Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-03-18

bank examiner also gets an increase
in salary and gets two additional as.
%sistants. SO that the matter of salaries
and new officials was pretty we'll pro.
vided for by the legislature.
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Ali of the appropriation bills have
passed practically as anticipated in
these letters and practically all OF
them will be approved by the govern.
or. So far he has vetoed only two
appropriation bills, one for $500 in
aid of the G. A. r. of the state and
another for a small sun to purchase
some Indian sites for the State His.
torlcal society. The approximations
will run pretty close to the revenue
of the state fer the ensuing two wears
brt it is believed there will he a safe
m. rgin.
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I"1c passage of the bill giving the
attorney general two assistants at So.
500 a year each was one of the inter.
estin2 incidents of the last night cf
inc session. Senator Simpson of
Stark county opposed the bill, claim.
Ing the appropriations committee had
agreed to postpone it Indefinitely. The
Dill finally passed and the appoint.
menls to be made under it are await.
Ell with considerable interest. as the
activity OF the office III the enforce.
ment of the prohibition law, which is
the end most generally sought by the
ultra prohibition element i'm the state.
Will depend to some extent upon he
aprointees. Already one or two sne-
cal assistants to the attorney general
nave been named in the western part
of the state to have charge of the on.
forcement of the prohibition law in
the western counties.
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or corporation legislation there was
little. the sentiment of the assembly
was not in favor of further attacks
upon railroads and several drastic
bills that passed the house did not
get throuSli the senate. One of them
wa tC authorize the commissioners
&c investigate any rate on petition of
twenty-five citizens, to make orders
failure to obey which meant a fine of
$500 to $1,000 Il day fox the railroads.
and largely increasing the powers of
the commission. A good MANY of the
members of the senate felt that there
was already sufficient corporation con-
troll legislation on the statute books
and the bills We're lost in the shuttle
OF the last night. The anti-pass bill
never got out of the committee i'm the
senate, although a senate anti pass
OH was reported to pass On the last
day OF the session. The bill to pre-
vent discrimination in the purchase of
grain by elevators was lost in the sen
ate committee Of the whole and thu
bill to give the railroad commissions
ers power to fix telephone charges
was reported back to the senate with
out recommendation and died a nat.
ural death.
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A "dinky" caboose bill. prohibiting
the use of the little four-wheeled ca
booses, a passed to take effect an
other year. The bill to give the rail
road commissioners power to fix tele-
phone rates and compel connections
was lost in the senate, as was the bill
increasing the powers of the railroad
commissioners and giving them the
receipts of $4,000 biennially from the
warehouse fund to carry on their
work. The full crew bill, providing
for a crew of six men on all freight
trains of forty cars in length, died
in the senate committee. A bill was
passed providing against the blocking
OF crossings by trains and several
bills of g minor nature regulating cor
poraticns, but the sentiment of the
assembly was not in favor of further
assaults Upon railroads or corpora
tons.
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A new oil inspection law was
passed. The terms of the supreme
court ale located for all time at Bis
marck, instead of having sessions at
Fargo and Grand Forks. A constitu-
tional amendment was proposed for a
terminal warehouse at Minneapolis or
Duluth. The terms of supreme court
Judges will be extended from six to
ten years if a proposed constitutional
amendment adopted goes through an
other legislature and to the people. A
new apportionment bill was passed to
give representation to Sheridan,
Mountraille, Dunn, Hettinger, Adams
and Bowman counties, which are now
without representation. A child labor
bill, doing away with the employment
of children under fifteen years of age,
was also passed. Provision was made
whereby firemen in cities having or
ganized departments may obtain pen
sions and relief in case of illness.
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Several social purity bills were
passed. Provision was made for a
good roads experimental test at Bis
marck by inmates of the state peni-
tertiary. Milling experiments with
wheat will be made at the State Ag-
ricultural college. An inquiry will be
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