The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-20


committee and later how these meas
ures worked in detail. To those pres
ent who were not familiar with the
taxation regarding hail insurance and
others who had the wrong conception
Of it's workings, these were also ex-
planned by Mr.. Magnuson.
Representative j. c. Miller Of Sou
MS was next introduced and spoke at
length on the educational bills, Of
which committee he had been mem
Der. He branded as false the claims
made by the opposition that the new
educational bill would in any way de-
prive Miss Nelson, the State Super
intendent Of Public Instruction Of any
Of the privileges enjoyed by the super
intendent's office heretofore and fur
ther furnished facts to back him that
the new bill is q help to the state
superintendent. A notable incident in
Mr.. Miller's address was that the Bot
tineau county members had secured
the entire appropriation within
. very small amount fsr the State
School Of Forestry in this city and also
pointed out that the local institution's
appropriation was cut less this year
than in any other year and that it
was also cut less m proportion than
all the other similar appropriations.
AS has been previously demonstrate
ed Mr.. Miller stated that he thought
the Bottineau County members had
as much influence in the Legislature
as any set> Of representatives in the
state and when working for measures
that were right, as the needs Of the
Forestry school, proved this beyond q
doubt.
Chairman Weeks then introduced
Speaker L. L. Stair Of Newburg, who,
il his usual pleasing manner, told
that he was here not to make any
apologies for the program which he
helped to put through ut Bismarck
hut to discuss the issues. He dealt at
length with the newspaper bill and
told the large assembly Of the saving
and service the new measure would
perfect in the state. Among other
remarks the Speaker said that when
the measure becomes effective that
attorneys who heretofore have pub
lished legal notices in some far-off
county paper in order to save the
client any embarrassment were Of
course bucking the measure but that
these legals were published for pub
licity and that when run in the coun-
u official paper, would get it. In this
connection Speaker Stair also took ex-
ception to the old gang newspapers
version Of this bill in stating that any
city or town il which there Was e
newspaper, outside Of the town or city
"a which 10 located the official county
paper, could, II they SO desired. have
their official matter published II their
local paper. The opposition papers of
North Dakota have made light Of this
fact and have tried to create the i'm
preston that all legal matter, even 70
the city doings, as above stated would
have to be published il the county Of
ficial paper.
MI. stair then stated that he was
glad "a be back, glad to be IN Bottn-
eau, but from reading one Of the local
papers while ii Bismarck really did
not dare TO come to Bottineau alone
the first time and 80 arranged to have
the other representatives come with
him. Here MI. Stair related : talk he
had hid with Fred r. Mann Of DsyilA
Lake, prssident of the North Dakoe
retail Mercantile Association and NE.