The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-03-10
LEGISLATIVE
news letter
News From tho Capital City
By Our Special Corres-
pondent

uOHle III HlSn leaIner, the mouse voting
"a to As to indefinitely postpone the
charges that were offered in a resolu-
ton by Representative Davis of Grand
Forks on the recommendation Of a ma
jority report of the committee appoint
ed by the speaker. This week he is
back in Bismarck, working with the
members of the senate and getting
ready to clear himself Of those charges.
The vote to reconsider came on reso-
luton offered by Chairman Jordal Of
the committee that he was ready to
give synopsis of the evidence from
the notes taken. at the hearing, was
the house ready to listen to 1t. The
house had only one audible vote
against listening to the evidence, and
for three hours Mr.. Jordal read from
his notes. After it was offered and
closing speeches made the house by a
vote Of 81 to IS, it required that Mr..
Cowan appear before the bar of the
senate and answer to the charges Of
habitual drunkenness. negligence of
duty and misdemeanors of Office.
A great deal bitterness had been en-
gendered into this fight, and the sore
spots left among members are not
likely to heal at this session. The short
and ugly word has been passed q
number Of times among members, and
at times it looked as if there would be
a free-for-al fist fight. This fight has
affected other matters of legislation
and it is hard to forecast just what
will be done on some important meas
ures yet to be decided.
The statutes allow the defendant
| judge twenty days in which to get
ready for trial. Both houses will ad-
journ, and the senate will reconvene
to hear this case just as soon as date
can be agreed upon.
According to resolution offered
Speaker Hanley has appointed the fol-
lowing board Of managers to try the
case for the house: Messrs. Homes,
Nestos, Norheim, Hanson and OCon-
nor OF Grand Forks. These are all ap-
pointed from the side that decided to
put the case up to the senate.
The division Of the state into three
congressional districts is taking about
all the attention at the present time
Of both houses. The senate and house
have not reached anything like an
agreement as yet. The senate has
passed bill making the two northern
tiers Of counties clear across the state
into one district and making an east
ern and western district Of the ball
ance, the dividing line being drawn
east Of Sheridan, east of Kidder and
east Of Logan and Mcintosh. The
house passed the Default bill, No. 256,
making a Red river valley district. a
Jim river valley district and a Mis-
souri, river valley district. So many
things are mixed up in this contest it
is hard to forecast which bill will be-
come law.
The legislative reapportionment
stands as noted in these columns last
week, with the exception that amend
adding one house member to each Of
the following counties: Cass, Dickey,
Pierce, Rolette, Sargent, Burke. EN-
mons, Burleigh and Stark. This would
make so senators and 113 representa-
tives in place of 104, os called for in
the bill as passed in the house. It is
likely the senate amendments will pass
the house.
The following bills have been signed
by the governor:
House Bills.
No. 36-Relating to maintenance Of
station houses.
No. Officiating to location and
building Of bridges.
No. 79-Relating to publicity of
state finances.
No. 100-Regulating the practice of
medicine and surgery.
4,
alleys.
No. 1s4-Powers and duties Of the
board of railroad commissioners.
No. 153-Duty Of county auditors
and requirements Of tax Deeds
No. 120-Requiring railroad compan-
les to stop all regular passenger trains
at county seats.
No. 254-Relating to who shall act
when a county Judge is disqualified or
absent.
No. 1870 bylaws Of private cor
porations.
No. officiating to the disposition
Of penalty and interest.
| No. 56-To the disposition Of un-
claimed shares Of estate in county
court.
No. e7-Amend section 1897 of 1905
code.
\ Senate Bills.
No. 19--Relating to the priority of
claims in insolvent proceedings.
No. Officiating to bank examiner
and employees and how they may get a
loan from banks with which they are
connected.
No. 7s-Re-enacting section 1928 of
Revised Code.
No. 99-Regulating time Of meeting
Of assessors and relation Of duty of
county auditors thereto.
No. 1o7-Amending section 2743 re-
lating to election districts and pre-
4 cincts.
/ No. 1os-Amending section 2744 re-
lating to cu"Ified voters and reeis.ra-
Judge Mourns Whipping Post.
Dickinson.-statin that il the law
would permit. he would sentence each
to the whippSlg post with twenty lashes
or more apiece. Judge Crawford passed
sentence upon six violators Of the pro.
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