The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-02-06
Two New House Bills.

Representative Durkee's H. 3. 157,
placing the maximum at 8 per cent.
A union label bill, No. 1853, was intro
duced by Representative O'Brien, re-
quiring that the union label be used
on all state printing.
To Dissolve Consultations.
Representative J.. X. Brostuen, in Il.
B. No. 143, proposes a plan for dis
solving consolidated school districts,
where the value of school buildings do
not exceed $4,000. An election would
be held, and if a majority approved,
the consolidated district would be dis
solved and the common school district
would be re-established.
Vaccination on the Way Out.
The senate on Wednesday passed
n of it's w measures that appeared
probable of success in the house, in
S. B. 81, which repeats the present
law making vaccination compulsory in
introduced by Senator Wenstrom,
makes vaccination optional with the
individual.
Some Senate Bills.
The following are among the senate
bills introduced during tile week:
S. B. 9S.-Appropriates 100000 to
be distributed according to assessed
valuations of counties for the promo
ton of consolidated rural schools and
to provide transportation facilities for
same.
S. B. 1O1. -Appropriating $190,SS0
for salary and expenses Of secretary
and members Of the state highway
commission.
S. B. 1O4.-Appropriates $SG,G4S for
state game and fish board.
S. 3. 1OG.-Appropriates $299,415 for
state hospital for the insane, at James,
town.
S. 3. 10S.-Appropriates $119,7 6O for
state training school at Mandan.
S. B. 111.-Bowman. Providing for
means to be used in detaching agri-
cultural areas from town or village.
S. B. 112.-Hunt. Intended to slim
ulate teaching Of grain grading in
public schools.
S. B. 113.-To provide for use Of
public buildings for public meetings.
S. b. 1910 provide $4,000 APP
preparation for erection of an execu-
tive mansion at Bismarck.
House Bills introduced.
II. B. 9O.-Lowe. Amending present
mothers pension law.
II. 3. 91.-For appointment of tax
supervisor for each county.
II. b. 94.-Harris. 10 provide tax
for maintenance of night schools.
II. B. 96.-Harris. To prohibit teach
ing foreign languages in schools up to
and including eighth grade.
II. B. 11G. Harris. Closed season
on deer until November. 1921, and
thereafter open seasons with a Today
limit.
II. p. 121.-McDonald. Appropriates
100000 for erection of memorial
building in honor of North Dakota
soldiers, to be situated on state capital
grounds.
H. B. 12G.-McN1anus. To encourage
and assist in the breeding valuable
furbearing foxes.
II. B. 129.-Evkert. Meut and milk
inspection.
II. B. 1872. Wadeson. Prohibiting
spread of noxious weeds and crop
pests.
These Passed Both Houses.
81. B. Providing limit of attor-
neys' fees in cases of real estate fore
closure.
II. B. 2.-Providing a penalty for
usury.
H. B. so, reducing the license fee Of
soda fountains in small towns from
$40 to So.
II. B.'34.-To prevent discrimina-
ton in amounts paid for grain between
points having like freight rates to
terminals.
H. B. IS, which amends the present
statute and permits the supreme
court to secure additional evidence in
cases tried without a jury.
H. B. 57.-Limiting power of courts
to grant injunctions in labor matters.
Also Il senate resolution urging
congress to pass the Bankhead bill for
greater federal aid for highways.
Court Says Amendments Carried.
A bit of special interest was lent to
the weeks political events by the an
nouncement that late Friday after
noon the state supreme court had
placed its approval upon the constitu-
tional amendments voted upon in No
vember, some of which had failed to
carry a majority Of what some have
termed call the votes cast at the elec-
toni. e., including both those which
were and were not cast upon each Of
those particular subjects. For the
purposes of legislation it had been as
sumed by the majority of the lawmak-
ers that the amendments we're legally
passed, each Of them having shown a
majority of votes cast upon it as an
individual proposition. Attorney Cen
eral LANCER had given it as his opinion
that the amendments were legally
passed, and following a recent Satur.
day night letter to the newspapers by