The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-28

next week.
The session of the state senate
yesterday afternoon should 60 down
in history as the battle Of the
bridges. 1t may be resumed today.
When the dust cleared away after
as warm a fight as has occurred in
the dignified upper house of the
! state legislature as has been seen
during the present assembly appro-
priations for two bridges from the
state highway fund had passed, and
two more had been defeated.
The House passed appropriations
Of 100000 for bridge over the
Missouri river near Williston and
100000 for bridge over the same
stream at Sanish. Bills appropria-
ting $4,000 for a bridge over the
Red River at Fargo, and $25,0O0 for
bridge over Des Lacs Lake be-
tween Burke and Ward Counties
we're defeated.
Four Bills Up
All four of the bills which were
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ago are on the senate calendar for
final action, having been reported
out of the committee on appropria-
tions for passage Thursday.
When the first of the bills, which
happened to be that for the Fargo
bridge was reached, Senator w. S.
Whitman of Grand Forks, moved
that action on all four of them
should be postponed until next Tues
tday.
81 object to that postponement"
said Senator Mccoy of Richland
county. "The only reason for hold
ing these bills up is on account Of
the fair bills which are over in the
house now. 1t is simply PROPOSE
tion on holding the bridge bills up
so that some of these men can trade
votes on the fair bills, and l object
to it. I expect to vote against these
bridge bills and want to get a
chance to do it,"
"Who told you there was trade on
the fair bills?" demanded Senator
J. E. Eastgate of Grand Forks.
eff it isn't the fair bills it's some
thing else" declared Senator d. H.
Hamilton of McHenry. "These
bridge bills have been reported for
passage twice now and it's time they
we're acted on instead of being used
for trading stock"
'lf as you say we're trading on
the fair bills we can't be very good
traders, because we're only getting
about $4,000 in appropriations in
return for about 100000 said Sem
ator Walter Schlosser of Grand
Forks.
Roll Call Had
On a roll call vote Senator Whit
mans motion for delay was defeated
i2l to 1S. He then moved that the
vote be delayed until Monday. This
was also voted down. Motions for
delay until Saturday, and to put the
bills at the bottom of the calendar
which were then made in succession
by the GraSd Forks senator were dis
posed of in the same way.
ct don't want to see these bridge
bills defeated, and l think that is
what may happen to some of them if
you force vote this afternoon" de-
clared Senator Whitman.
"How long since the senators
from Grand Forks have been running
this senate ?" one of the Nonparti-
sans shouted.
"We aren't running the senate. The
last four votes show that" replied
Senator Schlosser.
The first of the bridge bills voted
on was that for the structure at
Fargo. 1t was defeated 81 to 18, the
roll call vote being as follows:
Ayes-Atkins, Baird, Bakken, Bond,
Trederickson, Hamilton, Lynch, Mar
shall, McLachlin, Murphy Olson of
Burleigh, Patten, Patterson, Peck,
Steel, Rusch, Storstad, Van Camp.
-18.
Noes-Babcock, Benson. Carey.
Eastgate. Ettestad, Fleckten, Hart,
Hjelmstad, Ingerson, Kaldor, Kret-
schmar, Mccoy, McCrory, Miklethun,
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