The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-17
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was not attached to any representative
district and therefore had no repre-
sentative on the floor. ..'
The routine matters out of the way
the introduction of bills began and
for hours the clerks read and read
and read. 1t was the usual scene at
the first opportunity of introducing
bills and thirty-five were read before
the flow of embryonic law ceased.
There were many good measures in
troduced and many which will in all
probability become laws. Many Of
them were almost duplicates and some
were even quadrupled, this being es-
pecially true of the bills providing for
the control of glanders and other dis
eases in animals and the destruction
of the same by the state veterinarians
and the payment for the animals so
killed.
SkidO0 Bill.
Anderson of Grand Forks county
landed the skidoo bill in the house, it
being a measure to prevent the use
Of money in elections by corporations.
The other bills were:
By o. ]. Sorlie, an anti-pass law
prohibiting the granting or use of any
pass or other advantage by railroads
not allowed to every person.
By Shirley, concerning and defining
usury.
By Storey, relating to the extension
of city limits.
By Butte, making an appropriation
Of 1926 for the soldiers home at
Lisbon to cover deficiency on the
monument, remodeling the dormitor-
les, and the construction of admins
tration building.
BY Storey, making all congression-
al township lines public highways and
requiring the construction of roads
two rods wide along the same and
otherwise providing for such roads
and the construction and repair
thereof.
Mr.. Storey also introduced a bill
requiring all railroad companies to
stop all passenger trains at all coun-
ty seats for the getting of and on OF
passengers.
BY diversion, bill regulating and
fixing the maximum coal rate in the
state, as follows: First five miles Is
cents per ton; five to fifteen miles,
IS cents; fifteen to twenty-five miles.
40 cents; twenty-five to forty miles,
As cents; forty to sixty miles, SO
cents; sixty to eighty miles, IS cents;
eighty to one hundred miles, 60 cents;
one hundred to one hundred and fifty
miles, IS cents; one hundred and fifty
to two hundred miles, IS cents; two
hundred and fifty to three hundred
miles, 81.
By Casey, an anti-pass law.
BY o. P. N. Anderson, providing for
the payment for stock killed by order
Of the state veterinarian.
By Mockler, requiring all railroad
companies to build and maintain
fences along their tracks.
Mr.. Mockler also introduced bill
requiring all passenger trains to be
stopped at all stations which are
county seats.
BY Iceland, bill for a constitu-
tional amendment providing for the
initiative and referendum.
Mr.. Iceland also introduced bill
on the question of reciprocal de-
murrage.
BY Jones of Ransom, a 2.cent rail-
way passenger rate bill.
BY Tufte, prohibiting divorced per-
sons from marrying in this state until
one year after the granting of the
decree Of divorce, and making the is
suance of licenses to such persons
punishable by fine.
By Shirley, re-enacting the law with
reference to mechanics liens.
BY Casey, a railroad gross earnings
tax bill.
By Shirley. prohibiting probate
judges and their deputies from acting
as attorneys in probate matters.
Mr.. Shirley also introduced a bill
repeating section $3.50 OF the revised
codes of 1905.
BY ]. A. Sorley. an anti-pass bill.
BY B. Anderson, providing for the
opening, grading and improvement of