The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-15

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senate bill 100, relating to the joint
annual statement from county audit
ors and t~reasurers; house bill 10,
relating to the boundaries and terms
of court in the sixth judicial dis
trict, and house bill rs, providing
that personal property shall be list
ed and assessed in the county, town
or district where the owner or agent
resides, the capital stock and fran
chises of corporations where the
principal office or place of business
is located in this state, or II no such
principal office exists, then at the
place where that corporation or per-
son t%ransacts business. The bill was
amended in the senate to exclude
from its provisions insurance COM
panies paying the state a percentage
of their gross premiums received in
the state, which Senator Allen adj
vises at the present tax rate of 2h
per cent, brought in $4,000 In
1916.
Patriotic Women Lobbying.
For several days there was q
strong lobby of patriotic women at
the capitol in the interests of the bill
which proposes to give $40 per
month to each soldier during his
time in the service. This would give
each man about SIS and would call
for an appropriation of about $780,
900 to carry out. The legislators
are also in favor of some kind of as
sistance for the boys, and there was
considerable telegraphing communi-
cation between the heads of the reg
iment and the legislators before an
idea could be formulated as to how
to proceed. The bill was proposed
by Representative Cole of Fargo.
Now that the soldiers are to be
held in service Indefinitely, a new
phase is added to the situation, and
which cannot be determined for q
few days.
Appropriations Provided.
Forty-fve bills were introduced in
the house in one day, thirty of which
were appropriation bills by the COM
mittee on appropriations. Promi-
nent among them were the follow
ing:
For securing federal aid for
roads, $75,165.O4 for 1917 and
~I152,266.12 for 1918.
Florence C%rittenden Home at Far.
go, $4,000.
State graded schools, 100000 an
nually.
Rural schools, $4,000 annually.
Graded and consolidated schools,
S180,OO0 annually.
tuberculosis %sanitarium, at Dun
seth, $9O.94O.
Institution for the feeble-minded,
at Grafton, $199,35O..
Aid for high schools, $4,000.
State ~PenitentfaTy at Bismarck,
$425,3S6.
Hospital for Insane at jamestown,
$125,45O.
Kraabel for Full Crew Bill.
So solid has been the vote of the
majority of the senate that Lieuten-
ant Governor Kraabel has had no
chance to vote during this session.
But he got his chance the other day
when there was a tie on the ques-
ton of re-referring senate bill 70
to the committee on railways. The
bill is known as the full crew act.
When it came to voting on the ques-
ton of re-referring it, the vote
stood "a to "a, and Kraabel voted
in the negative.
Two Brotherhood Bills Passed
Two bills which were asked for by
the Bro%therhoods of Railway Train
men pa sed the senate during the
past week, and there is speculation
as to their fate in the house. The
first was Senate Bill IS, requiring
all public service corporations to pay
their employees at least once in Is
days.. The other was a provision
which compelled the railroads to run
full crews.
Bills Held in Committee.
The senate referred to the COM
mittee on state affairs house bill "a,
abolishing the office of hotel in
spector and imposing it's duties on
the food commissioner, and house
bill AZ, making the food commits
sioner ex-oficio state inspector of
oils, both of which bills were passed
by the house. They have not been
reported out. and may not be for
some time.
Sunday Bill Passes Senate.
Senate bill 81 which is intended
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blue Sunday law, passed that body
without debate. It lists the Sunday
necessities as newspaper plants,
boot shining stands, confectioneries,
cigar and tobacco stores, and per-
mits the selling of such commodi-
ties in pool and billiard halls, pro-
viding that no games shall be played
therein on the Sabbath.
After School of Science.
OF the forty-four bills introduced
in one day in the house, the one
which probably attracted the most
| attention was that which provides
for converting the school Of science
at Wahpeton into an industrial
school and home for neglected, de-
Non-Partlsan Ballot.
House Bill II establishing a non
partisan election ballot for all state,
county and legislative officers was
passed by the house by almost a
unanimous vote. Friends of the bill
do not nredict A favorable action hv