The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-02-04
SoLONS take A
j WEEKS RECESS
Adjourn to Allow Committees to
Visit State Institutions.
pRoHIBI1IoNIsTs WIN FIGHT

House Defeats Initiative and Referen.
dun Bill Providing for Direct Pop.
uIar Vote on All Legislation-Loca-
ton Of Normal School Furnishes In.
terest and Excitement, but Goes
Over as Special Order.
Bismarck, Feb. 1.-The legislative
assembly took another adjournment
Jan. '28 and will not convene again
until Fob. 4, the majority of the menl.,
bers leaving for home to spend the
weeks recess. On the day Of the ad.
journment the house and senate
named committees who will visit the
various educational, penal and char.
table institutions in the course of the
recess and report their needs to the
legislature.
A special committee was also named
to visit the Minnesota legislature and
confer with the committee on ware
housing and grain grading and the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission regarding uniform legis.
lation for grain inspection. This com.
mittee consists of Senators Talcott,
Trimble and Bessesen and Represen.
tatives Frame, Hill and Doyle The
committee will report to the legisla-
ture as to the legislation deemed neo-
essary better to protect the interests
of the farmers of the state at the ter
minal markets.
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One of the features OF the weeks g
legislation was the decisive defeat Of
what is known as the Ueland initia.
tive and referendum bill in the house.
This bill provided for the initiative
and referendum of all legislation and
of constitutional amendments and
passed the house two years ago.
Since it provided for an amendment
to the constitution 1t was necessary
that it should pass this legislature
and then be approved by the people
before it would become effective. The
prohibitionists of the state have
waged an active campaign against the
proposed amendment because under
its provisions the prohibition clause
Of the constitution could have been
resubmitted to the people by small
percentage of the voters upon peti
tion. The prohibitionists have been
fighting any suggestion to resubmit
this clause and lined up their forces tc
kill the bill for that reason. They
were successful in the fight and the
house judiciary committee, in major
ity and minority reports, recommend
ed the indefinite postponement of the
bill. The majority report was adopt
ed by the house and the final deatf
blow was given to the bill when Rep
resentative Shie]s moved to table any
further consideration of the matter
There are several other referendum
amendments in the house and senate
committees, but they omit constitu
tional amendments from their pro
visions and one Of these may pass.
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The location of another norma
school also furnished some interes
and excitement. There were two bills
before the house, one locating a nor
NAL school at Velva and the other 10
eating normal school at Minot. Th'
house killed the Velva proposition out
right and then laid the Minot bill Owe
until Feb. II, when it is made spe
cial order. A large delegation o
Minot citizens was present in the leg
islature fighting for the passage o
the bill, but were unable to line VI
forces to get it through. The stat
fair proposition entered into the mol
NAL school fight Fargo and Gran!