The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-06
PROPOSAL TO TAX
PRIVATE HOSPITALS
BEATEN in SENATE
Old Time Issue Is Wiped Off
Calendar, 81 to 10, After
Heated Argument

Proposal to permit any licensed
physician to practice in tax exemp
hospitals met defeat Thursday wher
the state senate adopted a report O
ethe state affairs committee indefi'
.nitely postponing the measure.
I Heated debate stirred the senate
| when IN effort was made to gain ap.
prevail OF a minority report recon-
mending the bill for passage, but thu
motion vas lost "a to Is, many Non.
partisans Joining with all but one In.
dependent in voting against the
measure.
The bill has come before the legis-
lature during many previous sessions
but has lost repeatedly.
Senators d. H. Hamilton Of Nc
Henry county, Ole Ettestad of Nc
Henry, C.. w Fine of Benson. and
Dell Patterson of Renville cham
pioned the proposal, of which Elite
stad is author, while Senators j. p.
Cain Of Stark. F. E. Ployhar of Valley
City, j. H. Burkhart of Ward, and w.
D. Lynch of La Moure, opposed it.
1lOpO41CAAtO Va CAlC 4lACQOukV VVlke
tended a patient should be permitted
to bring his own doctor into a hos
pital which the state exempts from
taxation.
Wants Equal Opportunity
Doctors Of the state with equal
education" Senator Hamilton said.
Should have equal opportunity. The
old family doctor has been chased out
by these closed corporations. If they
want to III as a closed corporation.
then let them pay taxes"
Senator Ployhar told the senate the
bill had been before the legislature
on at least six previous occasions
during the last % years, and had
been defeated repeatedly"
THE proposition is unsound," Sen
ator Fowler said. 1T means that o
called closed hospitals will be forced
to pay taxes. Hospitals will have the
Of complying with the law or
taxes, and this measure will
be an additional burden on hospitals"
The 13 senators who voted for the
bill VT Eastgate. Erickson, Ettestad.
Fine, Hamilton, Magnuson, Marshall,
Patten, Patterson. Thorson. Unruh.
Wog, Renauld.
With. the exception Of Senators
Hyland and Martin. who were absent,
the rest of the senate voted against
the proposal.
Debate was also precipitated in the
senate over q report of the judiciary
recommending for passage
q measure which would require the
pasteurization Of malt sold in her
n1etically sealed and labeled bottles.
Malt Bill Approved
A move to have the bill indefinitely
failed by a 20 to 10 vote,
and the report Of the committee ap-
proving the proposal was passed. The
bill is in the form Of an amendment
to the law defining intoxicating
The new provision requires
pasteurization Of malt and certain
other beverages before they can be
Notwithstanding.
The committee on education APP
proved q measure providing for the
appointment Of q commission to as
the condition of the teachers
and retirement fund, and
he report was adopted by the senate.
The bill carries an appropriation Of
S, 1000.
Gov. George F. Shafer had recon-
nended that q commission created
~ the last session be continued by
he present legislature. The governor
aid, however, the work of the present
commission was hampered by lack Of
unds and urged that an appropria-
ION be provided.
A resolution ~petitioning congress to
Ict favorably On . proposal by which
Tort Berthold Indians would receive
bout $2,000,00O awarded them by a