Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-07
SEED BILL IS AMENDED
Soldiers Moratorium, RevaIidation Of
Cancelled Corporation Charters.
$4,000 Credit for Care Of
insane, Among Acts Passed.

Extending the authority of the
state grain inspection board with au-
thority to revoke licenses.
3-Appropriating $4,000 to make
depositors guarantee law operative.
4-Defining the crime of sabotage
and describing the penalty.
6-Reinstating and reYalidating
delinquent corporations under $50
penalty.
Qualification of national pro-
hibition amendment.
7-Appropriating $14,500 to COW
er expense of special session.
S-lncreasing maintenance cost
for state insane hospital patients.
9-Perpetuating charters of coun-
ty mutual insurance companies.
1O-Extending $4,000 credit for
eight months to state insane hospi-
11-Soldiers and sailors morator-
ium.
12-Extending vote to soldiers
and sailors on foreign soil by mail.
13-Creating state council of de-
tense and making appropriation Of
$4,000 to carry on its work.
Work on Seed Bond Bill.
Under the terms of the bill, county
seed bonds are to bear not over 6
per cent and run not over five years,
and will be in denominations of
from 500 to $500 each. Three
thousand copies of the law will be
provided to county commissioners for
distribution.
The county commissioners, as the
bill is reported, are to buy seed
and feed and to furnish them to
farmers at actual cost, the farmers
signing contracts and notes payable
October first, following. The debt be-
comes first lien on the crop and if
not paid by October 18th is to be en-
tered as a tax against the land for
which seed is furnished.
Special provisions are made for
the protection of the county, and in
the redrafted bill. as passed, there
are provided penalties for violators
of the provisions Of the act. The
amended law also provides an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for its admin
istration by the commissioner of ag-
riculture, and $1,000 for the SER
vices of DR.. H. L. Bolley of the agri-
cultural college as pure seed expert.
No Commission to ''Vote'' Soldiers
The correspondent of the Fargo
morning paper, who was on the
ground for his publication, says:
lone of the stubbornest fights Of
the session was on the question of
the manner in which soldiers abroad
should be allowed to vote. The idea
OF sending commission to take the
vote was strong in the house but the
senate would not hear of it, so a
compromise was reached by the
house adopting the senate amend
ment to its own bill.
''The bill as enacted is an amend
ment Of the present absent voters
law SO as to make it possible for
soldiers to vote by mail, each soldier
to mark his ballot in the presence Of
MS immediate commanding officer.
The law applies only to general
elections, and ballots are to be mailed
abroad by the county auditors As
days before election, with return
postage"
The soldiers and sailors mora
torium measure grants ample pro-
lection from foreclosure on proper
ty of enlisted men in the govern
ment's military. marine and naval
service for the period of the war and
one year thereafter.
Sabotage is defined in senate bill
which received unanimous house APP
proval. 1t relates particularly, as re-
ported, to sabotage practiced in the
destruction OF foodstuffs, and fixes
penalties at imprisonment for terms
ranging from one year up to life for
first-degree offenses, and with
maximum ranging up to 20 years for
offenses in the second degree.
State Council of Defense.
| The state council Of defense bill,
In It's final form as passed, legalizes
a body OF that kind, to consist of
seven members appointed by the
governor; the governor, attorney
general, secretary of state and the
commissioner of agriculture and la
Dor to be ex-officiO members. There
is an appropriation of $4,000, and
authorization under which the coun-
Gil may organize home guards and
designate their duties. The person.
mel, 1t is represented. will include
members prominent in that organ
ization now, notably D. r. Carroll
Of Minot, and F. B. Hellstrom of Bis
marck.
The Grain Grading Act.
The final passage of the grain
grading law came on the closing
night Of the session, 1t having been
found that there was a flaw in the
bill as previously passed. The law
creates the office of chief deputy
grain inspector who is empowered to,
suspend licenses subject to an appeal
to the state railway and warehouse
commission. An attempt which was
made to take grain inspection out Of
the hands o. that commission was
unsuccessful. The grain inspection
department may employ its own Of
flee force. at an annual expense not
| TO exceed $4,000.