The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-08
COMPULSORY HAIL
INSURANCE ENDED
BY House MEASURE
Lower Chamber Spends Thurs
day Enacting Appropria.
tons for Big Schools
GAS TAX INCREASE WINS
Money Also Voted for Buying
Bad Lands Tracts to Go Into
Roosevelt National Park

Among u bills, the lower house of
the state legislature Thursday passed
nine appropriation measures total
ling $3,O38,0 900. These include the
state university and agricultural col
lege general budgets and q 500, 1000
appropriation for purchase Of land in
the Bad Lands to be used TOR national
park purposes.
All action on bills Thursday. except
one to make q change In the state
hail insurance law, came without dis
cuSsion. In addition to its heavy cal
endar, the house considered number
of house bills amended by the senate,
passing several and referring others
to conference committees.
Only 4 few questions and brief ex-
plantations came on consideration Of
the Watt bill for an added tax Of one
cent on gasoline, the income to 90 to
counties for road purposes, and the
bill passed by vote Of lot to 5. Also
among the bills passed was one to
permit cities and villages to levy q
one-mill tax for planning commits
sions to govern growth Of the city or
village.
Appropriations bills passed include
81 ,215, 592 for general maintenance Of
the state university, $83s.21s for gen
eral maintenance Of the Agricultural
college. $3.50 ,5O7 for the Agricultural
college experiment station, 1117,773
for the Agricultural college extension
division, $4,000 for . combined au-
ditorium and gymnasium 1T the
Agricultural college. $l6l 900 for COM
pletion Of the liberal arts building at
the university, $200, 900 for purchase
Of land in the Bad Lands to be used
Tor national park purposes, $4,000
Tor purchase Of land to be rented to
the federal government dairy station
at Mandan and $4,000 for the House
Of Mercy and st. Johns orphanage
at Fargo.
Farmers Don't Want Il, Il Plea
Argument on the bill to amend the
present hail insurance law arose
chiefly over an amendment which
would exempt . county from listing
for hail insurance provided that for
three consecutive years its withdraw
ais from such insurance exceeded IS
per cent.
II this bill passes. farmers must
take the initiative In getting their
crops insured against hail." g. N.
Lee, Dunn county, maintained. SIT
WILL cut out q large part Of present
hail insurance and should not be tax.
en- lightly"
"It's time the state government
should get over being wet nurse to
the farmer" d. L. Peters, Pierce coun-
ty, declared. Hail insurance should
be placed on the same basis q any
other insurance. Il party wants 1t,
let him ask for It,"
rs 1t more reasonable for 90 Der
cent of the farmers in my county, as
an instance. to withdraw from listing
TOR hail insurance than for per cent
to apply?" questioned F. e. Hender-
son. Ramsey county.
L. /. Twichell, Cass county, main
tanned that the present law forces
farmer to withdraw his crop from
listing for insurance and that this is
unfair to farmers in many counties,
since but small percentage want In
surance.
This is not matter for the attor-
neys to decide but for the farmers"
L. E. Lembcke, Mclean county, re-
piled. J. NJ. Thompson, Burleigh
county, retorted that he was . farm
er and that he felt the matter Of
whether farmer wanted hail insllr-
ance should be left to the farmer and
not be forced to take it and then
Withdraw. Twichell contended that
he farms two sections Of land and
that he found the annual with
drawals, which were forced upon him,
. nuisance.
No Appeal On Road Route
J. H. Burkhart, Ward county, as
serted that hail insurance must carry
compulsory feature or It would be-
Of no use. He said that q law passed
before the present one failed because
It did not carry such q feature. It
may be hardship on people to with
draw, but the effect on the state O. .
whole must be considered, he said.
The house killed . bill which would
provide method Of appeal from de-
cisjons Of boards having jurisdiction
over highways, in cases where the
appellant objects to the route select
ed, failure to act or other details.
It passed q resolution to appoint .
representative from North Dakota to
attend the 1000th anniversary cele-
bration Of the first legislative assem-
ply Of Iceland. The celebration win
% held In June, 1880.