Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1901-02-14
MORE employees
LEGISLATURE Appoints IA More At.
taChes- lin the Interest of
Economy.
An Army Of One Hundred Fifty Now
Looks After What Little
Work is to be Done.

JC0CuCTS lA0uuUDU0SUUU ONS 10 VVW w
to Governor White for Ap.
Il proval.
Y Bismarck, n. D., Feb. 1l.-There
i was a lively scrap in the house over
the resolution of Lerom providing fol
appointment of ten more clerks.
Mr.. Young moved as a substitute
that special committee be appointed
to discover the number Of clerks &C
tually employed in engrossing, the
number assigned to special work and
the nature thereof, the number who
are either not working or who are not
competent to do the actual work OF
enrolling and engrossing. The substi.
tute was lost. Mr.. Young moved fur.
her consideration of Lerom's motion
be deferred till the 5Oth day, which
was lost and Lerom's resolution car.
ried.
Another scrap occurred when the
resolution of Reade for four additional
janitors came up. Chaffee OF Caring
ston suggested that four of the alleged
inefficient clerks be appointed. Final.
ly Reade's motion prevailed and Pat
Kennedy, Capt. VIM. Gleason, Thomas
Conroy and c. Ullum were appointed.
There are now $50 clerks and jani-
tors drawing pay and of this number
some are alleged to be working. The
I talk Of economy at the beginning OF
the session seems to have been merely
bluff and the legislature seems des-
tined to outdo all former records of
extravaganza.
There was considerable in the re-
port of the Investigating committee
!, that was not given out for publication,
the leaders deeming it unWise to let
the taxpayers see what had been going
on during the administrations OF the
past few years.
In the House Morgan's bill limiting
road tax to eight mills was passed.
THE SENATE. IT,
"A communication from the governor
announced the approval of the follow
ing bills: 70, state auditing board; 76,
increasing penalty for kidnapping; 40,
prohibiting insurance written outside
! state without reports to state agents.
Senator Cashel succeeded in getting
l the report of the special committee on
means to increase revenues of state re-
ferred. A portion Of the report relates
to the retirement of $685. 900 Of asylum
bonds.
Under suspension of the rules House
bill 90, Chaffee's, to legalize taxes
which may have been illegally levied,
was read the third time and passed in
order that it might be sent to the
House for concurrence in the senate
amendments.
The following senate bills were
passed:
Exposure Of hides of beef animals
killed.
Repeating law forbidding practice
of law by judges of county courts hav-
ing increased Jurisdiction.
Creating state board Of pardons.
TEACHERS EXAMINATION BILL PASSED.
House bill 43, the bill for the uni
form examination of teachers by the
state department of public instruc-
tion, was read the third time and
passed under suspension Of the rules.
Tribune: Now the jamestown cor
respondent sees trouble in the air be-
cause Jud visited the asylum, and says
the asylum attaches do not look with
entire quietude of mind upon the visit
of the Pembina county statesman.
There are visions of axes and other
things. Pipe dreams.
bismarck, N. d., February IL
A petition was presented by constit-
uents Of Senator Hale asking support
of Cashel's primary election law. The
petition was worded in such language
that Senator LaMoure objected to its
printing in the journal. 1t alludes to
packed conventions, 'bribery" and
other things alleged to prevail under
the present system, stating that men
Of little worth were enabled to get
into public Positions and in other
ways reflected strongly upon the pol
itical system OF the state.
REPORTED.
Senate bill l29, manner OF certifying
claims agaist the state, was recon-
mendcd to pass, as was senate bill l28,
amending the priority voucher law.
House bill 137, relating to taxation of
grain in elevators was referred to the