The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
HAILINSURANCE
WILL BE TAKEN
UP ONCE MORE
Zoning Measure Fails in The
Senate But Is TO he
Brought Up Again
OTHER HOT DEBATES
Measure Giving Railroad
Commission Power lin
Freight Rates Passes

fAlIcI IiVuSc I'M on, ICSlSlI S JIG
state hail Insurance law had once
failed to pass the North Dakota sem
ate yesterday afternoon an attempt
to put the clincher on the defeat
Of the bill led to its reconsideration,
and re- reference to the committee on
insurance.
The bill was on the calendar for
third reading. There was no debate
when it was read, but several of the
Independent senator's excused them
selves from voting on the ground
that they were personally interest
ed in the measure. As result the
bill received "a aye votes to q nays.
1t. Governor Walter Maddox then
declared the bill lost since it had
received less than Constitutional
majority vote.
After several other measures had
been acted on, Senator Atkins of
Towner county arose and Moved The
clinchcr motion on the vote by which
the bill had been lost. Immediately
a storm broke loose.
The bill provides among other
things for the payment OF 20 per
cent of the hail loss claims incurred
in 1923. These were not paid for
the reason that the SO cents per acre
indemnity tax collected that year
only amounted to enough to pay the
loss claims at the rate of so per cent
or the dollar. Under the terms Of
the present law this would be all
that the claimants would be entitled
to.
Much Opposition
1t was on this section of the pro-
posed law that Senator Dell Patter-
son laid especial emphasis when he
arose to object to Senator Atkins
motion. He declared that the farm
ers who had suffered hail losses in
1928 needed the additional money.
At the same time he charged that
those who were opposing the passage
of the bill were working in the in
tcrcst of the private insurance COM
panies to kill off the state insurance
department. u.s.
All of this reused the ire Of SEN
ator Atkins, and he spoke his mind
plainly.
J. "I'm getting tired of hearing the
senator from Renvillc, '(Senator Pat
terson) take it for granted that he
has a monopoly on all Of the honesty
in this senate chamber said Senator
Atkins. "If this bill passes it will
mean that my county, Towner, will
receive about $l1 600 from the pay
mcnt for which the bill provided. 1t
will mean that l personally will re-
ceive about $500 of that payment, but
want to say that wouldn't vote for
the bill if it meant l would get $780,
600 instead of $500.
IL wouldn't vote for it, because
regard it as simply an attempt to
loot the public treasury for the ben
eft of people who have already re-
ceivcd all they are entitled to re-
ceive."
Urged Passage
, Senator PatAman of Grant county
urged the passage of the bill dcclar-
ing that the farmers in his part OF
the state felt they were entitled to
the balance of the face of their nail
claims for 1923. "They aren't sc
much interested in the bridges YOU
are planning to spend the states
money on. They want these hal
claims paid up" he declared
Senator j. f. Eastgate of Crane
Forks took the floor to oppose the
bill. "Those who had hail losses ir
1923, have already received all they
are entitled to- he declared. "Thel
have no more right to ask for more
money than would have to ask The
state to reimburse me because NJ!
hogs died of hog cholera"
Senator Kaldor Of Trail 'raiset
the question of an amendment tt
the bill which was, he said, an ap
parent effort to override a rccen
decision of the supreme court. Thi
amendment would make the hail ia.
levy a prior lien en- all propert
against which it assessed just a
other taxes are.
The clincher motion was finall
defeated 20 to II, and the bill. wa
then re-referred to the committe
on insurance in the hope that SOM
of the Objectionable features coul