Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-09
ANII.PASs Bill WAS A DREAM
Last Day Of Legislature Saw tile Passage in EOh Houses
Of Following Bills: Referendum With Constitutional
Provisions AppOFtOnment, AZ Senators, % Assem-
bymen---T New Judicial Dktrcts-..OiI Inspection
and AntiPaSS Lost In the Shuttle.


to discover who took away the notes
and transcripts of the inquisitorial
meeting, three weeks ago, at which
the railroad commissioners were in
the imelight of the house, reported
that they had been unable to find the
missing records or who was responsi-s
BILE for their removal, but got the
story in the journal, anyway.
Pay Of Employees.
The special committee appointed,
Thursday, to confer with the governor
regarding his message notifying the
house that there were employed a
number Of clerks, pages, etc, IN ex-.
cess of what the law provided for and
that he had returned to the auditor
the pay roll not approved, made its
report. The substance Of the report
was to the effect that the governor
by accident had his attention
called to what appeared to be con
dieting laws on the subject of legis-
lative employees. That the governor
was perfectly willing to approve bills
for those employees who were entitled
to pay and said he would agree to
any legal remedy which might be
made
After the adoption Of the report
s.. B. PIP. providing for the pay Of the
different classes. Of legislative en-
ployes was amended to meet the
emergency and passed, so that now all
is serene in the ranks CT the employees.
It was stated incidentally that Mr..
Norton, the chief clerk, had kept a
regular time sheet of the clerks under
him and daily reports had been made
to him by said clerks.
Embodied in the committee report
was a comparative statement of the
clerk hire in the house and senate for
the assemblies Of 1906 and 1907. as
follows: Senate, 1905, (49) s12 ,4O2; ].
1907, (S2) $17,54o. House clerk hire,
1905, $3.50 $19,594; 1907, f67) $4,000.
on the last pay day. $.
House Bills Passed.
House bill 80, relating to the powers
OF electors and supervisors In organ
lied townships.
II. 3. 301. amends section s2e, e2s
and 935, relating to- depositors Of
school funds, does not apply to in
lcorporated villages and cities.
H. B. 165, providing for the levy and
collection of road taxes in incorporated
villages. d @
H p. 50. providing for a lien for
repairs Of personality, amended by
the senate to only apply to black
=smithing and threshing outfit repairs.
The several bills were passed in the
house after a conference Of those in
terested relating to the establishment
of the Ninth and Tenth judicial dis
tricts. The Tenth comprises Botti-
neau, McHenry and Pierce counties
and the Ninth is made out Of the west
sern portion Of the Sixth Judicial dis
trict.
H. b. 1859, concurrent resolution
amending constitution relative to school
and public lands. House concurred in
senate amendment.
II. 3. 1916, concerning public highway
improvements and creating highway
commission and defining duties of state
engineer Herewith.
H. B. 325, concurrent resolution
amending the constitution relating to
revenue and taxation.
II. B. 281, providing for clerk hire in
the office Of the register Of deeds, in
the judgment Of the county commits
sioners
( H. B. 24S, providing for the contract
ing Of loans for mourning Indebtedness
by villages and providing tor sinking
fund
Senate Bills Killed.
S. B. 200, regulating child labor.
S. B. 102, anti-cigarette bill
S. B. 297, requiring county officers
ITO reside at the county seat, bill CON
Bsidered too drastic and no time to
amend.
s. 3. 2s4s public printing bill, prices
not in accord with present prices Of
materials.
s. p. 229, placing collections and &C
counts Of state Irvine plant in the
hands of the state treasurer.
s. p. 227. providing for changing the
name Of the state reform school to one
not SO harsh.
s. 3. ITS. prohibiting stock COM
panies and corporations from solicit
/ ing life insurance.
s. B. 1874, assessment life insurance
companies may be reincorp GRATED as
legal reserve life insurance com
panies,
S. b. 60, election Of directors of