The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-08
CIGARETTES IN
ANOTHER LOSING
BOUT IN HOUSE
Representatives For Third Time
Decline to Meddle With
Blue Laws
LICENSING BUREAU GOES
House Majority Insists On Re-
pealing Act, But Will Re.
tain the Funds
LICENSING BUREAU GOES

The members Of the house
committee investigating the books
in the state library dealing with
free love, Bolshevism, anarchy
and other topics announced this
afternoon that it would probably J,
be ready to report tomorrow. The
committee is going over the tran
script Of the testimony offered at
the committees hearings last
week.
An attempt was made by the
committee at the hearing Satur-
day to obtain from Miss Peterson,
the assistant librarian, identified
ton of the books recommended
by StangeIand, but this move was
baked by George A. Totten, chair (
man of ethe board Of administra-
ton. A list Of periodicals sug-
gested by Stangeland as useful
in legislative reference bureau for
North Dakota included typical
journals of the various 'noncon-
formist groups such as the single
takers, the !. w. w., the anarch
lists and socialists.
Sensational disclosures in the
house this afternoon that Chief Clerk
George A. Totten had certified House
Bill 10 to the senate with an emer-
gency clause altho no administration
measure has secured the tWo-third
vote in the house necessary to en-
body the emergency clause resulted
IN the appointment of a committee
to see how many bills were thus
wrongfully certified to the senate.
The charge that House Bill 10 had
been improperly certified by Totten
was made by Representatives Burt
ness and Twichell and caused SEN
sation. A special committee was i'm
appointed to investigate
these charges and determine if any
further bills had been certified inCor'
rectly. This committee consists OF
Maddox of Mountrail, Twichell and
Whipple. >.N
Following this incident the commit
tee on delayed bills decided not tt
report out the bill declaring all leg
islation to be emergency and there
fore effective ten days after passage
Following an afternoon filled witt
much bombastic and explosive oratory
the house called it day Saturday
when it again defeated an attempt tt
remove the ban from the sale Of Gig
arettes. The bill came back before
the house in committee of the whole
so amended as to provide for it's sub
to the people for a referen
dun vote at the primary elect ons
next March. 1t was decreed that both
factions Interested in the bill be Civ
en- space in the publicity pam
phlet at the rate of 500 per page tc
discuss the faults and virtues of tht
and that copies of this pub
liciiy pamphlet be distributed in the
usual manner by the secretary o1
state.
Representative Miller, chairman O
the temperance committee and lead
er in the fight which has been. made
against any attempt to repeal the
anti-cigarette law, declared the danger
in this proposition lay in the fac
that the American Tobacco trus
would utilize it's ''big slush funds" ir
buying publicity in this book; tha
more money in favor of their side o.
the argument in favor Of their side q
ers whom Miller declared to be now
profiteering in the illegal sale Of cig
arettes, while, he said. the W. C. r
o., who would lead the opposition tc
the measure, would be forced to col
lcct their sinews Of war in the form
OF nickels and dimes. The house final
ly voted in committee of the whole al
to 80 in favor of indefinitely postpon
ing further consideration of this
measure.
League Majority Split
The league majority in the
house suffered the first real de
feat on an administration meas
urc this afternoon when the house
failed to pass House Bill 7 repeal
ing the state licensing denartment
which this same majority at the
last session placed under the
supervision of Attorney General
William LANCER. The vote was 50
aye, 81 nay. In order to secure
passage the measure required
majority Of all members elected
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