Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-01-21
.RESUBMlSSI0N IS PUT TO SLEEP
Majority Report House Temperance Committee
Adopted After Warm Session
Judges Salary Bill Also Makes House Session Interesting
Legislature AdjOurns >.

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Of 81 to % with five members absent
and not voting This was but one of
the incidents of the most exciting
session yet held in the new legisla-
tive hall, and as far as stirring scenes
are concerned it has been many ses-
sions since there has been so great a
stir made without a call of the house.
But it was not over the resubmission
measure.
This was brought up when Chair
man MeCrea, of the temperance com.
mittee, presented a majority report,
recommending that the bill do not
pass and that further consideration
Of it be Indefinitely postponed.
A minority report, signed by Repre-
sentatives Streeter, Hardt, Blank,
Juzeler and Stevens of Burleigh
recommended the passage of the bill.
A substitute motion for one made by
Chairman McCrea, that the majority
report be adopted, provided that the
minority report be substituted, and it
was in that way that the resubmis-
sion question, that has bobbed up so
serenely at almost every session Of the
legislature, finally reached a roll call.
Representative Streeter was recog-
nfzed by the speaker and he made the
only address either for or against the
resubmission measure, and his re-
marks were in favor of the adoption
of the minority report. He stated
that at the convention in which he and
his colleague were nominated had in
structed them to urge a resubmission
measure, and that he was himself in
clined to think that the people of
North Dakota should be given oppor-
tunity to vote on the question. He
said that he did not care to discuss
the moral aspect of the question, but
did urge that the people of the state
who had settled here within the last
sixteen years should be given a square
deal and an opportunity to express
themselves had been placed in
the constitution long before they had
become residents of the state. At
some length Representative Streeter
talked of the great growth of the
state in the sixteen years since .prohi-
bition became the watchword of the
state, nearly doubling in population
and in voting strength as we'll. He
quoted figures to show how the vote
was taken on the question sixteen
years ago, by which he claimed a
minority of the voters secured the
adoption of the constitutional amend
ment, made possible by the large
number that did not vote on the ques-
ton. With vote of about 10000 peo-
pie Mr.. Streeter claimed that change
might be possible. He then spoke of
the Red River valley and the counties
OF the eastern part of the state, and
said that in his visits to state con-
Ventions he had observed the work
ings of the prohibition law, and ad-
mitted that he would not care to go
on the witness stand and testify that
the law even in the eastern and heav-
lily populated sections was being en-
forced. He spoke of the growth Of the
western and slope sections of the
state, and said that he did not desire
the state to adopt a license system,
but in all fairness to allow the people
of the state, more than doubled in
population, to go to the polls and there
decide whether or not they wanted
prohibition in North Dakota. During
his talk Mr.. Streeter took occasion to
speak of the fairness and courtesy
that had been shown the q minority
members Of the committee by those in
the majority.
The roll call: Ayes in favor of
minority report; nays against minority
report:
Ayes Belden, Blank, Blake, Briden,
Brown, Casey, Chevalier; Cooper of
Stutsman, Fried, Goulet, Hardt, Juze-
Ter, Lyon, Martin, Mcclure, Meidinger,
Mitchell. Palmer Peterson. Pnelan.
Robillard, Ryan, Scheer, Schlenker,
Streeter. Tallackson, Thoreson, Wei
gel--2S. vi #
Nays-Adanls, Arnold, Baeverstaad,
Braaten. Burgum, Burtness. Bnttz.
Clendenning, Cooper OF Sargent. Dahl.
Dahlen, Davis, Dickinson, Duncan. Egg
gen. Ellison, Flados, Ganssia, Gibbers,
Gilbert, Glasgow. Heglie, Hemming-