The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-03-01
Reopening State Fair Fight.

ment question mixing into the state
fair fight, as it necessarily does. The
state fair bill revived is that intro
duced by Senator Kennedy of Cass
county and which provides for the
location of the state fair in Fargo,
taking 1t from Grand Forks.
In the congressional apportionment
tight, the Cass county delegation has
gone against the eastern and western
districts as in favor of northern and
southern districts. This fact, it is be-
lieved, will result in a few of the
western apportionment supporters
turning against the Cass county dele
cation. in view of the fact that the
Grand Forks senatorial delegation
favors the eastern and western dis
tricts.
When the report of the committee
was submitted Saturday afternoon,
Senator Stevens of Grand Forks OBJ
Jected to consideration of the report,
which objection resulted in the mat
ter being laid over till today.
Continue Drug Permits.
With the decision of the temperance
committee of the house to recommend
for passage the Geo. A. NcCrea drug
permit bill. it would seem that the
retention of the present system of SELL
ing liquor in North Dakota for
medicinal purposes will continue at
least two years more. The Macarthur
bill, in the senate, threatened for a
time to do away with the present sys-
tenn by making it possible to secure
liquor upon physicians prescription
only, but the house committee, going
on record for the present system as
against this senate bills provision,
will no doubt result in that measure
being killed off.
The McCrea bill was given the en-
tire support Of the temperance work.
ers of the state. 1t provides for cer-
tain restrictions about the permit law
now in force, drawing the reins on the
pharmacists just a little stronger than
under the old law. The bill has been
reported for passage and the house
will no doubt adopt it. The Nc
Arthur bill is now before the senate
for third reading, having been report
ed out of the committee favorably.
Game Conference.
The Hale and Talcott game bills
have finally reached conference
committee. After the house had pass
ed the Hale bill and the senate had
taken similar action on the Talcott
bill. there was nothing to do but
throw the two bills into conference
committee where the differences can
be threshed out and report made to
both branches of the assembly as to
the agreement reached. The result Of
the conflict is being awaited with
interest by the sportsmen all over the
state. The abolishment of spring
shooting Is one question that both
houses are agreed upon and there
seems little doubt but what it will
carry
Osteopathic Fight Continues.
Further attempts at amending the
bill creating a board of osteopathic
examiners will be made on the floor
of the house when the measure comes
up for its third reading and final
passage. After having been reported
on by two committees, one of these
committees having the measure under
consideration two times, and after be-
ing passed by the senate. the alo.
pathic physicians Of the state have
not given up their fight against the
bill and will seek to further amend it
by adding a section defining osteo-
pathy and another section endeavor-
ing to show that nothing in the law
shall be so construed as to give the
osteopaths the power or right of pre-
scribing drugs or of performing sur
gical operations.
1t was supposed that when the
adopted in the senate
had been agreed to by both the
osteopaths and the medical physi-
clans, that there would be no further
fight against the measure. but it
seems that the NJ. DIS could not and
did not take this view of the ques-
tion. Members of the legislature have
been made the recipients of scores of
letters from the medical fraternities
to the bill
State Flag Conference.
Chairman J. E. Stevens of the state
flag conference committee has called
a meeting to be held this evening at
which time the various designs that
have been submitted will be viewed
and decision probably reached as to
the flag deemed most acceptable. The
has received many beau
tiful designs and that North Dakota
has its store of artists. can no longer
be denied.
Fight On tuberculosis.
The Eleventh legislative assembly
Is expected to take the first step
against the ravages of tuberculosis in
The passage of the Halliday bill,
which has been amended. This meas
IRE originally appropriated $4,000 for
4 tuberculosis sanitarium, but the ap-
section has been stricken
out and instead the bill provides for
the establishment of the sanitarium,
The naming OF, beard which board
is empowered to select site. secure
grounds and go ahead with the pre-
iminary work. This commission
consists of Governor Burke. DR.. Fan
ME Dunn Quain of Bismarck, DIR. G.
=. Ruediger of the state public health
laboratory, DR.. j. c. Grassick of