The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-28
warm FIGHT IN
TENTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT NEXT
-Four Aspirants For Judgeship
Standing Under Governors
Plum Tree
HOUSE APPROPRIATION BILLS
ALREADY PAST MILLION MAEk

State Penltentiary and Glendale
Normal. industrial School Appro.
priations Yet to Re Added.
Bismarck. N. D., Feb. 2S-Creation
of the Twelfth judicial district out
Of a portion of the Tenth judicial
district, with Mandan as the cham
ters, has resulted in an interesting
contest in that district for appoint
ment to the Judge ship. with four as
pirants sctively engaged in their
campaign for such appointment at the
hands Of Governor Burke. One of the
members of the railroad commission,
w. H. Stutsnan, is prominently men
toned as judgeship candidate. while
s. L. Nuchols, ]. F. Sullivan and B.
w. Shaw are also candidates for the
appointment. The fact that Nuchols
is a Democrat, being on the state
ticket in the recent election, makes
his candidacy especially strong.
There were no dissenting votes
in the senate when the Davis concur
rent resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of commission to investi-
gate into the employers liability
question was passed. The commission
in question, If favorable action Is TAX
en- by the house, will be appointed by
the governor with instructions to
make q report to the next succeeding
legislative assembly. An appropria-
tion Of $1,000 for dafraying the ex-
penses of such investigation is pro-
vided by the bill, but no salaries are
allowed the commission members.
1t is proposed to work out sys-
tenn of liability, similar to that being
worked out in lumber of the east
ern states, with certain liability
pacity Il. :. t-;.2 -.
Some difference. exists between the
senate appropriations, committee and
the house appropriation committee as
to the amount that should be allowed
the Minot normal school. The report
of the house committee on that ap-
preparation bill allows the institution
$226,500. or total of $26,500 more
than the senate appropriations COM
mittee was willing to allow. The re-
port from both committees was unani-
NOUS.
In the senate bill it is provided that
the city of Minot shall donate GER
tain tract of land for the normal
school, but the house bill makes 1t
the duty of the state in purchasing
such property.
Some Bills Killed
Among the appropriation bills that
have been killed by the house are
those for state fruit and plant
breeding station, for contingent and
current expenses of the Jamestown
asylum for the insane, for the estab-
1fshment of an agricultural sub-sta-
tion at the Mandan reform school, and
for the conservation and improvemen mt
Of the state park at Fort Abercrom-
bie.
Favorable report has been made in
the senate on the Frame bill provid-
ing for the designation Of a state flag
and with its passage and approval,
the flag carried by the North Dakota
regiment in the Philippines will be
SO designated.
Approval Of the house appropria-
tions committee has been given to the
idea of erecting standpipe near the
state capitol building in Bismarck,
together with the sinking of one or
more wells. the purpose being to give
the building adequate fire protection.
The amount Of the appropriation in
question has been reduced from $10,-
900 to $500.
All hope of amendments to the ju-
dicial election act passed by the as
sembly have passed SO far as the
present assembly is concerned. All
propositions of amendments to the
system of election of supreme court
Judges in the state have been indef-
Snitoly postponed and that means the
ctate will have an opportunity Of again
voting under the plan worked out for
the first time last year.
The Ten Year Term
It was rather interesting yesterday
when the house very nearly killed
the ten-year term for supreme court
moved for the indefinite postponement
of the bill, 1t was not expected that
there was any serious intention upon
the part of the house to adopt such
n motion, but on the division it was
found that tue situation was some
what different and that there was SEN
tlment for such action. When the roll
was called a different condition was
found to exist, however. and the bill
reported fDr passage. 1t still re-
mains on calendar for third reading
and may be the cause for further
consideration.
Messrs. Martin. Boyd and Hoge
spoke against the bill while Messrs.
Doyle of Foster and Mr.. Streeter were
favorable to the measure.
This afternoon the senate is due to
take up the consideration of the con-
gressional division bills again, they