The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-09
big! WORK OF
LEGISLATURE
YET TO COME
Nest Important Measures
Pending Are Yet to be
Disposed Of by Body
SOME BIG QUESTIONS
Banking, Highway, Cigarette,
Appropriation Bills Re-
main For Action

The 10th general assembly ol
North Dakota, moving at an accel'
Grated pace, this week will approach
final decision upon some of the i'm.
portant subjects Of Legislative con
in the present session
With but few of the big measures
disposed Of both in Senate and
House, however, it is evident that
The most important work Of the as.
sembly will be done in the last two
weeks, before adjournment.
: Many knotty problems are on
the program of business Of either
the Senate or the House. Among
them are:
The two cigarette bills, to be
voted on in the House Tuesday.
Have passed the Senate.
Repeal Of county agent law,
pending in House.
Enactment of Sorlie mill pro-
gram, particularly board of man.
ayers repeal law. pending in Sen
ate after having passed the
House.
Bank regulation measures
pending in Senate.
One measure providing $lO,-
100000 bond issue to pay depos
itors of closed banks: another
abolishing guarantee Of bank de-
posits law, in Senate.
Bill for reopening of Bottineau
Normal. pending in Senate after
having passed the House.
Four House bridge bills, now
in Senate.
Senate bill rewriting delin-
Uuent tax laws, passed Senate,
now before House.
Measures restoring some ex-
emptions from taxation, in Sen.
ate.
Highway policy. yet unsettled.
Measure abolishing party reg
istration by assessors, pending
in House. Passed in Senate.
Bills Disposed OF
Some Of the appropriation bill
have finally been disposed Of, an
several more of the important ap
,Nopriation measures will be vote
IN finally during this week. Tha
some differences may arise betwee
Senate and House is evident fror
the fact that already the Senat
has refused to agree on amendment
made by the House to three meas
lures, and conference committees ais
Nave had trouble in reaching a
agreement.
The action of the Senate agains
the child labor amendment was fol
lowed by putting to sleep of two 9th
er measures which, if they had com
up for lengthy consideration, woul
have provoked sharp differences O
opinion. They were the measure
providing for compulsory vaccination
The House, by voting down tw
bills designed to limit the schoc
transportation costs, ended in shol
order consideration of a subjec
much discussed both before and dur
ing the present session of the. as
sembly. Serious discussion, however
will follow on a bill providing locs
option for school districts in tn
matter of furnishing or paying cos
of transportation of pupiis.''
The Highway policy of the legis
lature still is unsettled. The Hous
has before it bills placing an add
tional one-cent tax on gasoline, re
vising the automobile registratio
fees and providing a new form Q
highway commission. The. chic
problem/is the division of the pre-
ceeds of the motor vehicle and gas
'Nline tax. The conflict comes be
tween those who believe the proceed
should largely 60 back to the cour
ties to aid in maintaining and build
ing local roads, and those who dc
sire to see main state roads bull
About the best that those advocat
ing main state roads hope for is
So so division in the funds.
Federal Aid Resolution
There is division of opinion as t
whether it is wise to accept Feders
Aid in road building. The Hous
has before lit today a resolutio
memorializing Congress against co.
of the federal aid system Of roa
building.
A bill providing for local option j
the matter of Sunday movies
pending in the Senate, but no actio
!s likely before the. cigarette bill
are disposed of this week.
The program of financing the stat
mill and elevator will have a prom
inent place in legislation delibel
ations this week. The Independent
are ready to insist upon amendin
House Bill No. "a, which repeals tn
provision for a board Of manager
Hor the state mill and elevator, sui
stituting the power Of the Governo
for the Industrial Commission an
Board. An appropriation to financ
the mills operation also Is proposed
FLIES WELD nYES