The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-28
GRIND OF THE LAW MILL,
What is Being Accomplished by the State Solons

lie bends to county to pay for hal!
the cost Of court house and other
buildings owned by the county: bond
ing deputy land commissioners; Gre
ating four game wardens; additional
clerk hire in county auditors Office;
creation Of new counties from old;
bonding public treasurers Of all kinds;
making certain kinds of Islander Grim.
inai; prohibiting swearing. etc., over
telephone lines.
The senate passed the following
bills: Regulating consolidation and
reinsurance Of domestic companies:
mutual domestic insurance companies
to deposit $4,000 cash with state
treasurer before doing hail business;
providing for the annual apportlon.
mcnt Of surplus by domestic mutual
insurance companies to deposit s25.OUO
cash with state treasurer before doing
hail business: providing for the an
nual appointment of surplus by do
nestle mutual insurance companies:
prohibiting discrimination in same
class i'll life Insurance.; prohibiting is
suance of non-participating policies by
domestic mutual life insurance CON-
| panies; defining status Of solicitor to
he agent of a company and not of as
sured; creating a special fund for use
Of states attorneys in prosecution OF
| violators of the prohibition law; pro-
hibiting campaign contributions by
corporations.
Among the bills passed were the fol.
lowing: Lighting passenger depot
| platforms; seizure of intoxicating
liquors brought into the state; detin.
| ing intoxicating liquor; liquor prose.
cutting fund for states attorneys; pub
LEGATION and registration of all govern.
ment liquor tax receipts and providing
penalties for failure to do SO.
J If one-half the anti-liquor laws which
have passed the house ever get
through the senate the life of the
blind piggers and the person who rents
building for the sale Of liquor will
be strenuous one indeed, and the
shipper of C. o. D. goods will stand to
lose his ventures beyond peradven.
ture.
There was some surprise In the sen.
ate Tuesday when the advocates of a
| 2 1-2-cent railroad fare were knocked
out in the first round. 1t had been
confidently predicted that the senti.
ment for 2-cent rate had cooled off.
and that the larger amount would be
the choice of the senators. Therefore,
when the test came on the adoption of
the majority and minority report, the
minority report won with ease.
Many amendments were offered, but
the only ones adopted were that the
fare shall end with cipher or 81 five
in order to do away with penny change
and that the bill shall not apply to
street railways The emergency clause
was stricken out, and the bill was
made special order for Wednesday.
The senate passed the hotel bill
with number of provisions for safety
! of guests. and creating the Office Of
hotel inspector, paid by fees.
Bills were passed prohibiting polit'
| ical contributions from life insurance
companies, compelling attendance at
school, an anti-child labor bill, and
making trustees of the reform school
guardians of the inmates.
/ Senators Simpson, Young. Pierce
Purcell and Rice were appointed Il
special committee to inquire into pub
lie service corporations. their rates
(, and taxation, and report bill for tan
ing them.
The senate committee on appropria
lions has agreed on the following ap
preparations for the different educa
tional institutions:
University, $4,000; agricultural col.
lege, s39.5o0; Valley City normal, $57,
5G3; Mayville normal. $685. 500; reform
school, $3l, 900; science school. $"G.
500; blind asylum. S38,200; feeble
minded institute, $4,000: deaf and
dumb school, $4,000, all of which is
in addition TO receipts from their share
of the mill tax.
The Shirley demurrage bill was re-
ported in the house. amended 80 that
denurrage to both railroad and con
signee at the rate OF 81 per day takes
effect after seventy-two hours. provid
ed the shipper pays 10 per cent OF
! the freight bill in advance.
| In the house Wednesday the mael
strom whirled around two bills which
the reform element of the house seem
to have set their hearts upon. namely
the demurrage bill and the bill giving
the governor power to remove county
officials who are derelict tn their
duty, particularly in the enforcement
Of the prohibition law.
These bills came up in general or
| der in the afternoon. Mr.. Stevens
made a vicious attack in the removal
bill. which was warmly replied to by
Sorley of Grand Rapids. during which
there were several warm passes be
tween the two. The latter quoted at
length from the Minnesota law. on
which the proposed bill is largely
| founded while Stevens, Meckler