Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-16
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ment and passage Of house bill No
ll9. Eouse bills Nos. 1853, 315 and
3l3 we're recommended for indefinite
pcStponemcnt.
House Lacks Interest.
At this junctnre Representative Div.
ct called attention to the fact that a
Ing on the various questions and that
the vote on the adoption Of reports
had been ignored by several. He rec.
commended that everyone in the
house take enough interest in the pro.
~ceedings to respond when the question
Is put.
Roads Bill Special Order.
Representative Lindstrom moved
;lat the vote by which senate bill No.
81, involving state aid for good roads,
was lost, be rec%onsidered, and that it
be made a special order of business
fer next Wednesday afternoon at 8
O'Clock,
There q considerable debate, and
Representative Burnett claimed that
the bill wa9 unworthy OF further con
SidcratiOn inasmuch az it throws the
state treasury wide open for good
roads purposes. He suggested that il
the treasury was to be thrown open,
il might be done in the interest OF ed
ucatiOn.
He denied the allegation that grain
il rotting in the g%ranaries of the state
because the. farmers were unable to
us the roads to haul the product to
market, and insisted that it was not
in the interests of the farmers at all
that the good roads movement is he.
ing furthered, but it simply involves
Il question Of pleasure.
"YOn never heard about this good
roads business until a few years ago
when the automobiles began to come
in he declared. 81 am willing to
vote or a good roads proposition if it
is fixed so you cant tax us to death.
and the amount to be expended is
limited, but I'm not willing to throw
the treasury wide open.
Representative Freitag declared
that good roads represent the inter
eStS Of education, and he recalled sew
eral instances of the difficulty child.
rem have met in travelling to and from
school, and cited n instance where
in a carriage went through into a cou.
Ice and one child killed while enrou:e
to school. Representative Dixon re-
called the many Inconvenience eX-
pericnced by the farmer in hauling
his grain to market over bad roads,
but Representative Hoge was of the
opinion that after three bodies have
passed upon the resolution, the pres
cNt house should concur in and give
the people an opportunity TO express
themselves in the matter.
The motion was put to a vote, and
carried, and the question is made a
special order Of business for next
Wednesday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
House Bills Passed.
House bin No. 2SS, relating to the
inspection Of railway and express com.
tpany books in the interests Of the pro.
hibition law, passed the house by a
vote of 81 ayes, s nays and 80 absent
not voting. The "cllllcher' was
attached.
House bill No. $40 relating to the
libel law, passed by a vote Of So ayes,
7 nays and l6 absent and not voting,
and the "clinchcr' was attached.
House bill No. 206, relating to Ii.
censing transient merchants and ped.
dlCrs, passed by a vote of IS ayes, 10
nays and II absent and not voting.
House bill No. lG0, relating to the
duties OF clerks Of court in cancelling
and discharging judgments. passed by
a vote OF 90 ayes, 0 nays and ii alb.
sent and not voting.
House bill No. ID, relating to the
terms of court in the Seventh judicial
district, passed by a vote of 10l ayes,