The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-13
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SESSION PREDICTED
CONTINUED IRON rage One


majority have come with a fixed ana
firm determination to denver tns
Goods. and ais men OF that kline axs
always looking for the best = are
sc honest convictions, there 10 alabtS
IA he 4 good deal OF debate regarulns
most OF the bills presented.
An increase in interest Ia the mattet
OF good roads is shown III 4 IaSt
that this year there were forty-seVeh
applications for positions on tnat con-.
mtttee IN the house where IN past
wears that has not been q third OF
that number to show their more p
ordinary interest In the building ot
ptIblic highways. That is going TO pc
an important committee IN poth the
house and the senate and there VIII
Be q good deal OF legislation offered
| along that line. That some VIII pc
good and some bad goes without say
ing but the present membership LOOKS
as though 1t would be able to separate
the char from the wheat n agree
Iupon q law that win result In uniform
good roads for the state.
With the return of the mi
there lis renewed talk of what VIII be
done in the way OF making new laws
and amending old ones. There will be
some closing up of loop holes in the
child labor laws, and the word shall
is expected to be injected where u
will do the most good. There are .
number Of the worien,s clubs over
the state interested in that movement
and they will have a representative
here. The women OF the state are al
so interested ia securing the right TO-
vote and while there is no arrangement
made for a Woman's suffrage commit
tee in either the house or the senate
it is possible that there viii be q com
mittee of this kind presented as there
win be a good deal Of work for 1t to
do.
Parties who are interested in prison
reform are getting busy and will have
a number Of bills to present, dealing
both with the convict within prison
walls and the man who has served
his time and Is turned out to p world
to begin his battles over. The people
behind these bills are rather secretive
| but promise to diVulge their plans
when the logical moment arrives.
There will also be a bin presented
dealing with the liquor business in
the state. It is understood from
! what has been whispered around that
the plan used In Iowa will be tried
out except that if the bill is passed
liquor win be sold only in accredited
hotels and these bars will be hedged
| around with a lot of laws. There app
pears to be little chance that the bill
will get In a North Dakota legislature
and it is doubtful il the promoters
expect it to be more than an entering
wedge, The bill win be fought bitter
ly by prohibition forces.
The old glandered horse question
Wal bob up again during this session,
a couple of phases having been
sprung this early in the game. Repre-
sentative anderson from Burke county
will offer q bill providing that the ex.
pense of d~isposing of animal killed
after they are condemned by goveraa-
ment inspectors be paid by the .4ate
instead OF by the county in which the
horses are killed. He states that al
the present time only those counties
in the northern part OF the state in
which ports OF entry are located are
| called upon to bear this
expense and his bill will provide that
IL be paid from a general tax. taking
the stand that the stock killed comes
| from all parts Of the state and that Ii
is not fair to out all the expense in
the northern ~counses. Many horsea
belonging to people going to Canada
are killed by the government because
they are discovered to have CHAMBERS
Some effort will be made to secure a
fund large enough 70 payy all claims
as the state r~eirnburses those who
have lost animals in this way. At this
present time there is no money in the
fund,
Friends of the Minot normal school
are in rather a bad way Just d.
present as there seems to be feeling
in some places that the people OF thai
city have fallen down on the pro.
position of taking advantage OF thu
opportunities offered them. Thoas
who are ~agitating the proposition 81
cutting the appropriation for The
completion Of the building state tina,
Msnot and her people need chastise.
ment TO rtheir long drawn out ighi
over the site and tlat to leave Their
for a time without any further an.
preparation would be q Just punish.
ment. There viii probably notfins
come of the matter however as thu
members of the legislature appreciat,
the need of an educational institution
In the west and will see that thu
newest OF the normaIs gets all TIL,
money that is needed. One othcl
thing that has not been for the beg
interests of the Minot normal has beer
the fact that a number OF the facult,
has tried to collect a couple Of month";
salary, and that before there was even
a building completed, a scholar enroll,
ed or anything else done.
Courteous.