The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-02

1ore aolournlng, SO as 1oIlshIen lhe
work today In re engrossing
nils. The senate mad competed
passing house bills at Z O'CLOCK last
night.
1wenty senate bills were passed.
They included Il SO, 5U0 annual appro-
prlarion tor the MlnoA, Ialr; child
weifar measure making II Il 1elony
for a father to desert a cnlld or
pregnant wife; the oil inspection act
providing a straight l-cent tax on
all gasoiine; bill providing str'ct
penalties for certifying falsely on
accountants report; the university
and agricultural college appropria-
tions, the election bill providing
polls shall close at p. m. instead
of 3 p. M; repealed the cow Dill
of the 1919 session permitting coun-
ties to bond to purchase dairy COWS.
An effort was made to revive nouse
bill No. 156, prohibiting dancing on
Sunday, but the conference commit
tees named were unable to agree.
The house disposed of finally house
bill No. 222, placing supervision OF
motor transportation between cities
in the hands of the railroad commits
sion, lot to !.
Health Department.
The frame work for real state
health department was laid in pas
sage of senate bill No. 81, although
the appropriation is but $1,000 Tor
tae department for the next two
wears. 1t provides an office shall be
maintained in Bismarck. Senate
bill No. 1886, consolidating the add
ministration Of all regulatory work
in one head and department, was
passed: and the house completed re-
peal of the 1921 lazy limiting taxes
TO one-third of the tax levies for the
preceding three years.
Conference committee actions, and
actions on house bills amended in
the senate, included final fixing Of
the magpie bounty at Ia cents for
each one killed! concurrence in the
report on senate bill No. 2l, the in
come tax bill, but with an amend
ment which provided that building
and loan associations receiving
savings deposits shall not be exempt
from the tax; house bill No. 1919,
permitting subdivisions to issue
certificates of Indebtedness to place
them on a cash basis, and the APP
preparation of $4,000 to aid in
building bridge across the MIS-
souri, river at Williston.
Elevator Bill Dies.
Lii No Ckn prpnncaH bv
the Northwest Wheat Growers, and
providing that grain held in eleva-
tors and warehouses on storage
could not be shipped out, was indeti-
nitely postponed in the house COM
mittee of the whole, the vote being
70 to q. Those voting, against it
included members Of variou occu-
pations, most of them farmers, who
apparently took the view that the
bill was not workable.
As it came from the senate it was
amended to apply only to terminal
warehouses; Amendments were pro
posed in the house inluding other
warehouses.
Rep. Currie, Independent, Towner
! county, speaking for the bill, said
the purpose CT the bill was to slow
/ up the marketing of grain. He said
that with fifty million bushels ele-
vator capacity in the state, if TWEEN,
ty-fve million bushels could be hello
off the market in the fall, it ought
to force up the price of hard wheat
! Rep. Dell Patterson, Noppartisan
Renville county, declared that an!
farmer who can afford to keep grair
in storage can afford to build gran
aries on his farm to store it in.
81 have plan Of my own" he
said. 81 store my wheat right on my
farm"
Oil Tax Fixed.
! Rep. Filings on made an unsuccess'
full effort to cut the tax on gasoline
from one cent to one-nalf cent 6
gallon. Rep. SWEET, Nonpartisan
proposed to abolish it altogether.
Rep. Twichell, chairman Of the state
affairs committee, said the bill re
writing the oil inspection law pro
vided straight 1-cent tax, instead
of the present law watch provides 1
cent tax on some gasoline and {
IA cent q gallon tax on some kinds
The tax on kerosene had been elm
mated, he said, because motor trac
tors now being used are run will
kerosene, and it was figured the far
mer would be aided if the tax were
, not put on. Rep. Twichell's posi-
ton was sustained by the members
, During the Thursday afternoon
, session many conference committed
reports were accepted in the mouse
, There was brisk fight over senate
amendments to house bill No. lis
, appropriating money to pay expenses
of the house investigation into tn
conduct of state industries of tw'
years ago, in which the Senat'
amendments reducing the tota
amount from $l4,5O8.61 to $l0,953.s
were accepted, by vote of 62 to 49
with two absent, and Rep. Twichel
protesting that the bills were incur
red legitimately by the house AM
that the senate had no right to in
terfere. The cuts made by the sen
ate we're: Fees Of Francis Murpa,
Of Minot, and John F. Sullivan o
Mandan, lawyers, from $4,000 to SO,
S 500 each; H. M. Temple, st. Paul
accountant from $1,700 to $1,000
1 E. b McCutheon. Minot, investiga
tor, from s1,2S2.76 to $1,000. Non
2 partisans voted for tn esenate amen
r ments, and then against the bill o.
final passage.
e Morton County Wins.
!. The fight of Morton county repre-
sentatives for additional appropria
tion for the state training school a
, Mandan was won. The conferenc
committee recommended an addition
al $4,000 for girls cottage an
J increasing the amount for the pul