The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-03-04

weeds; for the collection Of real taxes
by action and regulating the appoint
ment Of deputy officials.
Senator La Moure voted against the
appropriation for the agricultural col
lege when the bill was reached In the
senate order of business, and explained
his vote by the statement that he con
sidered the president Of the college un-
fit for the position. He said that
Worst, while lieutenant governor Of
the state, when first appointed presi-
dent Of the college, had drawn a salary
Of $500 from the state during eight
cen months OF his term and a salary Of
$4,000 from the government ut the
same time. The state constitution pro-
hibited the holding Of anyNother posi-
ton by the lieutenant governor, and he
thought that Worst should either re-
turn the salary he drew as lieutenant
governor or the one he received from
the government as president of the ex-
perimental station. Senator Twitchell
warmly defended Worst, stating that
he was entitled to receive the salary
from the government and that If the
Pembina county senator wanted q
house-cleaning on the matter he could
get it. Twitchell moved the appoint
ment of q committee to investigate the
charges made against Worst, and the
motion was carried. No committee has
yet been appointed.
The senate passed the bill fixing a
camp ground for the state guard at
Rock Island, lear Devils Lake. The
bill requiring all sales of liquor by
druggists to be upon prescriptions of
physic'ans was indefinitely postponed.
Bills introduced in the senate:
Shape, regulating the laying out Of
highways; Ames, providing for the
equitable apportionment of debt where
school corporations are divided; Coop
err, providing that county judges in
counties having over 1000 inhabitants
must be practicing attorneys; judiciary
committee, to authorize the clearing Of
titles to lands on which moneys have
been loaned from the permanent school
fund.
Joint memorials were also introduced
for a system of federal grain inspec-
ton and for the teaching Of the Span
ish language in the university at
Grand Forks.
Bismarck. N. D.. Feb. 25.-Another
Investigating committee of five was
appointed in the senate yesterday to
investigate and report as to the
charges of Senator La Moure that
President Worst. of the state agricul-
tural college, had drawn two salaries,
one from the state while holding the
o. .ce of lieutenant governor, and an
&xlo~ f,,o, <h0 ~0rornr M ont xvy1oiln oovsv
ing as president of the college. The
Ames, Cox, Cooper and Laidlaw.
were disposed of, being reported by
and passed under suspension of the
governor and, Us they have been
ures approved by him, they will be APP
proved and n of the vexed questions
confronting every legislative assembly
will have been disposed of easier than
ever before in the history of the state.
AS finally passed, the appropriations
for the institutions for the ensuing two
years aggregate about $325,OO0, aside
from the mill tax for the university,
which will reach about $50, 600 for the
biennial period. The house reconsid.
cred its action on the bill to reimburse
those who contributed funds for the
state exhibit at the trans-Misstssippi
exposition and passed the bill with but
two dissenting votes. The bill carries
an appropriation of $4,000 and reim-
burses those who made individual con-
tributions. When the bill was passed
by the senate an item to refund 5000 to
President Hill, Of the Great Northern,
was stricken out. The house reinsert-
ed this item and also M of 500 to
Col. w. III. Robinson. the members pro-
posing to make no determinations In
refunding contributions. Other impor-
tant measures passed 10y the u
we're:
For the issuance of bonds for the SOL
diers' home; providing for the appor-
tiOnment of the 2-mill tuition tax by
county superintendent instead of by
the state superintendent; ~appropriat-
ing funds for the use Of the commits.
sioner of agriculture in the promotion
of immigration to the state; making an
appropriation Of $4,000 for a contin-
gent fund out of which the governor
may pay extraordinary expenses that
may arise.
The house also passed the senate bill
making the salary of the reporter OF
the supreme court $1,500 annually, In
stead Of So q volume for his reports.
The senate passed the following
house bills, which 60 to the governor
for his Approval: Providing for the
construction of dams across running
streams for purposes Of irrigation; the
anti-tramp law, making beating OF pas
sage on trains q mfsdemeanOr. The
senate bills passed were:
Authorizing the creation of improve
ment districts for the construction OF
pavements anu sewers in cities; pro-
viding for the calling In Of another
Judge in civil cases where prejudice 10
alleged against a trial Judge; providing
for a constitutional amendment per-
Uniting the location Of a school for the
feeble minded at Grafton; for eniarg.
ing the corporate limits of cities. n
an amendment of the general city gov.
eminent law. -1
Bills introduced in the senate: To
permit the division of civil townships
to reimburse persons who suffered loss
In certain leasings of school lands; an
amendment to the constitution regu..i
lating tine method of payment In pur.
chase of state school lands.
The house committee on state affairs
recommended for passage the blu