The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-02-16

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senate in behalf of the bill The ad.
dress was made at the invitation OF
the senate on motion Of Senator l.. A,
Simpson and Mrs. de LenIrcCie made
an eloquent and earnest plea for the
passage of the BILL but could not stem
the tide. The women of the state are
hopeful and say they will keep up the
fight and that two years from now
there will be a harder fight than ever
for the passage of a suffrage bill.
j. T. f.
The committee to investigate the
expenditures of the game and fish
board Of the state has summoned
members of the commission, special
game wardens and others to give tes-
timony as to the manner in which the
funds were expended and the pur-
poses of the expenditures. The CON-
mittee Investigating the treasurer's
office and the state auditing board has
also been busy and expects to make
reports in several days.
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A big insurance lobby and telephone
lobby has been besteging the legisla-
tive committees with reference to the
Trimble bill for the compulsory in
vestment of part of the premium re-
ceipts Of life insurance companies in
the state and is vigorously opposing
the bill, 1t is claimed on the part Of
the companies that the passage of
this bill would drive the big line life
insurance companies out of the state,
as they could not make the invest
ments as directed by the bill. Sena-
tor Trimble, on the other hand, main
ta1ns that the lands of the state are
and that this attitude of the compa-
MES Is bluff. Two other bills that
are bringing many residents of the
state to the capitol are putting the
making of telephone and telegraph
rates into the hands of the railroad
commission and regulating the prices
10 be paid by elevators for grain, with
q view to preventing discrimination
between elevators
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The special committee that was ap-
pointed to consider the question of
making repairs on the old capitol
building has reported. The majority
OF the committee expresses itself in
favor of erecting new capitol, as
proposed by bill now before the leg
islature. The opposite view is taken
by Senator James Kennedy of Fargo,
who believes that the financial and
| crop conditions do not make this
favorable time for the erection OF
port from the state Land commission
or shows that there is something over
100000 in the permanent fund for
the erection of capitol building,
some thing like 100000 Of contracts
for the purchase Of capitol lands,
which will mature in the next twenty
years, and 10000 acres of capitol land
| remaining unsold. This would give
around a million and half of dollars
for the purpose Of erecting a new
| building, when all the contracts ma,
I ture and all Of the lands are Sold
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| Up to the present time about 600
! bills have been introduced in the two
ably reported from committees will be
rapid from now till the end of the ses-
sion. There promises, however, to be
the usual congestion of work in the
last few days.
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An interesting debate resulted few
days ago on the passage by the house
Of concurrent resolution calling upon
congress to appropriate for medals for
| the survivors Of the Indian police who
killed Sitting Bull in the Indian up
rising Of twenty years ago. Senator
Simpson objected to the passage Of
the resolution by the senate and had
It referred to the committee on In
dian affairs. He made the statement
that he believed the killing Of Sitting
der than Of heroism and he wanted
the committee to look we'll into the
facts before passing the resolution.
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New interest has been aroused in
the movement for congressional reap
porttonment with the announcement
that the house had passed the Crum-
packer bin, providing for an additional
congressman for North Dakota. The
legislature, should they act favorably
on the house bill, will once more be
thrown into a hot fight over the di-
vision question, question that has
lain dormant since the Republican
caucus In Washington at which the
agreement to retain the present mem
bership was reached, under which the
state would not have been entitled to
another congressman.
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The sheriffs' fee bill, providing that
aheriffs should be allowed fee OF 81
for making returns on uncollectable
personal property taxes, was killed in