Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-02-27
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AAouIdICAs Ns Lee req. Z4.-Inat the
Sixteenth legislative assembly has now
carried out the program of measures
projected by Its majority members ia
the claim Of its accredited press rep
resentatives since the conclusion of the
enactments perfected during the past
week. Both the house and senate
have been busy passing upon the more
important measures messaged across
from the chambers in which they or
igtnated, and us u result the entire
program" so far as the more sig
ntficant measures are concerned, is
now up to Governor Frazier. in the
form of enacted bills awaiting his
signature.
Reeapitulating Program Bills
Chief among the measures to receive
final legislative attention during the
week are the following:
The bill creating an industrial COM
mission to have charge of the estab-
lishment of proposed state-owned
mills, elevators and other industries,
and the handling Of bonds to be is
sued for the establishment of these
industries.
The bill establishing the Bank of
North Dakota to be operated by the
state without profit for public benefit.
The handling of farm mortgages ut
rates which will take out the profits
Of commission loan agents is a promi-
nent part Of the service which pro-
Jectors of the measure believe this
bank will perform.
Bills providing for the issuance of
bonds Of the Bank Of North Dakota.
for creation Of fund for the hand
ling of real estate mortgage loans and
for the financing of the mill and ele-
vator industries.
The creation of the North Dakota
Mill and Elevator association under
direction of the industrial commission
to construct and operate terminal ele-
vators, mills, packing plants and other
industries.
The income tax bill providing for a
graded scale of income taxes.
Exemption an classification tax
bills. =
Other important program bills rec
emily enacted are:
The home building bill.
The freight rate bill.
The hail insurance bill.
WOrkmen's compensation act.
Governor Makes Promise
Considerable interest was attached
to the action of Governor Lynn ].
Frazier, when he went before the sem
ate last Monday and pledged himself
to call a special election for a popu-
lar vote on any or all emergency acts
Of the legislature for which u refer
endum vote might be asked by as
many as $4,000 electors, including
farmers as we'll as residents of cities.
The significance of this action lies in
the fact that referendum on bills
to which the emergency clause is at
tached is not definitely entitled to be
had, under present constitutional pro-
visions, unless as many as 10000 elect
ors petition for such referendum with
Ing period of ninety days following
the adjournment of the legislature.
Some League Measures Still UP
While it is true, as has been said,
that the legislative majority has en-
acted the legislation which has been
called it's program and thereby
holds itself to have fulfilled the adj
mfnistratiOn's promises to it's con-
stituents, it does not at all follow that
its purposes are complete or it's la
bors ended. There may be said to
be fair distinction between that
legislation which has been enacted
In response to organized demand and
that which the administration feels
that it would like to enact for the
perfection Of its own methods of ad-
ministration. A measure coming,
probably, under the last mentioned
head is the so-called administration
bill, which is still before the legis-
lature for consideration. At the last
Of the week 1t had just passed the
state. affairs committee of the senate,
in which body 1t originated, and was
unanimously recommended for pass
age. This measure is Senate Bill 1874.
and is that bill by which it was or
iginally aimed to place all educational
as well as penal and charitable insti-
tutions of the state IN the hands of
board of three members to be an
pointed by the governor. AS amended
by the senate committee on state af-
fairs, however, the bill provides that
the state superintendent of public in
structi0n and >the commissioner Of
agriculture and labor shall be ex-
officio members of the board. The
measure is one of the most. hotly
contested Of those which have been
placed before the legislature, structures
made upon 1t being that it aims to
diminish the powers Of the state sup
erintendent of public instruction, Miss
Minnie Nelson, by absorbing some of
the functions which have hitherto per-
tanned to the office to which she has
been elected, and also that It's main
purpose is a central control of all the
state'S educational affairs from hioI,