The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-27
LEGISLATURE IS
COMING DOWN
HOME STRETCH
Work Of Clearing Desks Be.
fore Closing Hours Well
In Hand
NO MORE sNEEz|MG FROM
COPENHAGEN SNUFF NOW

00o0 6SBb00-NO Co0Q NOQQ Tax
BM Posible at This Session-Mc.
Dowell BIN Has Good Chance.
Bismarck. N. D.. Feb. 27.-With the
last day Of the session within the
present week, both branches Of the
lsgislature got down to work today
IN earnest to put the important meas
ures now ready for final passage
through both houses.
There was a determination on the
part Of everybody to get the work
done as rapidly as possible SO that
the calenders would not be- %ato
crowded In the last hours of the se.ss
sion.
Efforts to reduce the senate men,
bership under the new legislative ap-
portionment have met with at least a
temporary defeat as the agreement
reached by the special house appor-
taonment committee that reported the
measure out today provides for SEN
ate membership Of fifty during the
next two years with q reduction to
forty.nine, the present membership
at the end of that time by reducing
Cavalier county to one district.
Under the new plan Grand Forks
county retains three senatorial dis
tricts but loses two house members,
the bill now prepared giving the
fifth district one, the Sixth district
one, and the Seventh district two rep
resentatives.
Barnes county retains two senator
ial districts as does McHenry with
Bottineau losing one. Both Barnes
and McHenry lose representative
each.
During the next two years the
house membership will be 103, being
increased ny. the addition OF y one
house member when Cavalier county
Is reduced to one district. The pro
posed new county Of Sioux Is join
ed with Adams and Hettinger and the
districts get three instead of two rep
resentatives.
A decision has been reached where.
by both the Plain bill and the Doyle
Ployhar initiative and referendum
bill will be passed. The former orig
mated in the senate and the latter IN
the house and the conference commit.
tee this morning brought about the
decision. This will make four initia-
tive bills certified up to the next as.
sembly.
Snuff Chewing Difficult.
Snuff chewing in North Dakota will
hereafter be practiced by it's resi-
dents under difficulties, final action
being taken by the legislature Satur.
day afternoon in the passage of the
LaMoure bill In which the sale OF
snuff within the borders of the com.
monwealth is prohibited. There was
only short debate on the question
with an almost unanimous opinion
that snuff Is dangerous and harmful
and on those showings the vote was
overwhelmingly in favor of the bill.
Continuation of the legislative ap-
portionment question in the hands OF
q committee by defeating the plan Of
bringing the bill up in the house fol
final action Saturday was victory
for the opponents Of the bill that had
been reported out. Eastern delega.
tions were almost solid against the
bill, with the western members favor.
able to immediate action. The bill
in question has been prepared by
Messrs. Nestos of Ward county, Welct
of Burleigh county, both In the west
and Bjornson Of LaMoure, in the cen.
trail section.
All opportunity Of passing a bill
through the present legislative as.
hA
Of road taxes would be in cash az
against the payment of such tax BY
labor, has vanished. The houses &C
tion last week in killing the Scott
bill making such provision does away
with the question 30 far as the Thir.
teenth assembly is concerned.
Not nearly as much trouble is an.
ticipated In the house in passing the
Mcdowell banking bill as was ex.
perienced in the senate. The bill
read in the house at morning ses.
sion, was reported from the banking
committee the same evening and II
now on the calendar for final passage
The fact that the two banking com.
mittee chairmen, as we'll as the mem.
bers. had been working together or
the bill made the trip Of the measure
through the mouse committee IN suct
remarkably short time an easy mat
ter.
Country Printer Protected.
In the union label bill that wa.
killed by the senate. no attempt wat
made to work an injustice toward thu
country town printer reports tt
the contrary Notwithstanding Under
the several classifications that were
made in the bill, and which was sup
porter by Messrs. Kennedy and Tai
colt of Cass, was one classification
that does away with any hardship or
the country printer so far as the state
work is concerned, and no change
from the present condition was ir
any manner intended.
Senator J. Il. Stevens of Crane