The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-19
SESSIONS AT
NIGHT HELP
CLEAR DECKS
Senate Passes "a Bills in One
Nights Sitting; House
Also Passes Many
MAJORITY WORKIN G
Independents Able to Put Mat
ters Through on "Greased
Wheels" for First Time

Passing twenty-four bills, killing
YEARLY 20 and working from until
10:30 o'clock in it's first night ses-
sion on the state senate Saturday
went long way towards clearing up
its slate of it's Gown bills" which ac-
tion must be completed by the fiji
tieth Legislative day, Wednesday
The house also held night session.
The work accomplished spells sue
cessful work on the part of the sen
ate in emerging from the jam of
measures which flooded in before
the 35th day finally clamped on the
lid.
OF the measures passed Saturday
night, several affected procedure in
court actions. One permits the ap-
pointment of women bailiffs and the
separation of male ,and female jur-
ors when agreement is not reached
by 9 o'clock. Another permits the
review of a case by the supreme
court without motion to appeal
having been made in the lower
court, while third of most far
reaching possibilities--if passed oy
the house-permits the state or the
plaintiff in civil or criminal action
to ask for change of venue on af-
fidavits of prejudice against the
judge or county, a privilege now re-
served only to the defendant.
Several more measures were pass
ed relating to taxation, the chief of
which is the re-enactment of a flat
one cent per gallon tax upon gaso.
line. The measure originally includ-
ed one cent I gallon tax on kero-
sene but these were deleted from,
the bill before passage. Another tax
law provides the machinery for an
attempt to collect taxes on the gross
earnings of Pullman fare collection
within the state, and on the gross
earnings of intra-state freight lines.
Restore Laboratory Amount
The passage of the appropriation
bill granting $1,O42,965 to the uni
versity for the biennium caused no
debate, the only question arising as
to the abolition of the appropria-
tion of $4,000 for maintenance of
the four public health laboratories
at Minot, Grand Forks, Bismarck
and Fargo.
School laws came in for consider
able debate over S. B. 80, which
requires that common school as we'll
as all other school district boards
shall establish budget systems. The
measure by Senator Steel of Stuts-
man county requiring that children
attend the public school until they
complete the eighth grade was pass
ed with little debate, except that
amendments were included to make
the remuneration to parents for
hauling children to school range
from 10 to SO cents according to the
distance over 2A miles from sch ool,
instead of the present minimum of
25 cents. This measure further re-
quires that all parochial schools
must teach the common school sub
jects as taught in public schools
and in the English language.
Hit Newspapers
Newspapers of the state were
whacked again by the senate Satur-
day afternoon when that body pass
ed S. B. 229 by Ettestad, (N) pro-
viding for only one publication OF
the delinquent tax lists. The MEM
bers were advised that another bIl
which covered the points of abbre-
Walton and made mandatory provi-
sions for the manner in which copy
should be furnished to the printer
was passed by the house, but re-
fused to defer action. Senator Ploy-
lar led fight for indefinite post
,onement of the bill on the ground
hat the newspapers already limited
~ other legislation as to style and
width of copy published were beire
made the goats on the economy
irive. On the motion for indefinite
postponement Ployhar, Murphy.
Kelsh, McLachlin, Storstad, all ir-
dependents and Martin, Whitmer and
Olson of Eddy, leaguers supported
it, but voted against killing the
measure.
On the final passage Of the bill
Kelsh and Ployhar independents and
Martin, Lacquer voted against the
bill. The measure reduces the num-
ber of publications from three to
one.
The senate also passed the COM
pletely rewritten statute relative to
operation of the mother pcnsicn
bill as to 0 after killing a minor
amendment offered by Senator
Bond. Common school districts
would be permitted to issue bonds
at not to exceed seven percent in,
stead of the fixed rate Of five per-
cent under another bill passed, while
the law requiring budget system
of financing school districts ',e
adopted also received unanimous ap-
proval.
The senate killed total of eight
cen bills on committee reports for
indefinite, postponement during the
early hours Of the afternoon. Chief
of the measures killed was the Por-
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