The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-03

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bill be printed, but reserved his right
to object to it's Introduction. The gov
ernOr approved the bills establishing a
Irvine plant at the state penitentiary.
The senate bills that have been ap-
proved and become laws are:
Appropriating $500 for the payment
of reward to Sheriff Shier of Emmons
county for the capture of the Spicer
family murderers; increasing the sal
AIRY of chaplain to So a day; providing
S15O,O0O certificates of Indebtedness.
House bills that have become laws
are:
I Enabling school districts to make Il
tax levy for sinking fund; permitting
the appointment Of permanent chap
lains at the state penitentiary; making
all warehouses public warehouses; ap-
propriating $4,000 annually for public
printing and providing for the republi-
cation of the Revised Code
Seven senate and ten house bills
have so far become laws. Bills intro
duced in the house yesterday:
Dwyer. providing for the issuance of
$4,000 bonds on the lands of the state
soldiers home; McHarg. regulating
challenges of jurors, summons of wit
nesses. qualifications of jurors and
| payment of witnesses in certain cases !;
| Glasgow, general libel law; Bacon, pro-
viding for the redemption of real prop
erty sold for taxes.
| Bills passed by the house: Establish
ing sire liens; permitting. the transfer
of pupils from one school district to
another: governing the appointment of
sheep inspectors: governing orphan so
cietieS; authorizing the lease of school
lands for the clearing of noXious
weeds; for the collection of real taxes
by action and regulating the appoint
ment of deputy officials.
Senator LII 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 UNI
tit for the position. He said that
Worst. while lieutenant governor OF
the state. when first appointed presi-
dent of the college, had drawn Il salary
of $1,000 from the state during eight
cen months of his term and salary of
| $4,000 from the government at the
same time. The state constitution pro-
hibited the holding of any other 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 en-
detrimental 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 Il
| hOuSe-cleanin% on the matter he could
get it. TWitchell moved the appoint
| ment OF Il 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, near Devils Lake. The
bill requiring all sales of liquor by
druggists to be upon prescriptions of
physicians 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
er. 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 We're also introduced
for Il system of federal grain inspec-
tion and for the teaching of the Span
ish language in the university at
Grand Forks.
Bismarck. y. D.. Feb. 25.-Another
Investigating committee of five was
investigate and report as to the
charges of Senator La Ioure that
President Worst. of the state ayricul-
tural college. had drawn two salaries.
one from the state while holding the
o.. ce of lieutenant governor. and an
other from the government while serv-
ing as president of the college. The
committee consists of Senators Sharpe.
Ames, Cox, Cooper and Laidlaw.
The institution appropriation bills
We're disposed of, being reported by
the house committee on appropriations
and passed under suspension of the
rules. The bills will go at once to the
governor. and. as they have been
passed without changes from the fig
ures approved by him. they will be :lp-
proved and one of the veXed questions
confronting every legislative assembly
will have been disposed of easier than
ever before i'll the history of the state
AS finally passed. the appropriations
for the institutions for the ensuing two
years aggregate about $685. 600, aside
from the mill tax for the university.
which will reach about 100000 for the
biennial period. The house reconsid-
cred it's action on the bill to reimburse
those who contributed funds for the
state exhibit at the trans Mississippi
exposition and passed the bill with but
two dissenting votes. The bill carries
IN appropriation of $1,000 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 one of 500 to
Col. w. H. Robinson. the members pro-
posing to make no determinations in
refunding contributions. Other impor-
tant measures passed by the house
| We're:
For the issuance of bonds for the sol
| diprS' home. nrOyidinr for the amor