The Dickinson press., 1899-03-04

NORTH DAKOTA
LEGISLATURE
Thursday, Feb. 23.
The appropriation bills passed the sen.
ate today without change from the rec.
concentrations of the committee and
were at once messaged to the house, by
which they were referred to the com.
mittee on appropriations and will be
passed practically unchanged within a
few days. The house defeated the bill
proposing a state board of boiler inspec-
tors.
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 drug
gists to be upon prescriptions of physi-
clans was indefinitely postponed.
Bills passed by the house:
Establishing sire liens; permitting the
transfer of pupils from one school dis
trict to another; governing the appoint
ment of sheep inspectors; governing or
phan societies; authorizing the lease of
school lands for the clearing of noxious
weeds.
Friday, Feb. ~.
The institution appropriations 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 thegovernor,
and, as they have been passed without
changes from the figures approved by
him, they will be approved and ono Of
the vexed questions confronting every
legislative assembly will have been dis
posed 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 $325 200, aside from the mill tax
for the university, which will reach
about $4,000 for the biennial period.
The house reconsidered its action on
the bill to reimburse those who contrib
uted funds for the state exhibit at the
trans-Mississippi exposion and passed
the bill with but two dissenting votes.
The senate passed a bill to repeal the
loan law permitting tho loan of moneys
from the permanent school fund on
farm lands in the state.
Saturday, Feb. 25.
The senate passed the Creel bill to
regulate the matter of marriages in the
state. The bill provides for the ap-
pointment of a commission of three
physicians in each county for the ex-
animation of all applications for mar
riage licenses. No license to marry can
be granted under the bill unless the sp.
plicants present certificate from the
board or examiners that they are free
from certain diseases and ailments, in
cluding dipsomania, hereditary insanity
and tuberculosis.
The house did little beyond reporting
pending measures. The house bill to
permit the creation of sewer districts
was amended in the senate in such a
manner as to come within the require
ment laid down in recent decision of
the United States supreme court, and
passed both houses as amended. The
Earl bill for the establishment of q
state fair at Valley City was recon-
mended to pass in the house.
Monday, Feb. 81.
The first move toward q change in
the prohibition law was made in the
shape of concurrent resolution by
Representative Lesh for an amendment
to the constitution providing for sys-
tenn of local option and high license.
License under the amendment is 81, 500.
The following bills were passed by
the house: Requiring the building Of
US by railroad companies; for the orea-
ton of a county board to purchase sup
plies; fixing rates for the storage of
grain in elevators; providing for the de-
struction of grasshoppers; regulating
The building OF platforms by railroad
companies; providing penalty for con-
cealing estrays or defacing brands.
The senate passed bills reducing the
minimum price of school lands to S. an
acre; providing for the expense of ad-
vertising and selling school lands and
'or an appropriation to pay the expenses
Of clearing titles to lands mortgaged to
the state under the farm loan law.
Tuesday, Feb. 28.
The house put in nearly the entire day
In committee of the whole. The princi-
pal matters of interest before the body
were two railroad bills. One of them
provided f9. the liability of railroad
companies for personal injury to an en-
ploye through the negligence Of fellow
servant, was recommended to pass.
Another bill recommended to pass by
the house was the Deisem bill, provid-
ing for maximum passenger fare in
the state of cents mile.
The senate passed the following bills:
Prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or
the smoking of them in public places by
persons under 10 years of age; authoriz-
ing the purchase of 30 acres of land for
penitentiary farm; to transfer 80 acres
Of land from the state fair grounds to
the University of Grand Forks; for the
issuance of $4,000 bonds for the SOL
diers' home at Lisbon; concurrent reso-
luton for an amendment to the consti-
tuition for the taxation of telegraph, ex-
press and similar companies.
The Twitchell bill providing for as
Sessment of personal property at its true
value was killed.
Wednesday, March 1.
The house defeated the bill to fix 3
cents mile as the maximum passenger
rate in the state, and passed the follow
ing:
Providing for liability of railroad cor
porations for injuries through negi-