Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-12
building, and making an appropriation
of $25, 600 therefor. Appropriations.
HOUSE,.

HOUSE.
Another legislative investigation
was placed under way today by the
house of representative when Rep
res entative Prices motion that a com
mittee of three be named by the
speaker to determine where the blame
for alleged failure to comply with the
law relating to reports Of state insti'
tutions, state boards and state Off.
GERS lies
The motion of Mr.. Price followed a
report by Chief Clerk Griffin in which
it was shown that none of the state
reports had been turned over to the
printer till last November, whereas
under the law many of these reports
should have been ready in July.
The game and fish investigating
committee introduced a notion
through Chairman Frame asking ad
ditional time in which to report. No
definite date was fixed for the report
as it was not known by Mr.. Frame
just when it would be possible to com
plete it.
Woman suffrage will come before
the house Monday as special order
On motion to reconsider the vote
by which the body today refused to
receive the Price bill, introduced the
day previous.
The uniform system of public &C.
counting bill, introduced by Mr.. Mes
tos of Ward county, was considered
favorably in the committee of the
whole at the morning session. The
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partment of uniform accounting to
be operated under the direction of
the state public examiner.
Opposition was at first quite marked
but after the lengthy discussion that
was afforded the measure, it was rec
commended to pass. The amendments
made to the measure in the commit
tee do away with a clerk at a salary
of $1,000 that was proposed.
In addition to this bill the commit
tee also considered H. B. so, by Frame
relating to determination of heirship
and share in certain real estate, rec
commended for passage, and the Johns
bill, No. 90, placing county and judi
ciary officers elections on non-par-
tisan basis, was indefinitely post
poned.
H. B. No. 1874. by Price, fixing the
manner in which contracts shall be
let for public buildings, was recon-
mended to pass after considerable dis
cussion. One amendment to the bill
does away with the per cent leeway
granted North Dakota contractors as
against contractors out of the state.
S. B. No. rs, by Jacobson, provid-
ing for the probation Of persons con-
victed of felonies and misdemeanors
was recommitted, the purpose being
to have it taken up with s. b. II,
bearing upon the same subject.
Bills on Third Reading.
H. B. No. 179, by Gorder, designed
to repeal the enactment of 1907 by
which insurance agents are not al
lowed to place more than a certain
percentage of insurance on buildings,
was indefinitely postponed.
H.. B. 1877, by Mcclellan, providing
that agricultural college publications
shall be set before the farmers of the
state through lists furnished by the
different county auditors, was passed.
When the house went into the COM
mittee Of the whole in the afternoon
to consider general orders, there be-
ing more than twenty, Mr.. Frame
was called to the chair. There were
two important discussions which last
ed nearly two hours, one over the
drainage bill, H. B. 26, and the other
over the Stranahan personal expense
bill, H. B. 80, which appropriates 5000
to each member of the legislature to
cover his personal expenses incurred
while attending the session.
The drainage bill introduced by Mr..
Sorlie, which has been up before and
rereferred to the committee on agri-
culture and returned with a majority
and a minority report, had been
so as to remedy the objec.
tons of the opposition, led by Mr..
Akkeson of Cass county. 1mmedi.
ately upon the reading of the amend.
ments, Mr.. Akkeson moved that the
bill be recommended for indefinite
postponement.
When Mr.. Akkeson's motion for in.
definite postp0nement was finally put,
it carried. But when the committee
arose, the house voted down the rec
of the committee by 46
to IS, so that it will now come up for
final passage in the regular order.
Expense Bill Discussed.
While still acting as the committee
of the whole, the house had quite a
little fun with H. B. 80, the Stranahan
bill, which gives the 5000 expense
money to te legislators during the
session.
S. B. Is, making Good Friday legal
holiday, was objected to on the ground
that tended to mix politics with re-
ligiCtl. The motion made for in
definite postponement by Or. Johns
prevailed. Mr.. Doyle of Foster later
served notice that he would move to
reconsider the recommendation next
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
H. B. 116, prescribing salary of
states attorney, assistant and clerk,
was recommended for indefinite post
ponement
H. B. 26s, providing for sinking
funds and prescribing duty of county |
pertaining thereto,
with slight amendments, was rere- |
ferred to the committee on ways and |