The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-16
new FLAREUP in
HOUSE CAUSEDBY
CAPITOL TAX BILL
jamestown Again Attacks Meas
ure Designating Bismarck
as Seat Of Government

as oedI OF Oovernment
Designation of Bismarck as the
capital Of North Dakota in a bill in
creasing the time of levying a tax OF
ne-tenth of a mill for capitol build
ing purposes from 1886 to 1910. pre-.
cipitated another argument on the
capital removal question in the house
Saturday.
AS the bill recommending an ex-
tension of this levy for four addition
al years came up for adoption, H. F..
SWEET. Nonpartisan, raised a question
about the last two lines in the meas
ure. which specifies Bismarck as the
capital. j. A. Jardine Of Cas-, chair
man of the tax committee, said his
committee was aware Of the lines in
the bill but left them in as 1t was only
the premise on which the committee
had to work.
w. ]. Flanagan Of Jamestown sug-
gested that the proper wording be
at the seat Of government" Gordon
Cox. Bismarck, said the original bill!
OF 1929 specified Bismarck as the
capital city and there was no reason
for changing that wording in the
measure now. Should. jamestown be
successful, Cox said, in its efforts to
obtain the capital 1t would require a
special legislative session and the bill
could be amended at that time. Cox
added he doubted greatly If James,
town would ever be the capital OF
North Dakota.
Mrs. Minnie D. Craig Of Benson,
Nonpartisan, sought to have the bill
referred to general orders for the
purpose of amending the part in
question, but her motion was unsuc-
cessful and the bill was placed on the
calendar for today.
Calls Twichell to Task
The bill to provoke the most seri-
Gus discussion in the house chamber
was II appropriating $500 to pay l..
J. Wehe, Bismarck attorney, for al
legged services rendered In 1919. The
proposal has been up at almost every
session since that time.
O. E. Erickson, Kidder county, Nom
partisan leader. said this is the
same old Wehe bill' and recommend
ed that it be disposed of once and
for all by paying Wehe for services
rendered to an investigating commit
tee at the 1919 session. L. L. Twichell
of Cass, Independent leader. said
Wehe was a commissioner of the
workmen's compensation bureau at
the time and volunteered his services.
Furthermore, Twichell said, it was IL
legal to pay Wehe for the job as he
already was receiving a salary, from
the state.
SWEET supported the bill, pointing
out that if it had been paid at the
outset the state would have been
ahead a. it cost a great deal for the
printing Of each bill introduced and
the time wasted by the legislature.
Twichell said this was a fallacy and
under such logic 1t would be advisable
for the Legislature to acquiesce to
every fool bill" introduced. Mrs.
Craig severely reprimanded Twichell,
saying "you had better watch out
about your statements and not call
anybody a fool"
Mrs. Craig vehemently declared
that If Wehe should be paid twice by
the state while holding two state jobs.
lit would not be the first time this
has occurred" and Is happening "even
now" The majority report to kill
the measure prevailed. however.
See Guide Card Agreement
House Bill No. 1913. providing for
printing of guide cards to be used in
polling booths, was re-referred to
committee. Twichell said there was
some indication the two political fac
lions could come to IN agreement on
the measure and thus assure it's pass
age after some amendments. The bill!
was a subject of dispute in the house
Friday.
Bills appropriating s25 ,425 for the
state school for the blind at Bathgatc
and $l04,034 for the state normal and
industrial school at Glendale were
passed, as was one providing for COL
lection and arrangement of a North
Dakota exhibit at the worlds fair a.
Chicago in 1888. Measures repeating
the law establishing the prison re-
volving fund, providing for q lien
upon any automobile, engine. thresh-
ing machine Or we'll machine for re-
pair services rendered, allowing sale
Of property acquired by the county
through tax deed on the installment
plan and permitting licensed. though
un-ordained ministers, to solen1nize
marriage.
Nine additional bills were intro
duced. Chief among these were two
measures providing for creation of q
criminal bureau fund and appoint
ment Of a superintendent OF the bu-
reau and two assistants.
Offer Egg Grading Bill
Another measure provides that eggs
shall be graded and classified by
weight instead of size. A barber bill,
very similar to one introduced in the
senate and which reached the house
after IN arduous fight only to be killed,
also appeared. It permits the COVER
nor a free hand in appointing the
three members Of the board Of bar
bers examiners, but requires that one
member at all times shall be a jour-
neyman barber.
M. H. Holte of Gardner introduced
a measure which would require every
sheriff or deputy sheriff's a to carry
a siren to announce its presence ana
provides a penalty for others than
sheriffs using such q sounding device.
The house adopted without argu-
raent q recommendation. for indefi-
mite postponement Of a bill proposing
extensive increases in the state in
come tax rate.
Committee reports recommending
FOR passage bills appropriat:ng $35. 900
for q bridge acroses the Red river
connecting Trail county and Norman
county, Mimi. and $780, sos for the
Dickinson normal school also were
adopted by the house without ques-
ton.