Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-03-10
HANGING BILL IS SIGNED
GOVERNOR WHITE APPROVES
THE BILL FOR HANGiNGs
At PENlTENTiARY.
NUMBER OF OTHER MEASURES
ALSO APPROVED By THE
GOVERNOR.

ing Execution Under the hanoino
eiII-List Of the Other Measures Ap.
proved.
Governor White this morning ap-
proved the Johnson bill, providing that
all executions of capital sentences in
the state shall be held at the state
penitentiary, and filed it with the sec.
retary of state The bill has an
emergency clause, so that its provis-
ions go into effect at once, and there
is already one person awaiting SEN
tence who will be the first to meet
death under the new law The John.
son bill was introduced early in the
session. and was amended in many
details by the senate judiciary commit
tee. The bill provides that when any
person in the state is sentenced to be
hanged, the execution shall take place
at the penitentiary, in an enclosure to
be erected under the supervision of
the warden and the board of trustees
and the execution shall be under the
direction OF the warden, or deputy
warden. All executions shall take
place before the hour of sunrise on the
day specified. which shall not be less
than six months or more nine months
from the time of passing sentence.
The prisoner is to be kept in close con.
f1nement for that length of time.
Within ten days after the sentence of
death Is pronounced the sheriff of the
county is to convey the prisoner to
the penitentiary and deliver him to
the warden or other proper officer.
The only persons who may be present
at the execution are: The sheriff of
any county in the state: the board of
trustees and physicians of the peniten-
tiary; the clergyman in attendance
upon the prisoner: five persons whom
the prisoner may designate; represent
atlves OF newspapers in the county
where the crime was committed and
one representative of each newspaper
published in Bismarck.
The fees and mileage incurred in
the execution of prisoners are to be
paid cut of the maintenance fund of
the penitentiary.
1t is expected that Judge Pollock
will Immediately pass sentence upon
John Rooney and that he will be
brought to the penitentiary at once
by Sheriff Twitchell to await execu-
ton
number of other senate bills were
approved and filed with the secretary
of state this morning, as follows: 90.
Cashel. appointment of commissioners
OF deeds; 1856. committee on appro-
priations. travelling expense of state
superintendent: 124. Macarthur, report
OF road supervisors: so, Main. meet
ings of school officers; 88, Cashel,
drainage law amendments: 1873. Rob-
insOn, mechanics liens; 176. Little.
duties of state examiner: 1874 commit
tee on appropriations. capitol main
tenance: 119. Simpson, dismissal of
actions after five years: 116, Lavayea.
acknowledgements by deputies: lis.
Taylor, prohibiting distributing Of med
icine samples on premises of another:
III. Little. admission of ATTORNEYS
from other states; Ill, Lewis. sending
or nonresident insane out of state: 90.
Lavayea. penalty for obstructing tele-
graph and telephone lines: SO. Cox. ex.
penses Of boards of insanity; s.. La.
vayea, right Of way for telephone
ilnes' "a, LaMoure, salaries of county
Judges; SO. Williams, meetings of
townshlp boards of supervisors: AZ.
Bacon. voters not to lose franchise by
moving from one ward to another: 81.
Williams, notice of election of town.
snip officers; 27. Regan. compensation
or assessors: Is, Robinson. redemp.
ton OF real property sold upon execil.
tion.
Governor White this afternoon ap-
proved the following house bills: II.
Mckenzie, personal injury railroad
bill; 35, Davis, general educational
bill; 3S, Wall. providing that all spe-
cial assessments shall be paid before
transfers of property shall be recorded;
81, Watts, requiring deposit of funds
or securities by mutual insurance COM
panies with the state treasurer; IS,
Shells, providing for the taxation of
property omitted from taxation; 6.
Ryan. governing examination of wit.
nesses: SO, Buttz. time of commence
ment of actions; "a Van Arnum. re-
moving limit of clerk hire in register
of deeds office: SO. Underwood appro-
priation for soldiers home at Lisbon:
80. Dieball. creating of county build
ing fund: 45. Simpson. eXempting vol
unteer firemen from payment of poll
tax; "a. BOstrom. raising age of con-
sent to Is years; 80, Underwood. gov
erning security and fidelity corpora.
tions; lis. Richmond. defining legal
fences: 145. Leech. prohibiting dis
elimination by railroads in long and
short haul; 112, Patterson, term of
county auditor to begin April 1; 127.
Chaffee, boundaries of school districts:
lO1, Aandahl. estray law; 49, Rose.
anti-Sunday shaving law; 115, Rich
mond, commencement of civil actions:
13S, creating board of trustees for
academy Of science at Wahpeton; l43.
Mallough, importation of dependent
children; 166, Young, foreclosure of
liens on personal property.