The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-27

Forks is an ardent believer in having
q little fun whenever the time ap-
pears ripe. and evidently he felt that
such a time was at hand the other
day when, while the senate was con-
sidering the Bessessen bill that is de-
signed to prohibit the sale of editorial
space in newspaper for cash con-
sideration, he offered amendments
that brought the house down. Mr..
Stevens wanted to make few excep-
tions to the bill, and sent the names
of the Decorah Posten, the Scandi-
navian and the Appeal to Reason to
the desk as being worth excepting.
OF course the senator had no serious
intention Of forcing such exceptions
In the bill, but he got a good hand
on the motion.
Will Argue for Resolution.
Senator Mcdowell of LaMoure ex-
poets to go before the state affairs
committee of the upper house today
in support of the passage of his res
olution bearing upon the conditions
existing in the railway mail service.
sensure Of the methods adopted by
st aostal department in it's treatment
>o> Gay postal clerks, asking that
conee efs"ke some action, by which
the situ.~ ca,ay be relieved.
Final actf.0 Aas been taken by the
assembly on the Bessessen bill by
which the recall is added to the city
commission plan of government law,
and the bill only requires the sigma
ture Of the governor to become effec-
tive. This measure met with no op-
position in the assembly.
The deputy state auditor is due for
an increase in salary in the event that
the house also passes the senate bill
fixing such salary at $2,400 year.
There were efforts made to amend
the bill by reducing that amount to
$4,000 and to $4,000, but both failed
and the bill passed the upper body
by vote Of AZ to 2 as reported from
the committee.
Several executive sessions of the
senate will be held this week as only
four out Of the large number Of ap-
pointments that Governor Burke has
to make have been submitted up to
today. The fact that the appointments
ara Gaming to the senate 90 late will
necessitate some active work on the
part Of the state affairs committee
OF that body, to which committee the
appointments always are referred.
Appropriation is Short.
Indications at the present time
point to trouble for the dairy com.
missioner's oface, as the senate haa
passed q bill only allowing $4,000
for the biennial period, which is about
$500 under the actual salaries that
are provided by the present law, and
by the newly proposed measure de.
signed to increase the scope Of &C
tivity upon the part Of the depart.
ment in question.
Another lien bill has been passed
by the senate. being s. B. a., which
does away with the word trees" II
the present law. A clause Is also
inserted making $50 the minimum
lien that can be filed, and as amended
the bill passed % to Is.
Increased powers for the railroad
commissioners and an appropriation
for carrying on certain new features
of the work are now assured with
the passage by the house Of the Glib
bens bill. Another bill that has beer
passed with reference to the railroad
commissions duties is the one, under
which telephone and telegraph com
panies are placed under the contro
of the board and are subject to thu
same treatment from that board al
railroad and express companies at thu
present time.