Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-03-07
Resubmission Knocked Out
Again tho Legislature Refuses to
Submit the Liquor Question
to a Vote.
= New Lignits Coal Rate Bill Passes
the House. Some Senate
Bills Passed.

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Bismarck, March 3. Special-Gov.
Burke has vetoed the Dickinson ex-
perimental station appropriation OF
S23,475 aud cut the Edgeley from
$4,000 to $500.
He gave as his reasons that if the
state continued to appropriate money
for these stations they would soon
have institutions at both places as
expensive to the state as the univer-
sity or agricultural college.
He approved the appropriation bills
for the following: University, Nav
vile normal, agricultural college.
science school, -four experiments at
the agricultural college, Valley City
normal, insane asylum, school of for
estry, feeble minded and blind asy
lum, foundation for an Indian statue,
deaf and dumb school, pure food and
books for law library.
The senate today adopted the min
'ority report on the apportionment
bill.in the committee of the whole
but no vote was taken on the bill.
The minority reports give senate ~
mem bers and the house 105.
The senate passed the following
bills:
Cashel-concurrent resolution rela-
ting to drainage bonds.
Sinpson-providing for assessing
reservation of coal on land sold by
the railroads.
Purcell-relating to mortgage FORE
closures.
Talcott-provides for stock sani-
tary board.
Sinpson-Six insurance law.
Kiaabel-To prohibit discrimina-
tionsbetween sections of state in the
sale of commodities.
Bismarck, March ?, Especially The,
resubmission bill in the house was
killed by a vote Of 80 to 81 today.
Streeter made an appeal for his bill.
He cOntehded that in some parts OF
the state there was vastly more
drunkenness than under strict IL
cense system. In support thereof
he quoted a number of official 6s ures
to the effect that last year there were
1,465 retail dealers licenses Issued in
the sister state and 1,7O3 in this
state, an increase OF 700 in two years.
Mr.. Mockler told Of his experience
with prohibition and local option in
Iowa, that as prosecutor he knew
that with all the kings horses and
all tina kings men the prohibitory
measure could not be enforced, and it
was failure.
The house proceeded to pass No.
234, repeating the druggists permits
to sell Intoxicating liquors., and pro-
viding for a substitution by physi-
clans, and pharmacists clerks where
they hold the, same character of pro-
fessional licenses as their employers.
The measure was introduced by Rep
resentative Pugh and it is thought
will cnre many of the evils of the
druggists permits where they are
abused.
House bill 233 introduced by Mr..
Haugen and providing for the assess
ment of a certain tax against the
building and lands upon which the
same are located, when such build
ings are used for the purpose ofskeep.
ing therein for sale or with intent to
be sold Intoxicating liquors Of any
kind, was passed BY a vote of 10 ayes
to Z nays.
Mr.Burgum' bill providing for the
outlawry Of mortgages which are not
foreclosed within ten years after the
maturity thereof, ,and officially known
as H. B. 131, was passed.
H. B. 33 passed the house, which is
the measure providing for and fixing
the Ignite coal rate in the state.
There was no discussion on the bill,
but when the vote was being taken,
Mr.. Chapman in explaining mis- vote
stated that the house was, in the
passage of this measure beginning at
the right place to make railroad leg
islation. Instead of spending its
time in the enactment Of anti-pass
laws which effected not one person
in hundred and the reduction of
passenger rates which. benefited only
those who INDUCED in the luxury of
travel. the house was giving the peo-
pie that which they needed 10 the
adoption Of equitable freight rates.
he voted, aye. Mr.. Martin Of Bill
ings congratulated the house on the