Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-14
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
Work Accomplished by the State
Legislators.

Wednesday was a rather peaceable
day in the house. Though several de
bates were on there was nothing
warm in any of them. The first bill
to be defeated on the floor Of the
house after debate was that to limit
the terms of county officers to two
terms of two years each, as is now
the case with sheriff and treasurer. 1t
went down by vote of So to IS.
A number of the members told OF
alleged court house rings" which sue.
ceeded in keeping the offices within
the trust by rotating them.
Among a number of house bills in
troduced were:
BY Steen-Providing a separate Ii.
cense for each grain warehouse.
BY Tuttle-An anti-cigarette bill,
prohibiting their sale, smoking or i'm.
portation into the state, and inciden.
tally prohibiting the use of tobacco in
any form w persons under eighteen
years of age.
By Notwithstanding the time for
payment of taxes on the ground that
the car shortage has not enabled the
farmers to sell grain.
BY Dibley-Creating bureau Of la
Dor with an employment bureau at
tachment and appropriating $4,000
annually for 1t.
In the senate there was quite de.
bate on the joint resolution for a me.
mortal to congress for the removal OF
the tariff on lumber and coal, but a
resolution was passed favoring the re-
moval. The railroad commission re.
ported to the senate number of tele.
grams from the Northern Pacific su.
perintendent relative to work on open.
| ing the road from the snow blockade.
Supt. Burt showed that good progress
was being made, and that all the
lines would be opened in a day or two.
He invited the senators to accompany
a snow bucking expedition, but there
were no takers.
A bill to prohibit soliciting orders
for Intoxicating liquors was sent by
the senate to the attorney general for
an option as to its constitutionality.
The senate passed bill repeating the
law requiring all printing to be done
in the state. Both houses probably
will adjourn from Thursday afternoon
to Tuesday next.
On motion of Stevens of Burleigh
Thursday three junketing parties will
visit the state institutions during the
recess of the legislature. The three
committees. are composed of Messrs.
Blake, Chapman and Hanawalt.
The house concurrent resolution
urging tho removal of the tariff on
lumber and coal as amended by the
senate was received and referred to
committee. No bills were considered
in the house.
There was an unusually large num-
Der of bills considered in the senate
in the afternoon, but only half of them
had been read the first time when ad
|journment was taken. Most of them
related to insurance matters, and II
all are passed there will be little for
insurance companies to be In doubt OF
as they cover every point in the bust
ness, including some that have not
heretofore been known. Senator
Simpson considered a complete insur
ance code and then followed it up
with bill relating to the annual re
ports Of life insurance companies. one
prohibiting discrimination by corpora
tons or stock companies acting as
agents or solicitors for life insurance
companies, and one prohibiting dis
elimination by life insurance compa
MES and providing penalties.
Senator Little had one to regulate
the investment of the funds and the
real estate holdings of life insurance
companies.
Senator Sifton put in one to prohibit
1.-THE issuance of non-participating pol
icies by certain life insurance compa
mics, another defining the status Of
persons soliciting life insurance, and
another prohibiting misrepresenta
tons by life insurance companies. A
real live insurance lobby may now be
expected on the ground when the SEES
sion reconvenes.
Talcott has two bills relating to ed
|ucation, the first providing for compuI
sorry education between ages of eight
and fourteen, the other prescribing
qualifications OF county superintend
tents.
Sharpe introduced bill increasing
the salary of railroad commissioners
to $1,000 and the secretary to $1,000
and requiring him to reside at the
state capital and have regular Office
hours. 1t also provides $4,000 per an
mum for the travelling expenses OF the
commission.
The bill gives the commission gen
eral supervision Of all railroads
bridge corporations and ferry compa
MES, the property of which is used OF
Ioperated for railroad purposes, ant
the officers, agents or employees there
Of. The only duties that the bill ex
plicitly prescribes for the commission
ers are to look after the safety anc
convenience of the public. and it pro
vides that no useless junkets shall be
undertaken and no excursions made
on special trains for such purposes.
i Another bill by Sharpe provides FOL
licensing all grain warehouses.
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