Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-03-21
WORK OF The LAST LEGISLATURE
Review Of Important Legislation in the Way Of
Appropriations and Laws
Enumeration Of Some Of the Acts That Effect Radical
... Changes in Present Statutes

j.. Much has been said as to what has
been accomplished by the legislature
recently adjourned, in the way Of new
and amendment OF existing
laws with the final passage upon all
the bills by the governor last week.
The following article will give a good
general idea Of the work that has
been done: 5.>>tt Asst ,' H
The first bill to be passed and ap-
proved was the dill providing for the
reconstruction of the state capitol
building at Bismarck. This bill calls
for the issuance of certificates based
upon the $4,000 acres of land owned
by the state for the endowment of the
capitol building, which will give a
fund Of practically million dollars
for the erection of building COM
mensurate with the needs of the state.
Under this bill William Bulge of
Grand Forks, D. J. Laxdal of Cavalier
and Andrew Sandager of Lisbon have
been appointed commissioners. The
commission will probably organize
about the first of April and prepare
for work. The first work done, doubt.
less, will be the building of an execu-
tive mansion, which it is expected and
hoped to have completed by the first
of the coming year. Plans will prob
ably be advertised for for the main
capitol building, and work upon that
will probably be started in the near
future. Second in Importance, or it
may be given first place by some, was
the passage of bill for a system. of
primary elections, This bill covers
all county and legislative officers,
covers city officers in towns having
5000 people or over, provides for the
direct primary nomination of these
candidates. 1t also provides for the
selection by primary vote of delegates
to judicial and state conventions.
These delegates are to vote by secret
ballot in convention; the unit rule is
abolished and altogether an entirely
new system of nomination will be in
effect in 1906.
The following appropriation bills
were passed by the legislature:
81 500 for the payment of the expenses
Of Prof. e. F. Ladd in defending a
suit brought against him by an asso
citation Of food manufacturers for al.
legged libel; $4,000 for an agricultural
experiment station at Dickinson, 1885,.
900 for the building of blind asylum
at Bathgate; $4,000 for the purchase
of the law library of the late John M.
Cochrane; about $4,000 for the insti.
tute for the feeble minded at Grafton;
$4,000 of which was vetoed; the usual
appropriations for the maintenance of
the capitol building and for clerk hire;
$154, 900 to pay building deficiencies
incurred at Grand Forks university,
Fargo agricultural college, the state
deaf school, and state normal schools;
100000 for the state penitentiary at
Bismarck, including an appropriation
of $4,000 for a new hospital and
women's ward; $4,000 for the school
of forestry at Bottineau; $4,000 for
immigration purposes; an increase to
$50, 900 in the amount of state aid to
high schools; $1,000 to pay deficiency
expenses incurred in combating cat
tie scab; $4,000 for the deaf school
at Devils Lake, all of which was
vetoed but about $4,000; $4,000 for
the academy of science at Wahpeto1,
all of which was vetoed with the ex-
ception of about $1,000; an increase
of $4,000 for pure food purposes; s24,-
900 for the reform school at Mandan,
of which $4,000 was vetoed; $4,000
for an agricultural experiment station
at Linton in Emmons, which was
vetoed; 100000 for gymnasium at the
state university and $4,000 for gym
nasium at agricultural college, both of
which were vetoed; $4,000 for the
normal school at Valley City, Of which
$4,000 was vetoed; 100000 for addi-
tional building at state insane asylum
jamestown, Of which $4,000 was
vetoed; $4,000 for a chemical labora-
tory in green house at agricultural
college; $4,000 for the normal school
at Mayville; $4,000 for bacteriologl-
cal laboratory at the state university,
which was vetoed; $4,000 for the in.
dustrial school at Glendale, of which
81, 900 was vetoed; $4,000 for the
current expenses Of the state asylum
for insane at jamestown, OF which
about $4,000 was vetoed; $4,000 bien-
nialIy for the state fair, Fargo and
Grand Forks; $4,000 for the soldiers
home at Lisbon, of which $1,000 was