The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-02-11
TERMINAL ELEVATOR At
DULUTH OR ST. PAUL
REPRESENTATIVE BURNETT OF
TRAILL co. WOULD PROVIDE
$4,000 FOR PURPOSE-FLOOD
OF BILLS ON THIRTY-FIFTH
DAY.
Special to The Independent:

Special to The Independent:
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 9.--Represen-
tative Burnett Of Trail county, intro
duced bill in the house Monday after
! noon, providing for a terminal eleva-
| tor at Duluth or St. Paul at a total
cost of $4,000. A fund of $4,000, al
ready accumulated, is appropriated
for this year. The vote will be taken
soon and while the voters have ex-
pressed themselves as wanting ter
minal elevator, it is predicted about
| the corridors of the hotels that the bill
will meet death.
Monday was the thirty-fifth day of
the legislative session, the last day to
introduce bills. A recess was taken
until one o'clock Tuesday noon, to al
low bills to be introduced until o.
clock that day, this being the end of
the 35th day. As consequence there
was a flood of new bills. Something
! like 400 bills have been introduced in
the house alone. This does not mean
that it is utterly impossible to get new
bills introduced hereafter, but they
will have to be taken up and recon-
/
obviate the introduction of new bills
at the last minute, and insure that
none will be passed without due con-
sideration.
! The bill providing for the publica-
ton of county commissioners pro-
ceedings in pamphlet form and to be
mailed out by the auditor on request,
was lulled to sleep in committee Tues
day. Mcclellan of Beach is the bright
mark who conceived this bill.
Another bill to do away with pub
fishing the county auditors and coun-
ty treasurers' annual statements, was
also put to sleep in the committee. A
third bill to amend the law relative
! to publishing the abstract of votes
met like fate. Senator Nelson has
introduced a bill providing for the
placing of the union label on state
printed matter The bill providing for
a state paper has been indefinitely
postponed.
Senate Bill 300, to amend the game
law, has been introduced It provides
a salary of $500 for the chief game
wardens and the secretary of the
board. A second game law was in
troduced Tuesday.
The bill to do away with the pub
licity pamphlet, which had passed the
house, was killed in the senate, not
withstanding that it was shown that
there is an annual deficit of thousands
of dollars. A bill to provide that the
pamphlet may be published only when
it is self sustaining is to be introduced.
The house refused to kill bills for
four-year terms for state officers, as
recommended by the judiciary COM
mittee.
| Representative Blanchard introduc-
ed bill to kill the anti-pass law.
! The joint committee which is prob
ing the affairs of the state board of
control. went to jamestown Wednes-
day morning. Senator Bond of Minot
and Senator Mudgett Of Valley City,
now manager of the Northern Briquet-
ting Co., of Minot, are members of
this committee. The public hearing
will be opened this morning. The
Jamestown attorneys, Seller, Buck and
Knauf, will endeavor to establish that
the changes which were made by the
board, failed to work an improvement
over the plan that was authorized by
the legislature two years ago.
A hundred prominent. jamestown
citizens have signed communication
to the legislature, commencing the
work of the board and complimenting
Supt. Hotchkiss for the way the insane
asylum is being run.
Two bills were introduced calling
for a redistricting of the three con-
gressional districts of the state. Mr..
Haraldson's bill leaves the first dis
; trict as it is at present but changes
the second and third districts so that
they run east and west with the rail-
roads in that part Of the state. Mr..
Morrison's bill places in the proposed
first district the following counties:
. Pembina, Cavalier, Towner, Rolette,
Bottineau, Renville, Burke, Divide
Williams, Mountrail, Ward, McHenry,
Pierce, Benson, Ramsey, Nelson and
Walsh. In the proposed second dis
trict it places: Grand Forks, Traill,
Steele, Griggs, Foster, Wells, Sheri-
dan, Mclean, Barnes and Cass coun-
ties. The remaining counties of the
state under this bill constitute the
proposed third district.
One of the most important of the
bills introduced in the House was the
one introduced by the committee on
education which provides for a board
of regents to have complete charge of
all of the higher educational institu-
tions of the state. The bill provides
for board of five regents to be ap-
pointed by the governor and approx
ed by the Senate, the board to have
full authority over all the institutions
of higher education and all officers
and employees of such institutions.
The board is also authorized to en-
ploy an educational expert who has
had at least three years experience as
administrative head of some school of
higher learning, this expert to be en-
powered to study the schools under
the boards control and make recon-
mendations as to curricula, prune out
unnecessary duplication, etc.
There seems to be little opposition
in the Senate to the bill licensing oste-
opaths and chiropractors.