The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1921-03-03
ANTI-SMOkE BILL
IN EFFECT JULY /
State Solons Monkey Away Time on
Foolish Legislation in "People
Be Damned" Policy
PUT TEETH IN CIGARETTE LAW
Terms of Supreme Court Judges Will
Remain at Six Years

Most Of the bills introduced at the
present session Of the legislature have
been killed or disposed of, and many
of those disposed of" should have
been killed. The present session will
go down in history as one in which
the least possible constructive legis-
lation was passed.
With vital issues staring our repre-
sentatives and senators in the face at
every meeting, with the people hold
ing their breath in the hope that some-
thing will be done to relieve present
conditions and knowing that nothing
will be done, the men at Bismarck
have been spending their time in the
consideration of such "far-reaching"
and important" matters as the anti
smoke bill and others of like nature.
Future generations, reading the re-
suits, or rather, lack Of results, achiev-
ed at Bismarck this winter, will be
tempted to regret the existence Of a
law against murder. We sent repre-
sentatives to Bismarck to consider
matters of real Importance and they
have frittered away their time like q
bunch Of school boys.
No smoking will be permitted in
dining rooms, dining cars OF sections
Of railway coaches not set apart for
smokers after July I, next. The bill
making this provision, known ~ 81. B.
81, was passed by the senate Satur-
day afternoon, 20 to 15, with the pen
atty clause 80 amended as to fix the
fines at from $500 to $500.
By the terms Of this bill il 10 made
unlawful to smoke tobacco in any
form in public dining rooms, cafes,
restaurants or eating places, OF in rail-
way coaches or street cars except in
the sections reserved for smokers. It
makes not only the smoker himself
liable to prosecution, but the owner Of
an eating place or the conductor Of a
train permitting such violation.
When the amendment was proposed
to make it unlawful for any person
to smoke or chew or use tobacco" in
any form, Senator Baker insisted that
the cor chew" provision might prevent
a person chewing food, and the amend
ment was stricken out.
Can you imagine anything more
asinine than fifty or sixty legislators
solemnly discussing such silly prop
osition? By the same method of al
legged reasoning some might claim
that cigarette smoking is not includ-
ed in the law against smoking tobac-
co-heaven knows there's no tobacco
in most of them.
Other bills passed during the last
week include the following:
H. B. 154, which puts additional
teeth in the anti-cigarette law and
makes the finding of cigarettes in a
store prima facie evidence Of VIOLA
tion of the law.
H. B. 1875, which increases the COM
pensation of members of the state live
stock commission.
H. B. 168, governs investments Of
university and school land funds.
H. B. 81, requiring that all eggs be
candled before sold and requires cold
storage eggs to be labeled as such.
| Three bills for the preservation of
wild game were passed, which make
the hours for shooting from one-half
hour before sunrise to actual sunset,
put closed season on muskrat until
1924 and reduce the bag limit on wild
geese from fifteen to eight day.
H. B. 118 and 119, creating the Of
flee Of noxious weed commissioner and
making the sow thistle noxious weed.
H. B. 124, prohibiting the sale Of
sleds of less than So inch tread, and
cancelling the licenses of foreign cor
porations which ship narrow track
sleds into the state.
H. B. So, providing for building by
bond issues at county agricultural
schools.
H.. B. So, changing time allowance
given property owners in villages or
cities to complete work after sidewalk
construction notice has been given.
H. B. 146, relating to Office hours
and compensation for county commits
sioners.
Gard nf Thanka