Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-15

After lively debate, which was lis
tened to with interest by large num-
Der of auditors who had gathered in the
senate chamber in anticipation of some
fireworks, over the Gunderson game
and fish commission investigation reso-
luton, the resolution calling for COM
mittee of the house and senate to in
vestigate the expenditures of the COM
mission was passed. A motion of Sen
ator Duis to refer. the resolution to the
committee on state affairs was lost by
a vote of g to 20 OH roll call, which
was requested by Senator Gunderson.
Senator Cashel moved the adoption of
the resolution when it came up as a
special order of business. Senator Duis
objected to the passage of the resolu-
ton, stating that he had a telegram
from the chairman of the commission
that action be deferred until the re-
port of the commission was printed
Senator Gunderson said there was no
reason for any further delay. 1t was
not a political resolution, as had been
stated. He spoke of the penitentiary
resolution he had introduced two years
ago, and said it had not been useless,
as stated. 1t had exposed lax and care
less business methods. He said reform
had been cried from the housetops i'll
the state, and yet when members came
to the legislature they found this record
of gross negligence and misappropria-
ton of funds i'll the state auditors Of
fec, in the vouchers of the game and
fish commission. Across the hall they
found the treasurer's office with funds
of over $50, 900 misappropriated-the
greatest scandal in the history of state
hood. He wanted to know where the
legislature was to head in at if this
record continued. He wanted to know
if the state was i'll the grasp of graft
and extravaganza. The people were
entitled to know how the affairs Of the
state were being conducted and the re-
quest of the game board for delay until
their report was printed was a flimsy
excuse.
Senator Pierce said he thought he
resolution was III line with the telegram
Senator Duis had from the chairman OF
the game and fish board. Senator Cash
el said he had met a member Of the
board who had told him the board want
ed the fullest investigation. Senator
Steele favored referring the resolution
to the committee He said under the
new rule it could be recalled at any
time by vote of the senate. On the
roll call, the motion to refer was lost,
and the resolution carried.
he other resolutions calling for a
committee to investigate the methods OF
the state auditing board and the bust
ness methods of the state land depart
ment went to the committee on state
affairs.
Lieutenant Governor Burdick an
nounced his committees to the senate.
He said the naming of committees was
always task involving considerable
difficulties. 1t would be noted, he
said, that the committee on approprla-
tons had for the first time been taken
out of the hands of senators from i'll
stitution cities. An effort has been made
to name the committees to bring into
Use the best services of every man as
far as possible, and while not every man
could be exactly satisfied, yet he prin-
cipal object of all ought to be to jo'n,
in the move for the best legislation and
the carrying out of the will of the peo-
pie of the state with regard to leglsla-
ton.
The introduction and reference of
bills was the principal business of the
DAYS session, aside from the disposal of
the investigating resolutions by special
order
The following bills were introduced in
the senate yesterday on their first read
ing, and under suspension of rules were
placed on their second reading and re-
ferred to their respective committees:
S. B. No. 39.-Duncan. Joint resolu-
ton providing for the payment OF cer-
tain necessary legislative expenses.
Ways and means
S. B. No. 4O.-Elkin. A bill to cotl-
firm title to real estate sold by de cend-
ants in their lifetime under contract con-
veyed permanent to article 8 of chapter
of probate code of North Dakota in
estates now closed and not approved by
the county Judge Judiciary.
S. B. No. 4l.-Kennedy. Making an
appropriation of $85, 900 for the pur-
pose of building and equipping chem
strv building and laboratories for the
North Dakota Agricultural college at
Fargo. Appropriations.
S. B. No. 42.-Elkin. To amend Sec
ion 1857 of revised codes of 1905, re-
ating to conveyances of real estate sold
~ descendants on contract Judiciary.
S. B. Ma. 43-Wlaton. Making an
appropriation of s., 400 for the purpose
If parking and otherwise improving the
grounds of White Stone Hills memorial
lark in the state of North Dakota. and I
o pay for labor and improvements here
ofore made thereon State affairs. |
S. B. No. 44.-Pierce. To amend
ection 6237 of revised codes as amend
d by chapter 15e Of session laws of
900, relating to mechanics liens. Ways
S. B. No. 45-Pierce. To provide
or the regulation of telegraph and tele-
hone rates and to compel an interchange
# telephones and telegraph service.
state affairs.
6 r NJ 46-Plair. Establishing