Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-03-14
The LAST DAY
Exemption Bill Finally Passed After
Being Amended to Read
$1,000.
Game Law Amended to Make Open
Chicken Season Begin
~ Sept. !.
Bill Passed Giving Attorney General
Practically Unlimited ProseCu.
tiOn Power.

Bismarck, N. D., March 9.-Th'
| legislature has adjourned having pu
in the full sixty days doing work tina
could easily have been done in thirty
The session has been remarkably eX
! travagant one understanding th'
great economy cry made at the begin
ming.
Members hustled to get out Of th'
city as there are said to be forty case
of smallpox of a mild type. Some
senators and Representatives went tt
the Twin Cities to blow in the cas-!
money made during the session.
The last hours Of the session were
somewhat exciting frantic effort be-
ing made by number of representa-
tives and senators to get on the maj
for the last time in the halls of the
lawmakers.
THE SENATE.
The bill repeating the wolf bounty
bill passed the senate as did also the
following house bills:
Game law amendment; costs ir
drainage cases; time OF qualification
of township officers; protection of fish
filing license of physicians; fixing rate
of taxation for grain in elevators; col.
lection of moneys from sale OF school
lands; stopping Of trains at county
seats where there are 500 inhabitants
electric light line penitentiary tC
capi tai: fees of clerks Of court; stables
and hitching posts at rural schools
free dipping tanks; county deposi'
tories; duties and salary of township
treasurers: Pan-American commission
The states attorney bill, giving the
attorney general practically unlimited
power in starting prosecutions in all
counties, passed the senate as amend
ed by the house.
Under the provisions of the new
game law the chicken season opens
Sept. l. The amendment prohibiting
the killing of deer for five years was
killed.
Extra compensation of $3Owas voted
the postmaster of senate and meSsen
gers.
THE HOUSE.
The house session was but fairly
quiet. The chaplain prayed for peace
and this had a restful effect on the
troubled souls of a number. Chatfee
of Darlington, the same who helped
kill the auditors salary bill because OF
soreness over the fact that another
man holds the Office in Foster county
expressed his belief that the senate
was trying to work the house and he
did not propose to be worked ever
over coal bill. He said he diSlikeo
to don his armor as the weight of his
war tools was oppressive, but the SEN
ate had been diScOurteOuS and it was
unfair. He thought it would be prop.
er to indefinitely postpone all the sen.
ate bills. Ole AXvig, who assisted
Chatfee in the killing of the auditors
salary bill, had nothing to say. The
senate returned the coal bill and Chat
fee and the other belligerents laid
down. The bill was killed.
CONCURRENCE.
The house concurred in senate
amendments to:
Morgan. game law.
Michels, repeals two-tifths mill tax
for support of university.
Hall, compelling railroad trains to
stop at county seats.
Hill, maintenance of railroad sta
tions at small points.
Leech, satisfaction of judgments.
Ways and means, Pan-American ex-
hibit board.
Ways and means, appropriation OF
$40, 900 for Pan-A merican exhibit.
Davis, reduces wolf bounty from So
to 81.
Restemayer, repeal of wolf bounty
and tax to redeem outstanding certlti.
Gates.
Tufte, farmers institute board.
Heath, exemptions. The amend.
ment establishes the personal proper.
ty exemptions at $1,000. Ayes As
nays 10.
NEW LIBEL LAW.
The bill which became a law defin
ing newspaper libel and providing fol
demanding remedy before action car
be brought is copy of the Minnesota
law. There are few newspapers which
do not at some times publish new.