Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-02-20
Mill, ELEVATOR
MEASUREPASSED
BY UPPER HOUSE
Only Seven Opposing Votes to
Important League Bill Reg
istered In Senate.

lStereQ IN Senate.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 15.--(Spe-
cial)-Senate Bill 20, creating mill
and elevator association which may
establish terminal elevators and
flour mills and other marketing IA
cilities, either within the state or
without, as the industrial commits
sion may direct, and which is to be
financed with $5,O0O,0O0 state
bond issue, passed the senate Friday
afternoon with but seven opposing
votes out of the total of 40.
For the first day since the present
assembly opened, there was a 1GO
per cent response to roll call in the
senate Friday. Fifty per cent of the
minority members voted with the
majority on the mill and elevator as
sociation bill.
The only objection to the bill in
the form in which it came before the
senate for third reading and final
passage was made by Senator Mees OF
Morton. who objected to the provis-
ion giving the association power to
engage attorneys.
Mees declared that the attorney
general should act as counsellor for
the mill and elevator association and
that he had been given additional
assistants in order that he might
have time to devote to such duties.
He moved that the word attorneys"
be stricken from the amended bill
in section 4; where it IS provided the
industrial commission shall employ
such contractors, architects, builders,
attorneys, clerks, accountants and
others experts, agents and servants
as in the judgment of the commission
the interests of the state may re-
quire."
On viva voce vote the chair de-
clared the Mees amendment lost, and
the bill was passed in it's original
form by ~ to Z.
Under this bill the Industrial COM
mission may construct, remodel or
repair all necessary buildings, and
may purchase, lease, construct or
otherwise acquire warehouses, eleya-
tors, flour mills, factories, offices,
plants, machinery, equipment and all
other things necessary, incidental or
convenient in the manufacturing and
marketing of all kinds of raw and
finished farm products within or
without the state and may dispose
of the same. and may buy, manufac-
ture, store, mortgage, pledge, sell,
exchange or otherwise acquire or
dispose of all kinds of manufactured
and raw farm and food products and
by-products, and may for such pur-
pose establish and operate exchanges
bureaus, markets and agencies with
in or without the state, including for
eign countries, on such terms and
conditions as the commission may
determine"
Should the industrial commission
decide to take any property it must
bring action in the courts. think
this right of eminent domain proper.
People associate together to form
a community and build town and
pick out site and then are unable
to get it without the exercise of this
power of eminent domain. Cities use
it to condemn land for parks and
streets; railways use it, altho reluct-
antly. think the industrial COM
mission would use it only as q last
resort.
''My objection to this bill is that
the use of the right of eminent do
main is contemplated not for public
or for even quasi-public purposes but
for the benefit of individuals" said
Senator Mcbride of Stark. Il am in
favor of the bill on general princi-
pies, but am not in favor Of this
clause. might have lot which
had been holding, planning to build
q home when could, and another
man, member of home builders,
league, and with the. power Of this
bill behind him, could come along
and take that lot away from me-"
Senator McCarten defended the
eminent domain clause, declaring he
did not believe 1t would be exercised
injudiciously. and that he thot its
elimination would weaken the bills.
as conditions might arise making 1t
positively necessary to condemn for
industrial sites or other purposes.
Il Senator Hyland omp1imented the
sincerity, aid and integrity Of the
men who make up the present assem-
bly,, expressing his admiration for
these qualities. 81 would be glad to-
zee this provision loft In II such high
- Sn AnA nnus aa ~ Game hnp. MNNa rfav,
were to administer this bill, !" said
Mr. Hyland. But the political sit
uation. In this state So ubject to
change every two years. We doNnot
knoM@Who will have the exercise OF
the powersc conf ferred by this, bill two.