Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-01-15

The house committees will be an.
nounced Wednesday and Skulason OF
Grand Forks is said to be slated for |
chairman of the judiciary committee,
White of Trail as chairman of the
committee on railroads and Ployhar |
of Barnes or Putnam of Eddy as chair
man of the appropriations committee. |
The inclination of the speaker was to
place Putnam at the head Of the APP
preparations committee with view
of getting chairman from a non-in-
stitution district, leaving all the men,
bers from institution districts on the
same footing. Strong pressure was
brought to bear by some of the Barnes
county members for the placing of
Ployhar in view of the fact that Peake
Of Valley City held the committeeship
two years ago.
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The rules adopted by the house
provide for the same committees as
two years ago and about the only
change that has been made is the re.
duction of the number of members re.
quired to demand call of the house
to twenty-six. The senate committee
has named a committee on rules, con-
sisting of Senators Mcdonald, Talcott
LaNoure, Koffel, Kennedy, Cashel
and Sharpe. Some changes will be
made from the rules of two years ago
and some new committees created.
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A resolution of sympathy for Sen
ator Hansbrough, who is now serious
ly ill at Asbury hospital, Minneapolis,
was adopted by the senate on the
opening day.
The formal Inauguration of the state
officers took place Wednesday after
noon in the joint session of the house
and senate. The governor and mem.
bers of the official family were escort
ed to the house chamber by a COM
mittee of the house and senate. Judge
Fisk of the supreme court admins.
tered the oath of office to Governor
Burke and the state officers, after
which the message of the governor
was delivered. Politically the prin-
cipal recommendations of the message
of the governor that created interest
were those for non-partisan election
of United States senator and for the
ernor to remove county officers. This
latter law is pressed ON the ground
that it will mean the better enforce
ment of the prohibition law.
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The matter of the adjutant general
ship occupied considerable share of
| the weeks interest AS forecasted in
last weeks letter Governor Burke de-
tailed Colonel A. p. Peake, command.
ing officer of the state regiment, as ad.
jutant general and directed General
T. Fl. Poole to transfer his office to
Peake. Foole refused to comply with
the order, alleging that under the con-
stitution of the state he could not be
removed except by sentence of court
martial The constitution of the state
says that "no commissioned officer of
the state guard shall be removed from
Office except by sentence of courtmar-
tial pursuant to law" An action in
mandamus will be brought to compel
Poole to surrender his Office and this
will bring the entire matter into the
supreme court of the state. Attorneys
differ as to the meaning of the con-
stitutional provision. some claiming
that the adjutant general is not in
cluded in the commissioned officers
that the law is intended to cover. A
stipulation will probably be entered
into by the attorneys in order to get
the case into court at the earliest
possible time.
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Only two bills have been introduced
up to the present time. One of them
provides for the abolition of the death
sentence in the state as a penalty for
murder. This bill was introduced by
WEIGH of Burleigh county and If it
passes will prevent the execution of
two murderers now in the state peni
Tertiary, Joe Peltier of Bottineau
county and R. S. Noah of Ward
county.
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When the senate reconvenes Sen
ator Pierce will present a bill for the
guaranteeing of state bank deposits
The bill provides for levy of 1 pei
cent on the average daily deposits Of
banking institutions, the fund created