Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-14

busy and somewhat of memorable day.
Senate bill No. 8, making Labor Day q
legal holiday in this state was defeated,
but notice was given for reconsid Iteration
and in the meantime some of those OPP
posed may be won over.
During the morning session the Sorley
primary bill was reported by Mr.. Shir-
ley the chairman of the committee on
elections and privileges and it was made
a special order for 2:30 in the afternoon.
At 2;3O il the afternoon the house
went into committee of the whole. for
consideration o. House Bill Al, the Sor-
ley primary bill and it was considered
section by section. An effort was made
to dispense with the reading for the
reason that as there was similar bill in
the senate which was likely to pass that
body and that in all likelihood the out
come would be that the bills would be
eventually referred to conference COM
mittee and possibly a compromise meas
ure would be submitted to- the house,
but the effort failed and the reading OF
the bill section by sec ion was proceeded
with. Mr.. johnson of Ward presided
over the deliberations of the committee,
There were few little skirmishes over
the consideration of the earlier sections
Of the bill up to section 10, on the sew
eral amendments made by the elections
committee. The primary is to be held
the last Wednesday in June, the original
bill provided for the third Monday in
June. The provision that voter must
vote for the same political party he
voted for at the last primary election
was stricken out of the bill by the cleo
tions committee. =
/ The consideration of section 10 pre-
cipitated considerable debate as that
was crucial to the democrats, the mat
ter of filling vacancies when nomina
tions had not been made in primary.
While the consideration of the section
was in progress message from the
senate was announced and there was {
pause long enough for it to be received
The message was to the effect that the
senate had passed the Sharp primary
bill and that it was on it's way to the
house. Following the messenger from
the senate was great rush of senators
land others. This means now thatsEth,
house has been put on the defensive ant
it will have to take some action on tn,
SHARP bill and report before the house
primary BILLS taken up by the upper
branch of the assembly 1t is seen nov
that the tactics in the house were along
the line Of trying to avoid that conting
ency but the senators seemed to have
! been the more astute.
& Section 10, providing for the filling o.
vacancies, has been amended and it pro
vides that the central committee of the
party in which a vacancy may occur the
central committee may make nomina
lions and the name shall be placed or
the ballot and the candidates shall pa,
half the required fee for that particular
Office, and, further that any candidate
e ected at the general election who hat
not paid the full fee shall pay such {
SUM to the proper officers equal to the
primary election fee for such office be
fore he qualities for the said Office.
| The names of the candidates will be
arranged in alphabetical order on both
! the sample and regular ballots.
| Mr.. Stevens called attention to the
probable unconstitutionality Of the fee
system and cited decisions Of the
supreme courts of Illinois, Michigan ane
Nebraska He said it cost the state oil
| Illinois 100000 to cure the fee error ir
its primary bill He read the decision
of the Illinois court on the question 81
fees. st5sss x sss d. s..5 I.
In the consideration of section Is, re-
lating to the marking of ballots and the
! manner Of voting Mr.. Stevens with con
lSidCIdOlO5SLlpA SodgCu ou1G AO wax
decidedly opposed to the creating o.
/ fractional differences ia the republican
/ party, he said republican because there
were not enough democrats in the state
to have party split. He wanted thu
blanket sticker prohibited and put out
OF business. He wanted the people *
/ be free agents and entirely divorced
| from influences Of persons, gang Or clan
Mr.. Stevens secured an amendment
to section Is providing that no stickel
used shall have more than one name OF
| it. Mr.. Stevens commended that mar
ought to have something to do with hi.
ballot a ~ ss.s5
| As the consideration Of the bill pre-
ceeding Mr.. Stevens referred again K
oonstitutionality feature. He said tina
as assistant attorney general last yea
he had written an opinion on the Re,
question and contended that the collec
tion Of fees was unconstitutional, ant
auditors were advised Of the opinion 81
1 the attorney general, but that it wa