The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-02-18
J0HNS0N'S BANK GUARANTEE BILL
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED MONDAY

without a fight.
Railroads will have to maintain hog
tight fences where farmers along their
right of way build on three sides OF
the land, but will not have to keep the
fences up unless the land owner does
his share and keeps up his three quaA-
tiers if the senate looks on Gunthorpe's
House Bill No. 154 the same as the
house did yesterday afternoon.
The only fight on third reading of
house bills developed when Bratton's
Bill No. 1875 came up for roll call. This
relates to the salary of the county
superintendent of health and allows
him his expenses and $500 per day
when performing duties outside of his
office. There were Is favoring the
raise in pay, Is on record as against
it and IA being absent and not voting.
Turner in the Chair.
Claude Turner of Stark county was
called to the chair by Speaker Hanson
when the house went into committee
of the whole. Only the three bills
mentioned above were considered but
while the bank guaranty bill and the
nurses registration bill were on hand
Mr. Turner was kept busy keeping the
matter properly lined up. His rulings
were in every case accepted by the
committee and he showed that exper-
fence of former years as member OF
the house had not been lost on him.
He conducted a very ticklish situation
in mastery manner.
Four Year Term Still in Front.
That the four year terms bills have
great recuperative power was again
demonstrated yesterday when Senate
Bills ", 70 and rs escaped from the
grave yard of indefinite postponement
and were referred to committees
again.
The history of the bills is rather in
teresting. Introduced in the senate to
take the place of a large number of
bills providing for four year terms for
state and county officers, they were
once recommended for indefinite post
ponement and then afterwards pulled
out of retirement and recommended
for passage. They were then passed
by the senate and sent over to the
house where they were first referred
to the committee on elections and
election privileges which committee
referred it to the committee on judic-
larry, which committee recommended
them all for indefinite postponemenl.
On the suggestion of A. M. Thompson
of Ward and Hedalen of Walsh u ana
70 were referred to the committee of
the whole and rs to the committee on
elections and election privileges.
There will undoubtedly be a fight on
the floor of the house when they come
up for consideration this afternoon.
Four Years for Congressman.
The house adopted a resolution
calling on congress to pass constitu-
tional amendment making four year
terms for congressman and eight years
terms for senators. This resolution
is in line with the four years terms
bills as it would cut out the biennial
election now required and which would
not be done away with unless con-
gressmen were elected for four years.
! Leonard Bill Passes.
Representative Leonard's bill pre.
scribing the form of affidavit denying
liability in garnishment proceedings
came back from the senate with some
minor amendments and upon the mo-
ton of the author was immediately
put upon it's third reading and was
passed after the amendments had been
concurred in.
First Conference Committee.
The first conference committee to be
appointed by Speaker Hanson was
named when Haroldson, Twichell IL
L.) and Pitkin were named as house
members on Senate Bills IA and s:
which were introduced by Jacobson
and have to do with the fees and pro
ceedure in county courts with increas
ed jurisdiction. It has been impossi
BILE, thus far, for the house and the
senate to get together on the amend
ments.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 9.-Repersen
tative Hendrickson has won the thirt
round in his fight for unanimous de
) cisions in the supreme court when tn