The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-02-22
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MANY BILLS TO CONSIDER AND
~OTHERs COMING IN
Crime Commissioner Bill and San.
day Laws, still an lSsuu--'GatrcEs
Title System, --- Rural Credits ~
The "sEorSt" Bill.

Bismarck With something like
seven hundred bills introduced and
mos; Of them still .wai,ins Ana! dis
position the if;celth le.is!llve as
seni'ly few days ago put he time
lock on the iutcod uctlUu -! mare
measures and left itself Il bare twGil-
ty days for the consideration Of the
great mass before 1t, AS several days
of The concluding twenty hpye al
ready elapsed since this act1bn and
comparatively few bills are MiI dis
posed of, the icnsty Of the tle lss
days may he ;urcseen withnu,H much
play of the Imagination. Further
more. quite Il few new measures; still
find their way in. Notwithstanding
the rather strict rules foraidAing
for lie islntiNc courtesy is not aversc
to su pending rules when necessity
seems meritorious. In the senate.
the suspension of the rules last week
cot to hcing called for with such
frequency that one member objected
-most inopportuncly, from thu
viewpoint Of the member who was
just thcn asking the reception Of a
new measure. Licrtenan, Governor
kraahel obligingly appointed Il com
Mhtca to pass upon further new
bills seeking Introduction. and in
cludcd upon the committee both the
senator who offered and the enc who
! objected to the measure above in
question. The ease with which that
bill got itself before the bar of the
senate is too obvious to require sng-
gestion.
Members Work Under Tension
| TO pass or not to pass the mea-
! sures before it--that is the question
which is now compelling the assem-
bly, TO get down to hard thinking
Not a few of the newer members
! seem undecided what action they
should take on various bills, hc4o {,
I he'd between convictions or duty
! and the influence OF environment
perhaps; for the spirit of loyalty to
ones faction has seldom been more
kcenly felt than in the present scs-
| SIGN. A result Of this unccrtainty y
and the tense desire for a correct So
luton OF every problem, is that not
lew bills are acted upon one way
today and ruGOnSihered tomorrow
| and no statement Of action ON any
Dill is entirely certain Of correctness
unless the bill has been passed
by bota houses au:! signed Ivy the
| governor Some of the measures
winch have had considerable iuggl-
Ing and no very dependable final rc-
suits at this writing are the Sunday
measures, the crime commissioning
bill and the bin for the conversion
Of the Wahpeton state science school
into an industrial school for vouns
women. The last was postponed Il
few days ago, but upon advice that
q movement might be started to
abandon the science school entirely
Representative Peterson gave 0iice
that he might ask the rccOnsidrra.
ton OF the Industrial school
measure.
Crime Commissioner Bill
That sticky and hard fought prob.
lem Of legislation which has beer
before various assemblies under diff
fcrcnt forms and guises, but which
, Is generally known this year as the
crime commissioner bill, has not
been without its share Of hard sled
ding during the present session II
has been debated on frequent occa
sions. returned to committees anG
variously modified by amendments
The bill is Representative Everson':
and it came out from committee &
few days ago with a recommends
ton for indefinite postponement. but
the house thought it could afford an
other round with the measure ant
put it up for general orders Abou
that time the biggest house influence
that can be put behind a bill wa:
lined up for it--that is. the Non
partisan caucus--and its passage b!
the house is no longer question.
| Senate Bill No. 81
| Progress on the proposed Sunday
legislation, down to date, is com
| prised in the favorable report Of {
house committee on Senate Bill No
81, which the upper house hat
passed, designating certain business
enterprises as works Of necessit!
| and exempting them from the ope
ration Of the Sunday laws as now in
\ terepreted by the attorney general
1 This list of designated vocations in
cludes only those most commonl.
accepted as necessary, and does no
provide for Sunday theatre opening
A bill which did was killed by tn
house last week. Another mino
Sunday measure seeks to open hath
Ing houses and places for the rem!
ing Of pleasure boats at Chautal
quas, etc. The city has had tn
II privilege of entertaining quite
few delegations Of clcrgymen an
others opposed to the passage o
laws permitting Sunday baseball
and measures looking to this en-
n are being held up in committee.
J Night Schools for Adults
Representative Mackoff OF Star