The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-06

so much commotion as Senate Bill 81
framed with view to relieving the
pressure on the Sunday lid. It has
been petitioned for and against,
amended and re-amended. referred and
re referred and today the senate will
sit in autopsy upon its mangled re-
mains. Whether the corpse will be
given decent burial or sent on its
way to third reading remains to be
seen.
The Clergy's Protest
The clergy who have protested
against Senate Bill 81 coptend:
1.-The only motive that should gov
ern Sunday work should be service
necessary to the public good. Our
present Sunday law should remain in
tact, except that the word necessity
in works of necessity" should be so
defined that the officers may have a
definite basis of action. We positively
protest against any change that will
legalize theatres, commercialized base
ball, pool halls and hunting on Sun
day We condemn Senate Bill 114
which would legalize hunting on Sun.
day; House Bill 10, which would
legalize Sunday theatres and keep up a
feud in many communities of the
state, and we oppose any effort to
broaden Senate Bill 81, so as to in
clude Sunday baseball or other than
work necessary to the public good
Hunting Bill Up
Senate Bill ia, introduced by Lind
strOm, exemptinga hunting from the
lis of illegal Sunday acts during the
open season, was reported out by the
game and fish committee yesterday
without recommendation, and this
measure, with Senator Hamilton's bill
1877, makeing baseball permissible on
Sunday afternoons, will come up on
the floor of the senate for fight to
the finish.
House Meets and Quits
The house. with ten less than the
number required for quorum. met at
2 o'clock with Assistant Chief Clerk
Austin in the chair, and adjourned un-
til O'Clock today. Until the house
gets action this afternoon on Senate
Bill 105, the $4,000 temporary relief
ny lldI IACdSulC loI llS
North Dakota National guard cannot
be made available. The bill was. not
enrolled when the house adj
iourned last week, and it is not yet in
shape for the governors signature.
The railway brotherhoods OF the
state met check in the senate when
Senate Bill rs, requiring all public
service corporations to pay semi
and Senate Bill SO, provid-
ing that evidence taken or writings
signed within Y hours after an in
jury shall not be admitted in actions
for damages, were re-referred after
coming up for final passage.
Bills Passed by Senate
The senate passed on third reading
Senate Bill 104, requiring township
boards to refer to electors the ques-
ion of purchasing road machinery; f,
Senate Bill 1873, relating to the relief
II poor persons; Senate Bill 40. re-
ating to joint annual statements from
county auditors and treasurers; |
House Bill 70, relating to the boun- |
laries and terms of court in the Sixth |
judicial district, and House Bill 25,
providing that personal property shall i!
,e listed and assessed in the county !
own or district where the owner ior;:
agent resides; the capital stock and |
franchises of corporations where the |
office or place of business is
located in this state, or if no such |
principal office exists, at the place
where that corporation or person
transacts business. The bill was
amended in the senate to exclude from