The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-01-13
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I0ct 10 evidenced IN the three bills that
were introduced in the senate this
week. Tive Of those bills have provis-
ions much the same. being those Of
Senators Mclean Of Cavalier and Bes-
sessen Of Wells. with that Of Senator
Gilbert Of Cass somewhat different.
In the Mclean and Bessessen bills
the persons excepted from the work.
tngss Of the proposed act are railroad
employees. officers. members Of depend
ent families, families Of men killed in.
railway service, persons engaged in
charitable work, ministers Of religion,
secretaries Of Young Mems Christian
associations. persons transported by
| charitable institutions soldiers or sail
ors. inmates Of such hols-s boards of
managers Of such homes. postoffice in
spectors. custom and immigration in
spectors. witnesses for railroad in legal
| cases, necessary caretakers of live
stock. employees on trains, and persons
injured in wrecks. Interchange of SER
vice between railroads, telegraph COM
panies and express companies is not
made unlawful.
Homeseekers' rates and excursion
rates may be granted. but not for the
purpose Of allowing any party or par
ties to attend political gatherings,
while members of the state railroad
commission must also be transported
free.
In Senator Gilbert's bill he provides
that the employees and officers of the
government experimental station at
Fargo shall be excepted from the pro-
visions of the bill, and also that those
engaged in farm institute work may
ride free.
Two hundred dollars is the maxi
mum fine prescribed for violation, with
ninety days as the greatest sentence
mat can be melted out, except in the
Bessessen bill, which provides a fine
OF $500 as the maximum amount.
| A new plan will be tried in the SEN
ate this year in the appointment of
members on the appropriations COM
mlttee in that members will be named
who are not residents of cities or COM
munities where large institutions are
located. This was tried out on minor
scale last year and the success was
so satisfactory that it will be worked
out in greater detail this session.
Senator LaMoure is chairman of the
committee, but there is only one in
stitution and that small one, the in
stitute for feeble minded being in Penn
bina county.
In the house each member will have
practically four committeeships, as
there are APO places to be distributed
among 103 members.
Something of the line of work fac
ing the speaker in naming his commit
i tees can be obtained from the fact that
there are SIS applications for places on
the appropriations committee alone.
bill to be introduced early in the
session will be for the division of the
Eighth Judicial district, placing Nc
Kenzie Williams and Mountrail in one
district and leaving Divide, Burke, Rem
vile and Ward in the Eighth. The
population in the Eighth district would
be 1929 and in the Eleventh district
about 10000 less, but this division is
proposed on account of the railroad
accommodations that can be secured
by such redistricting.
There will be other judicial districts
division bills up before the assembly.
Another bill to be introduced as soon
as the legislature reassembles will be
freeing all county fair associations
from taxation.
| Initiative and Referendum,
In Senate Bill No. 5, introduced by
senator Bessessen of Wells, amend
ment of the constitution is proposed to
cover both the constitutional and stat
utory measures. A petition contain
ing the petition of at least Is per cent
OF the qualified voters from majority
OF the counties Of the state shall be re-
CURED to propose any measure. but no
constitutional amendment may be pro-
posed oftener than once in four years.
initiative petitions must be filed at
least thirty days before the session of
an assembly, and such measures shall
take precedence over all other meas
ures In the legislative assembly except
appropriation bills, and shall be enact
ed or rejected without change or
amendment by the legislature within
forty days. If such initiative measure
snail be enacted by the legislature it
snail be subject to referendum peti-
ton or it may be referred to the peo-
PIE Tor approval or rejection. If it is
rejected or no action is taken upon it
oy the assembly within forty days. the
secretary of state shall submit it to
the people for approval or rejection at
the next general election,
4 The power Of referendum may be
ordered except as to laws necessary for
immediate preservation Of the public
peace, health or safety. A two-thirds
vote of the assembly must be had to
declare a vote under the class that can
De excepted, and a paragraph in the
OIL must set forth necessity for it's i'm
mediate operation.
Referendum petitions must be filed
within ninety days after the assem-.
bly, adjourned.
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