The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-21
LEAGUE FORCED
T0BACK UP And
TAKE ON WATER
Steam Roller Plows Ahead, a
Very Good Machine, But
Minus a Brain
MINORITY HAS ITS DAY
C0mpels Nonpartisans to Admit
Botchedness of the Most
Important Bill
MINORITY HAS IT'S DAY

AHeCudnlcdl Ill all us processes may
make mistakes when allowed to run
without a skilled engineer at the
wheel was proven yesterday when
the league majority voted down sew
eral perfectly desirable and neces
sary amendments to House Bill 30, an
act providing for the extension from
one year to two years OF realty sold
at mortgage foreclosure, simply be-
cause these amendments were pro-
posed by members OF the minority
The league steam roller for the first
time during this session was COM
PEELED to stall and then to back up,
and the minority, for once, had a
whole-souled chortle at the expense of
the majority.
HOUSE ELL 23 was being considered
in committee Gg the whole when Rep.
Burtness of Grand Forks undertook to
reveal some of it's inequalities and in
adequacies. He asked f. A. Hoare,
the author of the bill, to explain it for
the benefit of its colleagues, asserting
that it did not apepar clear just what
the proposed amendments were to ef-
feet. Rep Hoare declined to explain,
contenting himself with stating that
the bill satisfied him. Rep. Burtness
then appealed to some member of the
judiciary committee, which had had
the bill under consideration and which
had reported it into committee of the
whole with recommendations that it
pass. No member of the judiciary
committee appeared ready or able to
<Nef1 AA1 1S,v Inn svNcS Sctn
ApOIogizing for the committee, Wal
ter J.. Maddox, occupying the speak
ers chair, stated that majority of
the members were absent. 9.
eurtness Unkind. -
'. rep. Burtness was unkind enough
to insinuate that the judiciary COM
mittee really knew as little about the
bill as the other members of the
house appeared to. He suggested that
in view of the fact that the period OF
redemption was extended for two
years, which, asa mortgages, he lap-
proved of, it might not be advisable
at the same time to reduce the rate
OF interest FROM eight 70 six per cent,
as is done in this bill. He declared
that investment In North 4--,kota
mortgages must be made attractive If
we expect to keep money coming into
the state. '.'| a4& a.A5t&r3@ .yG.l ESD.
He also attempted to explain to the
house the fallacy of Section i7762 of
tho proposed. bill, which as it now
stands provides: t"The debtor under
an execution foreclosure sale of real
property shall be entitled to the pos
session, rents, use and benefit of the
property sold from the date of such
sale until the expiration of the per-
iod of redemption"
Clearly a Mistake.
"That is clearly a mistake. 1t could
not have been intended, and it would
not have gone through, If the bill had
received proper consideration in COM
mittee," said Rep. Burtness. "The pro
vision would give the original debtor
the possession, rents, use and bene-
fit of the property until tho expiration
of the period of redemption, no mat
ter how many times the property
might have changed hands. This
clause plainly was intended to read
the debtor, or his successor in inter
est and it should be so amended" :
Burtness moved such amendment
league majority. E@.--ss.a -.
Driving Out Money.
Twichell of Cass county called the
attention of the committee of the
whole to the fact that the bill treated
in it's title of two different subjects
and in its body of four different sub
iects, both of which are clearly uncon-
stitutional He also asserted that un-
der this bill the mortgage, by the
payment of one years interest, <lnay
obtain two years and four months or
more possession of the property un-
der foreclosure, inasmuch as the time
occpied in giving notice of foreclOs-
ure and disposing of other legal pre-
liminaries is seldom less than four
months, whereupon the payment OF
one years interest, ETC., would give
the mortgagee possession for another
two years. He insisted that the bill
should provide for the payment of all
INTEREST," taxes, special assessments
in arrear and cots of forecloure, to
date.
III this is not done. you're going to
drive all the foreign money out OF
the state" declared the Cass county
man.
..That's the same old cry-it's the
same thing we heard before election,
reioined Bryans of McHenry.
Twicheli squelchsd.
Twichelps motion that the bill be
made q special order Of business for
2:40 wednesday lost, and the motion
of Weld of Wells that the committee
report the bill to pass carried.
The committee then rose. and the
clerk entered upon q reading of its
recommendations in one report. In
the meantime Hoare had conferred
with Twichell and had signified his
desire that the bill be referred to the
judiciary committee, the Lacquer hav-
Ing discovered upon reference to his
statutes that the minority members
were correct in some of their conten-
tions. Rep. Twichell, at Hoae's re-
quest made motion that the report
OF the committee Of the whole be sep
arated. Tho motion was put, and ON
an aye and nay vote It appeared to
have lost. 80
Il am making this motion at the IN
(conttnued % PssS Two)