Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-02-10
SENATE BILL TO
PREVENT TRANSFER
OF FUNDS IN BANK
Passage Of Measure Would Do
Away With One Of the
Things Hurting Credit of
State-Other Bill Would
Re-estabGsh Capital Pun
ishment.

Bismarck, Feb. 9.-(SpeclaD II Il
bill introduced by Senator Bond of
Minot in the senate passes, the state
bank will not be allowed to trans
fer funds from one department to
another without special legislative
enactment in each case.
The passage of this law would do
away with one Of the things which
the state bankers committee said
made it difficult to get credit in
this state. Under the present ruling
of the industrial commission the di-
rector general of the state bank
may switch the balance in any fund
over to any other account and thus,
for instance, while there may be q
big balance in the hail insurance
fund there may not actually be be-
cause Of the manipulation Of the
money. n
Investors, under this system, its
opponents point out. can have no
'dea when any Indebtedness Will he
paid and therefore are reluctant
about buying state securities
This is one of a group of bills
which the Ward county senator has
introduced relating to the state bank.
The establishment Of capital
punishment is provided in Il bill Of
fered by Senator Baird of Stark.
Other Measures
Some Of the other important bills
introduced yesterday are: ..
Notwithstanding appoint
ments Of juvenile commissioners for
judicial districts.
Brynne and Storst:lll-Gradin; /;
teachers and fixing minimum salar-
les by grades. beginning with $50
for inexperienced teachers with oat
high school training.
State affairs committee Giving
legislators $1,000 for biennial PER
iod instead of SIS per dierl as at
present.
Ingerson. and Baird Recruiting
licenses for coal dealers and fixing
standards for coal sold in the state.
misunderstanding county aud
itor to furnish copy of election laws
with every poll book
Wog-Permitting the working =
cut Of the poll tax.
Mikelthn-- Requiring ra:iro;td
commission to base rates to tax
statements of public utilities
MISUNDERSTANDING tho high
way commission to as far as practic-
al eliminate dangerous crossings.
Wog-Consolidating the offices OF
county judge and clerk of court
Bowman Permitting levy bv
counties not exceeding ,one-half mill
for county agent work.
Disseminating normal
schools at Mayville and Glendale.
Bills Passed
The senate passed bills yesterday
creating a public health commission,
apprcpriating S175,OOO for the Mis-
souri, river bridge at Bismarck, re-
quiring attorneys collecting to pay
license fee and file $4,000 bonds,
and permitting foreign consuls to
act as administrators of estates
where heirs are foreigners.
Disagree Over Pool Hall
Licensing Department
A conflict on the state pool hall
licensing department looms in the
legislature between the senate and
the house, as the result of action
taken by the house late yesterday in
ouCAuIu6 6c1ldL0 Ulll NO. lS.
The senate bill re-enacted the law,
and provided for. five inspectors in
the department at $4,000 a year in
stead Of three, at lower salary, and
broadened the scope OF the depart
ment some what. .s
The house adopted the report of
the state affairs committee, which
would abolish the inspectors entirely,
and transfer the enforcement of laws
and licensing of pool halls, dance
halls, etc. back to the municipalities.
II the house passed the measure with
this amendment, as indicated by its
action, it will stand directly opposed
to the senate attitude. n
When the state affairs committee
reported to the house there was a
majority and minority report, the In
majority favoring the
and the minority of Nom
partisans standing for the bill as it
passed the senate The majority re-
port was adopted.
Syndicalisln Bill
During a session Of the house conf
mittee of the whole house bill No.
100, the criminal syndicalism bill,
aimed at sabotage and crimina! syn
dicalism, was advanced to third
reading with amendments.
S The 'ibll is aimed at the I. W. W.
and similar organizations. Roy
Johnson asked that the bill be
to-include a statement that
the act was not intended to affect
legitimate activities of organized la
bor, saying that representatives of
organized labor asked this assurance.
There was some difference Of opinion
on the. point. s Fl {. &.
Rep. Dell Patterson suggested that
this would be class legislation, and
suggested that the provision specffi-
cally mentioning organized labor be
stricken out and the words "any
person or persons z being inserted.
Rep. Johnson said that the words
With reference to organized labor
we're meant only to express the in
tent of the legisla ature, s ana remove
g az nisco onstrYct ctton5 q ne H neasu