Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-01
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
Gathered Here and There About Hotel,
Lobbies By Tribune i
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Jake Wineman of Grand Forks has.
prepared a noxious weed law which will
be introduced in the legislature.
There will be a regular meeting of the
third house next Saturday evening.
Prepare your measures, gentlemen.
Representative Gulack was the only
member absent yesterday. That new
baby seems to be a superior attraction.
The senate apportionment committee
has decided to hold frequent meetings
until it gets away with the %apportion-
ment bill.
Senator LaMoure's bill to take insan-
ity from the list of causes for divorce
has passed che second reading and will
probably become a law. 1t rs said too
many people were taking advantage of
the law to get rid of feeble minded life
portners in order to marry again.
Halver Torgerson is rapidly recovering
from his recent indisposition. He says
he felt as though his stomach had parted
in the middle, one half going down
and the other up, and the only thing
that saved the pieces was the artistic
way Doc. Taylor "vaccinated" him on
the 'tummy."
The senate substitute for Hale's bill
to abolish the state military board gives
the entire direction of the state encamp-
ment grounds into the hands of the gov
ernor as commander in chief. He may
appoint an advisory board of three off
GERS to assist in the management, who
are to be paid actual per diem, and ex-
penses when attending meetings of the
board.
The report was current last night that
the house insurance committee had de-
cided to recommend indefinite postpone
ment on Chaffee's bill to license insur-
ance agents. There will be a minority
report on this measure and the minority
have hopes of winning out, as they say
the license will bring a large sum of
money to the treasury and something
must be done to help out. ~
Representative Hall is a good friend of
the newspaper men and says he has not
forgotten the good work done by the pen
pushers in his behalf in his long politi-
cal career. He is not in favor of crack
ing the printer everytime that a propo-
sition is made to require anything to be
published. Being an educator he be-
~lieves in the printing press. 1t is
needless to say that he is a man the
"boys" admire.
Ames' bill to tax peddlers has passed
the senate, and as a result there is a
great influx of interested parties in the
city. The bill taxes foot peddlers S25,
single horse rigs $50, two-horse outfits
1915, more than two horses sl25, and fol
automobiles, ETC., 5000. The tax is tc
60 to the general fund of the county. A
similar law passed last session, but was
knocked out by the supreme court be.
cause it, did not provide for disposition
of the money SO collected. 1t is thought
the amended bill will hold water.
The management of the Washburr
coal mine and railway promise to do al
it can to aid in getting up a good exhibit
of the coal industry andits various pro
ducts in case it is decided that the state
will be represented at the pan-Americar
exposition. In this connection it il
proper to state that R. j. Turner, com
missioner OF, agriculture and labor, VIII,
by law is entrusted with the manage
ment of all displays at such expositions
is very much interested in the work ant
stands ready to put his shoulder to tn,
wheel and help to make the display
credit to the state. Mr.. Turner is