The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-09
North Dakota.
PRICE OF BINDING TN|NE
FIGHT OVER THE EXEMPTION LAW
AND THE CASHEL PRIMARY
ELECTION BILL
HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Smooth Sailing for Educational
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tinkering
With Divorce LaW-Punish-
ment for Fake Lawyers.

With Divorce Law-Punish-
ment for Fake Lawyers.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 8.-Possibly
the quickest action under any new law
was that taken Saturday by the peni-
tertiary board. The governor signed the
bill passed at this session giving the
board power to make the price of Irvine
for the coming season at their February
meeting On the afternoon Of Saturday
The same afternoon the board, under the
provisions of that bill, fixed the price of
Irvine for the coming year The price
fixed was as follows: Sisal, 734 cents per
pound in carload lots, and IA cents p5r
pound in quantities less than carload lots
standard, same price; mixed, 81 cents
per pound in carload lots, and 81 cents
for less; pure manila, 91b cents per pound
In carload lots, and 10 cents for less. All
bills were made payable Oct. l, with in
teFeSt at The rate OF II per cent per an
mum after maturity. The beard also
guarantees price, that is, if Irvine falls
below that price in the state, the board
guarantees to meet the competition.
The fight over the exemption law was
lasting one and took up over an hour of
the time of the house. 1t had $500 sup
porters, $1,000 supporters, and $1,500 sup
porters, but compromise was finally
made on $3.50. There is little doubt hut
the bill will pass as it now stands When
called UP for its third reading and final
passage. Mr.. Bacon made a hard fight
for the $3.50 figure.
Indian Agent F. 0. GetchelI. of Fort
Totten, is here in the interest of a meas
ura which he wishes introduced giving
Indian courts increased jurisdiction. lie
says it would be a great saving In cost
to counties where agencies are located
and would give better government on res
erVatOnS.
Friends of the Cashel primary election
bill are endeavoring to wake up interest
in the matter of a primary election law
for the state but it is slow work, and it
is extremely unlikely that any primary
election machinery will be added at this
session of the legislature. There do not
seem to be many of the legislators or any
great element OF the state taking more
than passing interest in the matter OF
primary elections, and it is known that
number of the prominent leaders of the
senate are opposed to the bill. The Ca
shell bill is an exhaustive measure, COW
ering every possible phase of the primary
election matter, and claimed by its
friends to remedy the defects in the Min
nesota law which have been discovered
the state does not respond very quickly
to the agitation for primary election ma
chinery.
Few petitions are filed by members OF
the two houses as coming from their con-
stituents. The people of the state do not
appear to be much given to petitions ex-
cept when they are stirred up to it BY
some agency that takes a particular in
tefeSt in some pending measure.
! The debate on. the. matter of reduction
descriptions in the house went to show
apparently that the farming element OF
the state was for the bill, and there
seemed to be little leadership for the
maintenance of the exemptions at the old
figure.
Educational legislation is moving along
smoothly. The state certification BIZ,
House No. 43. and the high school bill
Senate No. 90, are popular measures and
q all seen TO argue that they will do much
for common and high schools and for
our higher institutions indirectly by pre-
pairing students for these. The educa-
uonal forces Of the state have given
these measures careful consideration and
1ndorse them. The high school board has
recommended Senate Bill so, and the
County Superintendent association in
public instruction is giving it's fullest
support to both measures, and there is lit
tie doubt about their bein enacted.
No. 73 in the senate, by Senator La
Moure, to take incurable insanity from
the list OF causes for divorce, has much
i'll its favor. In the first place what the
doctors call incurable insanity may turn
out to be only temporary. Doctors some
times get together in counsel and con-
clude that q patient shall die. But if the
patient is stubborn he sometimes refuses
to make the fact fit the theory of the
doctors, and continues to live and get
we'll, in spite of the determination of the
medical fraternity to have him die. Be
sides when men and women marry they
take all Of the incidental risks of insan-
1ty, Becoming crippled physically, and the
like This bill is commended by a large
majority of the lobby as we'll as others.
Hale has bill in the senate making
1T misdemeanor to pretend to be a
lawyer or attorney unless in fact the
party has been admitted to the bar--the
legal bar. 1t also makes it a misde-
meanor to take or solicit fees or COM
pensation for advice, etc, unless YOU are
an admitted attorney. This bill is meet
ing with the hearty support of the at
torneys, and is said to be meritorious,
concerned-and that's all sufficient!
One of the best evidences Of growth
in the business of our state is the man
her in which work has incre assd in the
public examiners office. In few veal 8
the work has doubled, until now three
men can hardly keep abreast with the
duties of the office-involving as it does
checking up the state Offices, thirty
nine county offices, 1874 bank and seven
building and loan associations.
Jacobson's senate bill 81, wants to COM
pei every fellow who is rot butcher to
show the hide of an animal when he
offers the carcass for sale, and also wants
to compel him to keep the hide at his
place of residence for ter days after
the slaughter. The bill does not specify
whether the hide shall be kept in the
parlor or the woodshed.. Somebody must
have swiped steer from Jake.