The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-02-25
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AmeS, providing for the 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 a 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 q substitute
measure offered by the committee in
its stead. The amendments to the
original bill were so numerous that the
committee decided to formulate n new
bill, covering the changes, the principal
of which are 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 LaMoure finally moved
that the original bill be indefinitely
postponed, since the committee had
recommended a substitute.
The motion was carried by the SEN
0+n Or6 ~ rxyo not for como rnin11foS
that the supporters of the bill realized
that the indefinite postponement of the
original bill prevented any further con
sideration of a 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 vas
afterward 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, covering no very
important matters, and passed two
bills by Halel for q sinking fund and
interest tax in school districts; and by
the committee, amending the law fix
ing the salaries of county t%reasurers.
A resolution to pay the janitors and
doorkeepers of the house and senate
81 a day was defeated by the house,
but will be r~econsidered.
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
$25,UO0, and has passed both houses.
The house concurred in the proposed
amendment to the constitution permit
ting Investment of permanent school
funds in county and municipal bonds.
Bills introduced in the house were:
Delsems, by request, providing that no
person shall be a member of the legis-
lature against whom there are unsat-
isfied judgments docketed equaling
$500; Gronvled, for a uniform form Of
real estate mortgages; Tousley, regu-
lating orphan societies; Stevenson, pro-
viding for highways to ferry landing;
Swenson, permitting building Of eleva-
tors or warehouses on 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
ments by county %treasurers; Sanford,
authorizing the issuance of $4,000
bonds on the lands of the insane asy-
lum, to secure funds for the erection
Of new buildings; Bacon, regulating
the printing of public Documents; and
Thomas, governing the investment Of
permanent school funds.
The senate committee on apprOpria-
lions reported q number of appropria-
lions as stated in yesterdays reported
agreement. The initiative and refer
endum was reported back without rec
ommendation, 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 lie furnished without expense to.
the state.
The Porter resolution providing for
the taxatio. of grain in elevators was
passed as amended to increase the rate
slightly, and the senate adopted q res
olution of Senator Marshall. urging the
Minnesota legislature to pass the Nc
COLON grain inspection bill.
The special committee on state instl-
buttons reported at length, covering the
condition of each institution. The state
deaf school was recommended for es-
pecial consideration of the legislature.
The following appropriations We're rec
commended by the committee: For the
state insane asylum, $1O5, 800, instead
of $4,000 as requested: for the agrf-
cultural college, $27,70O, instead Of
$500; for the state university, the
committee recommended the adoption
of the law providing for a two-fifths-
mill tax on all property, In lieu Of leg
islative appropriations; for the state
deaf school, $51,05O, instead of $4,000,
as requested; for the soldiers. h0me,,,
S13, 500, afnstead of $4,000 as request
eds for the Mayville normal school.
$4,000, instead Of $4,000; for the Val-
ley City normal school, $25.135, instead
Of $5O.OOO, and for the state p~eniten-.
tiary, $49,1OO, instead Of $1,000. The
reduction recommended by the COM
mittee from the original appropriation
requests aggregate $175,O0O.
Bismarck, Feb. 1S.-The Twltchell'
bill for the taxation Of express, tele-!
graph and telephone companies under
the Ohio plan. Of the pr0portionate.
value Of the capital stock was killed In
the senate. The bill came up In COM
mittee OF the whole without a recon-,
mendatiOn bY the committee. Mr..