The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-07
Bill Requiring r. r. Commis-
sioners to Hold Sessions in
Larger Cities Passed.
$50 REWARD FOR BLIND
PIGGERS IS ABOLISHED
"Cfty Commission Government Billn
Goes Thro-Gov. Burke Announces
Appointments to Take Place of Those
Not Confirmed BY Senate-Night
Session Wednesday Evening.
(By George Davis,

Bismarck, N. D., March THE
house yesterday afternoon passed SEN
ate bills as follows: No. 2O2 and No.
1879 relating to the organization of
new counties. Bill No. 27S, an abor-
ton known as "city commission gov
ernment BILL" creating a commission
for governing cities and allowing the
cumulative system of voting for COM
missioners. The house concurred in
the senate amendments to house bill
No. 1853, reciprocal demurrage, and
passed the same by vote of 96 to
0. Rep. Gibbons sought to exempt
the farmers road from provisions of
the bill but failed. The house re-
considered and passed senate bill No.
73 requiring mutual hail insurance
companies to file a bond with the state
treasurer for $25,O00. This was de-
feated under the misunderstanding
that a cash bond was required.
Miller's state fair bill, locating the
same at Devils Lake was lost on
adoption of the minority committee
report by vote of "A to 80.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments and passed the following
house bills: No. 1873, oil inspection
bill. No. 1876, requiring publication
of government liquor licenses. No.
2O5 allowing district jtdges $500 ex-
penses annually. No. 64,requiring the
attorney general under supervision of
the governor to codify the school
laws. No. 225 providing for payment
by the state for horses killed for
glaniers and fixing the maximum
price at 500. No. II, providing for
tree planting bounty and No. 2S,
pharmacy law, making an entirely
new statute.
The senate reconsidered it's action
on the 2-cent rate bill conference
committee report and after refusing
to concur in the amendments made to
the bill by the house in accordancs
with that report, reconsidered the
same and passed the bill fixing pas
senger rates at two and one-half
cents. The final vote was 26 to 13.
1t also passed the reapportionment
bill as reported by the committee, and
provides for forty-eight senator's, Ill
representatives. 1t also passed the
joint resolution making the governor
speaker of the house and president of
the senate and that creating public
service inquiry commission to deter
mine the actual value of public SER
vice corporations, mileage, capitali-
zation, Indebtedness, gross and net
earnings, cause of accidents and re-
port to the next assembly. Senate
defeated bill supposed to make school
officers and judiciary non-partisan.
The house in night session passed
the following senate bills: 224 putting
inmates of reform school under the
guardianship of the board; "a, relat-
ing to the report by the treasurer of
Independent school districts; 1855.
changing Glendale manual training
to a normal school; 162, extending
the distance children may be taken
to school by contract to three miles;
269, relating to the extension of cor
porate limits of villages; 104, making
it unlawful for corporations to use
money in political campaigns or for
political purposes: 295, prohibiting
high school pupils from loaf1ng or
being employed in pool rooms; 110,
creating the office of enforcement
colnmissis nrr and fixi!g the salary
of the same; also repeals the law al
lowing $50 reward for the conviction
of blind pigger; 144, regulating the
method of attaching adjacent territory
to city school districts for school pur-
poses; 2S2, requiring railroad COM
missioners to hold hearings annually
at Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks and
Minot.
The senate killed the anti-tipping
bill and 1875 relating to conducting Of
elections.
Burke has sent to the senate the
following appointments: John D.
Fried, jamestown and j. H. Mitchell.
New Rockford, on the asylum board;
Michael Murphy. jamestown, peniten-
tiary; ]. B. Wagner. Lidgerwood.
Science School; NJ. d. Nelson, Trail
county, and George Hollister, Fargo
agricultural college, Gunder Olson,
Grafton, blind asylum, to take places
of candidates not confirmed, except
Olson whose predecessor resigned. All
are democrats,