Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-01-31

compromrse 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 SOL
diers to vote by mail, each soldier to
mark his ballot In the presence Of his
Immediate commanding officer.
The law applies only to general
elections, and ballots are to be mail
ed abroad by the county auditors 45
days before election, with return
postage.
Sabotage Bill Passed.
| Sabotage is defined in senate
bill which passed the house unani-
mously.
The senate bill provides that "any
person who during the period the
United States is engaged in the pres
ent war shall either wilfully or NAL
iciously cause to be set on fire, eth
er directly or thru or by the assist
ance of another person, or thru or by
means of any chemical or mechanical
apparatus, or any sun glass, or the
control of any electrical current, any
building, car or boat in which any
food product for the use of man or
beast ia kept. stored or being trans
ported, or in which any work or
food producing animals shall be
housed; or who shall wilfully and
maliciously in any of the ways here
inbefore mentioned, cause any grain
or food products for the use of man
or beast to be set afire to in shock,
stack or other form, or who shall
wilfully and maliciously poison or
otherwise kill any work or food pro-
ducing animal, the property of an
other, with intent to injure the own
er or hinder him in any agricultural
operations, or to lessen the country's
food supply, shall be guilty of sabot-
age in the first degree, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be imprisoned
in the penitentiary for life"
Section 2 DEGREES that "any person
who shall during the period the Unit
ed States is engaged in the present
war attempt to commit any act which
attempt, If successful, would consti-
tute sabotage in the first degree; or
who for the purpose Of hindering or
delaying the harvesting or threshing
of any crop shall infiict injury upon
any farm machinery either directly
or by placing foreign substances in
any grain to be harvested or thresh-
ed thereby; or who with intent to
hinder and hamper the. government
or the United States in the prosecu-
tion of or preparation for such war
shall in any other manner destroy
any other property shall be guilty of
sa botage in the second degree, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for not less than 20 years" ;"
Moratorium Bill.
Section l.. No proceeding by ac-
tion or otherwise shall be had or
taken in this state for the foreclos-
ure of mortgage or other lien on
real or personal property or for the
cancellation of an executory contract
for the sale of land or for the recov-
| cry of any Indebtedness against any
person in the active military service
of the United States as hereinafter
defined during the time the United
States is engaged in the present war
and for an additional period of one
year and during such time no further
proceeding shall be taken in any ac-
ticn or proceeding that is pending at
the time of the taking effect of this
act in which such person is party
over the objection Of such party, his
attorney or any person interested on
his behalf, nor shall any judgment
against such person in the military
service be enforced against him or
his property during said period.
Defines "Active Service"
Section II. The term Person in
the Active Military Service of the
United States within the meaning of
this act, means any person who is
actually called to service and is un-
der the direction and command of
the military authorities of the Unit
ed States in any line Of military
duty that prevents him from attend
ing to his own ordinary business af-
fairs, but 1t does not include a per-
son only temporarily or incidentally
engaged in some special or tenn
porary service.
Section III. Any proceeding TAX
en- against any such person in the
active military service OF the United
States, shall be treated as absolute
ly void, at the. election Of such per-
son, and upon proper application to
vacate the same within the period
mentioned In Section / hereof, 1t
shall be vacated and declared void
as matter OF. course; provided,
however, Ii such proceedings were
taken in good faith without knowl-
edge of the fact that the person pro-
ceeded against was 80 in the service
Of the United States, then the person
so proceeding shall not be liable to
any damages on account of taking
such edings and shall be sub
ject to no penalties on account
hereof, except that he shall be liable
to account to the person 50 proceed
led against In such way as to eQuit-
ably restore such person to the posi-
tion he would be In II such proceed
ings had not been taken.
Power to District Court.
Section w. Notwithstanding any
thing In this act to the contrary. pro-