Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-12
HOUSE
Continued from rage one.)

CoH.lHuel FTOIn rage OHe.J
reference 70 the alleged nuisance as
applicable to hotel service.
When the question was put the mo.
ton to reconsider carried. Mr.. Sorlie
Ithen moved that the bin be placed
fupon its third reading and final pas.
sage, and Mr.. Owens moved as a sub.
%stitute motion that it be indefinitely
The latter motion was
|ruled out Of order. A motion to table
the Sorlie motion then lost out, and
when the question was put on the mat.
ter of placing the bill upon the calen.
dar in regular order, it carried.
Ten Per Cent Bill.
House bill No. 4, reducing the legal
rate of interest from IL to 10 per
tcent. was placed upon it's third read.
ing and passed. The bill had been dis.
carded, re~considered and replaced
upon the calenar.
Committees Report.
Upon the opening OF the session at
p O'Clock the committee on engross.
ment reported house bill Nos. AZ, 1863,
1853. ia, $50, 1872, 1877, PIP, 21S, 223
and 244 to be correctly e%ngrossed.
The committee on highways recon-.
mended the passage Of bill No. $3.50 and
senate concurrent resolution No. 81,
but failed 20 approve senate bill No. 6.
Upon motion OF Representative
O'Conor. senate bill No. 6 was refer.
red to the committee of the whole.
The committee on forestry recon-
mended indefinite p~ostponement for
house bill No. 1873. and the committee
ion judiciary took similar action with
Preference to house bills Nos. 81 and
800. The committee on tax and tax
laws recommended for indefinite post.
Donement house bills Nos. 259 and
1880, and recommended house bill No.
900 for passage.
Indefinite ~postponement was recon-.
mended for house bill No. 80 by the
lcommittee on agriculture, and the
same committee recommended bill No,
I294 for passage. The committee on
Icounties and county boundaries rec
commended house bill No. 249 for pas
sage: No. 3W3 for postpOnement, and
senate bill No. $50 for amendment and
passage. The committee on livestock
recommended that house bill No. 1874
be indefinitely postponed and that
house bill No. 207 be passed. The COM
mittee on railways approved of senate
bill No. 33, but failed to consider house
bills Nos. 241 and sos in a similar
manner. The senate's concurrent res
ohltion relating to the shipment of
used automobiles was recommended
for adoption.
The committee on electit MS recon-
mended the passage OF bill No. 225,
bill No. III and bill No. 10, but house
bill No., 167 was turned down.
Message From the Senate. ,
A message from the senate was in
the form of a joint resolution, which
was concurred in, relating to the me-
mortal services to be held on Satur-
day, Feb. o.. Senate bills Nos. 166,
14i,s110, 200 and 2OS, which had passed
the upper branch, also were transmit.
ted to the house.
Statue for Norway
Representative Twichelli INTRODUCED a
resolution which recommended that,
in view of the close relations between
the state OF North Dakota and Norway,
it might be we'll to authorize the ap.
pointment of delegates to attend the
one hundredth anniversary celebration
Of Norway and to reciprocate for the
past cOurtesies shown this country and
this state by placing a statue in the
city Of Christiania, possibly a statue of
Abraham Lincoln or another great
American statesman. ...
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
introduced by Mr.. TwicheII
BE 1t Resolved by the House of Repre-
sentatives Of the State of North DakO-
ia. the Senate concurring: ~
Whereas, the kingdom of Norway will
in 1914, celebrate the one hundredth an
niversary of it's new birth as a nation,
its liberal constitution modelled after that
OF the United States, having been adopt
ed on May nth. 1914, and
Whereas. there are peculiarly close re-
lations between Norway and North Da-
kota. as recognized in Norway by the
fact that the people of that country have
presented a statue of the national poet,
Henrik Wergeland, to North Dakota, as
the state having the largest percentage
Of citizens who are Of Norwegian birth
or extraction, and E-
Whereas. some citizens of North Da-
kota purpose to return this courtesy ny
a suitable present to Norway, preferably
a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to be plac.
ed in front OF the Storthings building in
Clristiania, and
Whereas, it is desired. by the donors
that this gift, though paid for by pri-
vate subscription, h a be presented in
the name of the state,
THEREFORE,, BE TT RESOLVED,
That. the Governor is hereby authorized
to appoint a committee of citizens who
may without cost to the state, represent
1t at Norway's centennial celebration and
present the memorial gift above referred
to on behalf Of and in the name of the |
state. Of North Dakota.
Representative France moved that
the action by which house bill, No. 219
was lost be reconsidered, but the mo-.
ton lost. Representative Dixon then
moved that the action by which house
bill No. 242 was lost be reconsidered,
and this motion lost.
Following the introduction of new
bills, several house bills were placed
upon their third reading and final pas.
|sage.
House Bills Passed.
House bill No. 20, validating certain
execution sales, which formerly had