The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-21
STATE BRANCH
BANKS LAW is
LOST IN HOUSE
The Roll Call
CONTINUED from page ons.)
and he would vote for it regardless
of his personal convictions.

ana ne would vote Tor IT regardless
of his personal convictions.
The Roll Call
A roll call was forced on the bill
on the recommendation of the min
GRITTY of the banking committee that
it pass, and lost, there being 81
ayes to II noes, with five absent.
The roll call vote follows:
Ayes-Arduser, Brant, Bubel, Cart
Doyle, Erickson of Divide, Erickson
of Kidder, Erickson Of Steele, Fine,
Hardy Of Mountrail, Helbling, Jo-
dock, Johnson of Foster, Jones, La
zier, Leraas, Loudenbeck, McCay,
Martin, Miller of Williams, Oberg,
O'Neil, Guam, Richardson, Roberts,
Sanford, Schmidt, Shepard. Shurr,
Stretch, Svingen, SWEET, Thatcher,
Vogel, Yeater, Speaker Larkin.
Noes-Anderson of Divide, Ander-
son of Sargent, Anderson of Suits
man, Borman, Bollinger, Brown,
Burkhart, Burns, Butt, Carr, Craig,
Croker, Currie, Divet, Dougherty,
Elken, Ellingson of Ramsey, Filing
son of Trail, Flom, Fox, Freeman,
Halcrow, Hanson. Hardy of Slope,
Hartl, Hempel, Hildre, Iverson, ia
cobson, Johnson of Pembina, john
son of Ransom, Johnson of Trail,
Klamath, Keierleber, Levin, McDo-
wall, McGauvren, Miller of Mcintosh,
Montgomery, Mus, Olafson, Palms,
Peters, Plath, Polfuss, Quade, Rabe,
Radcliffe, Rasmussen, Root, Rulon,
Sagen, Sanderson, Skogland, Slomin-
ski, Standley, Starke, Thompson Of
Burleigh, Thompson of Sargent, Tsc-
hida, Tuneberg, Tweten, Twichell,
Veitch, Watt, Worner, Zimmerman.
Absent-Boyd, Eckert, Frank, Hoo
pie, Morton.
The committee on banks and bank
ing also divided on Senate Bill No. 2,
which reduces the maximum contract
interest rate from 10 to 9 percent.
The minority, composed of Reps.
Carr, Dougherty, Plath and Root.
favored passage as the bill came
from the Senate, while the majority
favored amendments. The . amend
ment would make 8 percent the max
imum contract rate between July !,
1926 and January /, 1927, and there
after 8fpercent. Rep. Carr Of Suits
man county explained that. he be-
lieved the bill could pass tie lekis-
lature with the straight 8 percent
maximum, and that it could not pass
if amended. Fifty-eight members
stood to vote down the proposed
amendments, and the bill went on the
calendar as it came from the Senate.
Long Session
The House engaged in long at
ternoon session, in an effort to catch
up on its business. Many bills were
killed on committee report. They
included the proposed one-man game
commission bill, measure prOvid-
ing for dissolution of consolidated
school districts, and a measure
changing regulations on shipping mo-
ton picture films.
A fight was staged on House Bill
No. 122, repeating all laws relating
to fairs in the state-the Mandan,
Minot, Fargo and Grand Forks fairs.
The majority of the committee on
ways and means was for passage, and
this report prevailed.
Rep. vogel, Nonpaftisan League
floor leader, said the purpose Of the
bill was simply to kill off all laws
relating to aid for these fairs at this
time, and he said, "after the people
have thought about it for a couple
Of years they may decide they want
one state fair =
Rep. Peters objected to the bill,
saying that it-would start fight
for one big state fair appropriation
and for many little fair appropria-
tions. II one state fair were estab-
lished It would be in the Red River
Valley he said, and western North