Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-23
HOUSE WORKS
All Day Spent on General Orders
-Thirty:eight Bills Are
Acted on. n

The lower house yesterday sat as
the committee of the whole and clean.
ed up all hease bills with the excep-
tioA of a few introduced the other
day. which may come before the COM
mittee of the whole for action but
which is doubtful. Thirty-eight bills
were considered yesterday and OF
these thirty-two will 4be recommended
for passage today, five will be recon-
mended for indefinite postponement
and action was deferred on one
Such important bills as n drawn
up by the game and fish committee,
dealing with the game laws; the Har-
ris corporation tax bill Peterson's bill
dealing with county division matters;
the bill repeating the terminal eleva-
tor mill tax; Purcelrs good roads bill;
Bhatton's bill authorizing clerks prior
to the first of this year and many
others are among those which will be
recommended for passage.
Among the important bills which
will Ebe recommended for indefinite
!postponement are the following: viii.
iliams' capitol commission bill, Boyce's
bill to do aW ay with the state high
way commission and Carey's bill
which would allow the farmer to give
his note and a mortgage on the crop
insured in lieu of cash payment on
iail insurance premiums.
Recommend to Pass.
The following bills will be recon-
mended for passage today in the re-
port Of the committee of the whole:
H. B. 800, committee on game and
fish, revising the present game laws
of the state.
H. B. IL. Harris, providing for a tax
on franchise of foreign corporations
for the benefit o the state.
H. B. PIG, Smith of Ward, prohibit
ing excessive expenditures out of ap'
preparations.
H. B. SO, Hoghaug, relating to the
custody, detention, are and treat
ment of persons who are chronically
addicted to the use of certain danger
GUS and habit-forming drugs.
H. B. 455, Converse, relating to ex'
ceptions by defendant to undertaking
in claim and delivery actions.
H. B. 1853. Peterson, relating to
boundaries of counties.
H. 3. 344, McClintock, relating to
insolvency of banks and liquidation
of the same by the state examiner.
H. B. 492, Lathr0p committee, re
pealing mill tax for terminal elevators
and substituting an appropriation OF
$4,000 for the next biennial period
and providing for a further investiga'
tion of he proposition by the board
of railroad commissioners.
H. 3. ass, McQuillan, to amend sec
ton 2S7 of the Compiled Laws of 1913
H. B. 430, Purcell, relating to regis
tration of motor vehicles and provid
ing that fees referred to in this bill
shall be in lieu of all other taxes.
H. B. 179, Wiley, providing for the
state park at Fort Rice, in Morton
county.
H. B. ATS, Lathrop committee, re
lating to an appropriation for the
glandered horse and dourine fund.
III. B. 1856, Lathrop committee, relat
ing to flags upon public institutions
and providing an appropriation there
for.
H. B. 301, Ness, appropriating 9
| sum of money for care of state park
at, Fort Abercrombie.
H. B. 1913, Lathrop committee, ap
preparation for maintenance of old
settlers historical park at Walhalla
Pembina county.
H. B. 296, Thorne, appropriation fol
| White Stone Hill Memorial park.
I, H. B. AT, Lathrop committee, .ap
preparation for the burial and erection
of headstones for deceased soldiers.
H. B. 416, Morrison, providing for q
board of highway improvements in
each county in the state.
H. B. 346, Dean, relating to the ex
tension of corporate limits of cities
and providing method of procedure.
H. B. 300, Bratton, authorizing
clerks of courts to retain fees collect
ed for naturalization papers prior to
Jan. /, 1915.
H. B. 443, Burgett, relating to re
presentation in an application for in
surance.
H. B. 229, Pitkin, relating to laying
out, altering and disseminating roads.