Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-09
What The LEGISLATURE DID
Bflef Mention Of the Fate Of the 200 Or More Bills
s,s.4 introduced IN Both Houses ..s i,

the state university and school Of
es is established at Hebron, In
Morton county, to experiment with
Goals and clays Of the state. r.
The appropriation bills providing
for the various state institutions
have been liberal as possible, and
provide for many new buildings to
keep pace with the increasing needs
Of these institutions. .5tr Il r 8
The appropriation for immigration
literature has been re-enacted at
$4,000 annually to be expended by
the commissioner Of agriculture, al
though the assembly refused to
make an appropriation for the Sc
attic exposition next year. F.. ~ +.
The salaries of state officers were
increased all along the line, the gov
ernor getting an increase Of 1880
annually and the other state omcers
$3.50. ..s, e. =. 3. : s..
The railroad commissioners get an
increase Of $500 year, and the sec
retaxy an increase of from 81 900 to
$1,000. : = # !: T. ~ / =: X. \ ~
The salary Of the clerk Of the SUI
preme court has been increased to
$4,000. a year and of the state bank
! examiner To $4,000. ~.
Two additional assistant exam
liners are provided. ~. =-y~
The library board has been provid-
ed with a considerable additional
appropriation, and the attorney gen
erals ONCE with two assistants at
$500 a year each. : . % 49,.
( In the way Of anti-corporation leg
islation little has been done. The
"dinky" caboose bill prohibiting the
use of the little four-wheeled ca
bosses, has been passed to take ef-
feet another year. - -,
The bill to give the railroad COM
missioners power. to fix telephone
rates and compel connections, was
lost in the senate, as was the bill
largely increasing the powers of the
| railroad commissioners and giving
them the receipts of $4,000 from
| warehouse licenses biennially with
which to carry on their work.
The full crew bill, providing for q
crew Of six men on trains of more
than forty cars in length, died In the
senate committee. and the bill to pro-
vide against discrimination in the
purchase Of grain In elevators died
lin the senate COMMITTEES o. the
whole. ~ AL
AEbill was passed providing against
the blocking Of crossings by trains,
and several bills Of . minor nature
regulating corporations, but the sen
timent Of the assembly was not TN
favor OF further assaults upon rail-
roads OF corporations. #5 Isl. :. : 4. I:
In tho way Of prohibition and tenn
perance legislation. an anti cigar
cite bill was passed and q bill proh1-
biting the publication Of advertise
ments for liquors. 4 & %$$%*:s = y. n: n"
SThe law to prohibit the soliciting
Of liquor trade In the state BY sales
men was further strengthened, and
the definition Of Intoxicating liquors
twas strengthened up little. A new
drug permit bill was passed, putting
I the permits into the hands OF the dis
trict courts, and stiffening up the
/ regulations. Strangely enough, the
druggists Of the state we're in fav-
|; or Of the absolute repeal Of drug
| permits, and favored placing the
sale Id the hands Of physicians on
prescription. Such q bill passed the
J senate, hut was lost In the house.
! and the prohibitionists secured the
passage Of the McCrea bill, continu !,
Ing the old drug permit system with
the changes noted above. A bill was
also passed providing, for the In,
/
spection Of liquors BY the state pure
food commissioners once. a bill 70
! require the stopping Of trains Ct . the !
state line and . search for and IN
spection ot liquors, known % the 's
I Wineman measure, because prepared
BY Jake Wineman Of arand Forks,
twas lost. {
Election legislation was lost n ire
ouet and bitter debates and Differ
ences Of opinion. ana the legislature
! adjourned without making any
changes in the present primary law.
Many of them were proposed. but
when the house finally got together;
on q bill, It was on the day before
the close Of the senate. and that l1lat.
body refused to suspend the rules
land receive 1t. The only bill a6ect-.
linz nomination that 40 passed wa @
Itas Doyle Bill. royiding Tor the non ,'t'n'
partisan election of Judges I the ~ "a,
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