The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-08
Five Bills Had Been Passed by
Upper House at Noon Of
Last Session Day
GROUP WORK PROGRESSES
Committee OF Five Will Draw
Farm Resolution for Hoo.
ver and Congress

the house to return to 1t the
Minot Flood Control bill.
It was indicated that q mo.
tion will be offered to recon-
slider the vote by which the bill
was killed yesterday and that
another effort will be made to
pass it at this session.
By two o'clock today the sen.
ate had completed consideration
Of all the bills on the calendar,
and all that remained was to
agree with the house on amend.
ments to bills already passed.
Among bills passed today was
one permitting cities 10 operate
electric properties and to use
the profits from such operation
for extension Of the business.
The bill requiring cream sta.
tions to post prices offered for
buttcr.fat was rcsurrected and
passed. 1t previously had been
killed ON the report Of the com.
mittee.
Going into session for the final day
Of the twenty first general assembly
the senate at noon had passed five
bills, among them one for an appro-
of 326. .460 to purchase addt-
tional land for the state penitentiary.
An effort by Senator William Martin.
Morton county, to kill the measure
failed. As passed the bill provides for
the institution Of condemnation pro.
ceedings to determine the value OF the
land which 1t is proposed to buy.
The proposed purchase already has
been in the courts on an action
brought by Senator Martin and has
been the subject Of a bitter contro-
versy for two years, Martin contend
ing that the price which the state
board Of administration proposed to
pay for the land Is too high and that
o ''melon" was being cut IN connec-
tion with the proposed deal.
A committee Of five was appointed
to draw up a resolution giving the
views Of the legislature on the farm
relief question. The resolution will be
sent to President Hoover and to Con-
rress to indicate the ideas Of the peo-
Die OF North Dakota on this subject.
Action was taken by Senator william
Watt, Cass county. who said that the
farmer does not want philantrophy
but needs a square deal so that he
may have an opportunity to pay his
debts.
Only five bills awaited final action
when the twenty first general assem-
bly, convened today, the last Of the
present session.
BY working far into last night the
senate disposed Of 81 bills and put its
affairs in shape for more leisurely ac-
ton today.
The house. which has been moving
RAPIDLY the last few days, completed
action on all bills before 1t and all
that now remains Is the adjustment
Of differences with the senate on bills
passed by one house and amended
before passage In the other.
Six bills are in the hands Of con-
ference committees this morning and
the principal bar to an early adjourn
ment lay In the possibility that con-
ference committees would be slow to
reach agreements on some Of the bills
In controversy.
The senate, which has heard most
Of the bitter debate at this session,
lost its propensity for talk as 1t set
tied into the long hard pull last night.
Argument was brief and action was
swift. Twenty-nine bills were dis
posed Of in the night session lasting
from 7:30 until after II o'clock.
Two administration bills fell by the
In the final rush yesterday.
Survey Bill Fails
One was q bill to create commits
sion Of five persons to study the bank
ing situation In the state and present
to the next legislature recommends
tions for changes In the banking laws.
The other was . bill to submit to
vote Of the people q proposal for q
change In the constitution which
would increase the terms Of state and
county officers to four years. OBJ
jections to the form Of the proposal
two Independents. william
Watt Of Cass county, and A. +. Bon
zer, Jr., of Richland county, to vote
with most Of the Nonpartisans against
the bill.
watt led . fight to retain in the
amendment tho present con-
stitutional provision limiting the
number Of years which state and
county treasurerS and county
sheriffs may hold office. He
that this Is q necessary
safeguard and when the senate voted