The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-03-18
HANNA APPROVES
MORE or THE BILLS

HANNA APPROVES
MORE or THE BILLS
~ Bismarck, N. D., March 11.-Gov.
ernor Hanna has not as yet placed his
veto upon any measure that was pass
ed by the fourteenth legislative as
sembly but has during the past "a
hours signed seventeen house bills
and 10 measures that originated in the
senate.
Following are the house bills signed
l65, 236, 337 800 400 425, 45S, 466, 467,
AZ, 331. 17s, 321, 1872, 1928, LOG, 80 and
81. ..a..." ......
The senate bills signed are ~, 4S,
"a, SO, 152, 1877, 1855, 163, 176, 1874
1877, 1913. 1874, 226. 1876.
Among the more important of the
bills mentioned above is H. B. No. SO
which is the one abolishing capital
punishment in the state. Under its
conditions the death watch has been
lifted from Joe Milo who was under
sentence of death for a murder com.
mitted last summer in Bottineau
county. Milo was sentenced to be
hung in August of the present year
and has been in the death house un.
der guard since the first of the pre-
sent year.
H. B. No. 80 is the constitutional
amendment providing that there shall
be four-6fths decision of the sup
rene court when deciding upon the
constitutionality of legislative enact
ments. This bill was introduced by
Stale Hendrickson and when it or
iginally came to the house provided
for unanimous decisions in the above
cases. It was hard fought at every
stage Of the game and finally came
out with the four-fifths amendment
from the senate and was passed at the
last minute of the session on Friday
night.
H. B. 492 is the bill which provides
for the repeal of the terminal elevator
mill tax and provides an appropriation
Of $4,000 for the railroad commission
to continue the investigation of the
feasibility of the construction and op-
alton of state-owned terminal ele-
vator in North Dakota, Minnesota or
Wisconsin. This bill also cuts out
the possibility of creating a further
fund for which there may be no use,
it being the idea of the legislature that
if the railroad commission reports fav-
orably on the matter of a terminal
elevator the next legislature may ap-
propriate sum sufficient to make a
start.
s. B. II is a constitutional amend
ment and provides that the legislature
may, il the amendment is adopted by
the people, select location for an ad-
ditional insane asylum. This bill was
introduced two years ago, but on &C.
count of the fact that an effort was
made to locate it at the same time it
failed of passage. This amendment
leaves it up to some legislature to
name the site.
S. B. ga also received the signature
of the governor and that is the Bond
bill providing for the removal of Of
ficers by the governor. 1t provides
some amendments to the present law,
more important among them being the
one which allows the commissioner ap-
pointed by the governor some power
as to what sort of eviednce shall be
admitted.
S. B. 48 is the oil inspection bill
which provides for an inspection fee
of five cents per barrel in place of the
rs cent fee which was recently de-
clared unconstitutional by the su.
preme court on account of the claim
that it was excessive.
S. B. 1874 is the immigration bill
which passed the house on the last
day Of the session. 1t carries an ap
preparation of 100000 for the next two
years and will be put into operation
on July 1, 1915.
There are no indications as yet oil
any vetoes coming, although there is
one measure about the same as one
that Governor Hanna vetoed last ses
sion and there is some question as to
whether the present bill is so drawn
that it gets away from the objections
the governor had at that time. b.
INDIAN LANDS WILL BE SOLD.
Fort Yates, N. d., March 1.-THE
Indian allotment lands m tho Stand