The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-03-04
SESSION Near
ADJOURNMENT
Usual Activity Of Closing Days
In the Legislature.
BUDGET CARRIES sl,4oo,o00

BUDGET CARRIES SL,400,000
Has Passed Senate and Will Be Al.
Proved by House Without Delay.
Primary Election Fight Ends With
Defeat Of Measure Proposing Re-
turn to Convention Methods-Drua
Permit Bill Meets Bitter Opposition.
Bismarck, March 1.-With the ap.
proach of the end OF the session there
has been the usual activity in the
halls of the legislature and at the
present time there are several scores
of measures in both houses that have
been passed on by the various COM
mittees and are awaiting the formal
passage by the two houses. The ap-
preparation bills were gotten out OF
the way in the senate the middle of
the week, the upper house making q
new record for the passage of the
bills and disposing of forty separate
measures in two hours. The bills
have gone to the house and will prob.
ably be passed by that body without
much delay. There is some friction
on the part of some house members
over one or two of the bills, but in
the end the bills as passed by the
senate will probably be passed through
the lower house.
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The budget carries about $1,40O, 900
and the bills as reported by Senator
LaMonre of Pembina county, who is
chairman of the appropriation COM
mittee and one of the best posted
men on the finances of the state, are
believed to cover all that can with
safety be expended, pay the ordinary
expenses of state government and
keep within the revenues of the state.
The big educational institutions have
been we'll provided for. getting about
$1S0,000 each in the case of the state
university and state agricultural col
lege. The normal schools get sub
stantial sum. and liberal provision as
possible is made for the penal and
| charitable institutions. The state hos.
pital for the insane gets s12G,O0O for
new buildings; the state reform school
gets $4,000 for the same purpose.
The blind asylum gets liberal ap.
preparation for Improvements. The
Mayville normal gets $4,000 and the
state penitentiary gets a number of
improvements Provision is made for
the several sub.experiment stations in
the state and new station is estab-
lisned at I1ettinger. in Adams county
An appropriation of $4,000 is made
for the payment of claims for the de-
struction Of glandered horses in tho
past two years. An appropriation of
$50 900 for the biennial period is made
with an amendment that the appro-
priation shall be spent for printing
and advertising matter in the East
and South. The appropriation for
state aid to hig!. schools is increased
$4,000. An appropriation of $4,000
is made for state highway commits
sion. Funds are appropriated to pay
George Murray, former temperance
commissioner, whose Office was de-
clared void by the supreme court; for
A. G.. Burr for services as district
Judge during the time he served and
to pay T. R. Shaw, former secretary
OF the state capitol commission.
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Some appropriations are made in.
volving new departures. A mining
sub-experiment station is authorized
in connection with the state school
of mines and will be located at Heb.
ron, Morton county. where there are
extensive coal fields and deposits of
clay. A state tuberculosis sanitarium
ls begun and a board named consist
ing of the governor, DR.. Ruediger,
state bacteriologist; DR.. Grassick, su-
perintendent of the state board of
health: Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain of Bis
marck and c. J. Lord of Cando. The
board ts authorized to meet and or.