Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-04
HYLADD BILL IS
UP FOR PASSAGE
Committee Of the Whole House
Finally Recommends Bill
to Pass.

After a lengthy discussion the. Hy
land immigration bill a recommend
ed to pass by the committee of the
whole house yesterday afternoon, and
the bill will come up for third read
ing and final passage today. Sixty
voted to adopt the report of the. COM
mite of the whole recommending the
bill to pass, AZ voted against the
adoption of the report and there were
10 absent and not voting.
The bill was amended SO as tC
place the attorney general and sec
rotary of state on the immigration
board, making a total membership OF
five instead of three, as the bill orig
inally provided. The other three
members are the governor, commits
sioner of agriculture and labor and
the president of THE railroad com.
mission. Treadwell Twichell offered
the amendment and moved it's adop
ton.
Burnett of Trail was first to- talk
and he moved to recommend the bill
for indefinite postponement. The mo
ton was renewed several times. Mr..
burnett arguedNthat there We've nc
public lands left in the state. with
the exception Of "a few acres in the
Fad Lands" and also said that every
time an outsider would be brought
into the state to live a settler who
had been here. would sell out and
probably move out Of the state. He
also argued that it would create a
new board and, that board would be
authorized. to spend $4,000 in the
next two years: cts a political ma.
chine, pure and simple" he said, "and
one of the most outrageous bills ever
wished onto the original settlers OF
this state"
MOI Benefit the Poor.
lHickle. of Mercer. Oliver and Dunn
said that he could see nothing in the
bill that would benefit the poor man
and posed as a champion of the rights
Of the poor.
"a few weeks ago this Legislature
said that we couldn't afford to spend
$4,000 or any part of it for a ter.
minal elevator which a large majority
of the people of this state wanted
he said. "and now they var to spend
this money to bring outsiders into the
state, to their advantage"
Smith of Ward was also agains,
the bill. He spoke on the curso of
the nonresident owner, and the ban.
Gifts which such owners would de.
rive from any advertising which the
state might do.
Good Fertilizer
Treadwell Twichell was the cham
pion Of the bill Not that it lacked
supporters, but TWichell was about
all that was necessary. t
He charged that factional' strife and
politics had been brought into play
against this bill and against many
other pieces of legislation.
I'm primarily a farmer he said,
"and I don't make a business of this
class of vicious legislation But ]
know. as a farmer, that if the .argu.
ments used against this bill were
properly spread over the land, it
would make an excellent fertilizer"
The state, he said, needs two things
money and people. And as this is
an q Of advertising, he suggested
that the oily way ITO get the people
was to advertise for them and make
known the many advantages of this
state.
Burnett Motion Lost
When Mr.. Rurnett's motion to rec
ommend the bill for indefinite post
ponement was nut it was found that
there We're 4t for the indefinite post.
ponement of the bill and IS against
How They Voted
L. l.. Twichell then moved that the
bill as amended be recommended tc
PASS. Roll call was demanded by
the opponents of the bill and then a
call of the house was demanded and
! granted, When It was found that