The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-28
ISSUES CALL
ROAD SYSTEM
PLAN KILLED
IN THE HOUSE
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claring two year road "morator-
ium" and virtually continuing the
present system of distributing
motor vehicle fees. In this form
the good roads boosters wanted
the bin killed.
The house had a clash. over SEN
ate bill No. $50, enlarging the
powers of the Guaranty Fund
Commission to deal wth closed
banks, but the majority commit
tee report for passage was accept
ed, and the report favoring pass
age on senate bill No. 267, COM
panion bill, also was accepted.
Another brush occurred on SEN
ate bill No. 26l. authorizing In
dustrial Commission to name a
board Of managers for the Grand
Forks state mill and elevator.
but the bill came out of general
orders accepted as amended and
went on the calendar, the vote be-
ing SO to 81.
Rep. Vogel, Nonpartisan, insist
ed the people at the polls had vot-
cd against the men in charge of
the mill and (meaning the league
Industrial Commission headed by
Governor Frazier) and at the same
time had voted to sustain the laws,
and he was opposed to any change.
Rep. Maddock said he didn't con-
slider ''wc'vc had any bad luck in
the milling business except that it
was initiated at the time Of a
world crisis
| Rep. Paul Johnson, Independent,
! Pcmbiila county, said that "after
past experience | don't want to
take any advice on financing from
the Nonpartisans."
Majority Position
Rep. Twichcl!, taking the posi-
/ tion the league members were OPP
posing the bill on political grounds
with a view to causing embarasS-
mcnt to Government Nestos and
the administration declared that
at looks as if the minority wants
US to fail as badly in the milling
business as they failed"
The house killed the Baird sem
ate resolution calling on the Work
mems Compensation Bureau to
decrease it's rates fifty percent. 1t
adopted the resolution of Senator
Stevens asking the War Depart
ment to give one Fort Lincoln
building to the North Dakota Tu-
berculosis Association to be used
as a hospital for tubercular chill
dren
Rep. Watt announced the appro-
priations committee had inserted
in a bill an appropriation of $4,000
to enable Ignite experiments to
be continued at Hebron.
Attacks U. S. Act
Rep. jackson, Ramsey county,
attacked the, federal Sheppard
Towner maternity act on consider
alton of senate bill No. Sc, provid-
ing a state appropriation of $4,000
to meet like federal appropria-
ton.
1.-THE Sheppard Towner act" he
declared, sis to my mind the most
ubiquitous, socialistic, unAmeri-
can law ever put on the federal
statute books. If you believe that
! IlUCHclS OuSIIC W DC ICHuiiSt w
submit to examination on the or
der Of a government bureau dur
ing the delicate condition of pre-
gnancy, vote for this bill. But |
hope North Dakota will follow the
lead of Maine, the first state to
vote on acceptance Of the act, and
refuse 70 accept it"
The vote was as for the bill and
Al against. Before the "clincher'
motion could be applied motion
to recess prevailed. A motion will
be made to reconsider the bill.
The proposal to cut the present
3 cent flat acreage tax for the hail
insurance fund to one cent an acre
was again before the house OF rep
rcsentatives.
The amendment was placed on