Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-03

changing the law. He thought the state
needed the fees, or it's share of them, to
pay the odds and ends of thousand dol
lar salaries that were being strewn
around. y
s. Mr.. Murphy said he had investigated
the matter and thought the state would
get as much out Of the proposed law as
it would with salary law, considering
the expenses that would have to be paid
for deputies and expenses.
The bill passed % to 4.
THE INSURANCE BILL.
The bill to4ompel old line and mutual
insurance companies to furnish annual
statements of the earnings of their poll
cies was lost by failure to get constitu-
tional majority. There was some oratory
expended on this measure also. Mr..
Ames took the first whack at the bill.
He said it attempted, as he understood
it, to force the insurance companies to
enter into a new contract with policy
holders, or leave the state in the event of
their failure to do so. He thought this
provision of the bill was unconstitutional
and an Injustice
Mr.. Murphy thought the senator from
Trail misunderstood the object of the
bill. It violated no old contracts but
merely provided that companies writing
accumulation policies shall furnish to
policy holders annually statements of
what their policies had earned. He
couldn't see anything unfair about it.
The same law was in operation else
where and had been introduced in other
states. The idea was to check "pew bus
mess expenses" and give policy holders
an idea of how closely representations
regarding the earnings of policies were
being lived up to. Hesubmitted a state
ment from an insurance journal as to
the fact that the bill had been introduce
ed in New York.
Mr.. LaMoure said he couldn't see the
force of argument contained in the fact
that the bill had been introduced some
where and some publication had stated
that fact.
MIR. Lavayea hoped the bill wouldn't
pass. 1t would merely mean additional
clerical work and expense for the com
panies that would cut down the profits
of policy holders. Such statements as
the bill proposed could be obtained now
from companies on application. 4 !.
Mr.. Murphy said such statements
couldn't be had from all companies. The
bill was to enable policy holders to OBJ
tain such statements. The additional
expense to the companies would be prac-
tically nothing.
Mr.. Hale said the senate having passed
the bill to let into the state any old thing
in the shape of a fraternal insurance
company, he hoped it wouldn't take steps
to drive out the good companies that
would cash up after death.
The bill was lost 13 to 10, not having
constitutional majority. Mr.. Lavayea
endeavored to nail down the coffin lid,
but couldn't make it and the bill NAV
come up again.
REPORTED.
The following house bills were re-
ported: 139, unlawful obligations, to
pass; 181, soda water labels, to pass; l8O,
protection of soft drink manufacturers,
to pass; 155, duties of land commissioner,
to pass; IA, redistricting commissioners
districts, to pass; 126, accommodations
at country schools, to pass; 156, report
of school moneys, to pass.
The following senate bills were re.
ported: 22S, sale of public lands amend
3D. to pass; 225, investment of sinking
fund of school districts, to pass; 1873, ad
mission of students to normal Schools
amended, to pass: 80, admission of stu
dents to university, to pass; 27, geologi-
cal survey appropriation, substitute bill
reported; 223, settlement with sureties
on bonds of defunct banks, to pass; 23I i,
state examiners department, to pass;
examination of building and loan associ-
ations, to pass; 200, defining system of
free public schools of state, to pass; 2O3,
arrest and bail, topass.
PROHIBITION REPEAL BILL KILLED.
| The bill to repeal the penalty clause of
the prohibition law died without a strug-
gle and not even solitary mo" when
the vote was called on the indefinite
postponement Of the measure served as
a requiem for the bin. The measure was
reported back from the temperance CON-
mittee with a recommendation for in
definite postponement. The report was
adopted unanimously. The bill to repeal
druggists permits was killed also on the
Recommendation of the temperance
committee. .s,i..} 5sGii :si zgs.#33 zg.:s3s
/ 4 ONE LONE BILL. ssEe. 3
Only one bill was introduced, Senate
bill 234, Hegge providing that the secre-
tary of state shall publish the list Of