Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-20

Bill Providing For State Officers Resi-
sldence at the Capital is Lost f.
- in the Senate. Il - ss3.. = l.5 Z
Rider Added, Carrying the Increased
Salary Provisions Originally =
Provided BY Bill. # i %.t. &.. !.
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Senate Recommends Passage Of Bill
, For Reduced Exemp- .s>..
.*", tions. y 5s.s... IS. 4%
House Passes a Number Of Senate
Bills, Including Seventh Dis
. trict Bill. :,
House Passes 4 Number Of Senate
. THE SENATE,

THE SENATE. :
There was an interesting bit Of pro-
cedure in the senate yesterday, when
Senator Cox's bill fixing the salaries
and residence of state officers came up
on third reading. This is the bill which
the senate appropriation committee re-
ported back with, the salary provisions
stricken out, and nothing left but a
clause providing that state officers must
live at the capital or be deprived of their
salary.
When the bill was read, and while
some of the senators we're interested in
other matters, and not paying particular
attention to the bill, Senator Noble
moved an amendment to the bill, adding
the word official" before the word resi-
dence, and making the bill provide that
the official residence of state officers
shall be at the capital.
When some of the senators discovered
what was happeningto the measure, the
amendment had been adopted by one Of
the rather silent votes Senator Little
ayerred the amendment would kill the
bill entirely, so far as its efficacy was
concerned. G,.
Senator Noble didn't think a law
ought to attempt to change mans resi-
dence because he was elected to state
office and make it imperative for him to
change. .-.
Senator Little said he thought that if
the Bottineau senator had occasion to
come to the capital and attempt to do
business with state officers under condi-
tions that. had prevailed sometimes in
the past, he might. change his mind. + :
Senator Talcott moved to reconsider
the vote by which the amendment had
been adopted, and Noble grinned at the
way he had caught em mapping. He
was inclined to question Mr.. Talcott's
vote with the prevailing side, but finally
allowed the. reconsideration to pass, al
though he moved to lay the vote for re-
consideration on the table afterwards,
but Senator. Lavayea, who was in the
chair, ruled him ont of order.
After the reconsideration, Senator
Cox moved an amendment restoring to
the bill the salary provisions it carried
in the first place, adding $500 annually
to the salary OF each Of the state officers.
&Mr. Little thought the amendment
right. The proposed increases would
not make a salary any too large for the
kind ohmen the state ought to elect to
Office. II would defray the expense of
moving to the capital and other Incl
dental expenses of the residence pro-
posed in the bill. 5,1 AZ N y.
Senator LAM misunderstood the
reading OF the amendment and thought
Cox had recommended $4,000 for the
governors salary and wanted to know
why, but Cox assured him be had no
such intention. ss. st: u $5 5sg y
! The amendment was lost on the yeas
and nays and roll call was demanded.
On the roll call it was carried, Is to l3
Mr.. Simpson wanted a verificatio Of the
vote but afterWard withdrew his request.
Then the bill went to It's final passage
L and it was lost, 10 for to IS against. It
i will probably be reconsid cred today. ]=x
Il b. '@% s$ 81 THE EXEMPTION BI LII.
The house bill reducing exemptions in
s the state from 81 800 to s. 775O came up On
q majority and minority report Of the
committee on Judiciary. The minority
report was signed BY Sharpe, Cox,
NoBss and Hale and reported for the
indefinite postpone az sof the bill. Mr..
Noble moved the adoption of the minor
ity report and MI. little the adoption Of
i the majority report that the bill pass,
Mr.. Noble spoke against reduction Of
exemptions as proposed. The movers Of
the bill came from the Red river valley,
where condi lions eighteen years ago
when high exemptions we're favored were
I the same as iii the western part of the
state today The western portion Of the
state Was being settled up and he
B thought Tho dnction Of exemp ptionsa as
4 proposed would Be 4 material injury.
Theoretic ally the system Of exemptions
might be wrong but practically IL had
worked for good. 5nsiness condi ditions
1 were ssttled on that basis He preferred
the mort % the execution, where
one small creditor, BY moving "a collect