Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-23
HOUSE PLAYS A lone HAND
RreezeS in Senate Chamber too Strenuous for Session
House Lays Another Resolution Of Butz on
the Table. Sixteen More Bills


terday cut short the session Of the
senate. notwithstanding the fact
that every effort was made to bring
the senate chamber to toFerable con-
dition of heat, the wind found Its way.
through loose windows and crannies,
and when the time for the opening of
the session came, presence in the hall
Of the. upper house was menacing to
health and comfort. After the formal
roll call, Senator Taylor, as chairman
of the committee on public health,
moved an adjournment which carried
unanimously Is. SD
Before adjournment Senator Hanna
| moved that the Crane ashburn con-
test be taken up in committee of the
whole Wednesday, The testimony in
the case will be presented to the SEN
| ate as a committee of the whole mem
bership and the attorneys for the con-
testant and contestee will be present
| E
to present their cases. The testimony
in the case is quite voluminous and
will take some time in presentations
It's consideration will begin after the
completion of the regular ;: senate
calendar today. Attorney Lowell will
4 represent the contestant, Washburn,
and Attorney Baldwin of Cooperstown
will represent the contestee, Senator
Crane.
f. HOUSE.
| The house did strictly business
| stunt Tuesday afternoon and in addi-
1 ton to. a small amount of routine, six
teen new bills were introduced, sew
eral Of which had particularly
| practical and useful tinge about them,
one of them providing for the reduc-
ton of the. contract rate of interest
from IL to 9 per cent. .s.
/ One bill, towards which there ap-
4 pears to be a favorable sentiment, was
a measure providing that hotel keep
ers, restaurants, clearinghouse keep
ers can serve adulterated fooo 10
I their patrons If they want to, but
they must tell the people whom they
feed that they are serving food stuffs
which are illegal-they must post a
4 printed card in their dining room Of
a size specified in the bill on which
i it must be stated that adulterated
4 food is being served .G};
Il 5[S 3. 5 The Capitol Caterer.
i The special committee appointed
Monday to investigate the restaurant
privilege at the capitol reported thai
j Mr.. Holman was the lessee, that i'm
4 provements had been promised and
i the committee deemed it unnecessary
to take any further action. The re
4 port of the committee was adopted
with the provise that the committee
!! be continued so that it will be in
READINESS if wanted again.
4 Buttz Appreeiative. s2
| Mr. Buttz presented a resolution
the trend of which was to express con
1 CALCULATIONS and thanks to the officers
and employees of the Great Northern
/ Northern Pacific and 500 railroads
i for their faithful and herculean eff
4 forts made during the late stormy
4 season in fighting the unequal battle
4 with the snow and wild and precedent
ed elements in the northwest to keep
4 their cars moving. 5&s
I Mr.. Buttz contended that it was the
men behind the throttle and firebox
and other departments of the train
service who were mainly responsible
i for the freeing of trains from the
4 huge drifts of snow and that they
worked long and earnestly, and at a
i great deal of physical discomfort
4 while the people generally were com,
fortably esconsed at home and sleep.
i ing between warm blankets while the
men on trains and snow plows were
i laboring in the cold with 10 to 20 be:
low zero breezes logging about their
i ears. Ri
Mr.. streeeter asked why the Farm
i5ers' railroad was not included and
Mr.. Buttz said it could be.
Mr.. Tufte moved that the matter be
indefinitely postponed and the motion
carried, and the same gentleman sue
ceeded in shutting the resolution out
of the journal. III -
1. New House Bills.
q H. b. Iii, AakerTo amend section
i 4. chapter so, 1908; changed to allow
/ counties with increased jurisdiction to
i resubmit the matter to the people.
II II. B. 112, Casey Provides a board
4 of inspection of school buildings
whose duty it shall be to inspect all
school buildings, to be bought Or
4 erected and see that no building is
constructed which does not conform
/ to the plans Of the county superintend-
i ent and board of health. The board