The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-01
House and Senate Must Pass
Original Bills in Each
Today
the PRIMARY ELECTION DATE
REMAINS As IT HAS Been
Percentage of Vote Necessary to Get
on Official Ballot Changed By the
Bill Which Passed the Senate To.
day-Duis Lost Out.

Bismarck, N. D., March 1.-Prim-
ary elections will continue being
held in June, the bill providing that
such election be held in July being
killed by the house this morning on
the ground that July was busy pc
riod and would serve to keep the
farmers from the polls.
Lees bill, placing sherifs on q
salary basis was also passed by the
house after Messrs. Lee and Price
| had become involved in few differ
ences over the merits and demerits
i, of the same. Price wanted to in
definitely postpone the measure, in
| timating bad faith on the part Of Lee,
who was at one time sheriff of Ward
county.
Among the other bills passed by
the house today was Aasheim's meas
ure, prohibiting the manufacture of
fire crackers, Tuttle's anti-cigarette
bill, and the Jamestown asylum ap-
preparation measure On this bill
Default asked consent to make an
amendment to include $4,000 for
the tubercular hospital but was met
with prompt objections.
This afternoon all the house bills
must be passed by the lower body,
while the senate must clear all of its
own bills. There were about thirty
bills for acton by the house this aft
ernoon, the last of them being re-
ported out of the committee.
Senate Work.
| The senate in committee Of the
whole this morning recommended for
passage Martins concurrent resolu-
ton for the establishment of an agri-
cultural college at Beach in Billings
county and the report Of the commit
tee was adopted. :s.as
H. B. III providing for the repeal
Of the law by which the governor ap-
points two members to sit with the
Minnesota grain board of appeal was
passed. They were $1,000 jobs.
The standard strength caboose law
was passed In the senate and needs
only the signature of the governor.
H. B. 317 providing for the disin-
lection of passenger carrying boats
and cars was passed.
II. B. 355 indemnifying owners of
tubercular cattle was passed by a
vote of 2S to 15.
H. B. 332 prohibiting the use of
screens on doors or windows of pool
halls was passed.
H. B. 40 changing the quorum of
the board Of pardons from four to
three was passed.
H. B. 260 regarding the percentage
Of voters needed to have q candidate
obtain q place on the general elec-
tion ballot passed, SO to s. The pres
ent law which was declared uncon-
stitutional by the supreme court last
fall carried the thirty per cent pro-
vision, the per cent to be Of the votes
cast for secretary of state, and pres
ent law requires twenty-five per cent
OF the average vote cast for gover-
general. Duis, Democrat, objected to
calling for twenty per cent but this
was lost.
Resolutions of impeachment
against Judge John F. Cowan Of the
Second judicial district were received
from the house and as soon as the
messenger had completed the read
ing. Senator Trimble moved an ad-
journment which carried.
No Female Votes.
Woman suffrage came before the
house again today Just at the close Of
the flfty-eighth legislative day, when
the report of the special woman suf-
frage committee on two bills for in
definite postponement was adopted by
q vote Of "a to Al. Efforts were
made to avoid q roll call but they
failed.
Hoge's ninety day legislative ses-
sion measure. Hersrud's coal mine
employ liability bill and Davidson's
corrupt practice bills were killed on
reports. The Williams bill for a
state exhibit at the Panama-Pacific
exposition was reported favorably.
Another evidence Of the bitterness
ingendered in the house over the out
come Of the Cowan impeachment case
was seen this afternoon when Whit
mer moved that 1t be the sense Of the
house that the clincher motion be
done away with and that It be the
sense of the house that the same is
worthless. Englund seconded the mo-
tion and Martin Of Morton. laboring
under the idea that Whitmer was op-
posing the bill that had Just been up.
wanted to know IL the mover Of the
motion had been seen" by the rail-
road lobby. But an explanation sat
isfactory to all concerned was made.