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

J. V1Alle0 WeEG pdH9GUss LUIS passed tho
nth assembly, and II passed by the
senate will be submitted ct the coming
election. The house also passed the
following bills: '-f
Fixing the date of annual township
meetings; providing for the granting Of
right of way by municipalities to tele-
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 a reduction of the minimum
price Of school lands to SIS an acre was
indefinitely postponed OH recommends
ton OF tie committee. Senator POr-
ter's proposed amendment providing
for taxation of grain in elevators was
recommended to pass by Il majority of
the committee, and the minority de-
sired higher limit of the tax rate.
The majority report was adopted. "A
resolution was adopted testifying 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 or 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:
Amcs, providing for tho 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. 1.-THE tenn
perance commissioner bill, in which
the Prohibitionists of the state are
deeply Interested, had Il narrow es-
cape from coming to an untimely end
in the senate yesterday. The bill was
reported back from the committee on
temperance and with it a substitute
measure offered by the committee in
it's stead. The amendments to the
original bill were so numerous that the
committee decided to formulate a 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 a parliamentary skir
mish over the adoption of the report,
and Senator LaNloure finally moved
that the original bill be indefinitely
postponed. since the committee had
recommended a 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 Il similar bill covering
the same subject for the present ses-
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
afterwalu 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, coverin. no very
important matters, and passed two
bills by HAZEL for sinking fund and
interest tax in school districts: and by
the committee, amending the law fix
ing the salaries of county treasurrrs.
A resolution to pay the jantors and
doorkeepers of the house and senate
81 day was defeated by the house,
but will he rcconsidered.
/ 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
$4,000. and has passed both houses.
The house concnrred 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:
De1sems, by request. providing that no
person shall he member of the lcgis-
lature against whom there are unsat-
isfied judgments dockcted equaling
$500; Gronvied, for q uniform form OF
real estate mortgages; Tousley. regu-
lating orphan societies; Stevenson. pro-
viding for highways to ferry landing;
Swcnson,' permitting building of eleva-
tors or warehouses GU railroad right OF
way without permission of the COM
pany, by giving bond to insure mainte-
nance Of such buildings. and insuring
payemnt OF fair rental; Allen. provid-
ing for collection of special assess
nlents by county treasurers; Sanford,
authorizing the issuance .: $4,000
bonds ON the lands of the insane asy-
lum. to secure funds for the election
Of new buildings; Bacon, regulating
the printing of pubic documents; and
Thomas. governing the investment Of
permanent school funds.
The senate committee on appropria-
| lions reported a number of appropria-
tions as stated in yesterdays reported
| agreement. The initiative and refer
endIm was reported back without rec
onlmendation, and the bill providing
for holding terms Of the supreme court
at Fargo and Grand Forks was re-
ported to pass with amendments. that
suitable places for holding such terms
should he furnished without expense to
the state.
The Porter resolution providing for
the taxation of grain in elevators was