The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-14
WOMAN WELFARE.
BILL REPORTED
FOR FINAL 0. <.
House Favors Measure Fixing
Minimum Wage and Pre-
scribing Hours for Labor
LIMIT FOR FARM LOANS
BY STATE MADE $40, 1000

The house in committee of the
whole yesterday recommended for
passage one Of the really progressive
measures of the present session
House Bill So, prescribing maximum
hours and minimum wages for wo.
men, Norths Dakota is q strine tardy
in this respect probably Because the
need Of such legislation I'm a state
which has practically no female lab
or of the ind,lstrials class has seemed
less apparent than in other common
wealths where. factories are more
common, and where women, more
and more, are supplanting men as a
source Of cheap labor. The bill, how.
ever, applies to department stores,
laundries and other employers of lab
or which in North Dakota, as in 9TH
er states, depend largely upon female
workers. The bill also covers the en-
ployment of minors. 1t is Il measure
which organized labor generally sup
ports. %tIp& ~ &t!a ,sa. 1ls
House Bills Passed. . l"a
The most important bill passed on
third reading by the house yesterday
was House Bill -140, which seeks to
provide reliable information to pros.
pective settlers and to protect both
settler and buyer from INSCRIPTIONS
dealers in lands and to encourage i'm.
migration. The preamble reads like
an excerpt from the advertisements Of
the League Realty exchange, and 1t
should do North Dakota good, in the
opinion of its authors. .-,:..
Other house bills passed were:
H. B. .225, to provide funds for pay
ment of per diem and expenses of
North Dakota budget board, which al
so applied considerable per noctum
to the Job. .. r--.
H. B. 235, making an appropriation
for the Florence Crittendon home at
Fargo. - ,A2 .aa goa-. r&.
H. B. 140,4 to encourage immigra-
ton. ~. @" aa.A.aas sa.nt..a
II. B. 1872, relating to use of Ignite
coal in state and county institutions.
H. B. 145, restricting investment of
capital, deposits, and surplus OF saw
ings banks. .a.:..~e.s4g.. -s.,.;.p -
Senate Bills 731, 80, II and 76,
which were on yesterdays house cal
endar, were skipped over, for the con-
sideration of general orders, under
which the house, in committee Of the
whole. recommended for passage:
H. B. Sc, relating to the investment
of school funds in farm lands, increas.
ing the maximum loan to any individ- |
ual applicant from $4,000, the present
limit, to $4,000, which is more Or |
less in keeping with the increase in
land values which has occurred since
the statute amended was passed in
1918. ..
H. B. 1859, providing for style Of
summons in justice court.
H.. B. 167, q general automobile II.
,ense act providing for q dealers
motor vehicle fee, and amending com
oiled laws Of 1913, relating to gener.
Il motor vehicles license. fees, regis
ration tags, display Of registration
,ags, disposition of license money by
secretary of state, claims for moneys
expenditure of moneys re-
,eived under the act, and providing
hat license fees, excepting dealers
license fees, shall be in lieu Of all
,ther taxes. This is an administra-
ion, Non-Partisan league caucus
MEASURE, which is expected to fur |
lish the funds with which North Da-
xota may meet the requirements of
he Shackledford federal postroads
lid act, and build up a sensible state |
system of trunk line highways.
IS. B. 4S, relating to assessment OF
,ank stock.
To Appropriations.
House Bill 81, law enforcement
Measure, placing law enforcement
detectives" on the state payroll, on
notion Of Maddox, was taken from
committee of the whole and sent to
he committee on appropriations. |.
Representative Hendrickson's mo-
ion that Senate Bill 4, the rural cred
is measure passed by the Fourteenth
general assembly, and approved by
he senate of the Fifteenth. but turn
d down by the house Saturday, be ,
lost, by 80 ayes, 81 nays ,
nd eight absent and not voting. II
Want Whist Sets. /.
AZ. -~Iv E.n&Stionc for and