The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-16
BANKING BILL
GETS FAVORABLE
REPORT TO-DAY
Features Which Shut Out the
Present Examiner Were
Eliminated
The AMT|-PAsS BILL REACHED
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TODAY
Sale of Eggs By Weight Instead Of
by Count Was killed-Board of Con.
troll Bill Favorably Reported in the
House.

~ CVVuV W0S hlueQ-0O6F0 OI CO0s
troll Bill Favorably Reported in the
House.
III. d. PAULsoN.)
Bismarck. N. D., Feb 16.-An
agreement was reached today by
which the senate banking committee
will report Mcdowell bill out for pas
sage. The amendments that have
been agreed to prevent the creation
OF new department of banking,
leaving the work under the direction
OF state public examiner. and by so
doing the qualification feature that
proved Objectionable to the present
examiner was eliminated. The
changes in law reduce the cost of op-
Grating about $4,000 annually, while
the fees for the examinations of the
banks are reduced from $40 to $12.
Semi-annual examinations are to be
made.
Representative Doyle Of Foster in
troduced bills today amending the
constitution giving state officers four
year terms and rotating of the Of?
fees to make certain number elect
ed each two years thus retaining the
biennial election.
/ Representative Aasheim would IL
cense lobbtests. and prohibit them
from working for any bill without
registering and securing a label from
the state.
| In the house this afternoon a fay-
orable report came from the ways
and means committee on the Hobe
bill creating a board Of control for
all state institutions with favorable
report also being had on the Frame
bill providing for an election for a
constitutional conventin and an ad-
verse report on Sterns bill No. 213.
regulating the sale of nostrums and
medicines by unlicensed persons.
The Morttz state text book COM
bination bill came out with a mapori-
ty and minority reports but was re-
ferred back again, while Deans bill
calling for the sale of eggs by weight
was killed.
Senator Plains bill for a constitu-
tional amendment allowing the state
to construct terminal elevators in
Minnesota was also reported for pas
sage.
| A0 0A1t4~pooS Ulll TchCucU con-
ference committee with concurrent
resolution being introduced in the
house to report by Saturday. Repre-
sentative Sorlie. Homes and Nestos
were named from the house. The
senate -concurred and President Bur-
dick named Senators Gilbert, Besse-
sen and Putnam.
Fought County Road @Boss."
The Welo bill providing for the
appointment OF county superin-
tendent Of highways. in whose hands
Is placed the work Of appointing
overseers. was recommended favor
ably from the house committee of
the whole yesterday afternoon fol-
lowing a rather hot fight, started
when Mr.. Akeson of Cass sought to
indefinitely postpone the measure.
Burnett Of Trail offered objections
to the bill also which called Hyland
Of Ramsey to his feet with an equal
" ardent plea for the passage of the
bill and against the remarks of the
Traill county member. The bill
came out on majority and minority
reports, the majority report being
adopted.
Consideration of the senate con-
current resolution fixing the forty
fifth day of the session as the limit
in which new bills can be introduced,
went to the state affairs committee.
It is probable that an amendment
will be offered making the flfty-first
day the limit.
Yesterday afternoon two attempts
were made to reconsider bills that
had been indefinitely postponed but
both efforts failed. One was on the
Doyle Of Mcintosh bill relating to
the time when stock may run at
large. while the other was the Jacob
son measure relating to the fees of
registers Of deeds.
New Deal On Percentage.
The house now has before it on
third reading the Hoge bill providing
for an amendment to the primary
election law relating to the percent
age. Of votes required. The bill orig
inally prescribed twenty-five per
cent, but Frame of Walsh amended
bv inserting thirty per cent of the
party vote, which vote must appear
at the polls although it is not neces-
sary that each candidate have thirty
per cent. This amendment, 1t is con-
tended comes within scope of the
primary election decision of the SUI
preme court.
The question of abolishing capital
punishment in North Dakota, pro-
posed by Representative Sgutt, came
In for extended discussion late yes
terday afternoon in the committee of
the whole house and the bill was
killed. Opposition to the passage of
the measure was based largely on
the theory that there is never any
certainty as to whether a man. con-
|victed Of crime and sentenced to life
imprisonment or q term Of years.
will serve such sentence. and several
instances Of murder in North Dakota