Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-02-05
SOLoNS TAKE A
WEEKS RECESS
Adjourn to Allow Committees to
Visit State Institutions.
PR0H|B|TI0NISTS WIN FIGHT

House Defeats Initiative and Referen.
dunn Bill Providing for Direct Pop.
ular Vote on All LesisIation-Loca.
ton Of Normal School Furnishes In.
terest and Excitement, but Goes
Over az Special Order.
Bismarck, Feb. 1.-The legislative
assembly took another adjournment
Jan. % and will not convene again
until Feb. 4, the majority of the mem.
bers leaving for home to spend the
weeks recess. On the day of the ad-
journment the house and senate
named committees who will visit the
various educational, penal and char
table institutions in the course of the
recess and report their needs to the
legislature.
A special committee was also named
to visit the Minnesota legislature and
confer with the committee on ware
housing and grain grading and the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission regarding uniform legis-
lation for grain inspection. This COM
mittee consists of Senators Talcott,
Trimble and Ressesen and Represen-
tatives Frame, Hill and Doyle. The
committee will report to the legisla-
ture as to the legislation deemed nee
essary better to protect the interests
Of the farmers of the state at the ter
minal markets.
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One of the features of the weeks
legislation was the decisive defeat of
what is known as the Iceland initia-
tive and referendum bill in the house.
This bill provided for the initiative
and referendum of all legislation and
of constitutional amendments and
passed the house two years ago.
Since it provided for an amendment
to the constitution it was necessary
that it should pass this legislature
and then be approved by the people
before it would become effective. The
prohibitionists of the state have
waged an active campaign against the
proposed amendment because under
its provisions the prohibition clause
of the constitution could have been
resubmitted to the people by small
percentage of the voters upon petit
tfon. The prohibitionists have been
fighting any suggestion to resubmit
this clause and lined up their forces to
kill the bill for that reason. They
were successful in the fight and the
house judiciary committee, in major
fty and minority reports, recommend
cd the indefinite postponement of the
bill The majority report was adopt
ed by the house and the final death
blow was given to the bill when Rep
resentative Shiels moved to table any
further consideration of the matter.
There are several other referendum
amendments in the house and senate
committees, but they omit constitu-
tional amendments from their pro-
visions and one of these may pass.
j. j. j.
The location of another normal
school also furnished some interest
and excitement. There were two bills
before the house, one locating a nor
NAL school at Velva and the other To-
eating a normal school at Minot. The
house killed the Velva proposition out
right and then laid the Minot bill over
until Feb. II, when it is made a spe-
cial order. A large delegation of
Minot citizens was present in the leg
islature fighting for the passage of
the bill, but were unable to line up
forces to get it through. The state
fair proposition entered into the nor
NAL school fight. Fargo and Grand
Forks each want the state fair, which
is now alternated between the two
cities, located permanently, the Fargo
people at Fargo and the Grand Forks
people at Grand Forks. A rumor that
the Minot and northern state repre-.
sentatives we're allied with Grand
Forks in the fair matter led the Fargo
representatives and their friends to
make combination to prevent favor
able action on the normal school mat
ter, with view of discovering where
the friends of the Minot proposition
would finally land on the fair matter.
There are several state fair bills in,
two of them providing for the per-
manent location of the fair at Fargo
s1d providing $4,000 annual appro-
priation. The house is pretty we'll
divided on the matter and 1t is not
possible yet to foresee the outcome.
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The case of General Poole has fur
nished a ripple of interest during the
week. The courtmartial ordered by
the governor to try Poole for dfsobedi-
ence Of orders and for removal of
state records from the Office at the
capitol convened the first of the week.
Objection was made to Major j. H.
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