The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-03
THE LEGISLATURE
Proceedings of North Dakota's LAW
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Bismarck, Feb. 20.-The senate passed
both bills is assured, and steps will be
taken at once for the disposal of $780,
| OOO of certificates of Indebtedness, af-
ter which the trustees of the peniten.
tiary will proceed with the erection of
building and the establishment of
plant. The senate also amended the
printing appropriation bill to provide
for the printing of code, revised from
the edition Of 1895, with changes up to
date, to be completed within six
months, and the amended bill was
passed by both houses. The capitol
maintenance bill was passed, providing
IN appropriation of $4,000 annually, a
reduction Of $1,000 from the house bill.
The appointment Of trustees for the
blind asylum and the state Industrial
school were confirmed by the senate
in executive session, and the substitute
for the temperance commissioner bill
was recommended to pass by the COM
mittee and will come up for final action
early in the week. The senate passed
the following house bills, which go to
the governor for his approval: Cover
ing collections of penalty and interest
Il
appropriating $4,000 annually for
public printing defining territory to he
| organized into school districts; making
all warehouses public warehouses; pro-
viding for mortgaging of real property
| Of deceased persons by administrators
| on order of county court: prohibiting
certain form of reinsurance; providing
for appointment of regular chaplain ut
the state penitentiary.
| The house passed the Allen bill pro-
viding for the building of sewers in
cities by the creation of improvement
districts. The bill will enable fargo to
build a much-needed trunk sewer
Stevens bill, the Scent passenger fare
bill, was reported to the house without
recommendation and will be disposed
Of in committee of the whole. San
| ford's bill for the issuance of $4,000
bonds of the lands of the insane asy-
lum for the erection of new buildings
was recommended to pass. The senate
wolf bounty bill was amended to make
the bounty 50, to apply to all classes of
wolves.
The following bills were introduced:
Diesem, to permit the crossing of
bridges with pipes by water companies;
Taylor, to settle disputes Of county
boundaries; Hale. providing for the
payment of any extraordinary eX-
penses of the attorney general in the
prosecution of cases; Towle. authoriz-
ing the railroad commissioners to en-
force the building of "Y's" by railroad
companies; Lee. making it Il misde-
meanor to put out strychnne or poi
sons except for destruction of gophers;
Dyer, making it Il felony to conceal an
estray animal or deface or alter Il
brand; Laughlin, making it misde-
meanor for any collector to resort to
intimidation or threat to collect bill.
and prohibiting the employment of a
collector in delinquent tax cases; Ste
vens. to enable substitution of records
destroyed by fire: Dougherty. regulat-
ing the appointment of officials depu-
ties; Laughlin, appropriating $500 a
year for the principal musician of the
regimental band and 500 for troops
of cavalry and batteries. in addition to
arnory rent; Erickson. for the levy of
q tax of twO-fifths of a mill for the pay
ment of bounty of cents OH gophers.
and Sanford, to enable highways to be
constructed across railroad right of
way.
Senator Creel introduced in the SEN
ate a bill providing for an annual en-
campment OF the state militia at the
reservation at Rock Island. near Devils
Lake, making the place q permanent
encampment ground. Senator Noble
withdrew his bill providing for regular
terms of the supreme court at Fargo
and Grand Forks, and introduced an
other providing for two terms annual
ly Of two sessions each. The first ses-
sion of the first term meets in Fargo
in March and the second session at
Bismarck in April. The first session of
the second term meets at Grand Forks
in September, and the second session
at Bismarck in October. All cases are
to be tried at Bismarck unless twenty
days notice is given by parties of de-
sire to try the case at one of the other
cities. The bill also provides that the
cities must provide chambers and
courtroom with vault accommodations
without expense to the state.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 21.-The tenn
perance commission bill, which has
been the object of the greatest efforts
of the ultra prohibitionists of the state.
went into the senate waste basket by a
vote of 10 to II. The bill as originally
introduced provided for the appoint
ment of commissioner of temperance
at a salary of $4,000 annually, with
power to employ deputies, for the rigid
enforcement of the prohibition law iii
all parts of the state. The bill also
provided for the regulation of the issue
of licenses to druggists to sell liquor,
requiring the applications to be filed
with the proposed commissioner and
the licenses to be issued by judges Of
that the revocation Of an attorneys
license is forfeiture of office: enabling
the grantee of real estate to recover
from the grantor expenses of removing
a cloud from the title and the concur
rent resolution for the issuance of
the district courts, and giving the COM
missioner the right to appear in court
and oppose the granting of licenses.
The bill was amended to such an eX-
tent by the temperance committee that
a substitute was reported, reducing the
salary and making the provisions of
the law less drastic. When the bill
came up for final passage Senator
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