The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-28
Bill Reducing Mileage Fees
Passes but Is Expected
to Be Reconsidered

and in the house Monday, was killed
Tuesday after a heated session.
Arguments over the measure we're
long. bitter and at times personal.
1t was only after the house had
voted on various motions that the
measure was definitely disposed of.
The bill reducing sheriffs' mileage
fees from 20 to Is cents per mile
passed the house with only II dis
senting votes. Indications. however,
were that the measure would be up
for reconsideration Wednesday due
to the legislators inadvertently rails
ing the mileage fee allowed a sheriff
when travelling by rail. Under the
present law a sheriff is allowed but
10 cents per mile travelled by rail.
A senate bill restoring mountain
time to that portion of the state west
Of the Missouri river also passed. as
did four minor appropriation bills.
Senate bills appropriating $4,000 for
care of feeble-minded persons whose
residence cannot be determined;
ST. 900 annually for boys and girls
club work at state fairs and $4,000
for refunds of money enormously
paid into or credited to the general
fund all met with house approval. A
house bill appropriating $4,000 for the
preservation and control of artesian
waters in the state was sent to the
senate by a vote Of 63 for and Al
against.
New Mortgage Bill
Representatives Herman Butt,
Mountrail county, and T. D. Ache
son, Bottineau, Nonpartisans, intro
duced a bill prohibiting the sale of
mortgaged property for less than the
amount of judgment and cost and
making invalid any chattel mort
gage or lien given on crops prior to
their threshing, except where debt
was incurred for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning seed grain O feed. The bills
are similar to two which already have
been killed by the senate.
Einar Mus, Ward county. E. E.
Veitch, Grand Forks, E. r. Helbling,
Morton, and j. A. Jardine, CaSs, in
troduced a measure appropriating
$35, 900 for state fairs to be held at
Minot, Grand Forks, Mandan and
Fargo.
L. L. Twichell. Independent leader,
opened the argument on the old age
pension fund, opposing it on the
ground that North Dakota is not in
financial condition to embark on a
project of this dimension. Acknowl-
edging that solicitation for the aged
and INDECENT was a commendable
trait, Twichell held that counties now
are able to handle such cases and
furthermore a present law provides
that children shall, if able, take care
of their dependent parents.
Say Farmers Want 1t
O. E. Erickson, Nonpartisan, stated
that farmers wanted an old age PEN
sion fund in operation but Twichell
refuted this in stating farmers in all
probability would be the last to re-
ceive benefits as people living In
towns would beat them to it."
H. F. SWEET, Nonpartisan, pointed
out that only persons 68 years old or
over and residents of the state more
than IS years would be eligible and
then only to the amount of $3.50 II
nually. SWEET contended several
states had found such a law work
able, as we'll as several foreign coun-
tries. E. P. Bishop, Stark, said with
the age limit set at 63 years only a
few of the people now receiving char
ity would corne under its proVl-ion
and it would not relieve counties OF
burdens already assumed.
A. F. Lair, Logan county, forwarded
an argument showing that under the
bills provisions. persons having con-
siderable wealth could collect pen
sion simply because their net incomes
did not total 5000 for the year.
Albert Van Berkom, Konpartisan,
and author Of the measure. gave a
long address on the trials and vicis-
STUDIES experienced by the early plo-
neers. who now through misfortune
we're down and out
He said they deserved a better fatc
and the state owed a moral obligation
to see that its early settlers and
trail blazers need no. want in their
old age. He scored the .poo1house'
and maintained it VIC not a proper
place for its poor but honest and
p-.sud" citizens. T. D.. Acneson, Ncn-
partisan, likeNiss upheld Van Berk-
om's contentious.
S6S0,O00 Is Estimate
Edwin Traynor, !. v. A.. said that
a maximum pension Of $3.50 per yecI