The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-14
GRIND OF THE LAW MILL
What Is Being Accomplished by the State Solons

The house devoted Tuesday after
noon until 6 o'clock in passing senate
bills and nearly cleared the calendar.
The only ruffie of the afternoon was a
tilt over q bill authorizing county
superintendent to fill vacancies on
school boards when local boards had
failed TO do SO within thirty days. The
Till was defeated.
Senate bills passed by the house
were: Regulating disbursements of
insurance companies; requiring annual
apportionment and accounting Of sur.
plus Of life insurance companies as to
policies heretofore issued; prohibiting
discrimination by life insurance COM
panies and providing penalties; de.
filming the status of persons soliciting
life insurance.; relating to the division
of counties: promoting the safety Of
employees and passengers on railroads
and making violation of the law mis-,
tlemeanor; providing for construction
of Us and transfer facilities at railroad
crossings and providing penalty for
yailItc to observe the law; taxation of
:,rain grown within the state and held
and sranaries; prohibiting misrepre-
sensations by life insurance compa'
MES: regulating retirement of capital
stock in certain cases.
TIE senate spent most Of the day in
committee Of the whole on the appor-
tionncnt bill, and after it got through
il looked very much as though that
body did not propose that any bill
shcssM pass at this session.
The committee went at the bill by
districts, and when the Forty-eighth
Rad 4,een reached indications pointed
10 a hill with fifty senators and $50
:ssc:nbfynen. thing which neither
senate nor house is ready to pass.
In executive session the senate con-
sidered all the appointments so far
made by the governor, and confirmed
The following: Trustees for the school
Of the Predetermined, c. l. CEistens,
Park River; J. E. Gray, Grafton; w. c..
Trucmann, Grafton; M. F. Hegge, Hat
ton.
Trustees for Mayville Normal--Sam-
nel Torgersen. Grand Forks; H. b.
Cassen. Hope; Charles T. Studness,
Churches Ferry.
Trustees for Valley City Normal
f. r. Brownson. Williston; John Sev<
+:tn, Jamestown.
Director of the School of Forestry
A. r. Mckay, Bottineau.
Trustee for the Hospital for the In
sane-M. A. Hildreth, Fargo.
Trustee for the blind asylum-John
Childerhouse, st. Thomas; H. C.
Thompson, Bowesmont; Alexander
Morrison, Bathgate.
Trustees for the School for the
Deaf-A. E. Weight. Leeds; Charles M.
Fisher, Devils Lake.
Trustees for the Reform School
Fred F. Fritz, Towner; Christian
Berthch. Jr., Bismarck.
Trustees for the Soldiers Home-D.
f. Siegfrfed, Sanborn; o. F. Sperry,
Lisbon.
Trustees for the State University,
James v. Brooke. Cando; II. T. Hedge
sen, Milton.
Trustees for the Academy of Science
George T.. Wallace, Richland county;
Quinn, Richland county.
Member of the State Board of Phar-
maey-Walter Masters, Willow City.
Member of the State Board OF Dental
E.xaminers-E. J. Brownlee, Devils
Lake.
District Veterinarians First dis
srict, Paul Bilden. Northwood; Second
district. d. T. McNaughton. Devils
Lake; Third district, r. H. Rishel,
Mayville: Fourth district. F. H. Farm
or, Wahpeton; Fifth district, J. J..
Clary. Lamoure; Sixth district, Will
lam Mackin, Mandan; Seventh district,
A. Elliott, Milton: Tenth district, G. H.
Davidson. Rugby; Eleventh district, F..
W. Weston, Dickinson: Twelfth dis
srict, J. w. Robinson, Coal Harbor.
State Examiner-Oliver Knudson,
Nelson county.
Superintendent State Board Of
Health-Dr. q. Grassick, Grand Forks.
Trustees Of the Agricultural College
Clark w. Kelly. Devils Lake; James
Radfard. Warren, and H. r. Hartman.
Page.
Both houses are getting the i'm
portant bills we'll cleared up, and will
have all the appropriation bills out of
the way by Wednesday night, and
cclne very near to clearing up the list
Of the bills by Thursday evening, al
lowing the engrossing forces to get
their work cleared up by Friday noon.
to clear for the adjournment at that
l.oar. About all outside the appropria-
ton bills which are yet to be acted
upen are the divorce bill, game bill
and telephone bills, which are yet
pending. Several minor bills are yet
on the list. but they will be cleared up
rapidly.
Wednesday was day Of star per-
formances in the North Dakota legis-
lature. and both houses had expert
ences of killing measures, and then
reccnsidering and passing them. In
the senate the main fight was over the