The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-03-20

| @S Today was the last day permitted
Governor Frazier under the constitu-
tion to exercise his veto power or to
sign any of the acts passed by the
last assembly and accordingly the ex-
ecutive passed a busy day disposing
of several score bills.
Among the more important meas
ures which the governor signed in ad-
dition to the appropriation bill were
Senate bills 157 and 1853, which create
state printing commission and pro-
vides for the election of the voters
of one newspaper in each county as
the official publication in which are to
be printed all county and state Off
cial notices. Five auxiliary bills re-
curing insurance statements and
certain other legal notices to be
printed in the official county papers
were vetoed.
Senate bill 157 creating the state
printing commission co-ordinates the
publication of all state printing for
all departments under the control OF
one body. This is expected to re-
duce the amount of useless advertls-
! ing and a large mass of printing mat
ter now issued by the various depart
| ments to minimum. The commits
sion is composed Of the commission
er of agriculture and labor, secretary
of state and the chairman of the
! board of railroad commissioners and
has power to employ a practical
printer at a salary of $2,400 per year
| to supervise all state printing. ysa
At present each county has three
official papers in which all must be
published, the proceedings of the
board of county commissioners, no
tices of elections, county court no
tices Of elections, county court notices,
citations, summons and all other or
ders and notices now required by law
to be published in newspaper. Sen
ate Bill 158 cuts the number of official
! papers from three to one. The official
; paper in each county is to be chosen at
the general election by the voters for
| the ensuing two years. Since the law
becomes effective July this year the
official paper Of each county will be
named by the state printing commits.
sion and will enjoy the privilege until
the general election of 1920. 81. is
In vetoing the five auxiliary bills
Governor Frazier gave as his reason
that their provisions were either tax
en- care of in Senate bill 157 or 158 OF
that the emergency clauses attached
to some of them conhicted with ex.
isting laws. rE. .....~
! Two other measures fell under the
governors veto ak today. They were
! Senate bill It's, which would raise the
operation Of the states trolly line at
Bismarck under the control of the
industrial commission, and Senate
bill 176 'abolishing the state board OF
experts. The former was vetoed for
the reason that Governor Frazier felt
the proper supervision of the trolley
line lies under the board of control
!. and for a further reason that he had
approved Of Senate bill SO which pro-
vides for the extension Of the pres
ent route of the capital trolley line
! The bill abolishing the state board
Of experts was disapproved because
it. failed to eliminate the duplication
of the work of the board of experts
and the board of pardon and made no
appropriation for extra clerical help
the latter the board would need were
it to take over the work of the former.
Some of the more important bills
signed by the governor today in addi-
tion to the proceedings are: