The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-02-07
NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
The Daily transactions Of the u.awmakers
AZ i~sis,nArsk. A Short summary If
Tic Regular Routine.

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Bismarck, Jan. 25.-In the senate Messrs.
Cashel, Ames and Sanborn were APP.
pointed a special committee to provide
ways and means for bringing to the view
property. now escaping taxation and pre-.
pare a bill covering the matter. Mr.. Tuft
an apportionment bill in the
members. It leaves the Red River Valley
counties as now, gives Richland a new
district, cuts off one member each from
the northwest.
The appointment of a special committee
in the senate Wednesday to look into the
wherein expenses for maintenance ed
running the several departments can he
The committee was appointed on sena-
tor LaMoure,s motion, and the common
query is: "Who is he after?"
Senator Hale is chairman of the CON.
mittee, President Bartlett seldom follow
Ing parliamentary usages in such cases.
1t Is persistently rumored the senate
viii Investigate the methods of the state
enforcement league, and when this Is
promised.
THOMAS asfiS bii1 to hs sbolla IS t beid distr mad Sete on
inarians and substitute therefor one state
veterinarian who shall be the one sta
efit9pmnerd al at the agriculture college. An
physicians. "
Bismarck, N: D.. Jan. 2s.-:Both houses
Wednesday. on a resolution introduced
by Senator Lamoure. A bill exempting
ing bills to be paid in order Of presenta-
ton has passed both houses, and there
are funds in the treasury to make the
The senate reached the hundredth mile
post today, in the Introduction Of bills,
and passed bills making hospital claims
ing, Of emergency warrants by the state
auditor IN anticipation of revenue; re-
pealing the starch bounty law; creating
itentiary trustees greater latitude in fix
ing the price of Irvine.
Several bills were introduced today to
give fees to county auditors formerly re-
ceived by them and not provided for by
law. The veterinarians Of the state seem
TO- be ssnarf9rri it and another bill went in
entire appropriation for the state and dis
trict v~eterinaries
tn The aI house haa a little wransle oyer
Several places were to be filed to COM
plete the house organization, and after
these Were named a resolution was pre-;
clerks on committees. There was a roll
call on the resolution. and it passed by a
small majority.
An attempt was made to reconsider the
but it failed, and the bill passed the
llOuSc dlu Will pass the senate. Inc
county auditors salary, ~readtusting the
salaries of auditors on the basis of valua-
ton and making an increase in the coun-
today by Representative Reade.
bismarck, Jan. 2S.-Both houses of the
legislature adjourned to Jan. 80, and most
of the members nave gone home. So far
signed by the governor, one to provide
for clerical force and the other to secure
pay for members and employees, the first
Friday night just before train time. Many
bills have progressed SO far as to be cas-
lly disposed of upon reassembling of the
tee of the house. during recess. will en-
deavor to arrange'for the state exhibit
at the Pan-Ameriean show. if it can be
dares mention in this connection.
Halls bill. providing for uniform exam
nation 3 ! n paPers IN teachers examinations
pass the senate, it being endorsed by the
State Teachers Association and by every
county; superintendent in the state.
animation papers will pass through the
state superintendent office, and add ma
terially to the work of hat department.
Bismarck, Jan. 31.-The legislature as
several days. The senate adjourned after
adopting a resolution of respect to the
memory or Alfred Dickey, former lieu
tenant governor, and president of the
senate, as an additional mark of respect
to his memory.
The passage of the Ames peddler's IL
cense law was the only business of i'm
portance transacted by the upper house,
LaVayea's bill for the extension of time
Tor the payment of 1900 taxes will come
up to-morrow and although favorably
recommended by the ways and means
committee, there will be considerable op-
position to the extension of the time, as
1t is held to be poor policy.
In the mouse Representative Michels in
troduced the Iowa law for the control
Of railroads by railroad commissioners.
foung,, OF Barnes county, introduced a
Dill making 1t m~isdemeanor for any per-
son to impugn by words in the hearing
Of another person the virtue or chastity
OF a female person over u years of age.
Representative Chaffee introduced a hill
calculated to legalize tax levies from 1890
20 l9Uo, rendered necessary from the fact
that some levies nave been held illegal
because levied in per cent instead OF
quires.
Messrs. Keller, Sergeant and Winslow
were appointed by Speaker Pollock as a
special committee of the house to in
the expense of the state de-
partments., the work of the committee
covering the same grounds as that of
the senate committee appointed last
week. ~
The house committee of the whole
for passage a bill fixing the
for kidnapping at ten and twenty
years Imprisonment and Indefinitely post
poned the bill to repeal the law giving :
old soldiers preference in appointive posi-
tions.
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