Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-08
etc, becoming delinquent during year
of redemption.
House Bills Passed.

etc, becoming delinquent during year
of redemption.
House Bills Passed. n
!. I'll. B. 40, mortgages to see that
chattel mortgage instruments are re-
leased of record and providing penalty
for violation. Emergency.
II H. B. Ill, establishing a dry farming
experiment station at Williston, house
amended to read Williston but senate
refused to concur and it was sent to a
conference committee and later recon-
mended that the house recede from its
amendment and leave the station to be
at Langdon. 1t is also intended to
have one at Williston as >per new
bill to be offered by Mr.. Chapman.
Killed.
S. B. So, providing for ninth
judicial district by dividing the sixth
was put to slumber in the house.
SENATE.
There was excitement and interest
galore in the senate yesterday revolv-
ing around the following: Oil inspec-
ton bill, the bill to give peace officers
the: right of seizure and search with
or without a warrant where they have
ground to believe that liquor is to be
found, and the LELAND initiative and
referendum bill The oil inspection
excitement began early in the morn
ing when the senate, on motion of
Senator Pierce, requested the house to
return the inspection bill, house bill
No. 1873, which passed the senate yes
terday. No answer was received from
the house, and in the afternoon Sen
ator Pierce moved that all reference
to the bill he expunged from the
records of the senate. This would
have wiped out all record of the pas.
sage of the bill, and short time after
this motion was carried, Senator La.
Moure moved to reconsider it, init
mating that sharp practice was being
INDUCED in to destroy the record of
the passage of the bill. Senator
Pierce explained that the bill had in
it provisions that it was not thought
We're understood, and that as the
house refused to return it for correc-
ton, he was taking an action which
would bring the matter up in the
took a hand in the debate and
said the bill as passed would
permit the introduction of inferior
oils into the state. Senator LaMoure
said the bill had passed and that he
was responsible for fastening it's pas
sage at the suggestion of the oil in
spector and as it was an important
matter. He did not withdraw his
declaration that the motion to ex-
punge was sharp practice. Senator
Regain moved that the president of the
senate be directed not to sign the en-
rolled bill when it came to him, until
the senate so directed, if the house re-
fused to return it. Senator Hanna
moved that a second request be made
of the house for the return of the bill.
This request was made and a reply
was received from the house that the
passage of the bill had been clinched,
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and that only five members of that
body voted for the return of the bill
at the request of the senate, and there
the matter ended for the day.
The Ueland initiative and referen-
dunn bill was passed with the senate
amendments, inserting the provisions
for the submitting of constitutional
amendments The bill had stormy
passage. On the first vote it was lost,
having only twenty votes, or not a
constitutional majority. Senator
Spoonheim moved to reconsider, and
the passage of the bill was reconsid-
cred. He then moved to strike out
the senate amendments, and this mo-
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ton was lost. On the second vote on
the bill. It passed by a vote of twenty
four to sixteen. A stormy debate en-
sued on a motion to lay a motion to
reconsider on the table Senator
Young explained his vote and in
speaking afterward on the bill, was
interrupted BY a motion for the prevl-
GUS question Senator LaMoure
wanted to know il this was resub-
mission measure. Senator Young re-
scented the interruption of his remarks.
Senator Little insisted on the previous
anestion. The clincher motion was
carried BY a vote Of "a to 16, the same
vote as on the passage of the bill, and