Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-24
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP.
Gathered Here and There About Hotel
LIobbies BY Tribune
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Lobbies By Tribune
8 Scribes.
I'D. DcDougal1 was sworn In as q
janitor OF the senate yesterday.
The wind on capitol hill was high yes
terday and the rattling Of windows was
one Of the days conspicuous noises.
J. D Monlder, Nv. u. Westergaard
and 2. Donaldson weereErecipients ofSthe
conrtesies Of the floor in the senate yes.
terday. u
There will be q chance for the press
gang to interview Mr.. Biornson On his
bill, BY request, to repeal the law for
publishing the election returns.
Samples Of binding Irvine from the
penitentiary plant were distributed yes
terday among the membersfor their in
spection. An excellent quality Of Irvine
is turned out by the state plant.
D G. Tufts was circulating among
the members Of the senate yesterday
getting their Endorsement for the APP
pointment Of North Dakota mar as
one Of the Minnesota grain Inspectors,
Senator Lavayea thinks Senator Noble
will have plenty to do as chairman Of
the woman's suffrage committee when
the women of the state come down to
lobby against the bill the Grand Forks
senator presented yesterday.
The LaMoure county newspaper boys
must have been pounding The county
commissioners else they would not be
pe~titioning the repeal Of the law for the
publication Of the election returns and
treasurer''ss notices 81; taxes levied.
Senator Simpson says he introduced
that bill TO repeal the law making il q
misdemealnor to defraud hotel keepers
at the request Of a former member from
Grand Forks, and he thinks onsecond
thought, that it's a scheme to make
members Of the legislature pay cash for
board. 5S
Senator Coxs bill amending the law
relating t. the salaries Of state officers
is intended TO induce state officers to
remain at the capital and attend more
}closelyto Office duties, and to this end
#it adds $500 annually to the salaries of
the principal officers and cuts down the
sclerkEhiire. $s#
Members who haven't complete fles IF
senate and house bills and Journals have
only to insist9on the pages arranging
their files. Il is most always possiblsto
get all the bills from the printer the
day following their introduction but il
IS seldom thu rush prevents more than
days delay.
Attorney Robinson Of Fargo is rel
sponsible for the legal procedure bills
introduced yesterday by Mr.. Leech. MI.
Robinson was d member Of the bar asso-
citation committee which drew up Mr..
Little's Senate bill No. i, but the COM
mittee was not radical enough in some
respects for hin, so he Withdrew and is
making laws on his own hook.
tt is said that's new clerk in the house
day or so ago took the handsome and
cEherub faced Walter Gushing, who looks
after the house report for the Tribune
and represents q number Of other papers,
for some deep-dyed villain who was try.
ing 70 monkey with bills and refused to
let Waiter getthe meat out Of some Of
the measures that had been presented,
for publication.
Senator LaMouressecured the printing
of the Hale resolution regarding state
expensesinth Journal IN order thatthe
members may see what are the ordinary
expenses OF the estate for various purposes.
sAs chairman of the appropriation cons
lmittee Senator I1aMoure has been
making some Investigations AS to the
amount 81 fund.- required for thegeneral
expenses of the state under existing
laws, and Senator Hals has also been
conducting some Independent inquiries
and their figures agree closely.
Noon would ever suspect ATTORNEY
JsE. Robinson Of Fargo Of wanting q
state8ofiee, but the provisions Of House
ST. MI Ieech, y requuest-stinulating
that the proposed tax commissions
must have had Ave years experience id
tax litigation, makes il look al though
our friend and the proposed JOB fitted
each other nicely. Mr.. Robinson has
probably had more experience id fight