The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-17
MUST DISPOSE
OF MANY BILLS
BEFORE MONDAY
House Must Clean Up Bills
Originating There; and
Senate Likewise
DIVISIONS ON INCREASE
Few NOnpartisans and lnde.
pendents Both Break Away
on Important Bills
RECOMMENDS PASSAGE

RECOMMENDS PASSAGE
When the report Of the cleo
tiOns committee of the house
was submitted this afternoon on
s. b. 233 the bill providing for
nOn-party state election ballots
motion to indefinitely post
pCne the bill lost 81 to SO with
one absent.
Independent members of the
committee recommended the bill
for passage with amendments.
The NOnpartisan minority of
the committee recommended i'm
definite pOstpcnement with one
exception. The lineup WAS strict
ly on party lines.
The elections committee divid-
ed on S. b. 233, the non-party
state election bill, which may be
reported late today. The ma
jority agreed on a petition for
candidacy for a state office in
stead of 10 percent; permitting
designation of party principles
by five words instead of three;
providing that no designation or
statement or principles may be
used unleso authorized by a
statewide convention with dele
gates from two-thirds of the
counties; permitting the conven-
tons to authorize use of desig-
nations or statements of princi-
. pie by campaign committees;
and permitting legislative dis
trict conventions to choose de-
signations for candidates.
The house voted in favor Of
the minority appropriations COM
mittee report of 100000 to COM
plete the main building at the
Dickinson normal.
AWAIT HIGHWAY BILL VOTE
H. B. 233, providing for aboli-
tion of the state highway COM
mission, was expected to be
reached OF the question of final
passage in the house late today.
The house this morning ac-
copied the unanimous report to
kill H. b. 1872, which re-wrotc
the workmen's compen sation law,
providing for new commission,
new schedule of rates and pro-
viding compensation insurapce
should be carried with private
firms instead of by the state
fund. A divided report will be
made on the Rustad bill, to per-
.mit employers to carry insurance
either in the state fund or with
private companies.
The state legislature today wa
working at top speed to wad
through the mass of bills whic
must be disposed of by Wednesda
at 2 p. m.
Under the rules, the senate mus
dispose Of all senate bills, and tn
house likewise of all house bills, o
that time. After the fiftieth day tn
senate may consider only house bill
and the house may consider onl
senate bills.
Another morning session was call
ed today in the effort to clean u
the business. The senate, being
smaller body, was in better shape.
Lieut.-Goy. Hyland told the senat
he anticipated no trouble in clean
ing up the business of that bod!
Late yesterday the senate had bu
A bills in committee and had s
bills on the calendar for action to
day.
The house had 100 bills which ha
not been acted upop~It took definit
action on 20 bills yesterday but mus
increase this record today and Nor
day.
The battle-ground of the legisla
ture in the last ten days probabl
will be in the house, because mos
of the important "administratio
measures" originated in the senat
and will. be passed there and sen
to the house.
Fate is Doubtful
The fate of administrator bills,
is in doubt. The majority in tn
house has been pretty we'll shot, a
evidenced by splits on importau
bills yesterday and the day prev
GUS. A detection of one or two vote
from either majority or minorit
side makes big difference.
Two Nonpartisans Joined 1nd'
pendents in voting to pay the Bisf
op, Brissman audit bill, while tw
Independents joined the Nonpart
sans to kill the bill reducing the
cent hail tax to 1-cent an acre ta'
Similar detection of Independent
killed the bill to send the pool ha
license funds Back to the city.
Under this situation, and wit
appropriation bills for the variou
state institutions coming up an
members looking forward to. pr.
tecting their own communities
the way of appropriations, the &c.
nomy program has hard road.
League Tightens
The Nonpartisan opposition
anything generally called an admir-
istration measure has been we'll 81
lidified in the last few days. Th
Nonpartisans have gone at it han
n,nr ord <orrc in %hoir can cusos an
the effect has been seen.
On the other hand the defectio
among a few Independents has grow
more noticeable, occasioned in part
by sectionalism, and, in the opinio
Of some, the "squelching tactics
used earlier in the session have ha
good effect in one or two instance
but an adverse effect in other il
stances.