The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-01-28
With the
Lawmakers. -.
Weeks DOings i'm the
State Legislature. .

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the United States senate.
House committees will not be an
nounced until Wednesday,.
Senate Bills mtroduced-By Pierce,
investment of permanent school fund
and fixing fees of clerks of county
courts; by Tavayea, authorizing the
governor to remove sheriffs for failure
to do duty in the prevention of lynch
ing or mob violence; by Crane, appro-
priation of $305, $50 for hospital for in
| sane.
| In the House Buttz presented a
resolution that joint committee on
public buildings investigate the mat
ter OF the proposed addition to the
state capitol at Bismarck and report
on needed improvements.
Senator Crane of Cooperstown is the
| father of the Jamestown asylum ap.
preparation bill in the senate, the SEN
ator from the city of jamestown being
of the opposite political faith to the
controlling political party in that
body. The bill calls for an appropria-
ton of $305,O00, Of which $4,000 is
for new ward building, $4,000 for a
hospital building, and about $4,000
for needed improvements and repairs.
The trustees of the institution, in their
report to the governor, call especial
attention to the needs of this tnstitu-
ton. Under the present limited IA
cilities the institution has to discharge
patients before they are completely
cured to make room for others more
in need of treatment; patients are
crowded in quarters much too small,
and there is no hospital building
where necessary operations may be
performed The trustees also stated
that owing to the failure OF county
commissioners of insanity to look az
ter the enforcement of the law, which
requires the estates of patients to pay
the cost Of their maintenance in the
asylum where they are sufficient to 40
so, the law is poorly enforced and
should either be repealed or some
steps taken toward it's enforcement.
The institution has 10000 acres Of
land which is worth at the least calcu-
lation 100000, against which there is
a debt of $4,000 in bonds issued for
the erection of buildings several years
ago. The trustees believe this land is
a sufficient guaranty for an additional
issue of bonds which will give the In
stitution the buildings of which it is
SO badly in need.
The Lavayea bill against lynching
makes the lynching of any prisoner
who shall be taken from the hands OF
the sheriff or his deputy immediate
cause for removal, provided that the
sheriff may afterward be reinstated by
the governor on showing that he did
everything in his power to protect the
prisoner.
Senator Pierce's bill providing for
the investment of the funds OF the
permanent school fund is designed to
relieve the congestion of cash in the
fund, and does away with the provis-
ion that not more than $1,000 can be
loaned to any one person. firm or cor
poration on such security, which
makes investment in these securities
slow and unsatisfactory while pro-
viding also for the adequate protec-
ton of the fund in case of such loans.
Senate Committees.
The complete list of senate commit
tees is as follows:
Observation-Disclosures, Hale. Cashel,
Sharpe Jacobson. Garrett, Geer, Main,
Talcott.
Elections Hale. Regain. Clarke,
Swenson, Cashel, Gulack, Robinson,
La Moure, Mcdonald.
Cities = Bacon Simpson Lofthus,
Benson, Fox, Williams, Mcdonald.
Corporations Other Than Municipal
= Crane. Cashel, Benson, Bacon, Car.
roll, Johnson. Kirkeide.
Swenson, Talcott, Nc
Arthur, Main, Mclean, Wipperman,
Pierce.
Printing Devlin, Brown, Geer,
Garnett. Wipperman.
Public Lands - Simpson. Williams,
Johnson. Kirkeide, Hagen. Gulack, Nc
Arthur, Talcott. Mcdonald
Warehouses. Grain and Grain Grad.
ing-Talcott, Kirkeide, Regain. Brown,
Geer. Hagen, Johnson, Gulack, Main,
Cox. Crane.
Counties - Jacobson. Pierce. Geer,
Carroll, Cashel, Fox, Johnson, Crane,
Simpson.
Indian Affairs Gulack, Mcdonald,
Johnson, Hagen, Hale.
Statistics - Clarke, Garrett, Kirk
eide. Herberandson, Main.
| Federal Relations Robinson, Tay-
| lor, Macarthur, Plain, Mclean, Clarke,
| Pierce.
| Rules = La MOure. Little. Cashel,
/ Cox, Sharpe, Talcott, Lavayea.
Judiciary Little. Sharpe, Talcott,
Cox, Cashel, La Moure. Lavayea, Simp-
son. Hale. Voss, Robinson. Bacon, Fox.
Crane, Geer.
Ways and Means Sharpe, Bacon,
Brown, Crane. Talcott. Lavayea, Rob
inson, Simpson, Voss.
| Railroads Lewis, Sharpe, Sven
son, Clarke. Devlin. Carroll, Regan,
/ Benson, Gnlack, Williams. Cox, Tay-
/ lor, Wipperman.
Appropriations La Moure, Robin
son, Cox. Taylor, Crane. Sharpe, Lit
tie, Jacobson, Hale, Williams, Nc
Lean, Garnctt, Cashel. Lewis, Fox.
.Engrossed Bills - Lavayea, Hale,
Crane, Mclean, Little.
Military Affairs Fox, Hale, Law
ayea, Plain, Macarthur. Clarke, Main.
! Irrigation Bacon. Plain, Shar9e,
Cox, Robinson, Swenson. CorToll
Insurance Regan. Crane, Pierce,
Fox. Corroll, Mcdonald, Little.
Banks and Banking Pierce. Rob
4. inson. Dey!in, Little, Bacon, Lewis,
Voss. Gulack, Kirkeide.