Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28

file bonds to county to pay for halt
the cost of court house and other
owned by the county; bond
ing deputy land commissioners; Gre
ating four game wardens: additional
clerk hire in county auditors office:
creation of new counties from old;
bonding public treasurers of all kinds:
certain kinds of SANDER GRIM
inal; prohibiting swearing, etc, over
telephone lines.
The senate passed the following
bills: Regulating consolidation and
reinsurance of domestic companies;
mutual domestic insurance companies
10 deposit $4,000 cash with state
treasurer before doing hail business;
providing for the annual apportion'
ment of surplus by domestic mutual
insurance companies to deposit $25,0U9
cash with state treasurer before doing
hail business; providing for the an
nual appointment of surplus by do
nestle mutual insurance companies:
prohibiting discrimination in same
class in life insurance.; prohibiting is
suance OF participating policies by
domestic mutual life insurance COM
panies; defining status of solicitor TO
be agent Of company and not of as
sured; creating special fund for use
of states attorneys in prosecution OF
violators of the prohibition law; pro
hibiting campaign contributions by
corporations.
Among the bills passed were the fol
lowing: Lighting passenger depot
platforms: seizure Of Intoxicating
liquors brought into the state; detin.
ing intoxicating liquor; liquor prose.
cutting fund for states attorneys; pub
LEGATION and registration of all govern.
ment liquor tax receipts and providing
penalties for failure to do so.
If one-half the anti-liduor laws which
have passed the house ever get
through the senate the life of the
blind piggers and the person who rents
a building for the sale of liquor will
be IL strenuous one indeed, and the
shipper of G. o. d. goods will stand to
lose his ventures beyond peradven.
ture.
There was some surprise in the sen.
ate Tuesday when the advocates of a
21-2-cent railroad fare were knocked
out in the first round. 1t had been
confidently predicted that the senti
ment for 2-cent rate had cooled Off
and that the larger amount would be
the choice of the senator's. Therefore
when the test came on the adoption OF
the majority and minority report, the
minority report won with ease.
Many amendments were offered, but
the only ones adopted were that the
fare shall end with cipher or Il five
in order to do away with penny change
and that the bill shall not apply to
street railways. The emergency clause
was stricken out, and the bill was
made special order for Wednesday.
The senate passed the hotel bill
with a number of provisions for safety
of guests, and creating the office Of
hotel inspector, paid by fees.
Bills were passed prohibiting polit
ical contributions from life insurance
companies, compelling attendance at
school, an anti.child labor bill, and
making trustees of the reform school
guardians of the inmates.
Senators Simpson, Young, Pierce
Purcell and Rice were appointed q
special committee to inquire into pub
lie service corporations, their rates
and taxation, and report bill for tax
ing them.
The senate committee on appropria
lions has agreed on the following ap
propriations for the different educa
tional institutions:
University, $4,000; agricultural col
lege, ss9,50O; Valley City normal, $50,
500: Mayville normal, s@3,500; reform
school, $4,000; science school, $3G,
5Oo:. blind asylum, s3s,26o; feeble
minded institute, $4,000; deaf and
dumb school, 900. all of which is
in addition to receipts from their share
of the mill tax.
The Shirley demurrage bill was re-
ported in the house, amended so that
demurrage to both railroad and con-
s;gnee at the rate of 50 per day takes
cirec, after seventy-two hours. provli'
cd the shipper pays 10 per cent OF
the freight bill in advance.
In the house Wednesday the mael,
strom whirled around two bills which
the reform element of the house seem
to have set their hearts upon. namely,
the demurrage bill and the bill giving
the governor power to remove county
officials who are derelict in their
duty, particularly in the enforcement
of the prohibition law.
These bills came up in general or
der in the afternoon. Mr.. Stevens
made vicious attack in the removal
bill, which was warmly replied to by
sorley of Grand Rapids, during whica
there were several warm passes be-
tween the two. The latter quoted at
length from the Minnesota law, on
which the proposed bill is largely
founded, while Stevens. Meckler,
Streeter and one ir two others stated
that inasmuch as the people elected
these officers, and as long as they were
satisfied with their way of enforcing