Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-17

ing to school officers clerks salary
shall not exceed $50 annually, and treas
urer not to exceed $25. NJ M.
II. B. 274, Giedt-An act providing
for the organization Of villages, towns
or cities in territory merged in more
than one county.
~ SENATE. sss !.
Skidoo the pass Twenty-three! The
Young anti-pass bill Of that celebrated
number was reported favorably by the
committee Of the whole Of the senate
yesterday and passed under suspension
OF the rules. The text Of the measure
as finally passed by the senate and as it
will be transmitted to the house appears
elsewhere in this issue. The proceed.
ings in committee of the whole were not
long and the debate not particularly
wrong and not at all acrimonious not
nearly as much SO as the original debate
upon putting the matter in the com
mitteei of the whole. Senator Crane
sought to have the committee recon-
mend for passage the amended bill No.
liz, an anti-pass bill directed at legis-
lators, state officers and the judiciary.
He said such a bill would cover nearly
all OF the holders of passes and he
thought was such a measure as should
pass. But the Young bill had the call,
and after it was amended in several par
| ticulars it was passed with three votes
against it, Messrs. Lamoure, Palmer and
Movius.
| The first amendment offered to the bill
in committee was Senator Purcell, and
that was to strike out the word ''sala-
ried'' from the designation of the en-
ployees permitted to receive passes UNI
der the act. A division was called for
upon this amendment and it carried by
theclo vote Of 10 to IS. Senator Pur-
cell then offered another amendment
permitting the railroads to transport
witnesses in lawsuits to which they
| were a party. This also was carried.
Senator Regan then offered an amend
ment permitting the transportation Of
the heads of departments of govern
ment experiment stations when engaged
in special work in the interests of agri-
culture or animal husbandry, and this
was adopted. Senator Pierce then pro-
posed another amendment permitting
the transportation of persons engaged in
immigration or colonization work in the
state, but who are not state Legislative,
district, county or municipal officers
which was adopted. Another amend
ment proposed by Senator Pierce was
a aopted, permitting the making of spe-
cial excursion rates for a designated
number of persons at designated times
, for the purpose of visiting or inspecting
state institutions. Senator johnson
capped the climax of the amendments
when he proposed an emergency clause,
| which carried, and the bill as thus
amended was adopted by the committee.
Senator Koffel sought to havean amend
ment made providing that employees who
| We're entitled to receive passes must be
| upon the regular pay rolls Of the COM
pany. Senator Purcell thought such an
amendment would make the bill a farce,
as it would prevent the railroad from
! transporting men in an emergency un-
/, lass their names were sent in and placed
on the regular pay roll. In an emery
ency they could not be transported un-
til this had been done. -. II
| Senator Crane thought the Pierce
amendment, permitting the exception Of
certain classes, would nullify the BILL
He said there was no senator on the floor
but was in favor of an anti-pass bill Ito
| which Senator LaMoure observed that
there was one meaning himself), but he
did not think the proposed amendments
to % made it such bill as the state
needed. He wanted the senate to report
senate bill 112, instead of No. %. IN
I Mr.. Simpson spoke at some length on
the proposed bill. As originally intro
duced. he said, it involved more than the
mere question Of anti-pass legislation,
and for that reason he favored it. As
far as his personal experience was con-
cerned he had never had single indi-
/ vidual in his district ask him to vote for
anti-pass legislation, but he had often
been requested to try and secure reduced
rates for transportation, and it was be-
4 cause of that portion OF the bill that he
4 preferred to cast his vote for it rather
than for bill %, but as he understood it,
bill liz had been emasculated to such a
degree that it did not represent the origi-
nal ideas of the senator from Griggs.
He emphasized the feature Of reduced
rates in transportation and his desire to
support legislation looking to that end.
He thought the provisions Of bill liz
/ with regard to the anti-pass proposition
as originally introd met the demand
Of persons Of rational thinking to cor
rsct the matter Of tbs, mass evil which