The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-08
MANY PETITIONS
+. IN The SENATE
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Bismarck, N. D., Feb. S.--Petitions
prevailed prominently with the OPEN
ing of the senate session Friday aft
ernoon. Nine petitions were praying
against any legislation that would
establish a license for wagon peddlers
of domestic articles and stoGlx foods
that would destroy that class of com
petition, there were three petitions
favoring woman suffrage and one
petition asking the repeal OF the lum
Der lien law. ses
There was no further action taken
regarding the confirmation of Gov
ernor Hanna's appointment of the
members Of the board of control I'm
dera the law the matter of confirming
this board is referred to a special
committee consisting of three repub-
licans and two democrats, and when
voted upon by the senate requires a
two thirds vote of the senate to con-
Arm. So far the committee has not
reported the matter back to the sen
ate. .tsas .tsr ,-sasea
Few Committee Reports.
But very few bills were reported
back to the senate from the various
committees. The committee on en-
rolled and engrossed bills, reported
that senate bills Nos. los and 15I had
been correctly engrossed and that
senate bill No. Ia, the gopher bill,
had been correctly re- engrossed aft
er being considerably amended by a
special committee. The committee on
judiciary reported faxorably upon
senate bill No. 90, relating TO fees Of
register of deeds, the same commit
tee killed senate bill No. 80, Great
ing code commission but offered for
passage house bill No. AZ, relating
to chattel mortgages.
The committee on cities and muni-
cipal corporations reported favorable
action upon senate bill No 1876, after
a few amendments had been added,
while the committee on insurance
killed senate bill No. 90, providing
that loss of property by fire should
be settled for at the full amount in
sured for. Senate bill No. 1T4, from
the insurance committee was report
ed as having received favorable con
sideration. Senator Cashel withdrew
senate bill No. 81 from the commit
tee on appropriations for the sake of
making amendments, and referred, u
to the committee on education, and
that ended the result of the commit
toe work for the day.
Bills That Finally Passed.
S. B. No. 75-By Mr.. Allen, which had
been hanging fire for several days was
the first put on its third reading, but
even Mr.. Allen himself was not salts
fed with the provisions of the meas
ure and at the last minute added still
another amendment. This bill stipu-
lates the rate of interest that shall
be paid on county sinking funds, and
1t passed with 43 ayes, nays and 2
absent. @ -
S.. B. No. 132-By Mr., Mudgett, was
another bill that had been delayed of
passage. This bill makes provision
for clerk hire for register of deeds
when the special fund is exhausted.
Senator Overson offered an amend
ment that would increase the amount
of clerk hire specified in the bill, but
one senator took exception. Then
Overson and Mudgett went over to
his seat to more fully explain the
particulars of the bill. First Assist
ant Secretary Wacker, who was reg
lister of deeds himself in Mclean
county, and a deputy before that,
knew what the bill meant and he left
his desk to help out with the argu-
ment with Mr.. Gibbons, but even
though Mr.. Overson's amendment pre-
vailed Senator Gibbons voted against
the bill, as did Senators Kretschmar
and Plain. The bill passed as
amended. however, with 46 ayes, 8
nays and / absent.
Senator McBride's bill, No. los,
making fidelity insurance companies
responsible for all acts of public Off
cials whom they have bonded, passed
without any discussion or opposition.
the vote being 49 ayes to ! absent.
There was some discussion raised
by Senator Gilbert when Senator
Plains bill, ISL, legalizing the execu-
tion and acknowledged of certain
deeds and mortgages and making the
same or certified copies admissible IN
evidence, was brought up, but with
Senator Plains explanation thesf
passed with only one voting no and
one absent! That completed all the
senate bills that were up for consid-
GRAFTON and the senate proceeded to
dispose of some of the measures that
had come across from the lower
branch.
House Bill No. 20 Passed.
The only house bill to succeed in
passing the senate was III. B. 30. AS
a matter of fact it was the only house
bin on the calendar for passage. This
bill vaIidates certain execution sales
and has been amended by the senate
committee by the emergency clause
being extracted. Senator Hookway
was not satisfied with the time limit
set in the bill, and even though Sena-
tor Overson called attention to the
fact that with the emergency removed
ii would be fully year before the
bill could become operative, 1t did not
suffice, and Mr.. Hookways motion to
place the time limit at one year from
next July prevailed. Then on roll call
the measure passed by vote Of AZ
ayes to / absent and not voting.
More House Bills Referred.
Three more house bills were turned
over to the consideration OF senate
committees. III. b. rs, relating to ern-
pIoyment of deputy sherfffs, was re-
ferred to the committee on ways and
means; III. B. 100. relating to the du-
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