The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-30
HOUSE BILL A
GETS BLACK EYE
N COMMITTEE
Majority Of state Affairs Holds Pro.
eedure Proposed is Not
Proper.
LEMkE DEFENDS MEASURE
IN HoUR.LoNc ARGUMENT
Framer Of New Constitution Explains
Various Points Of n. B. a
to Senators.

\ The senate majority this Afternoon
stuck solid and voted down motor
after motion designed to delay actor
on House Bill A. After spirited de-
. bate in which minority leaders ac
cused the senate of disposition to
ignore the rights of the people, a
motion extending the time for con
sideration of the bill to Wednesday
February T. was voted down, % to 20
Senator Drown being absent. Those
who voted in favor of extension ol
time we're: Benson, Cahill, Etestad
Hammerlee, Hamilton, Hemmingson
Hunt, King, Lindstrom, Levang, Mar
tin, MOrkrid, Mortenson, MOstad, NC
Carten, Pendray, Skies, Wexford, Wen
strom, Zieman Against the motion
we're: Allen, Beck, Carey, Ellingson,
Englund, Gibbens, Gronvold, Haggart,
Heckle, Hyland, Jacobson, kirkeide,
Kretschmar, Murphy, Mcbride, NC
Gray, Mclean, Nelson Of Richland,
Nelson of Grand Forks, Paulson, Ploy-
har, Porter, Putnam, Rowe, Sand
strom, Stenmo, Thoreson, Young.
Also Voted Down.
On a motion making the bill spe-
cial order for 8 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon the lineup was practically
the same, although Nelson Of Grand
Forks and Thoreson switched to the
minority, making the vote 26 nays,
% ayes and one absent. Upon the
loss of this motion, ,McCarten moved
that the bill be re-referred to the
committee on judiciary. which mo
ton was lost % to-;2e. Nelson, and
ThOreson returning to the majority.
Committee Report.
The storm broke this afternoon,
when majority report Of the state
affairs committees recommended that
consideration OF the bill be indefi.
nitely postponed.f7oA minority report
was presented Amending. section No.
14O of the new wscppstitutiOn by rein
serting the words,npatriotism and mo-
rality, and amending section mo. 1853
of the new constitution by adding the
proviso, that the state shall not guar.
antee bonds on public utilities and
enterprises in excess Of Is per cent
of the price thereof
Before vote was taken upon this
report Hamilton moved that H. 3. a.
be placed on general orders for 800
p. M, Wednesday, February Z, and
the motion was supported by Pen.
dray. Hamilton urged that the sen.
atOrs had no way of knowing the de-
sire of the people as regards this bill;
that they could not feel assured that
the hundreds of signatures on the Pc
tiotions which they are daily receiv-
ing are genuine and thatoit is :imper'
ative that they be, allowedlna recess
in which to go home and talkit over
with the people. e.; ::
That the procedure adopted in
house bill "A for the submission to the
people of a new constitution Is i'm
proper, and that house DILL A should
not pass. will be the report of the ma.
jority of the state affairs committee,
presented to the senate by Chairman
Hyland this afternoon.
The minority report, in which Non
partisan league members of the com.
mittee will concur, recommends that
the bill do pass, after its considera-
ton in the senate as committee Of
the whole.
The presumptive majority includes
Senators Hyland, Ployhar, Paulson
Thoreson, Allen, Nick N. Nelson, Glib.
bens, Stenmo, Sandstrom, Jacobson,
Lindstrom, Kretschmar and Heckle.
The supposed minority consists Of
Morkrid Mortenson. King and Ham,
erly. Stenmo, elected as a Lacquer,
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