Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-01-24
EIGHT MEASURES
FOR SOL0NS' ACTION
Recommended in Message Of
Governor to Extra Session.
(By the Associated Press)

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 23.-The ex-
traordinary session of the 18th gen.
eral assembly of the North Dakota
legislature convened here today at
$50 a. m. upon proclamation issued
by Governor Lynn ]. Frazier, In or
der to enact legislation which will
permit the farmers of the state to
secure enough seed and feed to in
sure maximum acree ge of wheat
next harvest, in compliance with
President Wilson's request to plant
as large an acreage as possible.
Eight definite acts of legislation
were urged upon the solons by Gov.
Frazier in his message, chief among
these being:
Amendment of county seed and
feed bonding act, which now limits
each farmer to $50 bushels of wheat,
or its equivalent. -
Provision for moratorium for SOL
diers and sailors to protect their civil
rights during the war.
Establishment of body of active
state militia. .....
Amendment of the state grain
grading law. ..
Ratification of national prohibi-
tion amendment.
s Appropriation to make the state
bank deposit guarantee law opera
tive.
Legislation of the state council of
defense with appropriation for it's
work; members of home guard COM
pany to be made associate members
of the council, and an increase of
maintenance fee for inmates of state
hospital for the insane at James,
town to be paid by counties.
FOOD MEASURE URGED.
The governor in his message urged
every citizen of the state to be back
of the boys now in France or those
soon to be there, by making possible
a maximum food production. He urg-
ed immediate action on the national
prohibition amendment as a means
of food conservation. He re:om-
that the state grain grading
be incorporated with the
agricultural college and divorced
from the railway commission, and
asked that the per capita provision
for the care of the insane patients a,
jamestown insane hospital be in
creased from SIS to $24 a month to
care for the increased expense. He
also urged an emergency appropria-
tion be made to make up for the loss
of the crop at the state hospital last
year.
House Bills Introduced.
Bills embodying all the governors
suggestions were introduced in the
house this morning while in the SEN
ate no bills were introduced up to
noon.
Fight Expected Over Red Cross
and Y. NJ. G. A. Resolution.
A resolution branding certain Red
Cross and Y. M. c. A. workers as "no
better than pro-Germans" was intro
duced in the house by Rep. Peter
son, Nonpartisan from Towner. The
resolution declares: Whereas, the
kept press of the state and some
eastern papers have published editor
ials and other statements defaming
the good name of the state and its
people and whereas certain politici-
cal and self-styled patriots have ira
versed the state under cloak of the
noble, orders of the Red Cross and Y.
NJ. G. A. defaming the state govern
ment.
Be It Resolved, that the extra ses-
sion Of the legislature condemn such
action and brand them as lies and
as the people Of this state
are as loyal and have sacrificed as
much IL not more than any other
state in the union and are still will
Ing to sacrifice for the sake Of de-
and that: these patriots are
as much traitors to this common
wealth as prot Germans. "
It was expected that the first break
Of the special session would come
when this resolution reaches the sem:
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AUSTIN CHIEF CLERK.
ST. Fargo, N. d., Jan. 2 z. W. D. Aus
tin. 81 Fargo, announced today he
had been offered chief clerkship of
the house and that he would leave
for Bismarck tonig ght. The position,
was held last session BY a. "a. Bowen
who missed only two, sessions Of
Tie last legislature s. the last ~
years:
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