Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-03-07
CLOSING DAYS
North Dakota Legislature Rapidly
Clearing up Business. Ad-
journs Friday March 8.

senate passed twenty five bills Mon
day thus disposing of all the senate
bills on the calendar. There was 40
discussion except on the bill naming
the officers and employers OF the leg
islative assembly and fixing their
compensation. This bill was finally
amended so that by resolution
either house can employ as much
help as it wants and was passed.
The following bills passed the sem
ate:
Little-To regulate investment of
funds and real estate holdings OF life
insurance companies.
Stade-Providing that township
supervisors shall hold Office for three
years.
Rice-Regulating the election of
officers and directors of life insurance
companies.
Kelly-Reiating to the increasing
and diminishing of the capital stock
OF corporations.
Rice-Relating TO sales by execut-
| ors or administrators.
Sharpe--Increasing the salaries of
the railroad commissioners and sec-
retary.
misunderstanding to the forma-
tiOn of new counties.
Purcell-Providing $3.50 per year for
the travelling expenses OF the su-
preme court judges.
Purcell-Providing for typewriter
briefs in certain criminal cases ap-
pealed to the supreme court.
! Pierce-Authorizing the governor
to remove or suspend certain officers
for malfeasance in Office or drunken
ness.
Spoonheim-Providing a method of
admitting persons to the poor farm.
Simrson-Changing county lines of
organized counties to include unor-
ganized territory.
Rice-Creating Ninth judicial
district.
impson-Esta blishing a standard
form of life insurance policies.
Mcdonald for the reg
istration Of births and deaths and
establishing a bureau of vital statis.
tics.
Taclott- Outlining the courses OF
study and the objects Of the several
state educational institutions.
The senate took up the apportion-
ment bill today and in the commit
tee OF the whole amended it almost
beyond recognition. The report OF
the minority of the apportionment
committee was adopted at the ses-
sion last Saturday and the bill was
! then referred to the committee of
the whole.
= AS reported by the minority the
bill provided for AZ senators and los
| members of the lower house. The
| only difference between this bill and
he one passed by the house gave
Barnes and Trail counties each one
more senator and made two districts
| OF Towner and Pierce counties while
the senate bill put them in one dis
trict.
Today the bill was taken up Sec
tion by section and the mem bership
in nearly half the districts was in
creased either in the house or the
senate. When the committee arose
the amendments that had passed TO-
creased the membership in the SEN
ate to 48 and in the house to about
l2O. The bill will be taken up again
tomorrow.
Tie governor approved the follow
ing bills: ppropriatioh for the de-
fciency Of Mayville Normal; .appro-
priations for an agricultural Depart
ment, for armories. for high school
aid, for insane asylum, for Industrial
school at Ellendale, for grain com
missioners' expenses and state Off
GERS, fol- the historical societies, for
tie school of mines and the bill pro-
viding that the state auditing board
may employ such help as is needed in
the several state Offices.
HOUSE BILLS.
The house passed the following
house bills:
Authorizing cities to fix the rates
to be charged BY persons or firms for
water supplies.
Authorizing the governor to ap-
point the secretary OF the railroad
com missions.
Giving lumber firms the right to
mechanics lien, but preventing any
collateral security.
Allowing purchaser Of machinery to
set up defects in same against pur-
chase price.
Granting to urban electric railways
the, power to acquire right of way by
condemnation. This is in the inter-
est Of tho proposed electric line be-,
tween Grand Forks and Fargo.