The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-01-28

EK-congressman M. N. johnson was
declared elected United States senator
today by a vote Of 1875 Republicans
to Is Democrats. This is the first
time o United States senator has been
elected in this state as the choice of
a primary.
After his certificate of election was
signed In the presence Of the two
houses of the legislature, Mr.. Johnson
made a long address before the joint
assembly, declaring himself unpledged
as to elective or appointive officers ex-
cept in two cases and those pledges,
he said, he made because the men who
received them were worthy and hs
had an entire right to make them,
as both were unsolicited.
Mr.. Johnson's certificate of election
was delivered to him by Senator La.
Moure, the Oldest member of the
state senate who nominated him in
the senate yesterday. MI. johnson
left for the East today, and will go
to Washington the latter part of Feb.
ruary.
The senate state affairs committee
today declined to agree to the house
amendments of the resolution for an
investigation of, the state penitentiary
and a committee of conference on the
part of the senate consisting of Sena-
tors LaMoure, Pierce and Tolcott was
named. The house conferees will be
named tomorrow and will probably
get together on a resolution. The OBJ
lection to the resolution is understood
to be the giving of the house Of a
majority of tho membership.
Bismarck, Jan. 21.-The day in the
legislature was devoted to the passage
Of bills of minor Importance. One of
the bills passed by the house was for
a constitutional amendment to in
crease the term of supreme court
judges to ten years. The bill to do
away with terms of the supreme court
at Fargo and Grand Forks was favor
ably reported by the senate committee
today and will probably pass both
houses.
An invitation was extended by both
houses to DR.. Grassick of Grand
Forks, state health officer, and DR..
Ruediger of the state health labora-
tory to address the two houses on the
subjects of tuberculosis and public
health. All interest tonight is cen
tered upon the probable outcome of
the Tuttle-Storey contest, which is
made a special order for the house
tomorrow afternoon. The houses will
be closely divided on the question, and
it is expected that the majority for
either contestant or c%ontestee will not
! be over two or three votes.
A bill presented to the house today
calls for the abolition of the live stock
sanitary board and the reinstatement
Of the old system of district veteri
naries. Another bill calls for the re
moval of all telephone and telegraph
poles from private lands and their
erection upon section lines.
Andrew Carnegie was invited by
concurrent resolution Of the two
houses to make the state university al
Grand Forks a beneficiary of the
teachers foundation.
A decision is expected from the
supreme court in a day or so that will
have considerable effect upon the
revenues of the state and will affect
the appropriations that can be made
by the legislature to the extent Of
about a quarter of a million dollars
The case is that involving the Law
passed two years ago requiring coun
ties to pay 500 annually for the care
of insane patients at the state hospi
tai and imbeciles at the state school
for feeble minded. Several of the
counties have refused to pay the
charge and the whole sum that has
been paid in is something like $3.50,
900.
If the decision goes against the
state a good share Of this sum will
have to be refunded and the state will.
in addition have to find revenues tt
compensate for this failure of revenue
to the state hospital. The decision is
awaited with great interest by repre-
sentatives of state institutions whose
appropriations will depend to some ex
tent upon the outcome of the case.
The conference committee on the
penitentiary investigation resolution
was named today and will probably
report within a day or so. It seems
likely that the resolution as finally
adopted will call for four members
from both the senate and house and
for a report before the close of thu
session.
Grand Forks.-A. ]. Albring of Spo
kane, Wash, is in the city in search
of the murderer of his son, Kevil AL
bring, who was murdered at Spokane
Dec. 16, 1907. That the mystery may
be solved right in Grand Forks is the
opinion of the Spokane officials who
have been keeping the affair dark. The
man who is guilty of the murder is
named Cook. This information the
official at. Spokane secured from an