The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1915-02-25

after its vote on suffrage it is expect
ed that 1t will experience little Difficult.
ty. Their seems to be an interlock-
ing lobby of ONE on prohibition and
woman suffrage and so far it has
proved as efficient and as successful
as any.
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Farmers May Whit would not be
at all impossible that the farmers
will be successful in securing both
their demands, though for a time it
was thought that the building Of a
terminal grain elevator in the Twin
Cities had been given it's uuietus.
hail insurance law seems to be on
the gain and this, too, is likely to be
given the approval of the legislature.
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Apprenticeship committees on
appropriations have begun to send in
their bills and naturally there is some
groaning over the manner in which
salaries and expense accounts have
been brought within the margin. The
educational institutions have finally
been persuaded to accept the aboli-
ton of the mill tax and to accept a
straight appropriation measure for
thelr maintenance and it is practical
ly certain that a board of regents will
replace the various boards of trus-
tees now in existence and thus three
men will do the work accom-
plished by twenty-seven. There will
be economy in this, but the good old
days of freedom for the institution
heads seem gone forever and with it
the competition between schools and
the overlapping courses of study such
as nov prevail.
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Attracts Attention-Senate bill 152,
which would take the state capitol,
grounds and car line out of the hands
of the governor, the auditor and the
secretary of state and put them un-
der the management of the board OF
control of penal and charitable insti-
tutions, seems to have attracted con.
siderable attention. There is such
politics in the deal, as it is regarded
as a plan on the part of some to get
away with some juicy pickings that
could not be safely carried off under
present management. The street car
line, the purchase of coal, Of all sup
plies in the capitol, the furnishing OF
light and power, offer their attrac.
tons to many interests.
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Echo Of the Cowan case-The in.
PRODUCTION Of a bill to pay an account
of $4,000 to the printing contractor of
the 1911 session has raised the ghost
Of the Cowan impeachment case. The
bill is for a supposed balance due on
the printing Of the daily journal OF
parchment. The printing commission
paid the contractor-the Bismarck
Tribune conlpany-the amount in full
that was due it under it's contract.
This was not satisfactory, the COM
pany claiming that the work did not
come under it's contract for legisla-
tive printing, and asking in place of
the contract rate an amount figured
on double the maximum rate allowed
by law. THIS, the maximum rate for
composition by law is 80 cents per
thousand, and the maximum rate for
paper Of this class is 10 cents per
pound. The claim made was for S1.2U
per thousand and 20 cents per pound
The matter was taken to the courts
and was unsuccessful there. Now it is
II the legislature.
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Put 70 SIeep-FOur insurance bills,
introduced at the request of the in.
uranc department, giving the state
power to regulate ratemaking, were
killed in the senate. The full crew"
bill met the same fate in the same
body. So did the Everson measure to
provide for inspection Of hospitals,
schools and converts in the house.
Likewise the bills by Williams requir-
ing the establishment of a state print.
ing establishment and the running of
a state newspaper. Also the meas.
ure that required cheese to be labeled
oAo lIO AlCdoulC LAoI "oulu udf0 pic
scriptions written in both Latin and
English.
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Trained Nurses-The Rowe bill pro.
viding for the examination, registra.
ton and regulation of trained nurses
passed the house after being amend
ed. It will likely become law, if the
senate will accept the amendments.
The bill to regulate the practice of
c~hiropractics, providing for examina'
tons, licenses, etc., has been so
amended in the senate as to make the
practitioner of that school on a level
with the others and requiring as much
of him in training and education. The
objection to the bill was that many
practitioners could be graduates OF
taught-by-mail colleges and still prac.
tice, and this has been overcome.
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Printing Commission - Newspaper
men Of the state are, or should be,
interested in senate bill 2O9, provid.
ing for the adding of the governor
and the attorney general to the state
printing commission, now composed