The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-03
LEAGUES STEAM.
ROLLER WORKING
WELL AS OF OLD
Majority Gaily CANDLES Over
COrpses of Opp0siti0n's
Pet Measures
SENATE SWATS LANCER
Passes Bill That Deprives Him
of Assistants-Bank
Quiz Checked

afternoon when by votes Of 80 to rs
in the senate and 68 to AZ in the
house a number of important meas
ures essential to the administration
were passed or recommended for
tnal passage, which by the same ma
jority bills to which the administra-
ton was opposed were retired for
indefinite postponement. The league
was shown by this first real test Of
strength to have bare two thirds
majority, which is necessary to the
passage OF emergency clauses giving
measures immediate effect, in the
| senate, but in the house it is from
four TO six votes short OF the requir-
ed two-thirds majority
The days results were the passage
by the senate of bill removing from
| Attorney General LANCER the power
| conferred upon him by this same as
| sembly in its last regular session; the
Staying for the second time at the
hands of the league majority of a non
partisan primary public ballot bill;
| the introduction over the protest Of
the minority Of an administration
house bill empowering the governor
|
! create a state constabulary; the pas
| sage by the senate of bill exempt
ing all bank deposits from taxation;
the rejection by the house of an in
dependent measure repeating the pre-
sent requirement that electors vote
| for presidential candidates at the
March primaries, when ordinarily
there are no bona fide presidential
! candidates.; recommendation for pas
sage of house bill defining an elec-
| ton precinct; recommendation for
passage of the house administration
a resolution urging the supreme court
of the United States to speed action
on the AZ taxpayers suit against the
league program; recommendation for
passage of the administration amend
ments to the soldiers bounty act and
Of the administration house measure
reducing the legal reserve for demand
deposits from 20 percent to ten and
on time deposits from ten to seven,
and the rejection by the solid league
majority in the house of bill intro
ifduced s,by the independe requiring
the state banking board to examine
the Bank of North Dakota at least
once each year.
The senate has passed, on third
reading s. B. Z relating to the de-
! structiOn of predatory animals; S. 3.
%, providing increased salaries for
court stenographers, and S. B. 4, re-
pealing the special assistants grant
ed the attorney general during the
| last session, in addition to the con-
NJ Init ,Sc,
p, suffrage. The house has passed on
none of it's own bills on third read
ing, and has passed to date but two
senate bills, the suffrage resolution
and the measure dealing with pre-
datory animals.
Final action in the senate on IS. B.
4, regarded as a punitive measure di-
rected by the league against Attorney
General LANCER, called forth a sharp
tilt between Senator Mees, an insur-
gent Lacquer, opposing the bill, and
senator Canill, leaguer, ana author
of the measure. The vote was 20 to
16, with Senator Skies absent and not
to,lllg.
NEW SYSTEM ADOPTED
The house adopted new rule OF
procedure Tuesday in having tardy
measures reported in by the commit
tee on delayed bills with recommends
tions that they pass. There were
minority and majority reports on the
state sheriff bill, B. s. 81 introduced
by Rep. Albert, Twichell OF Cass
which called attention to the fact
that it had always been the practice
to insist upon unanimous report
from the committee no delayed bills.
The house, however, voted to ac-
cept the league majority report. rec
ommending the bill for introduction
and passage, after it had voted down
the minority report recommending in
definite postponement 6S to AZ, with
three absent.
Two reports were presented by the
election committee on the nonpar-
tisan ballot bill introduced by Burt
ness and O'Connor of Grand Forks.
The league majority recommended
indefinite postponemellt; the minor
| ity urged the passage of the bill.
Leaders Of the Independents, headed
by O'Connor, called attention to the
fact that nonpartisan ballot was
included in the leagues original plat
form; that the league members Of
the first house voted unanimously
| for such a bill, and that q change In
sentiment had become apparent only
during the last regular session.
Walter j. Maddox, league floor
leader seemed to voice the sentiment
of many of his Nonpartisan asso
ciates when he said: Il don't know
why the majority is against this bill;
i am neither for it or against it, but
the majority is opposed to 1t, and I
! see no reason for not voting with the
majority
The vote by which the nonpartisan
ballot was killed was 63 to "a, gain OF
e ten for advocated OF this measure
over the vote on the same bill in the
regular session last winter.
Representative Burtnes5 expressed
inability to grasp the theory under
which the league majority on the
elctions committee reported for
slaughter Representative Reishus's
bill eliminating fnom the presidential
\ primaries the necessity OF voting di-
rectly for presidential candidate.
Mr.. Burtness called attention to the
fact that In the last presidential pri-
mary republican electors were called
upon to choose ibtween EsterbrOOk