The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-04
Tenth Legislative Assembly
Rushing Furiously Thro
Long Grist of Bills.
GAME Law WAS GIVEN
ITS QuETus SATURDAY
Rep. Haugen Unwittingly Voted For
Resubmission - Legislative Tomb.
stones Erected For Many Measures
Conference Committee on Primary
Bill Appointed and at Work.
CBy George D.vi..l

(By George Davis.)
Bismarck, March 2.-These are in
deed strenuous times in the legisla-
ture, especially in the house where
three sessions were held Saturday. In
fact the rest of the session will be
something like Mahommedan's pray
er-morning, noon and night. The
constitutional limit of the legislature
expires at midnight on Friday March
8, and while it is probable that the
session of that day will be prolonged
into the late hours it must close be-
fore the hands of the dial pass the
meridian point. 1t is because of this
fact and the large number of bills
awaiting action that the house is going
at Dan Patch gait down the home
stretch. The condition is now such
that members having bills which they
desire to have passed are seeking to
get them out Of the regular order
where they are far down on the cal
endar and having them acted upon
out of order, while the parties inter-
ested in bills which are in good posi-
tions in the work are resisting these
things as they intefere with the posi-
bility of having the bills passed which
have been forced to the best positions
during the earlier days of the session.
Old members say however that when
the gavel falls at the close of the ses-
sion next Friday there will be little
If any work of Importance remaining
undone.
At the session Saturday morning the
house being in committee of the whole,
Mr.. Midgarden in the chair, two bills
were given considerable time in the
way of discussion and then they were
both killed. These were the bill pro-
viding that Burleigh county might go
into court and establish it's claim
against the county of Kidder for the
share of the Indebtedness of Burleigh
county at the time Kidder county was
taken from it in part. The history of
the trouble dates back to the days
when there were politics on the Mis-
souri, slope. When the bill providing
for the formation Of Kidder county
was passed by the territorial legisla-
ture in 1885 a provision was inserted
that the commissioners OF the two
counties should meet, and adjust the
matter of the Indebtedness that the
new county should assume. This it
seems was never done and the Bur-
leigh county representatives were
seeking to have law enacted that
would enable them to go into court
and establish their claim. The bill
was warmly discussed by Representa-
tives Stevens and Mockler in behalf
of the bill and Representative Streeter
against it, in which some decidedly
warm ancient history of a political
character was dug up. The bill was
lost.
Game Law Dead.
The game law, commonly known as
H. B. 81, which had been prepared by
the fish and game committee, was
amended in number of points and
after considerable time had been
spent in the discussion of the amend
ments. the committee voted the bill
out OF existence.
The other bills recommended for
passage at the morning session were
243 providing for the refuniling of
village warrants. and S17 changing the
rate of interest in the redemption of
tax certificates from two to one per
cent. Mr.. Midgarden who was in the
chair made one of the happiest hits
of the session when he put the motion
that the committee do rise. There
had been two bills indefinitely post
poned, the first one Just before the
motion to rise being the game bill
and The chairman stated that all who
favored the indefinite postponement
of the committee should say aye.
lIaugcn'S Bad Record.
At the opening of tho afternoon
session considerable amusement was
had among the members by the mis-
take made by the clerk on the roll
call on the concurrent resolution in
troduced by Mr.. Streeter on the sub
ject of resubmission. Mr.. Hauseu,
the chairman Of the temperance conf
mittee. had been as courteous as it
was possible for any one to be in the
matter ana when the bill was in COM
mittee of the whole, he moved that it
be put upon its third reading, so that
q record of the votes could be made.
He was very much surprised however
to find when the printed journal WAS
examined that he was recorded as
the third reading.
Legislative T0mbstOnes.
A large number of bills which have