The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-03-15

noon untn 6 o'clock in passing senate
bills and nearly cleared the calendar.
tbs dAly rufle Of the afternoon was q
tilt over q bill authorizing county
superintendent to fll vacancies on
school boards when local boards had
failed to do so within thirty days. The
hill was defeated.
Senate bills passed by the house
were:. Regulating disbursements of
Insurance companies, requiring annual
apportionment and accounting of sur
plus of life insurance companies as to
policies heretofore issued; prohibiting
discrimination by life insurance COM
panies and providing penalties; de-
fining the status Of persons soliciting
life insurance.; relating to the division
of counties; promoting the safety Of
employees and passengers on railroads
and making violation of the law mis-
1emeanor; providing for construction
of Us and transfer facilities at railroad
crossings and providing penalty for
failure to observe the law; taxation Of
grain grown within the state and held
there in an elevator and warehouses
and granaries; prohibiting misrepre-
sensations by life insurance compa-
MES; regulating retirement of capital
stock in certain cases
The senate spent most of the day in
committee of the whole on the appor-
tionmcnt bill, and after it got through
it looked very much as though that
body did not propose that any bill
should pass at this session.
The committee went at the bill by
districts, and when: the Forty-eighth
had been reached indications pointed
to a bill with fifty senators and $50
assembiymar, thing which neither
senate nov house is ready to pass.
In executive session the senate con-
sidered all the appointments so far
made by the governor, and confirmed
the following: Trustees for the school
of the Predetermined, G. l. Chistens,
Park River; j. E. Gray, Grafton; w. C..
Truemann, Grafton; M. F. Hegge, Hat
ton.
Trustees for Mayville Normal-Sam-
uel Torgersen, Grand Forks; H. b.
Cassell, Hope; Charles T. Studness,
Churches Ferry.
Trustees for Valley City Normal
Il. II. Brownson, Williston; John Sew
ern. Jamestown.
Director Of the School of Forestry
A. R. Mckay, Bottineau.
Trustee for the Hospital for the In
sane-M. A. Hildreth, Fargo.
Trustee for the blind asylum-John
Childerhouse, st. Thomas; H. G.
Thompson, Bowesmont; Alexander
Morrison. Bathgate.
Trustees for the School for the
Deaf-A. F. Weight, Leeds; Charles M.
Fisher, Devils Lake.
Trustees for the Reform School
Fred F. Fritz. Towner; Christian
Bertach, Jr.. Bismarck.
Trustees for the Soldiers Home-D.
F. Siegfried, Sanborn; o. F. Sperry,
Lisbon.
Trustees for the State University,
James v. Brooke, Cando; H. T. Hedge
sen, Milton.
Trustees for the Academy of Science
s>-George E. Wallace, Richland county;
Quinn, Richland county.
Member of the State Board of Phar-
macy-Walter Masters, Willow City.
Member of the State Board of Dental
Examiners-E. j. Brownlee, Devils
Lake.
District Veterinarians - First dis
tdct, Paul Bilden, Northwood; Second
district, D. T. McNaughton, Devils
Lake; Third district, E. H. Rishel,
Mayville; Fourth district, F. H. Farm
err, Wahpeton; Fifth district, ]. J..
Clary. Lamopre; Sixth district, Will
tam Mackin, Mandan; Seventh district,
A. Elliott, Milton; Tenth district, G. H.
Davidson. Rugby; Eleventh district, F..
W. Weston, Dickinson; Twelfth dis
trict, J. w. Robinson, Coal Harbor.
State Rxaminer-Oliver Knudson.
Nelson county.
Superintendent State Board Of
Health-Dr. G.. Grassick, Grand Forks
Trustees of the Agricultural College
Clark W. Kelly, Devils Lake; James
Radford, Warren, and H. r. Hartman,
Page.
Both houses are getting the Inn
portant bills well cleared up, and will
have all the appropriation bills out of
the way BY Wednesday night and
come very near to clearing up the list
OF the bills by Thursday evening, al
lowing the engrossing forces to get
their work cleared up by Friday noon,
to clear for the adjournment at that
hour. About all outside the appropria-
ton bills which are yet to be acted
upon are. the divorce bill, game bill
and telephone bills, which are yet
pending. Several minor bills are yet
on the list, but they will be cleared up
rapidly. "a.
Wednesday was day Of star per-
fermances In the North Dakota legis-
lature. and both houses had expert.
eacesS Of killing measures, and then
reconsidering and passing them. In
the senate the main fight was over the
bassage Of an apportionment bill
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