The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-21

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year-old son. Hewitt said he was
drunk with music" from the radio.
help increase the value of their
livestock.
J. H. Burkhart, Ward county,
Nonpartisan floor leader, pointed out
that carnival attractions are nee
essary to draw people to the fairs
and said that circuit of four fairs
as proposed would enable the fair
managers to get high-class attrac.
lions at less cost. Swett's motion to
give the money to county fairs was
voted down and he thereupon offered
an amendment to give the Mandan
fair the same appropriation as the
others.
After an argument as to the rela-
tive merits and relative finances of
the various fairs, the motion car
ried, some who had opposed it turn
ing to it's support when it became
evident it would carry.
The bill giving the governor con-
troll of the highway commission was
amended to prevent any member Of
the commission from acting as sec
rotary. AS introduced it carried
specified permission for such an ar
rangemcnt. 1t also provides that the
chief engineer may act as secretary.
As now organized the commission is
composed Of five members of which
the chief engineer, governor and
commissioner of agriculture and
labor are eX-officio members.
Answering objections to the mea-
sure, Lynch said that North Dakota
l. .xa%
commission and that some states,
notably Minnesota, have one-man
control.
Watt pointed out that the result
would be a wholly Nonpartisan COM
mission but Lynch, also an hide
pendent, countered with the explana-
tion that the system would be ex-
pected to continue indefinitely and
not be something which would endure
only with the incumbency of the
present executive.
The bills appropriating $1,33S,210
for the university at Grand Forks
and STATE for the state agricul-
tural college were approved by the
committee of the whole as amended
by the appropriation committee.
A bill to place school districts un-
der the budget system brought on a
discussion. Chairman Edwin Tray
nor of the education committee ex-
planned that defeat was recommend
ed because the committee felt it
would work hardship on small
school districts. c. +. Stretch was
opposed to the bill "in principle
contending that school treasurcrs
have enough laws to hamper them
now. Fowler favored it Gin prin-
ciple" and managed to have it re-
ferred to the committee of the whole
where an attempt will be made to
amend it.
The house rejected a report by the
education committee recommending
defeat of bill making county
school superintendent school in
spectors and placed the measure on
the calendar for action today. OBJ
lection was based on the contention
that county school superintendent
would submit to political pressure
and recommend all schools in their
districts for state aid. Under the
present law schools must attain a
certain standard before state aid
money is granted them.
Advocates of the bill commended
that it would save $4,000 a year now
spent for school inspectors by the de-
partment of public instruction and
averrcd that, since the standard
which schools must meet is set by
the department of public instruction,
county superintendent would have
no discretion in the matter but would
be required to report only the facts.
Among bills recommended for
passage by the appropriations COM
mttee was one providing 100000
for "a new building for the hospital
for the insane at jamestown.
Is Bills Passed Saturday Night
Settling down to routine business
the house at Saturday nights session
passed Is bills, few of which re-
ceived many opposing votes.
The only bills which would have
caused much debate or the passage
of which would have been contested
were placed at the head Of the cal
endar for Monday. Among these
was the bill requiring the state
treasurer to keep in separate ac-
counts money to be used to pay in
terest on state real estate bonds
and money to be used in retiring the
bonds themselves.
The first conference committee Of
the session was appointed when, at
the opening Of general orders after
the house mad resolved itself into a
committee of the whole, it refused to
concur in senate amendments to a
bill allowing married woman to
become an Administrative or execu-
triX of an estate.
The amendment eliminated the
provision that 4 husband Of widow
of deceased man can not be APP
pointed as guardian Of the deceased
mans children.
When the amendment was deci-
sively rejected, Speaker John Carr,
Stutsman county, appointed Mrs.
Minnie D. Craig, Benson county,
who introduced the bill; A. w. Fow-
Ter, Cass county; and r. f. Swends-
cid, Mountrail county, on the COM
mittee.
Sharp Fight on Voting Bill
After having spent more than two
hours, in economically disposing Of
routine bills that were passed with
few dissenting votes, sharp clash
resulted in the committee Of the
whole when another attempt was
made to kill a bill providing that
only taxpayers who pay other than
poll taxes can vote on bond issues.
A motion by P. R. Trubshaw,
Barnes county, to recommend the
measure for passage was promptly
followed by Mrs. Craig's motion to
indefinitely postpone the bill.
H. F. SWEET, Kidder county, at
tackled the bill as an attempt to
curtail the right to vote. He said
that it was an. opening wedge for
further prohibitions against voting.
L. L. Twichell, Cass county, ma
jority floor leader, said that the