The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-20
NEWSPAPER
LEGISLATION
is DOUBTFUL
Senate and House Differ on
Bills Fixing Legal Pub.
licatiOn Rates
BILLS HIT PAPERS
House Bill No. 311 Declared
Blow at Weekly News.
papers of State

Whether or not any printing leg;s-
lation changing the present rates
- will be passed this session of
the legislature probably depends OF.
whether probably conference commit
tee members Of the house and the
senate can get togther it was ind.
Gated today.
Half dozen measures affecting
legal publication rates have been in
troduced in either house: The e.
ccutive committee of the North Da.
kota Press association, working N
conjunction with men representing
the Peoples Press association
League), sponsored several bills az
fecting the newspapers. Only one of
these has passed, that requiring a
newspaper candidate for official pa
per to have been in operation for at
least a year and requiring newsp;.-
pers to go on the primary election
ballot for the purpose of eliminating
three or four-cornered fights at gen.
eral elections.
S. B. 81 as originally introduced
in the upper house called for certain
reductions on some classes Of publ
cations. However the bill was re.
written by the senate printing COM
mittee, Ole Ettestad. chairman (Ny,
SO as to fix rate of cents per
line on all straight matter and six
cents per line on subsequent matte.
~ h., h.,
present law was that it provided sin.
gle price for tabulated matter after
the first publication.
In connection with this Senator
Ettestad introduced bill reducing
the required number of publications
for delinquent tax lists from three
to one. This passed the senate and
is now in the house. However, the
house passed a bill sponsored by
L. L. Twichell and Trubshaw Of
Barnes, which permits two publica-
tions of the tax list. This measure
H. B. 1913 requires that auditors fol-
low certain form in preparing copy
for the printers for publication of
the tax lists. 1t sets forth certain
abbreviations to be used, limits the
publication to single column width and
is in line with the suggestions of
the newspaper men, except to reduc-
tion Of number Of publications. This
bill has passed the houe and is IN
the senate.
Kill Senate Bill
The house has killed Senate Bill
81, the senate printing committees
measure on legal rates and in its
place introduced H. B. 81 through
the delayed bills committee fixing a
lower schedule of rates. S. B. 81 and
H. B. 81 instead Of being referred
to the house printing committee were
placed in the hands of the state af-
fairs committee of which L. l.. Twich-
ell is chairman.
While the senate measure killeo
by the house would leave the rates
as at present with restrictions on
the subsequent publications, H. B.
81 calls for nine cents line C pt.)
for first insertion, six for the sec
ond and five cents line for each
subsequent publication of a legal no
tice. 1t provides for fiat five cents
per line additional fee for cost of
setting tabulated matter whether it
be with one justification Column OF
figures) or four or more.
House bill No. 81 passed th>
house last night There is group Of
members in the senate who are not
inclined to accept the Twichel!-
Trubshaw measure on delinquent tax
list publications. Each house has
passed its own idea of the Delinquent.
tax list law.
The whole trend of the session,
however, seems to be to take whack
at. the newspapers, according to the
press men who have been explaining
to members the features of the bill.
Bill Protected.
Rep. Boyd, Cass, and Rep Vogel,
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