The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-03-01

implied warranty in the sale Of agri-
the senate after much discussion, dur
Ing which Senator Cahill alleged that
buyers OF threshing machines in his
district frequently had found that
what they signed as an innocent
agreement to buy constituted in real
ity a binding bill of sale. Senator
Paulson insisted that implement men
are as honest as any other class; that
there was no need for the bill. and
that the best thing that could ever
happen to North Dakota would be to
put its implement business on a spot
cash basis. The vote OH the adoption
Of the majority report to pass the bill
was 81 aye to "a nay, and the ma
jority report for indefinite postpone
ment was adopted, % to 20.
The senate waded through its entire
calendar yesterday afternoon, the
more important bills passed being
Representative staaIe's Hendrickson's
concurrent resolution referred by the
Fourteenth general assembly, provid-
ing for a constitutional amendment
calling four-f1fths decision of the
supreme court to hold a law uncon-
stitutional; House Bill No. 1926. de-
filming the crime of swindling, par
ticularly with regard to bills of sale,
three bills relating to the payment of
dividends by domestic insurance COM
panies; the purposes for which insur-
ance companies may be formed, and
the membership, notices of meetings
and bylaws of domestic mutual insur-
ance companies.
OF especial interest to the farmer is
the passage of House Bill No. 165. en-
towering the board of university and
sob 1oY de- 70 6nrVh "a
maximum which may be invested In
first mortgage farm loans. Under this
act the board may loan up to $4,000,
while the former limit was $4,000.
Representative O'Connor's bill
establishing laws uniform with those
of other states relative to the sale OF
goods, H. B. No. 1873. passed the SEN
ate with little opposition, as did III. B.
No. 3S8, defining as booze anything
that looks like BOOZE tastes like booze
or acts like booze. House Bill No. go,
enabling municipalities to sell sur
plus electricity, water or power to
manufacturing plants outside the cor
porate limits, designed to care for the
Equity packing plant at Fargo, went
through the senate. which also adopted
H. B. No. 3S4. requiring motor vehicles
to equip with non-glare lamps, and
H. B. No. 24S. relating - peddlers and
transient merchants.
Bills Passed by the Senate.
H. B. No. 366.-A concurrent resolu-
ton. . ae-
H. b. No. 2S0.-Providing for writs
Of error and granting to the supreme
court power to prescribe rules there
for.
IT. B. No. 25s.-To legalize the exc
cution and acknowledgment Of GER
faiu dandS rnorfpaD and nthar IN.
struments in writing and the record
thereof, and making the same or GER
titled copies thereof, admissible in ev-
idence.
H. B. No. 126.-Defining the crime Of
swindling; prescribing a punishment
therefor; providing the method for
making arrests for violations there
from public places and conveyances;
and specifying the class Of testimony
upon which convictions may be had.
H. B. No. 154-To amend and re-
enact section 4844 OF the compiled
laws of North Dakota for the year
1913. relating to the payment Of divi-
dends by domestic insurance COM
panies from surplus profits.
H. b. No. 393.-To amend section 1885
revised codes, 1913, relating to the
purposes for which insurance corpora
tons may be formed in North Da-
kota.
H. B. No. 1870 amend and re-
enact section 1871 of the compiled
laws Of the state of North Dakota for
the year 1913, relating to membership,
notice of meetings and bylaws Of
domestic mutual insurance companies.
HI. B. No. discriminating the con-
stitution Of the state of North Da-
kota. relating to the investment of
school funds.
H. B. No. 244.-To amend and re-
enact section 1714 of the compiled
laws of the state of North Dakota,
for the year 1913, relating to the COM
mitment of feeble-minded persons to
the institution for the feeble minded.
H. B. No. 1870 make uniform the
laws Of sale Of goods.
H. B. No. 372.-Relating to the val
idation of certain defective proceed
ings in the incorporation Of cities,
and relative to defective proceedings
to affect the extension of the limits
thereof.
H. B. No. 317.-To amend and re-
enact section 1851 OF the compiled
laws of North Dakota, 1918, relating
to gambling houses declared to be