The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-16
REPEAL HOME
BUILDING BOND
LAW IN SENATE
One Nonpartisan and 26 In
dependents Voted in Fa-
vor Of the Measure
KILL SCHOOL Bill l..
Measure Advocated by State
Taxpayers Association
Is Defeated
KILL SCHOOL BI l. l..


a bond issue of two million dollars
for the state home building associ-
ton was voted by the North Dakota
senate.
The vote taken last week when
the repeal measure failed to receive
constitutional majority was recon
sidered and the bill passed by vote
of q to %, Senator Ettestad, Non
partisan, voting with the Independ
ents.
Reconsideration of the bill was
taken on motion of Senator Frank
Ployhar. Senator Baker objected 10
the reconsideration being allowed,
and when he was over-ruled by the
chair put a strenuous fight on the
floor of the senate against the pass
age of the measure.
He declared that the Home Build
ers' law had been good one al
though it had been mismanaged. He
expressed the hope that under the
present administration the associa-
ton would be better managed, and
urged that the law should be retain
ed.
If the senator can show me a
single man who has purchased q
house through the Home Builders
Association who could not have
made better bargain through &
private firm | will vote to continue
this law in force" replied Sfnato,
Lynch.
One Ereak in Lines I
The vote with the exception o.
that cast by Senator Ettestad was
along party lines.
Without taking roll call vote
the senate voted to kill the blu
which would have wiped out the mo-
del high school at the state univer'
sity, and all high school departments
of the educational institutions un'
der the control of the board of ad.
ministration.
Senators Thorson and Whitman OF
Grand Forks strongly urged that the
measure should be indefinitely post.
poned pointing out that to do away
with the model high school would be
disastrous to the department Of edu-
cation at the university. Their ar
guments prevailed.
Argue Dancing Bill
A warm little family row devel'
opcd among the league members OF
/ the senate over Senator Benson's bill
to prohibit all dances either public
| or private on Sunday. 4
Senator Hamilton, Nonpartisar
took vigorous exception to hte meas
ure. "Our ancestors came to this
country in search of religious liber
ty,v he declared. "Now We are try
| ing to deprive others of that right
| by insisting that they shall adopt
| our idea of what day shall be OBJ
served as the sabbath and also how il
shall be observed.
Senator Whitmer of Oliver county
also opposed the measure vigorous
ly, denouncing it as an attempt tt
renew the old t'blue laws of the l7tf
century" T.
defended the measure and the lat
ter called for roll call on Senator
Hamilton's motion to~kill the bill
on the ground that 1--WE want to SCI
Just who is in favor of Sunday dan
cing."
The bill finally passed by vote
of 81 to after several unsuccess
full attempts had been made t.
amend it's provisions so as to make
them less drastic.
Senator Eastgate's joint resolution
objecting to the proposed merger o.
the Chicago Milwaukee and st. Pau
with either the Great Northern o.
Northern Pacific was killed on com
mittee report without record vote
Bills providing for a more strenu
Gus poll tax law, and providing fol
the forfeiture to the state of Ian.
on which taxes are not paid sharet
! the same fate.
On roll call vote Senate Bill Al
which would have prohibited firm
of doctors, lawyers, and dentist
from advertising under compan!
names was indefinitely postponed.
XIII Is Measures
Sin the course of the afternoon
the senate killed total Of 16 meas
ures, and passed thirteen more. Fiv'
of the bills passed were measures in
troduced under the auspices of tn
North Dakota Childrep's Code Com
mission.
Other measures passed include,
that pro<iding for the acceptance Q
the federal Sheppard -Towner Mater
nifty act with AZ appropriation TO
carrying out the provisions of tn
same, and Senate Bill 231 providing
for the appointment Of additiona
states attorneys in counties havinl
population of more than thirty
five thousand. ~
i Two Bills introduced
/ Two delayed bills were introduce
| by Unanimous consent. One of thes
takes the inspection Of weights IAN
measures away from the presen
state department. with headquarter