The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-12
MOVIE MEN FIND
LAUGH ON THEM;
JUBILEE IS OFF
Amendment Association Worked
for Does Not Appear in En-
rolled s. B. 294
NO RECORD TO BE FOUND
OF ALLEGED ALTERATION
Work Which President Hartmen
Thought Done in the House
Does Not Show Up

Yesterday movie men the length
and bredth of North Dakota Rugged
themselves with joy in the belief that
they had slipped over Joker on
Governor Frazier in Senate Bill 294.
Today, after looking over Senate Bill
294, as enrolled and signed by the gov
ernor, and after frantic delving into
senate and house journals for the clos
ing day, movie men are less Jublliant,
having come to the conclusion that
the joke is on themselves. -
Senate Bill 294, as it reposcs III
the secretary of states office, with
the governors signature attached
reads precisely as it did when intro
duced by Senator Lindstrom, and as
it appears in the printed bill:
Section /. 1t shall be lawful for
chautauqua associations, summer re-
sorts, firms, corporations and private
persons to operate bath houses, bath
ing beaches or pleasure boats of all
kinds on Sunday. =" !.
"Section ALI acts or sections OF
acts, insofar as they are in conflict
or inconsistent with this act, are here
by repealed"
There is not word in the bill which
extends to moving picture theaters
any privileges which they do not now
enjoy: there is absolutely nothing
which would legalize the operation OF
picture houses on the Sabbath.
The Inside Dope.
The amendment which Fl. l.. Hart
man of Mandan, president Of the North
Dakota Motion Picture Exhibitors and
Theatrical association, is confident he
saw injected into Senate Bill 294 by
the house in the closing hours OF the
Fifteenth general assembly, read: "Ex-
hibitions Of agricultural research and
educational Matters The amendment
was prepared with great care during a
visit made by President Hartman to
the Twin Cities, where he consulted
some attorneys who have had much to
do with moving picture legislation and
who assured the head of the North
Dakota association that this amend
ment, if adopted, would stand up. A
similar amendment passed the Wis
consin legislature this winter.
President Hartman, to quote his own
statement, waited until the time
seemed ripe and then induced the
house to recall from the Senate Senate
Bill 294, passed by the senate earlier
in the session and rejected and re-
turned to the house. Then, If Presi-
dent Hartman can believe his eyes
and ears, the house proceeded to
adopt his amendment and to pass the
bill, reading: ut shall be lawful for
chautauque associations, summer re-
sorts, firms, corporations and private
persons to operate bath houses, exhi-
billions of agricultural research and
educational matters"
The house journal, however, records
no vote or action of any kind on an
amendment to Senate Bill 294, nor
does the senate journal for the sixtieth
day show that the bill came back with
an amendment for the senate's con-
currence. And the enrolled bill shows
no amendment nor other change, eX-
cept the dropping of the emergency
clause, giving the bill immediate eff
feet, which was lost in the house for
the lack Of a two-thirds vote.
The Journal Record.
The house journal for the siXtieth
day, on page 140, records the fact that
Mr.. Hoghaug moved that Senate Dili
294, returned by the senate the same
day at the request OF the house, be
placed on its third reading and final