The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-04-17
BILLS PASSED BY the LAST LEC|S-
LATuRE Of INTEREST TO WOMEN
NooDdrtiSan Election of School Officers The
County Superintendent Must Approve
School Board Expenditures.
SNIFF MUST FIRME0 CRIMINALS TO Be STEREL|zED

house and 3SS introduced in the sen
ate, 1874 senate bills and lat hous
bills passed both branches Of the leg
islature. OF these % We're vetoe'
and Is received partial veto, leavin!
about 800 new laws or amendment
to be added to the North Dakota stat
utes.
Only comparatively small humble
of these are of general interest Thu
most important to women are as FOL
lows:
Suvrage Bills
Senate Bill No. 5 provides that wo
man suffrage be submitted to vote a
the general election Of 1914.
House Bill No. 157 provides for
constitutional amendment for equa
suffrage. If the measure should fal
to be voted at the general election, OF
of that manner of obtaining it SHOULD
be declared unconstitutional, the ques
ton can be brought up in the next
legislature as a constitutional amend
ment.
Initiative and Referendum
Two measures pertaining to initia
tive and referendum passed, one pro-
viding for amending the constitution
by this means and the other initiative
and referendum in regard to statutory
legislation. The recall failed to pass
Education
Few of the educational bills have
more than local interest The more
important ones are:
House Bill No. III, which provides
for non.partisan nomination and cleo.
ton of state and county superintend'
ent of schools For nomination there
shall be separate ballots, entitled
"Non.partisan school ballot" If there
are only two candidates for the same
Office, both shall be nominated. At
election there shall be separate bal
lot, entitled, School ballot" The
ed thereon without party designation
House Bill No. 23S, which requires
names of all candidates shall be plac.
the approval of the county superin.
tendent in the purchase by school
boards of furniture, books, maps,
charts and other apparatus.
Senate Bill No. SO prohibits the use
Of public drinking cups on trains, in
stations, in public, parochal or private
schools and in public buildings.
Senate Bill No. A, known as Rural
Aid Bill, appropriates annually ten
thousand dollars for state aid to grade
schools, fifteen thousand to rural
schools and ten thousand to consoli-
dated schools. There was partial
veto on salaries and expenses, as the
inspectors salary is provided in the
budget.
Senate Bill No. 81 appropriates
seventy-five thousand dollars for high
school aid. 1t escaped veto on an I'm.
derstanding that no new agricultural
schools should be established in thh
biennium, but only those already in
existence be maintained.
Senate Bill No. IS brings school
elections under the Corrupt Practice
act. 1t also specifies that candidates
for school officers must file their
names with the clerk not less than
five Gays before such election.
Senate Bill No. IS provides a teach
ers' insurance and retirement fund
This is new measure and assess
ments are optional for teachers now
teaching in the state. All persons be
coming teachers in the public schools
after January l, 1914, will have as
sessments deducted from their sal
aries as follows One per centum
per annum, but not more than twenty
dollars per year, for each of the first
ten years of service as teacher, anG
two per centum per annum, but not
more than forty dollars per year, fol-
each successive year of service as a
teacher, until such teacher shall have
had a total of twenty-five years OF
teaching service, when said assess
ments shall cease" The annuities
paid are based on the average annual
salary for the last five years of ser
vice, and vary from three hundred
and fifty dollors to. seven hundred
and fifty dollars.
Senate Bill No. PIG extends the
time in which grammar grade studies
must be reviewed from the last
semester to the entire cenior year.
Senate Bill No. 236 creates a state
board Of education consisting of nine
members to discharge the following
duties:
l. To have charge of the state az
ricultural high schools. These are the
classified public high schools formerly
in charge of high school board.
2, To have charge of the county
agricultural high schools such as