Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-28
HOUSE DOES IT'S Duty
Passes All the Appropriation Bills just as They Game from
the Senate Senate Goes on Record Against Tips
.--0ther Important Bills Passed

There was a little tilt over the pas
sage Of the bill appropriating $40, 900
for the Office of the commissioner Of
agriculture and labor and Messrs.
Stevens and Tufte for a few moments
were engaged in terrific oratorical
combat in which the gentleman from
Burleigh was the victor and under
reconsideration the bill passed.
General Orders.
The house, Wednesday morning,
worked like nailers and cleared the
calendar of a dozen or so Of bills and
lin addition the batch Of appropriation
bills sent over from the senate on
Tuesday afternoon were acted upon
under the order Of reports of stand,
ling committees. S 2sS
One OF two bills which came under
the full force of the ak was house bill
247, an act designed to prohibit the
4 use of feeding Of unwholesome food
products to live stock or animals used
4 for consumption as food prohibiting
/ the sale Of such. How the barnyard
fowls can go on hunting their food
as Of yore and the farmers wife will
not have to picket her chickens for
4 fear they may in their ramblings pick
1 up a piece of something unwholesome.
/ Another candidate for the boneyard
was house bill 81 which provided that
persons or firms conducting public
/ warehouses or elevators install the
I necessary modern machinery for
cleaning grain offered for sale or stor-
age if the owner Of such grain so de-
manded NJ ,.; .s
House bill So was passed amended.
| 1t related to the publication of insur-
ance statements at half the legal
\ rates, the companies to select the
paper in each judicial district. House
i bill 50, also an insurance bill, was
i passed It provided for the payment
/ in full the premium on mutual policies
sixty days after the issuance Of the
policy or it becomes void. +.
House bill 21S. an act to amend sec
i ton Bill SO as to cure a confliction
/ relating to the terms Of office Of town
ship officers II
I House bill 1874, relating to the
a licensing of grain warehouses, and
I house bill rs, permitting farmers to
drain their land into road bitches or
Z depressions when such are on the
u owners land, were passed.
a s$ Station Houses.
Il House bill 1853, which was passed
related to the maintenance of station
houses and keep an agent twelve
a months in the year at all sidings
q where there is grain and merchandise
to be shipped and where passengers
are taken off and on. 4. NJ TILL
! Senate bill 76, was passed, it related
Il to separate and mutual rights and
i liabilities of husband and wife.
Mr.. Stevens asked to be allowed to
& make few remarks anent house bill Is,
II the 2-cent rate bill. He questioned
8 the reasonableness of the rate and he
u did not believe that a 2-cent rate
4 could be enforced. He read num-
4 her of census figures showing com
u parative populations in this and other
q q fNf no e,to
/. and the numbers of miles of railroads
u in those states. He cited the average
II cost of carrying passengers in Mon
h tana, South Dakota and in this state.
U He said the carrying of mails and ex-
.Ipress were not included in the com
putation of cost, why he did not know.
4 He moved that the committee on rail
raods return the bill to the senate
with the report that the senate
amendment be not concurred in. The
I motion was not seconded and the
z matter died aborning. House bill Is
q has been made a special order for
B Thursday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock.
House bill ISL. relating to the fore.
closure OF real estate mortgages and
limiting the time in which such
a mortgages may be foreclosed by
advertisement, was passed.
The report Of the committee Of the
], whole, Mr. Tofsrud in the chair. was
Z adopted. il
! isss THE SENATE.
The senate devoted another session
b Yesterday to work OF "a largely routine