The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-01-16
House chalr,manshlps.
Agriculture, ]. ]. O'Corunor;

Corporations, Wadeson; Corporations
Other than Municipal. Harding;
Counties, Renauld; Education, Harris;
Elections. Whipple; Enrolled and En-
crossed Bills. Kunkel; Federal Rela-
tons, l.azier; Game and Fish, Arnold;
Highways. Bridge; and Ferries, Eek
ert; immigration, Roller; Insurance,
Magnuson: Irrigation and Drainage,
J. n. Kunkel: Judiciary. Frank g..
Prlter; Live Stock, II. Gunhus; Mill
tary Affairs, +. a. Hoare; Mines and
Mining. Malone; Public Health. Keltz-
man; School and Public Lands, Fred
erickson; Public Printing. Robert
Byrne; Railroads, Mcdonnell; Hevi-
sion and Correction of the Journal,
Wells of Kidder; Rules, Minis: State
Affairs, Walter Maddox; Taxes and
Tax Laws, +. +. Bryans; Temperance,
John Nathan; Warehouse and Grain
Grading, G. Patterson; Ways and
Means, l%Iaines; Mileage and Per
Diem. ]. c. Sherman; Delayed Bills,
Ed. Herbert; Forestry, Roy Wells.
These Lead Senate Committees.
Following are the men designated to
head the various committees APP
pointed in the senate:
Agriculture. Ettestad: %Appropria-
tons, .McCarten; Apportionment,
Weber; Banks, Levang; Cities and
Municipal Corporations, Bowman;
Corporations Other than Municipal,
Olson; Counties. Benson; Education,
Stenmo; Elections, Hagen: Enrolled
and Engrossed Bills, Storstad; Fed
eral Relations, Liederbach; Game and
Fish, Zieman; Highways, King; In
dian Affairs. jacobsen; Insurance,
Wexford; Irrigation and Drainage,
Church: Judiciary, Fraser; Live
Stock, Ward; Military Affairs, Berk;
Mines and Minerals, Nees; Public
Health. Mortenson: Public Land, H.
gerson; Public Printing, Hunt; Rail-
roads, Mostad: Revision and Correc-
ton of the Journal, McNair: Rules,
Sykes; State Affairs, Cahill; Statis-
tics, Hamerly; Taxes and Tax Laws,
Pendray; Temperance. Hemmingsen;
Warehouse and Grain Grading. Drown;
Ways. and Means. Wenstrom; Woman
Suffrage. Morlrid.
Joint Committee Chairmen.
Charitable Institutions, Larson of
Ransom: Educational Institutions, o.
c. Martin: Penal Institutions, Henry
Strom; Labor. John 0Brien: Public
Buildings. William pleaSance; Joint
Rules, Gust Wog.
Wednesdays Joint Session.
Bismarck. Jan. 9.-The Inauguration
of state officials, the reading of Gov
ernor FruZier's second biennial mes
sage to the legislature and the passage
of resolutions on the death Of TheA
dore Roosevelt comprised the chief
activities of the Legislative body at it's
sitting yesterday. The body met in
joint assembly and was presided over
by Lieutenant Governor Howard 3.
Wood, who proplleSied that the Six
teenth session OF the North Dakota
legislature would go down in history
as the greatest the state has yet wit
messed.
The Governors Message.
Governor FraZier's message. deliv-
cred before the assembly in joint ses-
sion Wednesday afternoon included
the following recommendations:
REIMBURSEMENT and consolidation Of
existing state boards With the purpose
of more economical administration.
A One-man tax commission.
One salaried man and two state
officials to constitute the board Of
control.
U%nitication of control Of all educa-
tional institutions.
Greater encouragement for the pur-
suit OF vocational education.
Increased state aid for rural schools.
Better provision for the protection
of public health, to be administered
under direction of a full time state
health officer; also special provision
for the cost of following up work
started by the government to stamp
out venereal diseases.
Endorsement Of the budget boards
recommendation for funds to continue
work of the state council of defense.
County and city examiners to be
transferred 10 llc Stulc tuultOI ) Uc-
partment.
Enactment of labor legislation in
effectually attempted by the Fifteenth
assembly.
Enactment of provisions for IN in
come tax
To extend time for redemption on
real estate foreclosures to two years.
The creation of an industrial COM
mission With power to establish and
operate any and all public utilities
that the state may undertake.
Establishment by such commission
of Il Terminal Elevator and Flour Mill
association for the purchase, sale,
storage and manufacturing of farm
products: finances to be raised by the
sale of state bonds. .
Compulsory state hail insurance.
Establishment of a state-Owncd lig.
mite coal mining and briquet,ing plant,
Establishment of Il department of
public service. modelled along building
association lines. for assistance in the
economical building of homes.
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