Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-24
HOUSE Will CONSIDER
APP0R7|ONMEN7 TODAY

! '-S6AoloII'c dppOIlIOuLIcuL Will DS
a special order in the house today at
3 o'clock although effort was made
yesterday to postpone action until
printed copies of the bill were on the
members desks. The bill as it comes
from the committee is H. B. 25, joint
ly by Nestos and Bjornson and has
dealt with the problem of legislating
members out of office in a unique
manner. There was danger in Cava-
lier county of throwing out member
of the senate but the Forty-seventh
district which includes a part of
Cavalier county is merged with the
Eighteenth, making the entire county
one district and allowing Senators
Mclean and Plain, elected last fall
for four years. to serve out their
terms. In Pembina county the fact
that LaMoure has announced his with
drawal from North Dakota politics
solves the question. The first and
second districts are merged and
known as the Second district.
In Grand Forks county Senator Duis
Is eliminated at the end of the present
term. The city and Falconer and
Grand Forks townships will consti-
tute the Sixth district with Senator
Turner as holdover representing that
district. In Barnes county Whitcher
loses out and Thoreson will continue.
In MoHenry Hookway will hold over
and Welo has lost district to repre-
sent.
Several petitions were read in the
house today against the mechanics
lien bill, spring shooting of geese and
collection of road taxes in cash.
When an attempt was made to re-
vive senate bills 169 and 72, the house
decided that at this time in the ses-
sion when action in indefinite post
ponement had been taken it was in
advisable to resurrect bills and so
voted.
House bill 100, the medical BILL"
was concurred in by the house so far
as the amendments made by the SEN
ate are concerned and the bill as
amended has gone to the governor
for approval. 1t was thought there
might be a revival of the fight on the
bill when it came back to the house
'<day but it went through merely as
part of the routine.
Message from the governor stated
that he had signed house bills 13, 2.
III, ia. 9. %, IS, 6S, 80, ia. 1853. 173.
Is. 254 and 173 and senate bills 80, 40,
25. 66. S8. 20. %, 16, 78, 19. 1903. 147.
166, 1870, 216. 20, 70, 1O7, 1913, 1856. 149.
1856, 165. 219 and 40. The list in
cluded H. B. 76, the so-called print
ers' bill'' over which the house had
such an interesting fight.
A call for the previous question
shut off what looked like another long
debate of the Good Friday bill S. B.
Is. Pierce by request, making Good
Friday a legal holiday. Thompson
of Ward moved indefinite postpone
ment whereupon Doyle of Foster de-
manded that vote on indefinite post
ponement be taken by roll call.
Thompson then said that inasmuch as
a roll call on this motion would be
equivalent to a vote on the bill he
would withdraw and having done so
made long talk on the bill in which
he said that there were too many
holidays. that the proposed bill was
contrary to the constitutions of the
United States and North Dakota.
Johns was also against it and re-
Ferred to petitions from Seventh Day
who claimed that in their
case it would mean three holidays in
me week. Kuhl moved the previous
question ard the final vote was
against the bill 80 to 48.
H. B. 293, Williams of Rurleigh,
vas reported from appropriations
committee for indefinite postpone
nent, but was referred to the com.
nittee of the whole on the plea Of
3en. Williams and the statement he
procured from the state engineer
there would be a saving to
he state by the construction of a
treet car line from the present down
own terminus to the state peniten'
iary.
Two attempts to raise the salaries
# committee clerks failed although
he argument was made that tho
Jerks in whose behalf the question
vas raised should from the nature
f the work done be on par With
theirs receiving higher wages.
CREAMERY FOR UNDERWOOD.