Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-11
MOSES BILL
RECOMMENDED
Committee of Whole House Rec.
ommends Enforcement CON-
missioner Bill.

Alter a spirited debate ana after
amending the bill SO as to cut down
the annual appropriation for the pur-
poses outlined therein to $4,000 and
eliminating the clause which would
give the officer powers extraordinary
in the line Of searching, the Moses
bill III. B. ~, creating the office of
state enforcement commissioner, was
recommended for passage as amended
by the committee of the whole house
yesterday afternoon. The bill had a
narrow escape as it was.
Hon. A. A. Peterson of Nelson, one
of the youngest members of the house
and one who is serving his first term
in the legislature, presided as chair
man cf the committee of the whole
and his fair and impartial rulings
as we'll as his expert knowledge of
lnarliamentarv~ Ia w ms do e,in.,, = - -
- Quanbeck's Swan Song.
1t was while this bill was up for
discussion too, that Fl. r. Quanbeck,
Peterson's youthful colleague from
Nelson county, Grated for the first
time in the house. Quanbeck put up
a good line of talk in favor Of the
passage of the Moses bill and won
much applause both from the gallery
and the house floor itself for his ef-
forts.
Mr.. Moses, author of the bill, stat
ed that it would result in putting
the state back of the enforcement of
it's own laws If passed. Mr.. Con-
verse asked the author if there were
any objections to amending the bill
by striking out the clause which
would give the enforcement commits
sioner extraordinary powers of
search, powers which the sheriff does
not have. Mr.. Torson moved such
amendment and same carried.
Mr.. Blanchard moved to amend the
bill by removing the most of section
two of the bill, providing for salary
of the commissioner and his clerk
and for offices, etc. Mr.. Blanchard
later moved to amend by taking from
the commissioner created in the bill
all police powers as provided in Sec
'tion five but both these motions were
lost.
TreadveIl Twichell asserted that he
was in favor Of the bill when amend
ed as moved by Mr.. Torson, and car
ried. Mr.. Ryan would amend so as
to have the commissioner enforce all
of the laws of The state but the mo-
ZION was lost.
\ Cut Appropriation.
Mr.. Ployhar moved to amend sec
tiCn 9 of the bill so that an annual
appropriation Of but $4,000 would be
provided for instead of the $4,000 in
the amended bill before the house,
and the $4,000 provided for in the
original bill. The office, it is claimed,
will be nearly. if not altogether, self
supporting by charging up costs
against defendants prosecuted
through the efforts of the enforce
ment commissioner and payment of
those charges to the state. Mr.. Car
ney remarked hat the agitation of
this matter in the newspapers of the
state and the amount of talk con-
cerning it, which he had heard, to
him proved that the people of the
state desired the passage Of this
bill.
Finally. when the motion to rec
ommend that the bill do pass as
amended, was made for the third
time. enough votes were secured to
carry it through.
Staale HendricksOn moved that the
bill as amended be recommended to
the house to be printed in the jour-
nal. but the chaif ruled the motion
no. a proper one and refused to en-
tertan it. Hendrickson appealed
from the decision of the chair, but
the chair was uDhe.d