The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-18

and then Buttz gave notice or mo-
ton to reconsider the vote at 2 o'clock
Monday.
H. B. 213 was Sent back to the
Judiciary committee on request of the
author, Mr.. Johnson of Ward.
H. B. So, commonly known as the
blacksmiths' bill, came up for some
consideration. Mr.. Miller moved to
refer the bill back to the judiciary and
state affairs committee jointly. This
motion was resisted by Mr.. Stevens
who moved that the bill be put on its
third reading and final passage, which
motion prevailed. The bill was passed
by a vote of fifty-five to twenty seven,
Anderson and Hallick, democrats of
Grand Forks, voting against the same.
Initiative and Referendum Passed.
The initiative and referendum bill,
commonly known as H. B. 26, was
passed in the house today after being
amended on the motion of Mr.. LELAND,
the author, to except the changing o.
the constitution by means OF this pro-
cess. This kind of legislation had =
sort OF inning in the entire legislature
today. Some time since, Senator Plain
the republican who was only few
years ago the only democratic men,
Der of the senate, and who changed
his political faith few months before
the state was Burkized, introduced a
bill on the same lines as the LELAND
house bill The committee amended
by striking out the power of changing
the constitution, but the senate desired
to pass the bill with this provision in.
The matter was taken up in that body
Saturday and the vote was taken on
the final passage of the bill but before
1t was announced it was discovered that
amendments were not in the bill, and
in order to get them in a motion to
reconsider was made and the bill was
made a special order for Monday. The
situation is that the senate bill in
cludes the constitutional amendment
proposition while the house does not,
What the house will do remains to be
seen, but resubmission in a disguised
form is no longer joke.
The senate passed Young's anti-pass
bill almost unanimously Saturday after
amending it so that it bears little re-
semblance to the original. The bill
as amended makes it unlawful for
railroad, express, sleeping car, te1e-
graph, telephone or other public SER
vice companies to give free tickets,
passes or franks to any one except
employees and their families, mini
sters of gospel, those engaged in char
table or religious work, inmates OF
soldiers and sailors homes, caretaE-
ers OF live stock, poultry and fruit in
transit, mail and postoffice employees,
persons injured in wrecks and Their
attendants, witnesses in investiga-
tons in which companies are inter-
ested, employees of other common
carriers. persons engaged in imm;-
grafton and colonization work, VINO
are not public officers and federal live
stock inspectors. The bill also con-
tains a clause introduced by Senator
Pierce providing that the act shall nor
apply to granting free round trim
rates to a limited number of persons
to visit public institutions and an
emergency clause proposed by John
son of Mclean. The penalty for ylo-
lation is fine of not less than 5000 90
nor more than 100000, or six months
in the county Jail or both fine and
Imprisonment, and persons acceptin.
passes are subjects to the same pen-
atty.
The senate also had S. B. 112
Cranes anti-pass bill, under consid-
Grafton but the motion to substitute
the Crane bill for the Young bill was
lost by a vote of about three to one.
Senator Crane made strong plea
for his bill which prohibits the giving
of passes to public officials only. He
claimed that all anti-pass agitation
was against the use of passes by pub
Tic officials and that ninety-nine per
cent of passes used were by such
public officers. There is no de.
mand he said for legislation
prohibiting use of passes by any one
else. Those voting against the final
passage of the Young bill were La
Moure Palmer and Movius.
Immediately after the bill was nass-