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ing the end is not yet.
It is claimed that no serious diff
Guilty will be experienced in securing
an agreement Of the two houses on
other bills.
House Kills "Kept Press" Bill
An indication of the tolerant at
titude Of the Nonpartisan league ma
jority In the house was shown by the
refusal of the house to pass Repre-
sentative Peterson's concurrent reso-
luton consuming the kept press and
certain self styled patriots for ex-
pressions alleged to have been de-
.famatory to the loyalty of the state.
First Bills Passed.
The house on Friday passed house
BILLS logalizing the state council Of
defense and providing an appropria-
ton for it's work; providing that
county mutual insurance companies
may extend their articles of incor-
lp05ation perpetually; appropriating
$4,000 for the expenses OF the spe-.
cfal session; extending q credit OF
$50,000 to the state hospital for the
insane at Jamestown for a period Of
eight months.
Prohibition Amendment Passed.
The senate passed three measures,
the first being the resolution passed
by the house Thursday ratifying the
national. prohibition amendment.
Three members voted against the
measure, Messrs. Mcbride of Stark.
Young of Mercer. ana Oliver OF Dunn.
81 OF the other two bills passed by the
senate, one provides for printing of
laws passed by the special session,
and one providing for raising the
maintenance fee for the state hospi-
tai for the insane from SIS to $24.
A bill Identical with the last named
had already been passed by the
house.
Opening Of the Session.
The North Dakota legislature lost
no time in getting down to business,
on being convened in special session
Wednesday under call Of Governor
Frazier.
Bills Introduced.
Following the reading OF the gov
ernOr's message the houses reassem-
bled In their own chambers for the
introduction Of bills. The following
bills were Introduced. =
H. B. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
comfy seed bonding law.
HI. B. z-tWalton) = Appropriate
bank depositors' guaranty law.
III B. 3--(Peterson )-Resolution
condemning the KEEP press" for
publication Of matter alleged to be
defamatory to the good name Of the
state and its people.
II. r. observation-disclosures
pledging the states faith and sup
port to the defense of the lofty ideals
promulgated by President Wilson
January 8,,191S.
H. B.. 5--(Olson)--To reinstate
and revalidate charters Of cancelled
corporations.
II. xB. Observation-Disclosures 4
per capita Increase in allowance for
care of insane patients.
H b 7--tLageson)--To reno 70
oversight OF grain grading from jur-
isdiction of railroad and warehouse
commission.
II. B. s-(Harris)--Resol ltion t.
ratify the national prohibition amend
ment.
H. B. acknowledgements to
protect property and civil rights Of
soldiers and sailors during the war
and one year thereafter.
II. b. 1o-tWalton)-To give le-
gal. powers to State Council Of De-
6ense define its duties and appro-
pirate $4,000 for It's work
H. b. II - ovation Providing
for the establishment Of a state
militia. .
81 Senate bills were introduced by
Messrs. Englund. Pendray, Drown,
McCarten, Mortenson. Wexford and
Martin, covering the same subjects
with the exception OF the resolutions
offered by Representative Peterson.
Some ofsthe senate bills we're identi-
Gal with the house measures. sss
The council Of defense, soldier
ballot, home guard issue, grain grad
ing bill, and seed grain bonding
problem aresall OF such importance
4hak each Of them Ii likely to bsssx.
fensjvely debated in the ssuats.
>l~. ,s5H1 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES