Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-12-04
HOUSE ENDORSES
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
BY BIG MAJORITY
Opponents in Both Houses
Number But Nine-Syndi-
calism Bill and Measure
Cutting Salaries of Office
Holders Killed.

Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 2.-(Spe-
cial. .)-North Dakota completed the
ratification Of the federal suffrage
amendment Monday afternoon, when
the house approved point resolu-
ton originating in the senate. The.
vote was 102 to 6, S being absent.
The six antis were Donner, Hardt,.
Roller, Krueger, Nathan of Sheri-
dan and Nathon of Logan, Hardt in
explaining his vote declared he op-
posed suffrage because the people Of
North Dakota had rejected it by pop
ular vote four years ago and because
his constituents were still opposed to
1t. In the senate the vote on the
amendment was 43 to 3, the number
OF opponents in both houses being
but nine. A copy of the joint reso-
luton will be at once certified to
Washington. This vote ended a votes
for women battle which began IN
1885. when territorial legislature
adopted Dakota's first suffrage
amendment, vetoed Immediately ~
Governor Pierce.
The house promptly killed by a
vote OF II to 33, Representative Her
bert's bill defining and penalizing
criminal syndicalism, and by 67 10
40 adopted the committee report in
definitely postponing action on the
repeal of the anti-injunction act OF
the last regular assembly, prohibit
ing interference by the courts in la
Dor troubles. BY 67 to 40 the house
put to sleep an opposition resolution
cutting in two the $4,000 salary or
Director General Cathro Of the Bank
of North Dakota and reducing $5,-
900 salaries to $4,000, and by II
to &c It indefinitely postponed con-
sideration Of an opposition bill re-
quiring all appointees in state de-
partments to be Americans or de-
clarants.
In committee of the whole the
house discussed at length an amend
ment to the soldiers bonus act pass
ed at the last session. and the bin
was referred back to the COMMITTEES
for further amendment when it de-
veloped that majority Of the mem
bers were in favor OF making the
bonus available without restrictions
to it's use.
Herman Hardt of Logan seemed
to EXPRESS the general sentiment
when he urged that the "boys be Civ
en- six per cent certificates which
they could take to the bank and cash.
and spend as they like-thev did
their bit freely over there. and It's
up to us to do the same over here"
AS the bill returned to the house
, relieved the original structures to
some extent. but still provided that
bonus money could be had only for
certain uses in buying home or
farm or education or investing in -
business or tools oe trade.
In the senate the bill exemptinE
foreign deposits in North Dakota
hanks was approved for final passage.
the report of the committee being
adopted. The senate also advanced
for final passage Senate Bill %, pro-
viding salary of $4,000 for court
stenographers in addition to folio
fees. and S. B. IA. providing for the
registration Of architects and the ex-
animation Of those who were not
practicing prior to 1918.
| One new bill. No. SIS. was intro
duced in the senate by Ward Of Em-
mons by unanimous consent. It fix
es the situs of personal property for
taxation.
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