The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-27
HOUSE BILL A
BY BIC MARGIN
Floods of oratory Precede Final
Passage of League Magma
Charta
DIVET CHALLENGES
FRAZ1ER's s PLEDGES
Rep. Stair Gives Main Address in
Support of Constitutional Re-
vision Measure
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AYES.
Arnold, Bailey, Bowman, Brown,
eryans, eyrne, Church, Christen.
son, Cole, Dettler, Dupuis, Eek
ert, Erb, Ferguson, Fraser, Fred
erickson, Geiger, Gunhus, Hauan,
Haines, Harding, Harris, Hoare,
Hoshauo, keitzman, kimbaIl,
Roller, kunkel, kurtz, Lageson,
Laird, Liederbaeh, Larson, cass;
Larson, Ransom; Larson, stuts.
man; Lazier, Lowe, Maddox,
Benson; Maddox, Mountraii;
Magnuson, Martin, Marshall,
;Martz, Maxwell, Mees, Miller,
moen, Trail; Myhre, Mcdonnell,
Mcmanus, Nathan, Minis, Mott.
mier, o'connor, Pembina; oksen.
dahl, Olson, Bowman; Olson,
Burke; Olson, Eddy; Patterson,
Peterson, Towner; PIeasance,
Prater, Guam, 'Riba, Reishus, Rem.
auld, sandbeck, Schiek, sehraq,
Sinclair, Stair, Storstad, Strom,
Wadeson, Walton, Ward, Weber.
Weld, kidder; WhippIe, varnum,
Wood.
Total, 81.
Allen, Blanchard, Carignan,
Carr, Divet, EbeI, Everson, Gels
Ter, Hanson, Hendrickson, Isaak,
Kelly, Knox, Maekoff, Meyer,
Moen, Adams; Peterson, Sar-
gent; Rice, Rott, Schick, Smith,
Singer, Tenneson, Turner, Wiley
Wilson, Lang.
Total, ~.
ABSENT.
Lathrop, o'Connor, Grand
Forks, Weld, Wells; Wright.
Total, 4.
After a food of oratory that has
consumed most of this week, House
Bill A, the Magma Charta of the Non
partisan leaE0e, passed late yesterday
Wsth' 81 voting in favor;
n opposed, and four absent.
There was intense enthusiasm as
The result oflthe vote was announced
Packed galleries applauded and hun
lreds who stood on the floor of the
house voiced their sentiments in q
usty manner. Z
To the Senate.
The bill now makes its pilgrimage
10 the senate. Just what the action
will be is not known, except that the
bill in its present shape has about
IS much chance in the upper house
IS the proverbial SNOWFALL in hades.
1t is intimated that the senate may
the pet measure of the
league, returning it to the house SO
as to be hardly recognizable
n a N. P. caucus.
Then, doubtless, constitutional re-
Vision will be the great issue before
he peOple-unless, however, the
eague still has trump card up its
sleeve.
Real Field Day. -
There have been few such field days
or orators. All afternoon friends and
'0es of the bill engaged in, a rapid
ire debate. At no time was there
my effort made by the majority to
apply the gag rule. The opposition
ust talked itself out, then the league
eaders made a few spirited speeches
md the vote was taken. The result
las never been in doubt The league
claimed 81 votes from the start. Al.
owing for one or two desertions, they
anded 50 votes for the BIN; even Ed
Cole Of Fargo scaled the bandwagon
md, extolling the measure in a spe-
tally prepared speech, in which he
Urged the equal distribution of gen.
,rosity" and also declared that "con'
eminent breeds patriotism
All For Convictions.
Blanchard started the fireworks by
declaring that he opposed the bill.
wen though it meant the failure Of
he Dickinson normal appropriation.
He stated that the instructions i'm.
,osed upon him by his constituents
ind his own conscience would not
permit him to vote for measure that
le believed was hostile to orderly
government and against the oath he
ook to uphold the constitution.
Divet Among "Antis."
Representative Divet, who nailed
he terminal elevator bill to the cross
wo years ago, gave a short but Wig
'rous speech, in which he denounced
he bill and declared that any action
AIKEN on it was lost motion, for the
upreme court would wipe it out.
1T is merely idle delay he said,
to go through the formality Of pass.
ng it. The program can be carried
tut in three years IL the leaders Of
his movement will only listen to rea-
on.
"No declaration has been made for
constitutional convention by the
'eople. On September IS, Governor
frazier, in bid for votes, said:
81 expect the 1917 legislature to
onsider bills for the submission Of
amendments. They
must be considered BY two legisla-
ures and then submitted to the peo-
lie. They cannot be handled hur-
iedly. We must move cautiously,
aking them IN one hy one i