The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-18
Measure Finally Made Special
Order Of Business For To-
day-Senate Kills House
Flour Label Bill - Eight
Bills Killed. Ii Passed IN
Senate Thursday

Nonpartisans used filibustcrinc
tactics to block vote on the house
hill elm mating the flat ono cent an
acre tax for hail insurance in the
state senate Thursday.
For more than half an hour league
senators jockeycd with alternate
motions to adjourn or recess, despite
protests that some of the motions
were out Of order, until lndepe ndents
agreed to make the bill Il special
order Of business for 3 o'clock today.
The house flour label bill, amc ended
until Governor A. G. Sorlic an
nounccd that he would veto it, was
Killed through an adverse report by
the state affairs committee The
report was adopted without COM
mcnt
Eight measures were killed and l3
senate bills were passed.
The move to block tho vote or the
insurance bill was opened by Sen.
ator John W. Benson, who moved
adjournment in order that absent
senators mi"ht he given II chance to
be heard. The absentees were Sen
a,ors r.. II. Brant, Emmons county.
and W. +. Martin. Morton county.
10th Nonpartisans.
Demands Call Of Senate
Benson successive motions for
adjournment and postpOncment of
the bin another day were lost before
he demanded call Of the senate.
Senators ID. II. Hamilton, McHenry
county, and &. Patterson, Renville
county, Nonpartisans, followed with
further motions for adjournment or
recess. which lost on party votes.
Henson then started a talk. which
he intimated he would continue all
night if necessary in order to delay
the vote. He said that he disliked
being arbitrary. but that. the alb
sentee members had a right to be
heard. He proposed to take the full
time Of the senate il he could not
obtain consent for delay, he said,
and stated that he and his colleagues
could Jockey all night with mo-
tions' il necessary.
Benson said that it is an import
ant measure and detrimental to the
best interests of the state. He con
tended that all senators should he
present when the bill is acted on.
tie was interrupted by Senators j.
r. Stevens, Ramsey county, and J..
+. Eastgate, Grand Forks county, In
dependents. who protested that he
was not talking on the question be-
fore the house. that of final CON
sideration of the measure.
Senator p. j. Murphy. Walsh coun-
ty, contended that Benson's conc lud-
ing motion for recess was out. of
order. but Lieutenant Governor Wal
ter Maddox ruled that it was in or
der. It was defeated on party
vote.
Hamilton declared the bill would
require two-thirds majority for
passage, asserting that part of it
was an initiated measure. and after
Patterson's second demand for a call
of the senate was held out Of order.
moved that the bill be placed at the
foot of the calendar The motion
was defeated.
Senator Peder l.. Hjclmstad, Non
partisan. Walsh county, jumped into
the fight for delay with motion to
send the bill back to the insurance
committee and to amend the bill.
but his proposals were voted down.
benson also offered an amendment,
and Hamilton moved that it be made
a special order Of business for to-
morrow. Both were unsuccessful.
Special Order for Today
League senators were finally sue
cessful, however, when Senator
Frank +. Ployhar, Independent,
Barnes county, seconded another mo-
tion by Hamilton to have the bill
made special order Of business for
tomorrow. and the motion was adopt
ed without objection.
Among senate bills passed Thurs
day were companion measures de-
signed to aid in the construction Of
dOrmitOrics at state educational in
stituti6ns. The first would author
ize the state board of administration
to lease school lands to non-profit
sharing corporations providing that
the lands are used as sites
for dormitories, and the second
provides for the formation of non-
profit sharing corporations to con-
struct the buildings and issue bonds.
According to Senators Hamilton
and Walter Schlosser, Grand Forks
county, joint sponsors of the bills.
they were drawn in the hope Of REM
edying crowded dormitory condi-
tiOns at several state schools without
additional expense to the state.
A bill that would provide for state
regulation and licensing Of engi-
neers was killed when a minority re-
port Of the state affairs committee
recomm ending it's passage was re-
jected. 32 to l6.
A bill that would require all farm
crs to carry state hail insurance re-
gardless of crop conditions was kill
ed, n to q, without debate by ac-
ceptance Of the majority report Of
the insurance committee.
Attempts to kill two bills by mi
nority reports Of committees failed.
One was senate measure providing
that the state bank examiners term
of office shall be four years, and
the other was house bill that would
provide for free transportation for
families Of physicians and surgeons
who are employees Of railroads.
More than score of house and
senate bills received favorable re-
ports by committees and were placed
on the calendar for final consider
alton today.
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