The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-03-01
NORTH DAK0TA'S LEGISLATURE
By o. NJ THOMSON, The Courans Special spondent

~ LLUlUkAlUAL II
ourant's Special Correspondent j
per grades and weights for grain,
etc, also flour, meal and products
made therefrom, which grades and
weights shall be approved by the COM
missioners of railroads. The commits
sioners are also empowered, if they
see fit, to establish central markets
for the display of samples of grain,
seeds and other agricultural products
and may install deputy in charge
of said markets in the cities Of Du-
luth, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Superior,
Fargo, Fairmount, Wahpeton and
Grand Forks. The state inspector
may also, with the approval of the
commissioners of railroads, license
as deputy inspector the buyer or agent
of privately owned warehouses, pro-
vided that the deputy shall pass such
examination as may be prescribed.
An appropriation of $4,000 is pro-
vided for the purpose of putting the
law into effect.
The state grain grading bill was
introduced by Senators Kirkeide and
Drown, using a bill formerly intro
duced by Senator Drown as basis
and is in effect a composite of four
bills, two of which were introduced in
the house.
Senator Kretchmar opposed the bill
on the grounds that it was of too
great Importance to pass without
more consideration. Senator Ployer
tried to force through an amendment
to do away with the provision for ap-
pointing member Of the faculty of
the agricultural college. Those vot-
ing against the bill, were: Allen,
E-,.::za 1::.s.:-:.., Haggart, 4ecL1e, Kretch-
mar, Murphy, McGrey, Mclean, Ploy-
er, Porter, Putnam, Young and Rowe.
Senators Thoreson and Hyland were
absent.
! Representative Coles bill to pay the
National Guard $40 per --~onth in ad-
dition to their regular pay, while on
duty at the Mexican border, has been
declared unconstitutional by the at
torney generals office and on the last
day for introducing bills Senator AL
len introduced a substitute in the SEN
ate, which was passed third reading
under suspension of the rules. This
bill appropriates $4,000 while the
Cole bill appropriated 100000. The
emergency failed, however, so that in
case it becomes law it will not take
effect till July 1.
Several anti I. w. w. bills have
made their appearance in both the
house and senate, and while the senate
majority favors such legislation the
house majority still maintains de-
termination to thwart all drastic pun
tive legislation in that direction.
Members Of the majority admit that
the situation presents problem but
do not believe that it can be met with
mere drastic measures. They recog-
nize, they say, that migratory work
ers are an absolute necessity in this
state during harvest and threshing
season, and are adverse to the idea OF
kmaking man vagrant simply be-
cause he was obliged to ride the rods
or box car to get here or to take a
nap in the city park or walk across
another mans land while looking for
a job. The house majority has passed
a measure creating a labor bureau,
under the e-~---..'~ion of the commits
sioner of agriculture and labor, winch
will undertake to deal with tt labor
problem in more scientific manner.
Senator Carey's bill-senate bill
1875, providing for an excise privilege
tax of one-fourth of one per cent on
the authorized capital stock OF cor
porations outside the state doing busi-
ness within the state fell under the
senate ak the first of the week and
the prospects to get that additional
revenue which has heretofore been es-
Gaping, was lost. This was one OF
the measures especially recommended
by Governor Frazier in his inaugural
address, but the senate appears not
to have seen the matter in the same
light. ~
The senate has passed several bills,
providing in one way and another for
terminal elevators. These bills are
passed, in the main, by the same men
who two years ago either voted
against the terminal elevator propo-
sition on voted to reduce the terminal
elevator tax, and the senate minority
along with the house majority do not
take seriously the senate's professed
change of heart. The senate minority
opposed these bills and it is under
stood that the house majority will do
likewise. The grounds upon which
they are opposed, it is alleged, is that
they are opposed to the method OF
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