be reported; the
bill for taxation of express companies
and telegraph lines; the report of the
committee on state institutions will be
filed, and the appropriations commit
tee will make it's recommendations Of
amounts for the different public insti-
tutions. based upon the present pros
poets for money available for its pur-
pose.
Bismarck, n. D.. Feb. 15-The leg
islature rcconvened yesterday. None
of the more important measures came
up in either house. The house re-
ceived the report of the oil inspector,
which was called for by that body
just prior to adjournment in connec-
ton with bill introduced by the COM
mittee an state affairs to make the
office salaried one at $4,000 annually
instead of conducting it on the fee sys-
TEN. The report showed total num-
Der of $4,000 barrels of oil inspected in
1897, and approximately $1,000 barrels
inspected in 1898. At an average of
l. cents barrel for inspection. which
fees of the office the last year would
be between $4,000 and $1,000.
The house had a long discussion in
to increase the penalty for Sabbath
ularly before the legislature through
increase of the present penalty, which
is 81 fine. The bill provoking the dis
c0ssion made the fines to range from
81 to $40 at the discretion Of the courts
and was finally recommended to pass
by the committee. The discussion of
the measure was warm. many men,
bers arguing that it would give an op-
portunity for the more enthusiastic adj
vocates of the law to harrass farmers,
whom necessity might compel to work
on Sunday. Halc's bill to take the APP
portionment Of the school poll tax lev
led on all electors in the state from
the hands of the state superintendent
and place it with the county auditors
provoked another extended discussion
and was not acted upon. Kennedy's
bill to prohibit the use of repeating
shotguns in hunting game in the state
was indefinitely postponed.
The senate passed the following
bills: Providing for lien upon thresh-
ing engines and separators for work
in rcpairing; authorizing the commits
sioner of school lands to charge fees
for making records: providing for the
levy of annual tax for the building and
maintenance of fire breaks. The SEN
ate also passed the house bill declaring
all elevators public elevators, but af-
forwards reconsidered the bill and
made it n special order for Tomorrow.
Bills introduced in the house:
Thomas. prohibiting the use of dogs
in hunting prairie chicken; Brakk,
amending the mechanics lien law;
Erickson, prohibiting the sale of fire.
arms to minors; Peterson. amending
the law relating to the Cling of deeds
or mortgages: Hare, providing that
butchers shall keep n record of brands
on hides Of slaughtered animals; Yuft,
amending the law relating to the care
of poor strangers: Alshouse, providing
for the redemption of real property
sold at tax sales; Clarke, providing for
poundmasters in unorganizeu town.
ships; McHarg, providing for the re-
demption of real property sold at tax
sales.
In the senate the bills introduced
were:
Marshall. creating the Office Of state
dairy commissioner and regulating the
sale of aduiterated foods: McCana, con-
current resolution for the conserving
of the supply Of water in Revils lake;
Porter, requiring long-distance tele-
phone companies to form connections
with Local exchanges where lines inter
ce>t; Marshall, making an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the Industrial school
at Ellendale; Arnold, appropriating
$500 for the expense of a geological
survey of certain portions of the state;
Arnold. appropriating the proposed tax
of 2-5 of mill on the dollar for the
support of the state university.
Bismarck, n. D., Feb. 1G.-Thc house
passed the senate resolution for the
sale of $15O,OOO of certificates of in.
debtedness to secure funds for the es
tablishment of a state Irvine plant al
the penitentiary and the house commit
tee bill providing for the establish
ing the plant and comforting the neces
sary authority on the board of trus
tees. The bills were passed with little
debate. Representative Wallace op
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