Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-01-24
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schemes o.
aglcy has come true in the matter OF
the Records legislative correspondence
since the session began As it takes two
men to run the Record, and it was i'm
possible to procure printer for job Of
sixty days, while the publisher was alb
sent, il was found necessary to provide
ways and means for filling the place of
the absent one in some other way So,
it was arranged that the locals would be
collected and set at home, while four or
five columns OF legislative matter would
be written UP in Bismarck by the editor,
the same TO be set up by linotype ma.
chine i'll the Tribune office and the type
shipped by express to Linton. In theory
the plan was all right, and it would have
been successful in practice had it not
been for the interference of the Storm
King. As a result, the Linton branch
grew wobbly and the first weeks matter
was so much delayed that it was found
impossible TO get out the paper on time.
Last week 1t was worse, and the block
adc OF the branch didn't allow the Bis
narck end of the rcportorial force to get
III his work at all, the linotype matter
remaining i'll the express Office here until
after the paper was published. AS the
road is not open at this writing, there
is nothing certain about this letter reach
ing Linton in time for this weeks issue
OF The Record
Both houses of the Legislature are
busily at work The volume of bills in
PRODUCED is the heaviest that any session
has seen. Up to date three times as
many bills have been introduced as there
were during the same time two years
ago or course, only fraction of them
will pass In fact. it is likely that some
of them were never expected to pass
even by those who introduced them.
There arc bills regulating pretty much
everything under the sum There is one
bill that regulates the kind of provender
that shall be fed to food animals intend
ed for slaughter. 1t provides that no
impure food shall be fed to such animals,
and among the CRITTERS" named are
chickens. OF course it would be good
thing to have all food animals fed on
pure food; but how it is to be enforced
of cities and the larger towns no
one seems to know 1t will not pass, Of
course.
Another bill provides for the establish
ment OF state printing plant i'll the pen
itcntiary. Where the printers are to
come from that are to work the printing
plant, even the author of the bill doesn't
seem to know. Even with that awful
libel bill in operation the past two years,
there is only one printer in the peniten-
tiary, and he had fallen from grace and
become lawyer when he was sent up
But he wasn't immured for libel, his Of
tense consisting i'll having one more wife
than the law allows-something that he
couldn't have afforded had he remained
printer and not taken up the profession
of law. OF course the bill won't pass.
as the Irvine plant could be enlarged to
twice or thrice its present capacity if
there was room for it and inmates
enough to work it.
There is another bill that is bringing
elevator men to town and keeping them
here. One OF the provisions is that
every elevator shall at once equip itself
with the latest appliances for cleaning
grain. When the farmer takes his grain
to the elevator the latter sfall-kceping
1t separate-at once proceed to clean it.
The screenings taken from the grain
shall be returned to the farmer. The
price for cleaning the grain is fixed at
ono cent per busllel. This law would
be all right if an elevator could
be conducted as a grist mill is conducted.
But, as such thing is impossible, it is
easy to see how the law would work.
Imagine dozen or more teams in line
to unload, and the last team waiting five
or six hours while the loads OF those in
front were being separately handled and
cleaned. The screenings wouldn't pay
The farmer for fraction of the time
lost, and three times as many elevators |
as there are now couldn't handle the !
crop. Furthermore. as no one would
rum an elevator at loss, even if the |
'lan were at all practical, the price Of |
wheat would go low enough to pay for
he extra time and expense OF plant for
leaning purposes. The farmers in the
legislature will themselves send that bill |
% the scrap heap
AS stated in my previous letter, a bill
will surely pass providing for partial
payment TO those who have horses killed |
OH account of such animals having CLAN |
iers.
ID. r. S.