Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-01

More petitions were presented asking
votes for anti ti-cigarette bill and against
Gulack's local option bill.
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
House bill 199, Bacon's repeal of drug
gists' permit law.
House bill 100, Leech. by request,
license of employment agencies.
House bill 95, Leech, putting cost on
party asking that another Judge be
called in.
House bill SO, Leech, setting up
prejudice in calling in another Judge.
House bill 205. Stafne. certificates for
medicine.
CoURTEsIEs.
The courtesies of the floor were ex-
tended to G. V. Brown and D. G. Ross.
BILLS FAvoRABLY REPORTED.
House bill 1853, Reade, appointment
county physicians.
House bill 14O, Galbraith, relating to
tax sales.
House bill 213, Cassell, giving state or
county preference over liens in enforce
ment of personal taxes.
House bill 1877, Chaffee, limiting sale
of cigarettes.
Senate bill 50, Hale, retirement ma
tional guard officers, amended so as to
deprive governor of authority to retire
officers.
House bill 1877, Niven, relating to sale
of public lands.
House bill 1s4, Niven, prohibiting tax
of state lands where contract has been
cancelled.
Senate bill los, LaMoure, prohibits
liens on future earnings.
THE ROAD GRADER BILL.
On motion of Packard the vote by
which Morgan's bill repeating the law
for purchase of road graders was lost,
was reconsidered and formed the topic
of some warm remarks.
Rose moved to make it the special or
der for today at 2:30.
Morgan said the object of the bill was
to repeal bad law which compelled
township officers to buy road making
machines, and giving them no option in
the matter. He said the law had been
shamefully abused and townships sad
died With the debt.
Thomas grew eloquent as he described
the iniquities of the law. He declared it
was born in sin and corruption and was
job from start to finish. He related
how the bill had been rushed through
both houses on the last evening of the
last session and that though he had not
been present at the moment of its pass
age the journal showed he had voted for
thsa bill 1t was fraud and job all
through, that men in his township had
been treated to a bucket of beer and
then induced to sign the petition for
graders, the same men coming to him
next day and asking him, as overseer,
not to buy the machines. Two prices
were charged for the outfits and they
we're saddled on townships which had
no use for them. Mr.. Thomas was at
his best and roasted the law plenty.
Morgan said it had been told members
road machines could not be bought if
this law was repealed, and quoted au-
thority elsewhere for such purchases.
Rose supposed the reconsideration was
for the purpose of amending it so as to
remove Objectionable features, and to
permit purchase to be governed by vote
of ratepayers.
: Bacon was astonished to learn that
farmers in this prohibition state could
be bought with pail of beer!
Axvig said it was rascally law and
that in his town where he was an officer
a vote on the purchase of road machines
showed only one vote in the affirmative,
and yet later all agent bobbed up with
the required number of signatures! But
they had fooled them plenty by post
poning action from meeting to meeting.
The law should be wiped out.
Leech said in some places they needed
law to compel the purchase of road
machines, as in his town he had been
compelled to buy machine himself in
order to get some roads built and he
was tired.
Reade said he had voted to reconsider
in order that the bill could be amended.
On motion of Davis the bill was re-
ferred to committee on highways.
REFERENCE TO STEERING coMM1TrEE.
On motion of Chaffee all bills in
hands of committees not in hands of
engrossing committee on Saturday are
to be referred to the steering committee,
to be considered in the order designated
by it. This. made some of the members
.squirm but it was carried. .....,..
s1sT AND I'd READING OF HOUSE BILLS,
q 2l7, Palmer, legal highways. High
ways. g z::.5 :. !. Il -. l.. T.,
2l8. Morgan, bill making it optional
with tDWnship officers as to purchasa ,f