Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-22
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something II he's going to talk an!
longer"
Mr.. Blakemore declared that HI
cared not what means are given the
people to determine the initiative ant
referendum question, whether it bt
the Ployhar!Blakemore bill or some
other measure, but he declared tina
no measure should be given consider
alton nor submitted to the people
which is net introduced in good faith
Mr.. Lambert demanded a roll cal
on the vote to reconsider, and the re
suit was 56 nays ard Al ayes, and the
motion was lost. Mr.. Lambert de
manded ve%rification, and there was nc
change in the result. Mr.. Martin
moved the "clincher," and it was ap'
piled.
Lambert. Booze Bill.
The report of the committee on
temperance with reference to H. B.
No. 494, a prohibitory measure intro
duced by Mr.. Lambert, represented
both the majority and minority opin'
ion Of that committee. The bill pro-
vides severe penalty for drinking or
Offering to another any intoxicating
liquor in any hotel, boarding or lodg.
ing house or any restaurant. Mr..
Hendrickson moved that further CON
s%ideration be indefinitely postponed,
but withdrew the motion in favor of
! ~ cir,i0nr NS1 wanda hy NV Jli0,,pc nn
Mr.. Martin inquired if it would affect
the present session of the legislature,
and then moved: "1n behalf of the
legislature | move that the bill be in
definitely postponed" After consid.
cradle debate the motion to postpone
was lost, and the measure was refer
red to the house as a committee OF
the whole.
Committee Reports.
The committee on supplies and ex-
p%enditures submitted the following re-
port relating to the printing of re.
I,orts Of state departments, and fol-
lowed with the introduction of a bill
making The penalty for delinquency
from $50 to $500:
MIR. SPEAKER:-Your Committe OH
Supplies and Expenditures to whom was
referred the report of Il select committee
relating TO the delay in securing the Off
cial report of variou state officers and
institutions recorded on page II of the
Journal of the Fortieth day have had the
same under consideration and make the
following recommendations to this house
and'move the adoption of this report.
Your Committee will cali our atten-
ton to the proposition made by the
Knight Printing Company wherein they
propose that the contract price for print
ing be raised in order to enable them to
hire extra help for the purpose Of rush
ing the work in getting out the reports of
the state officers and institutions. Your
Committee disapproves of paying the
state printer any sui in excess Of the
contract price and believes there is no
warrant Of law for m such expenditure
and your committee recommends that I'M
less the printing Of said reports can be
completed m time for their distribution to
the members Of this Legislative Assembly
by the ffty-fiftfSda of the session, then,
and in that event the printing of said re-
ports be abandoned.
Your Committee further recommends
that all state officers and heads of State
Institutions and State Boards who have
failed to file their report on time accord
ing to law, be requested to pay into the
state treasury the minimum penalty in
the sun Of $4,000. as provided for in sec
ton 377 Of the Revised Codes Of 1905.
unless such state officer, head ofInstitu-
ton or Board show cause why the same
should not be paid and render to this
Legislative Assembly a good and suffi-
cient excuse why the said report was not
filed within the statutory zine.
Your Committee will call your atten-
ton to the report made by the select
committee formerly appointed by this
house which report is recorded on page 20
Of the Journal for the thirty-third day.
The report Of said select committee con-
tains the name Of the office, institution or
board, who have been delinquent in the
filing Of their reports.
Your Committee further recommends
that the payment Of this penalty by the
offices, heads Of boards and institutions,
he made, voluntarily for the reason that
the law providing for the collection Of
this penalty is so uncertain in it's terms
that the same is practically imperative.
Your Committee further recommends
that heretofore the reports or State Off
GERS heads of Boards and Institutions have
been too v%olu1ninous and contained much
surplus detailed matter which is Of no
consequence and interest to the members
of this Legislative Assembly and to the
public and would recommend that said
reports Of the State Officers, Institutions
and Boards be made in detail to the Cow
crnor and that the Governor summarize
said reports and have a digest Of said re-
ports printed to be distributed.
Your Committee further reports that
the printing: of the reports of the state
officers, institutions and boards hereto
fore have been a heavy and unnecessary
expense and that much money a be
saved to the state by printing a digest