Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-02

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McDowell's bill carrying an appro-
priation of $4,000 for experiments to
determine the milling value Of cereals
! and for the publication Of the informa-
ton obtained was passed by a unani-
, nous vote.
S. B. 293, the naturopathy bill, which
| provides a state board for that class
of healers had been once defeated but
was called up for reconsideration and
after an impassioned speech against
! the bill by Senator Besseson the bill
was again killed by vote of 26 to
IS and the clincher attached.
One of the discussions of the day
in the senate was over the passage OF
S. B. 6, the Simpson measure setting
aside October 6 as a legal holiday to
be called Columbus Day in honor of
the memory of the discoverer of
| America. Senator Simpson stated
his bill was one of the first ones in
troduced during the session and had
| not yet been placed on the calendar,
though he distinctly remembered it
! was returned from the state affairs
committee with recommendation for
! passage.
Senator Bessesen Immediately
moved the bill be Indefinitely post
poned at which the author of the bill
took umbrage. He stated that sena.
torial courtesy from one senator to
another made such action on the part
of Senator Bessesen extremely notice
! able and that it was also an action of
extreme discourtesy to the senate and
! to the state affairs committee, which
! acted on the bill to make such mo-
, ton at this time when he had the
! privilege of voting no when the roll
was called.
To this Senator Bessesen replied
that already there We're sixty legal
holidays on the calendar during the
year and that he did not approve Of
making any more unless the legisla-
ture converted the whole year into
one holiday and not have any working
days whatever. He said he had re-
ceived letters from those interested
in the Simpson Columbus day measure
who had urged that it be defeated.
Senator Simpson stated that the re.
marks Of the senator from Wells
county might be appropriately ad-
dressed to a galley slave or to one
entirely devoid of sentiment, but that
it was extremely discourteous to q
senator on the floor Of the upper
house, to himself as the author Of the
bill and to the man who first planted
the Cross of Christ on this side of the
world. He sai0 that already thirteen
states of the union observed Colum-
bus day and that 100000 people in
the United States desired to make the
date of the landing Of the great Ital-
ian discoverer a national holiday.
Moreover, he stated, he did not know
what motive prompted Senator Beses-
sens opposition, but If 1t was be-
cause he thought another from anoth.
or race and cline was entitled to the
honor and credit of discovering Amer.
lea several centuries prior to tho e..
petition of Columbus, Senator Bosses.
sen could at least be generous enough
to divide the honor. When the vote
was put, the Bessessen motion for In.
definite postponement was lost.
When the legislative app0rtionment
bill, H. B. Is, by Nestos, came up for
final passage, Senator diversion offered
an amendment which would give Nc.
Kenzie and Williams county an extra
representative, making the total rep
resentation in the lower house from
that district six to one senator. Sen.
ator Martin said that inasmuch as
Williams and Mckenzie counties con-
tanned a combined population Of 10000
and his district only had three repre-
sentatives for a population of $4,000
people, which he did not feel fair
either in his instance or fair in the
demands OF Senator diversion. Sen.
ator Kennedy of Cass county stated
that he was in the position of Sen
ator Martin and he felt that the SEN
ator from Williams county was ask.
ing too much.
The amendment was voted down,
and in lieu thereof Senator WEIGH of
Burleigh county offered several
amendments which increased the
house membership to 113. The Mes.
tos bill came over from the house, as
amended, with 104 representatives
and 40 senators, and the senate appor.
tionment committee added ten mem.
bers in the house and one in the sen.
ate. which makes the membership so
in the upper house and 113 in the
lower.
A message was received from the
house returning senate bills 1892, 1913
and 1874, which had been indefinitely
postponed. They are three measures
relating 10 Judicial technicalities, one
by Steele Of Renville and the other
two by Pierce. Also that senate
amendments to house bills AT, 427,
422 and eos had been concurred in.
Senate Bills Passed.
S. B. 102, Martin, establishing school
of agriculture at Beach, passed 43
to D.
8. E. cS4, johnson, appropriatlng
1929 to reimburse members of railroad
commission for money expended in
office and for bills which have not
had sufficient funds to cover same,
passed AZ to Q.
8. 3. 325, Carter, fixing terms of
court in various counties comprising
fourth judicial district, passed As to 0.
1t was q great flibuster that Sen
at0r Simpson and tho senators from