The Bismarck tribune., 1923-01-17
CANDIDATES
I PAMPHLET TO :
BE RETAINED
Eouse Refuses to Restrict
Publicity Pamphlet to Basic
: Law Requirement
REPEAL FAILS
ills to Get Majority of All
}iembers in House and
Therefore Fails to Pass

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ne house Of representatives yes
etuay afternoon refused to restrict
te state publicity pamphlet to the
aindatory constitutional provision,
iftar sharp debate
Iu the face Of Il unanimous report
the committee on elections and
tion privileges, which recommend ,
81 passage of Rep. Lynch's bill which
would prohibit candidates from max
iog statements in the pamphlet, the
ifpUse refused to change the present
law. Members were influenced some
What by citation of the constitution
q provision to the effect that where
0lyiated or referred measures are to
~ submitted to the people the Sec
ftary Of State shall print Il public
~ pamphlet and include statement
Of the measure.
Rep Jackson, presenting the COM
900 to print the pamphlet last year,
nd the committee felt it was use
less expense, believing that few peo-
'de read the pamphlet.
Right here is good place to start
cur economy program he said.
Rep. Walker declared the purpose
Of the pamphlet was to make possi
Die the getting of information CON
cerning an election to all the voters,
and he favored retention. Rep. Mil
Ter favored it's retention. Rep.
Twichell said that since the constr
tuition required pamphlet to be
printed on measures, and the main
cost of the pamphlet was the mail
ing to voters, not much economy
would be accomplished by forbidding
candidates access to the few extra
pages necessary to print individual
statements.
Lynch Defends Bill.
Rep. Lynch defended his bill, say
ing that under the law candidate
can use the pamphlet to advertise his
own business, and that before the
primary election one candidate did
use it to advertise a book he is writ
ing The measure was indefinitely
postponed on an "aye" and may"
vote.
The house also found food for de-
bate in the Cart-Anderson bill for
repeal of the "wide sled law" Rep.
Anderson maintained that since mar
row-gauged sleys may be shipped
into the state the prohibitory clause
Of the present law accomplished
nothing. Others declared the wide
led law real benefit in the winter.
The bill failed of passage, receiving
Il "ayes' to so nays" 81 being nee
ssary for passage.
SAmong the three bills presented
TO the house was one by Reps. Heat
On of Burleigh, and Hempel of
Sheridan, increasing the maximum of
farm loan bonds which may be is
sued on mortgages made by the farm
lean department of the Bank of
North Dakota from $2O,OOO,OOO to.
$4O,OOO,OOO. =
Rep. Flom's bill reducing the mile
sc allowance of county superinten-
.ents from Is to 10 cents a mile
NShtA VIC SouilIS anu IL OIIl ~ CSIlIS
4 mile to actual railroad fare out
side the county was amended to per-
AIT five cents mile mileage outside
ne county, and in amended form
vas recommended for passage.
The report of the permanent en-
joyment committee, recommending
nointment of Mrs. Rose Martineson
II Bismarck as assistant proof read
.r was rejected, on contention of sew
raj members that one proofreader
IS. sufficient. The appointment was
il eged by the Burleigh county dele
cation. The election bills of Sena-
tor Stevens, bringing the present
Statutes in line with the woman suf-
rage amendment of the constitution,
were recommended for passage and
the committee reports accepted.
Many Petitions Received.
Among the petitions received by
the house was one signed by o.
stark county residents asking the
election laws be amended to permit
an illiterate voter to take another
person in the booth with him to as
sist him and also asking that the
state ballot be made the same as the
Minnesota ballot, by eliminating
party columns and permitting party
designation after the names of the
candidates. Several communications
urged passage of law forbidding
the making Of crop mortgages.
An opinion was received from At
torney General Shafer to the effect
that separate roll call on emergency
clauses are not necessary if a bill
passes by two-thirds vote. This rule
was followed in the previous session.
"A bill changing the law regarding
removal of county seats, which would
remove provision Of the law de-
clared advantageous to Fl. Yates,
county seat off, Sioux county, was
for passage Will
Under the amendment
an election for the removal of a
county seat may be held at any pri-
mary election, if the county seat is
no& loatced on a railroad. II re-
m6SSd q provision which included
county seats located on navigable
rixars, #. Yates NOT being on =
railroad hut being on the Missouri
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