The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-01

report on senate bill 81 1t was sent
to the committee of the whole.
Steering Committee.
The adoption of resolution today
providing for a steering committee
was a forcible reminder that the end
of the session is in sight. The opera
lions of the committee begin next
Saturday and it will sort the wheat
from the chaff as it sees the matter
and the bills which will become laws
will have to secure the O. k. of that
committee after that date.
General Orders.
The house, Wednesday morning,
worked like nailers and cleared the
calendar of dozen or SO of bills
and in addition the batch of appr0-
priation bills sent over from the SEN
ate on Tuesday afternoon were acted
upon under the order of reports of
standing committees.
One of two bills which came under
the full force of the ak was H. B.
247, an act designed to prohibit the
use of feeding of unwholesome food
Products to live Atock or animals
used for consumption as food and
prohibiting the sale of such. Now
the barnyard fowls can go on hunt
ing their food as of yore and the
farmers wife will not have to picket
her chickens for fear they may in
their ramblings pick up piece of
something unwholesome.
Another candidate for the boneyard
was H. B. GO, which provided that
persons or firms conducting public
warehouses or elevators shall install
the necessary modern machinery for
cleaning grain offered for sale 90
storage If the owner of such grain
SO demanded.
H. B. SO was passed amended. 1t
related to the publication of insur-
ance statements at half the legal
rates, the companies to select the
paper in each judicial district. H.
B. 80, also an insurance bill, was
passed. 1t provided for the payment
in full the premiums on mutual poll
cies sixty days after the issuance of
The policy or it becomes void.
H. B. 218, an act to amend section
Fill so as to cure confliction re-
lating to the terms of office of town
ship officers.
H. B. 1874, relating to the licensing
of grain warehouses, and H. B. 76,
permitting farmers to drain their land
into road bitches or depressions when
such. are on the owners land we're
passed.
Station Houses.
H. B. 1853, which was passed re-
lated to the maintenance of station
houses and keep an agent twelve
months in the year at all sidings
where there is grain and merchandise
to be shipped and where passengers
are taken of and on.
s. B. rs was passed. It related to
separate and mutual rights and La
bilities of husband and wife.
Mr.. Stevens asked to be allowed to
make a few remarks anent H. B. 10
the two cent rate bill. He ques-
toned the reasonableness of the rate
and he did not believe that two
cent rate could be enforced. He read
number of census figures showing
comparative populations in this and
other states, the area of the several
states and the numbers Of miles of
railroads in those states. He cited
the average cost Of carrying passen-
gers in Montana, South Dakota and
In this state. He said the carrying
of mails and express were not in
cluded in the computation of cost,
why, he did not know. He moved
that the committee on railroads re-
turn the bill to the senate with the
report that the senate amendments
be not concurred in. The motion was
not seconded and the matter died
aborning. H. B. IL has been made
a special order for Thursday after
noon at 2:3O O'Clock.
H. B. ISL, relating to the fore
closure of real estate mortgages and
limiting the time in which such mort
cages may be foreclosed by adver-
tisement, was passed.
The report of the committee of the
whole, Mr.. Tofsrud in the chair, was
adopted.
Palmer's anti-tip bill received %
votes and passed the senate today.
The bill prohibits the giving or TAX
ing Of tips by walters and porters
on railroad trains, and makes tipping
a misdemeanor. Senator Simpson
offered amendments to include din
ing room walters and to make the
crime felony, but these amendments
were not adopted.
The senate passed the following
senate bills: 297, requiring county
officers to reside at the county seat
278, providing for Galveston commits
sion system of government for cities.
247. amending section 1898, revised
codes, 1906, relating to law of emin-
ent domain. 2S1, providing for vaca-
ton Of alleys is cemeteries owned by
corporations. 263, anti-tip bill. 296,
a concurrent resolution for an amend