Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-12-11
ALL bulls PASSED AT
SPECIAL SESSION ARE
EME ;:!GENCY MEASURES
League Majority in Passes Measure Declaring All
Bills Passed at ial Session Emergency Measures and
Taking Effect 7. Days From Passage Lacquer Calls
Committee on Delayed Bills Mere Figure Head But Re-
sents 1t When Independent Seconds MotionFist Fight
Narrowly Averted.

ranking between the liberals and the
socialists. Mr.. Carpberg has been a
member of the Storthing for twenty
years, and before that was district
judge in the middle country.
''I regard the conference just clos
ed in Washington the most impor-
tant in all history Of labor" said
Judge Caspberg Monday evening. II
believe it is the first conference ever
held at which representatives Of the
most important organizations OF cap
ital, labor and government Of the old
world sat harmoniously at the same
table and voted unanimously upon
such vital questions as a universal
eight hour day, the raising Of the
age of minors engaged in industry
more complete protection for women,
and very large maternity benefit" :"
Judge Caspberg will address the
legislators in joint assembly this al
ternoon. He is accompanied by w.
Morgensteirne, head Of the CONNER
cial department of the Norwegian lc-
cation, and who came over with Er.
Nansen in 1918 to negotiate the pur-
chase of supplies for Norway. Fe
returned to Norway last spring to b.
assigned place on the Norwegian
delegation to the labor conference.
This is his third visit to the north
west, he having been here first in
1915 when ahe organized numerous
locals of the N6rdmans svorbundat.
world organization of Ncrsemen.
Bills Passed by Senate.
The senate continued It's hapry
family act of Saturday over Monday,
when with very little debate or dis
cussion and with no acrimony 1t gaily
romped thru a long calardar and
called it a day.
Bills passed on third reading we're:
S. B. 10, relating to taxation Of
petroleum products and placing all
producers on the same basis with r e
gard to taxation.
S. B. 27, bill relating to tho limi-
tation of tax levies. and permitting
school districts to exceed the lega!
debt limit. 81,
S. B. SO, providing for the dis
traint of property for the payment of
delinquent taxes due to the state.
S. B. 80, imposing gross earn
ings tax on freight line and car equip
ment companies and providing for
taxation Of express, telegraph and
telephone companies on franchise
values.
s. B. -, mending income law to
eliminate discrimination in original
act against "unearned" income.
H. B. 10, relating to the legal re-
serve fund Of banking corporations
and associations; reducing legal re-
serve on demand deposits from twen-
ty to ten per cent; on time deposits
from ten to seven per cent.
H. B. 13. empowering the COVER
nor to appoint special assistants at
torney general and providing appro-
priation therefore.
H. B. 39,I appropriating $4,000
for the use Of the executive in emer-
gencies. ii
Senate Bill %, providing for the
enforcement of the payment Of taxes
was re-referred to the committee on
state affairs, while House Bill 20,
the remaining measure on the SEN
ate's regular calendar, which makes
fbbing by state2 officials felonious,
was recalled by the house, because,
1t is understood, It was Improperly
to the senate as having
passed with the emergency clause at.
tached, while In reality the league
did not muster Al the house the two
thirds majority required to carry the
emergency clause.
8 Bismarck, N. D.. Dec. 1 ~ spe-;
cial. The adoption Of House Bill
go, which precipitated Mondays fight
and which would declare all acts Of
this session emergency legislation eff
fective within ten days; the tabling
of q concurrent res tionS intro duced
By minority members Of the commit
tee on delayed bills. demanding the
Of William Lemke. vice