The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-03-18
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". ana a mining experiment station
IN Morton county, at Hebron.
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The state officers salary bill was
one that passed on the last night
Of the session and 1t increases the
salary Of the governor by $1,000 a
year and that OF the state officers by
$3.50. with a provision that the Off.
GERS to avail themselves of the bene-
nts Of the bill must live at Bismarck
and give their personal attention to
the duties of their Offices. The rail.
road commissioners get a $400 a year
increase in salary, the secretary an
increase from $1,000 to $4,000 and the
clerk of the supreme court an increase
from 1880 to $4,000 a year. The state
hank examiner also gets an increase
in salary and gets two additional as.
s%istants, so that the matter of salaries
and new officials was pretty we'll pro
vided for by the legislature.
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All of the appropriation bills have
passed practically as anticipated in
these letters and practically all Of
them will be approved by the govern.
or. So far he has vetoed only two
appropriation bills. one for 5000 in
aid of the G. A. R. of the state and
another for a small sum to purchase
some Indian sites for the State His
torical society. The appropriations
will run pretty close to the revenue
of the state for the ensuing two years
but it is believed there will be a safe
margin.
The passage of the bill giving the
attorney general two assistants at 81,
500 a year each was one of the inter.
esting incidents of the last night OF
the session. Senator Simpson Of
Stark county opposed the bill, claim
ing the appropriations committee hao
agreed to postpone it indefinitely. The
bill finally passed. and the appoint
ments to be made under it are await.
ed with considerable interest, as the
activity of the Office In the enforce
ment OF the prohibition law, which is
the end most generally sought by the
ultra prohibition element in the state
will depend to some extent upon the
appointees. Already one or two spe
cial assistants to the attorney general
have been named in the western part
OF the state to have charge of the en-
forcement Of the prohibition law in
the western counties.
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OF corporation legislation there was
little. the sentiment of the assembly
wal not IN favor of further attacks
upon railroads and several drastic
bills that passed the house did not
get through the senate. One of them
was to authorize the commissioners
to investigate any rate on petition OF
twenty-five citizens, to make orders
failure to obey which meant a fine Of
$500 to $1,000 a day for the railroads
and largely increasing the powers Of
the commission. A good many Of the
members Of the senate felt that there
was already sufficient corporation con
troll legislation on the statute books
and the bills were lost in the shuttle
Of the last night. The anti-pass bill
never got out of the committee in the
senate, although a senate anti pass
bill was reported to pass IN the last
day Of the session. The bill to pre-
vent discrimination in the purchase oil
grain by elevators was lost in the sen
ate committee of the whole and the
bill to give the railroad commission
ers power to fix telephone charges
was reported back to tho senate with
out recommendation and died a nat
ural death.
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A "dinky" caboose bill, prohibiting
the use of the little four-wheeled ca.
booses,s was passed to take effect an
other year. The bill to give the rail
road commissioners power to fix tele
phone rates and compel connections
was lost in the senate, as was the bill
increasing the powers of the railroad
commissioners and giving them the
receipts of 1900 0 btennially from the
warehouse fund to carry on theil
work. The full crew bill, providing
for q crew Of six men on all freight
trains Of forty cars In length, died
in the senate committee. A bill was
passed providing against the blocking
Of crossings by trains and severa.
bills Of = minor nature regulating cor
porations. but the sentiment of tbs
assembly was not in favor of further
assaults Upon railroads or corpora
lions.
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A new oil inspection law wal
passed. The terms Of the supreme
court are located for all time at Bis
marck. instead of having sessions a
Fargo and Grand Forks. A constitu
tional amendment was proposed for {
terminal warehouse at Minneapolis o
Duluth. The terms Of supreme cour,
Judges will be extended from six tt
ten years If a proposed constitutional
amendment adopted goes through an
other legislature and to the people. A
new apportionment bill was passed tt