The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-03-12
NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.

NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
This DAILY Transactions OF the Lawmakers
aI ltlsn. REX. A Short Of
the Regular Routine.
Bismarck, Feb. 2S.-Two sessions of the
were killed in committee and twenty-sev-
en- bills passed. A steering committee was;
named pa in the house with Young, Of
Watts, LEIGH, Chaffee. Lyons, Gilbert,
Richmond, McGahan. Ryan and Movius.
The pure food bill among those passed is
products from the state. The bill to re-
duce penalties for violation of the prohi-
billion law was killed.
Other bills passed by the house were
the increased militia appropriation: Tor
rens land title law; law changing boun-
diaries OF Billings and Stark countless.
emptions to $500; appropriat ton of 81, 500
TO volunteer Hremen; providing bonds for
state asylum buildings, and requiring,
asylums where their estates are suff-
Gent. The bill to grant a reward of $50.
for Information Against violators Of the
prohibition law was sent to special orders.
for Tuesday afternoon.
The senate passed the initiative and
referendum constitutional amendment,
practically all of the "Reminiscences sup
porting the measure as a means of get
ting the liquor question again before the
people, the bill requiring constitutional
pie on petition of Is per cent Of the yot-
4ers. TIE bill to increase the per diem of
county commissioners through the state.
Bismarck, March 2.-The passage Of an,
initiative and referendum amendment to-
the constitution by the senate was some-
thing Of a surprise, although it is agreed
that the amendment would not have
1T was represented as a means to. get the
prohibition law again before the people of
the state for a vote: Under the proposed
Initiative amendment Is per cent of the
voters Of the state could propose a re-
submission of the prohibition law, and it
would be a simple matter to get that
sion. The initiative amendment will have
to pass two legislatures and be then sub
mitted to the people before it could be
session, which is not at ali certain:
Both houses of the assembly have
passed the call for a constitutional CON.
stitution Of the United States to. provide
for the popular election of United States
senators. Similar action, is pending in
enough states to join in the cali to force
congress to take steps toward popular
The legislature, has. also memoralized
against the proposed Quarles repeal of
the communication provision in the United
States homestead, laws.
Bismarck, March 3.-John Knauf, chair
man Of the Republican County Central
Committee of Stutsman County, was re-
jected by the senate today as a nominee
for a position on the board of trustees Of
the state asy III, When the senate re-
Of Frank ingalls,, of Jamestown, was sub
stitpted by the governor and confirmed
by the senate, with the following other
M. L. Elkins, of Trail county, and James
Hackney, of Eddy county, for four years.
erner were as follows: III Trustees SIC Of sf the
agricultural college,, Alex Stern and S.
s. Lyon, Of Fargo; Charles McKissick, Of
Mayyille; and Addison Leech. of cass
reform school, W. j.. Etherington, Of
Oliver county; Henry Gilbert, of Billings
county, and W. H. Webb, Jr., of Burleigh
ander Mclean, of Ramsey county, and A.
j. f.. Weight, of Benson county; for trus-
tees of the soldiers home, Harris Gard
ner, of Ransom county, and John b.
Black, of Barnes county.
The house passed senate bills providing
for the execution of all capital sentences
state into two game warden districts, in
creasing the salaries of the supreme court
Judges. and eliminating suicide as a de-
year. The personal injury bill will be re-
ported back to, the senate tomorrow with
amendments limiting its operation to
A lobby Of railroad men is working hard
to- get the bill passed.
Bismarck, March 4.-After. a. prolonged
fight extending over several sessions of
| the legislature the railroad employees of
the state have succeeded in having passed
through the legislature. a. personal injury
law to their liking, It is a sweeping
measure, covering all: classes or railroad
employees and similar to the laws in force
in Kansas and Iowa.
In the house there was another merry
fight, over the referendum measure, as
passed BY the. senate some days ago.
The Prohibitionists lined up their forces
against the bill, claiming If. was but an
f 4saer na at5sm aae5 tt get T Z ges suppdTfepa of of
the bill claimed they were for it on it's
merits, regardless of. the. liquor question.
McGahan and Van Arnam spoke for the
lied it as a Populistic: measure, and that
the seven Democrats in the house were
tbyae gR to %aae mbo T psssin of + the ninety
On a test vote, on the recommendation
of the committee for the indefinite post
ponsment Of u the E ) bills. the result was an
dunn. Several Of the supporters of the
bill questioned the accuracy Of the. rec
OrQ, claiming Lne vote SCOO0 ~ TO- AZ IN
favor of the bill. Subsequently it was
admitted there was; an error in the count,
n the bill will come. up again tomor-
cow. r.
The session Of the senate was devoted
! entirely to routine passage Of bills; no
important measures being passed. aside
from the PERSONAL injury bill. The house
Killed the bill increasing the salary of
supreme court judges, but notice has been
: given of a reconsideration.
Bismarck, N. d, March 5.-T1ie house
yesterday passed the senate wolf bounty
bill, which %insures, restoration of the old
two-tenths- mill tax or property by the
state for payment OF. a bounty on wolves.
Another division in the house was
when Weed, of Logan county, pressed
consideration of his bill prohibiting state
and county officers from employment of
relatives as deputies. Weed claimed this
practice has been too common in the past
and that some years state officers
here employed and paid their wives as
deputies, while they were at home at
tending to domestic duties.
Weed also presented a resolution for
the appointment Of a committee Of five
to investigate the financial management
of the state penftentiary, claiming that
the promises that had been made that
the Institution world become self-sup-
porting were not being fulfilled. The
anti-nepotism bill passed the house by a
large majority and the other resolution
! went to the steering committee.