The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-04
SENATE Il GETS
Down TO REAL
GRIND TODAY
Committee Appointments An
nounced by Lieutenant.Gov-
ernor This Afternoon
M'CARTEN HAS HONOR OF
INTRODUCING FIRST BILL
Measure Providing for Modified
Torrens System offered
Yesterday Goes in

Yesterday Goes in
The senate this afternoon got down
to its real grind, with the announce
ment by Lieutenant-Governor kraa-
bel of his committee appointments,
and with the reception Of the first
bill for the session.
Senator Richard ,McCarten Of Cogs-
we'll, member from the Thirteenth
district, has the honor of having in
troduced Senate Bill No. for the
Fifteenth general assembly. His pro-
posed measure provides for modi-
fication of the Torrens system OF reg
istering titles and transferring lands.
1t is understood that hold-oyer mem
bers Of the senate, who have previ-
ously threshed out this proposition.
are in favor of an optional measure
: which will permit the state to gradu-
ally grow into complete TOrrens
system of land transfers. Senator
Albert Stenmo probably will be the
author of bill along similar lines.
and it is probable that committee
Jill UdSCu upOH NDOIu VI thCoS oASi
ings will be reported out early in
the session.
Mclean Has First Choice.
First choice of the senate seats for
the session fell to Henry Mclean OF
Hannah, member from the Eight
eenth. This honor was accorded to
Senator Mclean as the oldest mem
Der in point of service Of the upper
house. The Cavalier statesman has
represented his district in the senate
for IS years. Senator A. S. Gibbons
or Towner, II years a member of the
=. state legislature. also drew an ex.,
cellent seat, on the aisle in the very
front row.
= Want Supplies.
On motion of Senator Maddox, the
president yesterday named Senator
Heckel a committee OF one to ascer.
tain the whereabouts and the how
about OF senate supplies for the ses.
sion.
The governors message transmit
ting the eighth biennial report of the
pardon. board was received. and the
report was referred to the committee
on state affairs
Chairman Gibbons of the commit
Tee unemployment asked leave to de-
fef.Ais report until this afternoon.
The second matter to concern the
senate this afternoon was a concur.
1em4 resolution approved by the 18th
general assembly providing for the
levy OF a general state tax with which
to create state hail insurance fund
The concurrent resolution provided
that with the approval OF the present
general assembly the proper amend
ment is to be submitted TO the people
at the next general election.
The resolution was introduced by
Senator Thoreson from Barnes coun-
ty, after referring it to the committee
o. the judiciary. The senate resolved
itself into an executive session to con-
slider sealed message from the gov
ernor. The list OF employees as sub
mitted by the committee on employ
ment. was approved without disap-
proval. A resolution was adopted pro-
viding a salary for certain clerks. who
had not previously been provided for.
campaisner-Lobbyist.
Steven Hagan. the first born of Com
missioner OF Agriculture and Labor
John y. Hagan proved an excellent
campaigner during the months his dad
spent in coralling a big vote for the
November election. and he is now de.
veloping into an excellent lobbyist
Master Steven. who is nine. with his
younger brother. John. Jr.. aged sew
en-, will resume his studies as pupil
in the Bismarck schools next Monday
Just now. however, he has nothing to
do but to make the most of his priv.
lege of meeting folks. which he is en-
joying to the utmost. The Hagans
have leased the Register cottage at
the corner Of First and Rosser, soon
to be vacated by Joseph Breslow.
To Become Real earrister.
When John c. Lowe, probably the
best known court reporter in the
northwest. opens his law Offices in
Minot next March he will have achiev-
Gu luS dWUitlUu u llctlIuc. VII.
Lowe. who has served ex-Justices Goss
and Burke of the supreme court as re-
porter. and who is now engaged in
similar capacity with Judge Leighton
in the Eighth district. took up short
hand back in. 1888. as a boy on a
Nebraska farm. Later he taught in an
Omaha business college. following up
with six years in New York City.
where he completed course in the
lxw school of the University of New
York. He came to North Dakota in
1893 with the intention of opening law
oi1ces in Minot. When he reached
the Magic City he found North Dakota
law radically different from the New
York article, and after Selling up the
situation he fell back upon his busi-
ness college experience and establish
0aaa conmerciaI school. A year later
Ne became court reporter for the
Eskhth district, which post he has held
for IL years. He has just Withdrawn
nunsthe race for clerk of-tlle supreme
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