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viding that the director of the sta
ton shall have the power of locating
an additional farm in county con-
tanning more than fifty townships.

tfon shall have the power of locating
an additional farm in county con-
tanning more than fifty townships.
Each demonstration farm hereafter
located. according to the bill, shall
not be more than three miles from a
railway station where at least one
passenger train stops each way each
day, and to land that shall have been
leased to the station for a period Of
not less than ten years. The present
demonstration farms in the state are
located at Sanborn, Bismarck, New
Salem, Beach. Darlington, Flaxton.
Page. Bathgate, Larimore, Lakota.
Granville. Ross, jamestown, Oakes,
Dawson, Hazelton, Washburn, Port
land Junction, Starkweather, Rugby,
Mohall, Hoople and Wahpeton.
This bill provides for an increase
OF $4,000 over the appropriation bill
passed two years ago.
Anti.Pass Bills Differ.
Anti-pass legislation differs and
that fact is evidenced in the three
bills that were introduced in the SEN
ate this week. Two of those bills
have provisions much the same, being
those of Senators Mclean Of Cavalier
and Bessesen of Wells, with that of
Senator Gilbert of Cass somewhat diff
ferent.
In the Mclean and Bessesen bills
the persons excepted from the work.
ings of the proposed act are railroad
employees, officers, members of de-
pendent families, families of men
killed in railway service persons en-
gagged in charitable work, ministers
of religion, secretaries of Young
Mems Christian associations. persons
transported by charitable institutions,
soldiers or sailors inmates of such
homes, boards of managers of such
homes, postoffice inspectors, custom
and immigration inspectors, witnesses
for railroad in legal cases, necessary
caretakers of live stock, employees on
trains, and persons injured in
wrecks. Interchange of service be-
tween railroads, telegraph companies
and express companies, is not made
unlawful.
Homeseekers rates and excursion
rates may be granted, but not for the
purpose of allowing any party or par
ties to attend political gatherings,
while members of the state railroad
commission must also be transported
free.
In Senator Gilbert's bill he pro-
vides that the employees and officers
OF the government experimental sta
tion at Fargo shall be excepted from
the provisions Of the bill, and also
that those engaged in farm institute
work may ride free.
Two hundred dollars is the maxi
mum fine prescribed for violation,
with ninety days as the greatest SEN
tence that can be meted out. except
in the Bessesen bill, which provides
a fine of $500 as the maximum
amount.
Initiative and Referendum.
Initiative and referendum bills
will be numerous at this session Of
the state legislature, and the start
gained this week is quite indicative
of what may be expected when the
assembly convenes again following
the recess.
In s. B. No. 5, introduced by SEM
ator Bessessen of Wells, amendment
of the constitution is proposed to
cover both the constitutional and
statutory measures. A petition con-
tanning the petition Of at least fifteen
per cent of the qualified voters from
Ia majority of the counties Of the state
shall be required to propose any
measure, but no constitutional
amendment may be proposed oftener
than once in four years. Initiative
petitions must be filed at least thirty
days before the session of an assem-
bly,, and such measures shall take
precedence over all other measures in
the legislative assembly except ap-
preparation bills, and shall be enacted
or rejected without change or amend
ment by the legislature within forty
days. If such initiative measure shall
be enacted by the legislature it shall
be subject to referendum petition or
it may be referred to the people for
approval or rejection. If it is reject
ed or no action is taken Upon it by
the assembly within forty days, the
secretary of state shall submit 1t to
the people for approval or rejection
at the next general election.
The power of referendum may be
ordered except as to laws necessary
for immediate preservation of the
public peace, health or safety. A two
thirds vote of the assembly must be
had to declare vote under the class
that can be excepted. and a para
graph in the bill must set forth
necessity for its immediate operation.
Referendum petitions must be filed
within ninety days after the assem-
bly, adjourned, and petitions against
q portion Of an action shall not pre-
vent other sections from becoming eff
fective. Constitutional amendments
referred must be voted on twice by
the people before they become effec-
tive.
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