Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-26

count Of the fact that an exposition
in the western city would draw q
large number OF people through the
state and that they should, after hav
ing seen the state, have some idea
presented to them on their arriva'
at the exposition as to what the reaI
products OF the state were, and he
therefore, supported the idea of a
first.class exhibit at California. He
also called attention to the fact that
the appropriation would be. spread
over a period OF three years and indi'
Gated that he thought North Dakota
could stand the pressure.
Senator Plain stated that the mat.
ter had been thoroughly threshed ont
in the appropriation committee and
he was in favor Of the bill If it was
the sense of the senate that the state
could afford the, expenditure.
AT, this point Senator Wartner sug.
gested the advisability of dividing the
bill and voting once on the San Diego
proposition and then on the San Fran.
cisco appropriation, and when a mo-
ton was made to eliminate that part
of the bill pertaining to the San Die
90 fair the amendment was carried
and the bill as amended and provid.
ing for an appropriation for only the
San Francisco fair was recommended
for passage.
Initiative and Referendum.
Then six Initiative and referendum
bills came up as a special order OF
business in the senate this afternoon,
and there is a bad miX-up left in the
senate as a result. There are six bills
all being somewhat different and all
being opposed to each other in some
way. When the bills were first
brought up Senator Garden stated
that he would move that H. B. 1873 be
recommended for passage 'just to get
things started" Hanley seconded the
motion and Gibbons made a motion
for indefinite postponement; Bronson
took the floor at this point and made
a long talk against the bill. claiming
that n Of the bad features of the
proposed law was that it would really
mean local option, according to some
of the provisions. Gibbons stated that
the percentage required to put the
act in operation after it became a
law was too small. calling for moi.
more than s" as referred to the initi-
ative and mot more than Is" as ap-
piled to the referendum, was so small
it would make the law an unjust mea.
sure. He was not opposed to the per-
centage as applying to the recall pOr.
ton, as that requires 80 per cent OF
the voters must make application.
Senator Talcott stated that in fair
ness to the other bills they should be
considered before 1873, as the others
only asked for parts of the provision
embodied in 1873 and made a motion
that the others be acted upon or dis.
cussed first, and this motion, after it
had been seconded by Hanley, car
ried.
Voting on the various recommends
tons was then taken up and 80 vas
recommended for passage; Is, for in
definite postponement; II, do pass;
Bronson moyed that l22 do pass, bu;
motion was lost; Haaley moved Isl
do pass and that motion carried. Bron-
son moved that H. B. 1873 be recon-
mended for indefinite postponement,
but vote was not taken and that bill
remains on the calendar, although an
effort was made to have it referred
to a committee of five attorneys OF
the senate to have some points clear
ed up. So that as it stnds now, H. 3.
l53 is or the calendar, one was indef-
nitely postponed, no action taken on
another, and three recommended for
passage.
Bills Reported.
Bills that were reported back from
the senate committee on Tuesday
were as follows:
IS. B. 313, railroads pass.
S. B. 254, railroads, amend and pass.
S. B. POS, state affairs, amend and
pass.
H. B. 253, state affairs, amend and
pass.
II. B. 50, state affairs, pass.
II. B. 81, state affairs, amend and
pass.
H. B. 239, state affairs, amend and
pass.
H. B. "a, appropriations amend and
pass.
H. B. 40, appropriations, killed.
S. B. 1913, appropriations, pass.
H. E. "A, appropriations, killed.
S. B. 1852, appropriations, amend
and pass.
Fl. B. 147, appropriations, pass.
H. B. PSI, appropriations, pass.
II. B. 250, appropriations, pass.
S. B. judiciary, pass.
S. B. 300, judiciary, amend and pass.
S. B. 260, judiciary, amend and pass.
S. B. 305, judiciary, amend and pass.
H. B. 260, appropriations, pass.
H. B. 90, cities and municipal cor
porations, amend and pass.
s. E. PIG, live stock, pass.
S. B. 215, public health, killed.
S. B. 249, public health, pass.
S. B. l01, banks, killed.
New Senate Bills Read and Referred.
321, Bond, power companies to have Of
flee in state. Cities.
1922, Heckle, relating to special verdicts.
Judiciary.
1928, Bonner, %auctioheers to notify
treasurers of sales of personal property.
Tax and tax laws.
'.t24, Barnes, graduates of industrial
school right to teach in high schools.
Education.
1875, Educational committee, board of
| trustees for school forestry and Industrial