Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-02-18
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Sroper police regulation, and the BIZ
PASSED almost unanimously.

Sroper police regulation, and the bl0
Das sed almost unanimously.
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The supreme court handed down a
decision early in the week that will
help GU the state ven by decid.
ing that counties can be required to
pay so much per capita for their in
sane at the state hospital. Under this
law something like $150,00O has been
collected by the state and is available
as q part of the state revenue. An
adverse decision would have meant
the necessity of raising this much
more by taxation.
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Representative McCrea has the dis
tlnction of having the first bill passed
both by house and senate. This was
House Bill % and provides for the de.
posting of county sinking funds at
interest.
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A joint session of the house and
senate was held the latter part of the
week to hear addresses ON tubercuIo-
SIS by Dr.. Ruediger, state bacteriol-
oglst, and DR.. Grassok, state health
officer. The question of a state tuber-
culosis sanitarium is before the leeis-
lature but may fail for lack of sufi-
cient funds with which to meet all
demands.
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The end of the legal phases of the
celebrated Foole-Peake adjutant gen
eralship controversy came the latter
part OF the week when the supreme
court handed down it's decision in thu
Application for a writ of prohibition to
restrain the courtmartial that is try
ing Poole. The court denied the an.
pllcatlon for a writ, holding that the
courtmartial was not an inferior court
IN the meaning of the law and thai
consequently the upper court was NOT
authorized to enter an order restrain
Ing Its proceedings. The application
Tor a writ of quo Warranto to test the
rlght OF Colonel Peake to hold the of.
nee of adjutant general as against
Poole's claims was also denied and
thls decision OF the court confirms
Peake in the office TO which he was
named by the governor. The court
martial will be resumed. unless some
order should be entered by the gov
ernor dismissing it. 1t is not known
yet what action may he taken. The
couftmartlal cannot visit any punish
ment except of & military nature, such
as dismissal from the service, in case
they should find the charges justified.
1t may be thar now that the contro-
versy over the adjutant generaIship is
settled the whole matter will be
dropped.
The initiative and referendum will
not down. The Skulason bill. which
provided for the referendum without
reference to constitutional amend.
ments, was killed by the house com.
mittee of the whole and later a motion
was made and carried for a reconsid.
efatlon. There was a vigorous debate
IN the house on the Skulason bill and
the committee, by a narrow majority
OF one vote, voted for its indefinite
postponement. In this aid was rem
dered by the members who had sup
ported the Iceland bill, but wanted
everything included in the referendum
or nothing. A e senate referendum
bill has been introduced and the mat
ter is still alive, although further
away than it seemed at the opening of
the session.
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Owners Of rural and other telephone
lines in the state are interested in the
Macarthur bill that gives the railroad
commissioners power to fix maximum
telephone rates and to enforce con-
Meeting rates. The bill also gives
authority over telegraph rates and
would, if passed, confer highly impor-
tant powers upon the commissioners
OF railroads. The bill Is in the state
affairs committee of the senate and
there. is likely to be an interesting
discussion when it comes up for con.
sheraton, which will probably be
some time this week. a bill to bro.
hibit discrimination in price by ele.
vators in the buying of grain is also
enlivening interest. A new anti-pass
bill has been presented in the senate.
the house bill not having been re.
ported yet. There has not been so
much anti-pass talk for the past few
weeks, but it is believed probable
some anti-pass bill will be enacted.
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The state fair proposition has not
yet reached a focus. There are sew
eral fair bills in and as soon as they
are reported there will be fireworks.
The members from Grand Forks are
seeking to line up enough members to
kill any proposed amendment of the
present law and to leave the state
fair as it now is, divided alternately
between Fargo and Grand Forks. The
fair proposition enters into a good
many matters of legislation. Fargo
and the friends of Cass county would
like to see the establishment of the
fair at Fargo made permanent. but
there will be bitter opposition on the
part of Grand Forks to any such plan.
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Another murderer's neck was spared