The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-19
FhIEOF FOE[n !
. CREW BILL UP
FOR DECISION
Measure Which Tied Senate Sat.
urday Up for Final Vote in
Body This Afternoon
LEARN TOO LATE THAT
n CONTAINS "JOKERs"
Effort to Recall Distance Tariff
Measure Checkmated-New
Terminal Proposition

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The fate of Senator Mostad's full
crew bill will be determined at the
hands of the senate today. An effort
to kill it in the committee on rail,
roads failed Saturday afternoon,
when the lieutenant governor decid'
ed by voting aye tie vote on the
question of accepting the minority re,
port, that the bill pass. The major
ity report recommended indefinite
postponement of consideration of the
measure.
Terminal Elevators. =
| The state affairs committee has
embodied features of the several ter
minal elevator measures which have
been introduced during the session in
an amendment to Senate Bill "a, in
troduced late Saturday afternoon.
The amended bill provides that ter
minal elevator commission Of twelve
members, no two of whom shall be
members of the same judicial district,
and three of whom shall be executive
officers in the Equity Cooperative ex-
change, shall be appointed ny the gov.
ernor, who, with the attorney general
and state treasurer shall have ex-offl-
clio membership. This commission is
empowered to select the location ana
erect, lease and operate or sell one or
more terminal elevators, within or
without the state, and is to have full
charge of such enterprise, with au-
thority to expend from a fund Of $780,
900 appropriated for it's use all the
moneys required to carry out the pro-
visions of the bill.
Railroad Lobby? a-....
Upon a resolution adopted by the
house Saturday afternoon commit
tee of five was appointed to investi-
gate an alleged railroad lobby.
Bank Guaranty Bill.
The senate passed bill for the
guaranteeing of bank deposits which
embodies features of Senators Kirk
eides and browns measures.
~, Senate checkmated. .,,..,
The house checkmated the senate
Saturday afternoon when immediate
ly upon converting at 2 o'clock it sus'
pended the rules, took from the cal
endar Senate Bill ", placed it on
third reading, and passed it without
dissenting :. vote. Seventy-seven
passed the senate the fore part of the
week, with apparently little consider
alton. After it's passage Grand Forks
interests discovered some features in
the bill of which they did not approve,
and a lobby came to Bismarck to pro-
cure the recall of the bill from the
house, ostensibly for the purpose OF
so amending it as to protect present
favorable Ignite rates. The house
got wind of this plan, and Chairman
Dupuis of the house railroad commit
| tee, who is author of a similar house
bill, called Seventy-seven from the
calendar and shot it through before
anyone could draw breath. i,w
A number of members Of the house
in voting for Seventy-seven stated
that they did so on the strength of as
surances made by Chairman Dupuis
that it did not affect existing Ignite
rates, nor suspend any other favor
able rates now in force, but merely
empowered the railroad commission
to establish additional favorable rates.
A conference Of war was held during
the afternoon in the senate, and an
effort may be made to devise some
means of getting another whack at
Seventy-seven, which as it stands
would place in effect in North Dakota
the eastman distance tariff act plac.
eded on the Minnesota statute books
two years ago. @ @9r,
Reports on Initiative. aAtT
| Two reports came in from the com
mittee on judiciary on Senator Wens.
troms Senate Bill 1870, greatly simpli'
flying the operation of the present ini'
tiative amendment to the constitution.
The majority report favored SO
amending the bill as to provide that
initiative petitions may be circulated
only by notaries, who must certify
that every signature is genuine. The
minority report, headed by Wenstrom,
recommended that the bill pass In its
original form. After much debate, in
which it became apparent that the
majority report would be favored II
vote were taken, Senator McCarten
objected to the consideration of the
committee report, which automatical-
ly deferred further action on the bill
until Monday. The same program
was followed in connection with Sen
ate Bill 119, also by Wenstrom, and
dealing with making the initiative
provisions of the constitution selfcon-
structive and operative. The major.
ity report was for indefinite postpone
ment, and the minority for passage.
Further consideration was deferred
until Monday when Senator Drown
objected to the report. Leaguers lined
up behind both bills, and in both cases
they we're outvoted on every motion.
Move County Seat.
The county seat removal bill, 81,
was made the occasion for another
heated forensic battle in which, for
once, Senator Jacobsen had the losing
side and in the course of which the
gentlemen from Mott referred to an
insidious lobby which had had some
thing to do with expunging from the
original bill an amendment which had
been satisfactory, to the county seat
ers who are now here lobbying
against the bill in its present form.
Senator JacObsen's majority voted
to accept the report Of the plurality
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