Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-19
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SAVED.
House bill $50, Thomas, reducing sal
ary of supreme court reporter. The
majority report favored indefinite post
ponement, but minority report favored
the bills passage, so it went to general
orders.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
House bill 1856, Keeler, requires county
superintendents to report all school
moneys to district treasurers.
House bill 106, Bjornson, no bid under
two per cent shall be accepted for deposit
Of county funds.
House bill 152, Nelson, requiring aud
itors' certificates of delinquent taxes
paid on real property before deeds can
be recorded.
A memorial from the senate. asking
congressional action with the tri state
drainage association was concurred in
by the House.
The senate not concurring in the
amendment of the House on the Sharpe
apportionment bill, on motion Hare
Cassell and Gulack We're appointed con-
ference committee.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
On motion of Mr.. Young the House
went into committee of the whole.
House bill 122, Watson, providing for
submitting to vote in counties of 2OOO or
over, the question of the jurisdiction of
county courts. To pass.
House bill 81, Packard, making rail
way corporations liable for injury to
stock in all cases where track is not
fenced. To pass.
House bill 59 Young, fees to be charg,
ed for leases and sale of school lands.
10 pass. The debate was partlcipated
in by Young, Thomas and Chaffee, the
latter of whom said he had consulted the
land officer and governor and had found
that the idea of fees was to mako the
office self-sustaining. Chacey said the
lessees were the people who paid the
bulk of the taxes, anyway, and that this
would just simply add to their burden.
The report was concurred in.
House bill 7, Allshouse, proposals for
the deposit of county funds, and the
bonds of county depositors. To pass.
Senate bill "a, Murphy, limitation OF
actions. To pass.
MANDAN FAIR RACKET.
House bill 80, Mclean, repeal Mandan
fair appropriation. This came up on mo-
tion of Thomas to proceed to the consider
alton of the bill. Packard wanted time
in which to present papers in the case
but Thomas insisted on his motion
Packard stated that the opposition had
had considerable trouble in getting the
bill to repeal the Mandan fair appropria
ton introduced, it having been hawked
about from member to member before
success crowned the efforts of the Rich
land county economist. He related the
trials and tribulations of the fair people
and the hard work they had had to build
the fair up to its present splendid pro-
portions. He had voted cheerfully for
other appropriations in the hope that
others would as cheerfully stand by him.
At this time the Fair association was
badly in need of money, owing to the
partial failure last year on account of
bad weather, and concluded by offering
substitute motion to indefinitely post
pone House bill 80. =
Tufte asked if it was not true that the
code provided that the appropriation
was for the payment of premiums only.
Pack read the code showing that it was
for premiums and construction work.
Thomas said there had been no effort
and no attempt to be hasty or under
handed. He did not know sop to Nor
ton county should not be wiped off the
statutes, as the fair was of no benefit to
the state at large, as there was no money
in the treasury for Indian shows and
Mandan.
Packard regretted the member from
Richland had never visited the fair, to
see his mistake. He gave the names of
a number of prominent citizens of the
state who had been exhibitors at the
fair, and asked if they were Indians.
He was sorry for Thomas igno-
rance, that his zeal for economy had run
away with his good sense, as the matter
had gone so far, he was willing to have
it settled then and there, He eulogized
the fair, spoke of the good it had done to
the Indians, whose work in competition
with that of the whites had done much
to induce them to continue in their
efforts. Perhaps the exhibits in the
Indian line would have been distasteful
to the Richland county man, where
possibly a mammoth squash would have
proved an attractive feature for him.
Besides, said Packard, the Mandan
people did not propose to have the an.