Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-02-12

nrSt time that one of the Jar North.
ern states has taken radical ground
on the intermarrying of the races.
The passage Of the bill Was accompa-
MED with some interest, Senator
Simpson opposing it solely ON the
ground that 1t was unconstitutional.
both with reference to the state and
federal constitutions. Senator Crane.
the author of. the bill, defended 1t on
the ground that it was matter of
proper police regulation, and the bill
passed almost unanimously.
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The supreme court handed down q
decision early in the week that will
help out the state revenues, by decid-
ing that counties can be required to
pay so much per capita for their in.
sane at the state hospital. Under this
law something like $4,000 has been
collected by the state and is available
as a part of the state revenue. An
adverse decision would have meant
the necessity of raising this much
more by taxation.
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Representative McCrea has the dis
tinction of having the first bill passed
both by house and senate. This was
House Bill Is and provides for the de.
posting of county sinking funds at
interest.
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A joint session of the house and
senate was held the latter part Of the
week to hear addresses on tuberculo-
sis by DR.. Ruediger, state bacteriol-
ogist, and DR.. Grassok, state health
officer. The question of state tuber-
culosis sanitarium is before the legis-
lature but may fail for lack of suffl-
cient funds with which to meet all
demands.
The end of the legal phases of the
celebrated Poole-Peake adjutant gen
eralship controversy came the latter
part of the week when the supreme
court handed down its decision in the
application for writ of prohibition to
restrain the courtlnartial that is try
Ing Poole. The court denied the an.
plication for writ, holding that the
courtmartial was not an inferior court
In the meaning of the law and that
consequently the upper court was not
authorized to enter an order restrain
ing Its proceedings. The application
for writ of quo warranto to test the
right of Colonel Peake to hold the of.
flee of adjutant general as against
Poole's claims was also denied and
this decision of the court confirms
Peake in the Office to which he was
named by the governor. The court
martial will be resumed, unless some
order should be entered by the gov.
ernor dfsmtssing 1t. 1t is not known
yet what action may be taken. The
courtmartial cannot visit any punish
ment except of military nature, such
as dismissal from the service, in case
they should find the charges justified,
1t may be that now that the contro-
versy over the adjutant generalship is
settled the whole matter will be
dropped.
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The initiative and referendum will
not down. The Skulason bill, which
provided for the referendum without
reference to constitutional amend.
ments, was killed by the house com
mittee of the whole and later motion
was made and carried for a reconsid.
GRAFTON. There was vigorous debate
In the house on the Skulason bill and
the committee, by narrow majority
OF one vote, voted for its indefinite
postponement. In this aid was rem.
dered by the members who had sup.
ported the Iceland bill, but wanted
everything included in the referendum
or nothing. A new senate referendum
bill has been introduced and the mat.
ter is still alive, although further
away than it seemed at the opening of
the session.
Owners of rural and other telephone
lines in the state are interested in the
Macarthur bill that gives the railroad
commissioners power to fix maximum
telephone rates and to enforce con.
Meeting rates. The bill also gives
authority over telegraph rates and
would, If passed, confer highly impor.
tant powers upon the commissioners
of railroads. The bill is in the state
affairs committee of the senate and
there is likely to be an interesting
discussion when it comes up for con,
sideration, which will probably be
some time this week. A bill to pro-
hibit discrimination in price by ele.
vators in the buying of grain is also
enlivenfng interest. A new anti-pass
bill has been presented in the senate,
the house bill not having been re-
ported yet. There has not been so
much anti-pass talk for. the past few
weeks, but it is believed probable