The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-15


Representative Buttz offered an
amendment providing that when can
didates are nominated for any posi-
ton in the primary election by the
use of stickers, and without paying
the filing fee required of other cantli-
dates who secure places on the pri-
mary ballot by petition, before the
names Of such candidates can be
placed on the official ballot to be
voted at the general election. such
candidate must pay to the proper
official the same fee as though he had
been selected for a position on the
primary ticket by petition. The mo-
ticn was lost. The most important
amendment made in the committee
OF the whole was that offered by Mr..
Stevens which provided that not more
than one name should be allowed on
any sticker used on the primary bal
lot. The amendment does away with
the blanket sticker and makes 1t nee
essary for the voter to use separate
sticker for each candidate he desires
to vote for. 1t prevents the selection
OF candidates by small gang and the
getting of the names on the ticket as
whole. thus serving as a vest pocket
ticket. The motion was adopted.
When the amendments had been
adopted the committee rose and
through its chairman. Mr.. Johnson of
Ward. reported that the bill do pass.
Thereupon the bill was put upon it's
third reading and final passage and
with a technical error or two corrected
the roll call on the final passage of the
bill was ordered There were 81 votes
in favor of the bill and nine absent
and not voting, there being no nays.
In and Out.
The house then went into committee
of the whole for the consideration
of the municipal corporation bill but
found that the bill had been largely
amended by substitution and that the
report of the committee had not been
printed. The committee therefore
postponed the consideration of the
matter for the day and it was made
a special order for tomorrow
Bill POI was recommended for pas
sage. So was $50 providing that the
holder Of druggists permit must be
a citizen of the community in which
he lived and otherwise defining who
should hold such permits was indefi-
nitely postponed.
A message from the house was re-
ceived announcing that the house had
concurred in S. B. 80 relating to court
practice: also that the house had con-
Cured in the senate resolution calling
for the naming of committee of five
to investigate the feasibility of the
enlargement of the penitentiary Irvine
plant. The senate named Little and
Regain as members of the committee.
Chairman Gilbert of the railroads
committee presented the minority re-
port recommending that the Crane
anti-pass bill do pass. This bill pro-
hibits the use OF passes by state
officials. legislators and judges. The
report was signed by Senator Pierce
Senator Crane moved that this re-
port, together with the Young bill,
and bill which Senator Talcott would
introduce today, be made special or
ders for Friday afternoon. Senator
Pierce said that the bills had all
been amended in committee until they
bore little resemblance to the origin
ais and as few of the senator's knew
anything of them in their present
form, he believed that 1t was but
proper that they be considered IN
committee of the whole. Senator Re-
gan claimed that these bills have been
laying out the legislature for more
than thirty days They have been In
first one committee and then another
and no action could be had on them.
He thought it was about time some
thing was done. The bills had been
amended but slightly and if the SEN
ators were net familiar with them
they should be.
Senator Simpson said he was in ia
vor of an anti-pass law but not one
which would result in depriving some
poor fellow who was trying to get
a few settlers into the state and get
his transportation out of the rail-
roads. He believed that nothing would
be lost by the short delay. He intl-
mated that if the railroad committee
had had these bills for thirty days and
had not reported then before, that they
displayed none of that feverish haste
which some of the senators suggested.
Senator Gilbert said that the SEN
ator from Griggs was mistaken when
he said that the vote in the committee
on the Young bill was six to five.
The railroad committee had not had
the bills three days.
The vote on the Crane substitute for
Senator Gilbert's motion that the min
ority report Of Mr.. Pierce be indefln-
itely postponed was 21 to 10 in favor
of referring to the committee of the
whole on Friday.
S. B. Nos 2 and 8, relating to in
surance were amended and reported
for passage
Senator Crane moved that the Sec
rotary be instructed to have the vafi-
Gus bills which we're to be daily re-
ported to the senate on the senator's
desk at the beginning of the session.
He confessed that he voted every day
for bills, the nature of which he did
not know. Thot this would help the
senator's to correct understanding
of the bills to be acted upon. The mo-
ton was carried