The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-03-19

bank examiner also gets an increase
in salary and gets two additional as.
sistants. 10 that the matter Of salaries
and new officials was pretty well 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
VIII run pretty close to the revenue
OF the state for the ensuing two years,
but it Is believed there will be a safe
margin.
Tho passage of the bill giving the
attorney general two assistants at ST..
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 had
agreed to postpone it Indefinitely. The
bill finally passed and the appoint.
snents to be made under it are await
Cd 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. r9--'
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OF corporation legislation there wa
little. the sentiment of the assembly
was 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
vas to authorize the commissioners
10 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
vas already sufficient corporation con.
troll legislation on the statute books
and the bills we're lost in the shuttle
of the last night. The anti-pass bill
eve got out of the committee in the
senate, although a senate anti-pass
bill was reported to pass on the last
day of the session. The bill to pre-
vent discrimination in the purchase of
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 the senate with.
out recommendation and died q nat.
ural death.
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A "dinky" caboose bill. prohibiting
the use of the little four-wheeled ca
bosses, 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 100000 biennially from the
warehouse fund to carry on their
work. The full crew bill, providing
for a 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 several
bills of g minor nature regulating cor.
poraticne, but the sentiment of the
assembly was not in favor of further
assaults Upon railroads or corpora.
tons.
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A new oil inspection law was
passed. The terms of the supreme
court are located TO: all time at Bis
Eaarck, instead of having sessions at
Fargo and Grand Forks. A constitu-
tional amendment was proposed for a
terminal warehouse at Minneapolis or
DuluJn j lac tCl ulS VI, SUPP C4uV COulL
Judges will be extended from six to
ten years If a proposed constitutional
amendment adopted goes through an
other legislature and to the people. A
new apportionment bill was passed to
give representation to Sheridan,
Mountraille, Dunn, Hettinger, Adams
and Bowman counties, which are now
without representation. A child labor
bill, doing away with the employment
of children under fifteen years of age.
was also passed. Provision was made
whereby firemen in cities having or
ganized departments may obtain pen
sions and relief in case of illness.
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Several social purity bills were
passed. Provision was made for a
good roads experimental test at Bis
marck by inmates of the state peni-
Tertiary. Milling experiments with
wheat will be made at the State Az.
ricultural college. An inquiry will be
made into the carrying charges for
grain to terminal markets with a view
to presenting the matter to the inter-