The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-02-06

terred to both the house rule and tn,
law relating to this subject, declarin,
that he was unable to act because O
the general nature Of the complaint
but In the event It becomes specific
the person involved will be expelled
from the chamber.
Standing Committees Report.
A message from the senate, read a.
this juncture, referred senate bill.
Nos. s and 80 to the house for consid
Grafton. The former relates to motto,
licenses and road regulations, and the
latter to garnishment proceedings in
justice court.
Reports Of standing committees
were then read. The committee on
joint rules recommended the passage
of Senate Bill No. 80, and the rules
were suspended, the amendment con.
Cured in and the bill placed upon its
third reading and final passage.
claims It's a "Trust" Game.
Representative Butler was granted
the privilege of reading a communica.
ton from Ransom county, the house
rules having been suspended for the
purpose, in which it was represented
that the proposed uniform textbook
Is introduced in the interests
of the American Book company, "onl
of the biggest trusts in the country.
and the legislature was petitioned moi
to give the bill favorable considera-
ton.
The committee on temperance rec
commended the passage of the concur.
rent resolution relating to the ratifi-
eaton Of the so-called Kenyon.shep-
hard bill under consideration by the
congress Of the United States. Also
it recommended the passage Of Bill
No. 81, relating to prohibition as ap-
Piled to cigarettes and cigarette ma.
terial, and providing a penalty for vi
olation of the law.
Other Committees Report.
The committee on public health rec.
commended the passage Of Bill No. Sc,
relating to hotel equipment and in.
spection, and the committee on ways
and means recommended the passage
of Bill No. so, relating to the election
Of township officers and their terms
of office. Bill No. 104, relating to
bonds of school district officers, was
turned down by the committee, and
the report was adopted.
Passage of Bill No. 70, relating to
county road funds, was recommended
by the committee on highways, and
the committee no tax and tax laws
recommended the passage of Bill No.
1873, relating to the payment of taxes.
The committee on state affairs rec
commended the indefinite postpone
ment of bills Nos. 121 and 1O2. The
first provides for a steam roller in
spector and the licensing of engineers,
and the latter relates to the fees to
be collected by clerks of court. The
same committee recommended the
postponement Of bills Nos. 1874 and
1O7, the former being an act requir-
ing secretaries Of fair associations to
give bond, and the latter repeating
a chapter of the Session Laws Of
H911 relating to abstractors of title
The passage Of bill No. 81, relating
to townsites located on public lands,
Vas recommended by the committee on
school and public lands.
Bills Nos. "a, 81, Al and 80 were
reported as correctly engrossed, by
the committee on engrossment.
Regarding Department Reports.
The special committee which has
had under investigation the reason
for failure of the heads of the vari-
ous state departments to submit their
annual reports to the Legislature, re-
ported that many of these reports
we're held by the secretary of the
printing commission after being turn
ed over by the several departments
heads, and they also reported having
conferred with the manager OF the
knight Printing company and having
received assurance that the work will
be rushed to completion.
It was stated in the committee re.
port that the board Of control Of
he state game and fish commission
nave failed to produce reports, and
t was recommended that they be in
'tructed to file such reports forthwith.
The committees report was adopt
I'd.
Editor Johnson Of the Sykeston Tri-
pune made a contract with the cas-.
lily company to pay him a bonus of
s120 if he did not use the benefits of
he company in 10 years. Mr.. John
son stuck to his job every day during
he 10 years, and now that he is ready