The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-02-21

house Saturday, making 227 in all.
None of them was of great importance
save one, making the state engineer
eX-officio state mine inspector at a
salary Of $4,000. with deputy at ST.
500, and one changing the method OF
7evying and extending road taxes.
Among the bills introduced in the
senate were: Ways and means COM
mittee. increasing the salary of the
governor from $4,000 to $4,000; attor-
ney general, from $4,000 to $4,000;
state examiner, from $4,000 to $4,000;
superintendent of schools, from $4,000
to $4,000, with $1,000 for expenses,
and other state officers from $4,000 to
$500. The bill provides that all state
officers must reside at the capital dur
ing their term of Office.
Other bills were: Making sheriffs
inspectors of weights and measures;
prohibiting more than ffty-four hours
a week work for persons under sixteen
or females under eighteen, being a
general regulation of child labor; NOM
nation of county superintendent by
petition; creating board of telegraph
examiners and regulating the employ
ment of telegraph operators on rail-
ways; defining water courses and
amendments to drainage law; creating
state library commission to take over
state educational library and appropri-
ating $4,000 annually therefor; regula-
ting sale of seeds; taxing grain in eie.
vator warehouses and granaries at
fixed rates; fixing number and pay OF
legislative employees.
A. Joint special railroad committee
was appointed in both houses to take
charge of the reciprocal demurrage
bills.
Both houses will meet in joint ses-
sion Tuesday to .observe Lincoln's
birthday.
The bill prohibiting soliciting for
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
state came up again in the senate
Monday and was passed. Some time
ago the bill was referred to the attor-
ney general, who pronounced it uncon-
stitutional. 1t was then referred back
10 committee and the alleged unconsti-
-rutional provisions eliminated, though
the force of the measure is not i'm
paired, and in this shape it was passed.
There is little doubt but that it will
nass the house.
Halcotte anti.discrimination bill,
which is aimed at the Standard Oil
company, also passed the senate Mon
day. This bill is very similar to the
one passed in Kansas, where it has
been subjected to all kinds of scrutiny,
and it would appear to be free from
constitutional defects, but the fact
that it must pass unchallenged and
without fight makes some people
wonder where the loophole is in 1t.
The senate elections committee IA
vorably reported the Sharpe primary
election bill with few unimportant
amendments, and it will undoubtedly
pass the senate. The house committee
will favorably report Sorley's primary
hill slightly amended, and then the
conference committee will undoubted-
!y agree on essentially the Sharpe bill.
In the senate Monday Simpsons bill
for the assessment of express compa-
MES was passed without dissenting
vote. The bill provided that express
companies shall make an annual state
ment of business, of capital stock and
The amount of cash paid in on it, and
other matters, upon which the state
board of equalization shall base the as.
sessment. 1t is probable resolution
will soon be offered in the senate for
the equipment of a commission to in
.qnire into the express business in this
state, said investigation to cover re-
irigerator and sleeping car companies
and car equipment companies, all Of
whom are alleged to be going free or
practically tax free.
Gov. Burke Wednesday sent a spe-
calling attention to the necessity for
making provision for the payment of
interest on institution bonds and for
The payment also of a certain portion
nf the bonds soon to become due.
These bonds were issued as bonds OF
certain state institutions and similar
bonds have been declared uncOnstitu-
.ional. AS $4,000 of these bonds are
Eeld by parties outside the state, the
governor calls attention to the neces.
sity Of making provision for their pay
nent, as the school funds from which
The bonds and interest were originally
intended to be paid cannot be diverted
from the purpose specified by the en-
bling act. Bills have been introduced
looking to covering the ground sug-
&c ,ted by the governor.
Both the house and the senate held
The longest sessions of the term
Wednesday. and both bodies seem to
!c;iizc that but twenty days remain
III which to get passed the great host
,,f bills already introduced, and which
continue to flow in like grain from
:arcsher SPOUT. Each body passed a
Urinary election bill which it declares
:, I'LL ct;ol. to through thick and thin,