The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-29
of either party, having existed for
ten years or more. judiciary.
TUESDAY IN
The SENATE

all members present Tuesday when a
communication was received in the
senate from the governor stating ne
had approved the passage of senate
bill No. 81 which dispenses with writ
ten journals. Immediately following
the governors communication was a
message from the house stating the
house had concurred with the senate
in taking an adjournment from Thurs
day of this week till the following
Tuesday, and also that the house had
~corcurred with the senate in the mat
ter OF investigating legislative print
ing and that the speaker had appointed
Messrs. Burnett, HARRISON and Small
as a committee to act with the senate.
House bills Nos. 10, IA, 80, 81, SO and
IS were also transmitted to the sem
ate.
Senator Hookway filed a petition
signed by a large number of his con-
s%tituents in his district asking that
the legislature take action providing
for woman's suffrage. The senator
from McHenry wanted the petition
printed in the Journal, but Senator
Mcdowell thought If the assembly was
to cut down on the printing that it
was time there was q halt to print
ing so many personal petitions in the
journals, and Mr.. Hookway said If
only a reference could be made Of it
in the journal he would be satisfied.
S. d. Nos. 81. So and 100 were re-
ported correctly ~engrossed, and the
state affairs committee offered a re-
port recommending that a joint com
mittee of the senate and house be
named to arrange for the reception
in the capital city of the student
council from the agricultural college
when it arrives here Feb. IL, and that
President Worst be invited to give the
memorial address in joint session on
Lincoln's birthday. For that purpose
the president appointed Messrs. Will
liams, Hookway and Trageton as the
committee to act for the senate.
The committee on ways and means
reported it had amended senate bill
No. SO and recommended its passage,
and then President protein Gilbert
took the chair.
Senator Bronson sent a concurrent
resolution to the desk presuming that
Fort Lincoln at Bismarck was to be
abandoned and asking that the land
and buildings now occupied there by
the government be ceded to the state
for institution purposes. The resolu-
ton might nave been adopted had it
not been for the fact that Senator
Hanley stated that he thought that
the senate should not be too hasty in
adopting resolutions, and las object
sought would require the attention Of
congress he thought it ought to go
over for a day to give the senators
a chance to more fully consider the
matter. and moved that the resolu-
ton be referred to the committee on
state affairs. Senator Hughes second
ed the motion, and stated that the
government could cede the land to the
state even if it wanted. AS matter
of fact the land occupied by the post
was donated to the government by
private citizens of Bismarck, and if
the post should be abandoned it will
revert back to the donors. The resolu-
ton was finally referred to the COM
mittee.
The president returned TO the chair,
and Senator Gilbert filed a long petit
ton from former North Dakotans now
living in California calling attention
to the state legislature OF the OPP
p~ortunity to exploit the advantages OF
North Dakota at the Panama exposi-
tion, and asking that the state be
suitably represented. The petition
was headed by John D. Benton of
Fargo n contained the names of
many. former pioneers of North Da-
kota well known all w the state.
Senator Gilbert wanted the entire
petition, signers and all, to appear in
the journal and so did Senator Tall
colt, but Senator Davidson thought
of that word economy" and before the
petition was printed in the journal he
wanted it referred to the committee
on state affairs. but when the senators
voted by reclamation the president
declared that Senator Gilbert's motion
had prevailed.
Senator Davis her turned the SEN
ate back to the sixth order of bust
ness and offered a report from the
committee on state affairs to the effect
that senate bill No. IA has been
amended by striking out everything
after the word "a bill" and that a new
bill had been drafted. This bill pro-
vides for a gopher bounty, and the
committees action was based on some
legal opinions that had just been dis
covered. The report was adopted and
it was ordered that 500 copies Of the
new bill be printed.
Right here a breathless messenger
from the house rushed pass the senate
sergeant-at-arms, and made his own
announcement to the president OF the
senate that he had in his possession
a. message from the house. The mes
sage stated that the house wanted the
senate to concur in the appointment
of a committee of FIVE, three from the
house, who were Messrs. Twichell,
Huso and Haroldson, with two from
the senate to investigate and ascer-
tain the present needs Of the tuher-
culosis sanitarium at Dunseith.
Senator Plain, chairman Of the SEN
ate committee on appropriations ex-
planned that a joint committee on APP
| preparations had met on Monday
evening and it was suggested that
such a committee be named to make
this investigation without leaving the
city so that the appropriation COM
mittee could have needed information.
Senator Davis caused the message
to be re-read, and then Senator Tai
colt wanted to be informed as to the
object of having such a committee APP
pointed. Senator Plain further ex-
planned that at the joint meeting of
the committees that Mrs. Stevens of
Grand Forks had appeared before the
committees, and that the committee
had reason to believe that there had
been some irregularity in the DISPOSE
ton of the funds appropriated this
institution two years ago. At that
time Senator Plain said $4,000 had
been appropriated to build cottages
and that while only one cottage en-
failing a cost of about $500, had been
built, still that fund was exhausted.
4 He also said that 81, 900 had been ap-
propriated for maintenance, and that
while, it was only recently that
thirteen patients had been admitted,
still that fund, too, had been ex-
hausted. Senator Davis thought a
financial statement from the trustees
of that institution would suffice, while
Senator Davidson thought a close ex+
lamination OF the records would prove
what had become of the money.
Senator Mcdowell then took the
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