The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-04
Fitch Gives Inside Dope on Work
OF Lawmakers in Radio Address

OF truck DlllS III a way tndI HldAc.>
the Muscle Shoals bill a mere infant.
He, together with Jack williams and
Private David N. Elmer live with me
in Cos at the Patterson hotel. And
incidentally folks, if you have moth
ing else to do, drop in to room 606 at
the Patterson and spend the evening.
If we can find nothing else to do We
will have Senator Dave Hamilton
crop in and tell you about the Battle
of San Juan hill and how Teddy
Roosevelt followed him up the hill.
Davic is m of these fellows that yo'l
would call 100 per cent for the peo-
pie, a former Gov puncher, ~ex-soldier.
and member of the W. G. T. U. He
and Senator Bill Martin from Morton
county are a great team and are the
gentlemen who introduced :ne bill
standardizing the size of biscuits.
Attorney and Bridge Builder
Representative Halvorson from
Minot is an attorney and bridge
builder. He believes IL building
bridges over the Missouri river every
once in a while and without a doubt
at the next session of the legislature
he and his bridge-building friend Nc
Cay of Sioux county will build a
bridge down the middle Of the Mis-
souri, just to show the folks that i,
can be done.
Representative SWEET. the floo:
leader from the Nonpartisan League.
is the bird that gets along with
Twichell and helped Twichell draw
the bill doing away with the capitol
street car line and making it unlawful
to shoot jack rabbits from the front
end of street cars.
"Thcn there is Senator Jones OF
Dunn Mercer and Oliver counties, the
gentleman who made it possible for
United States congressman to run
Wild in North Dakota. Senator Bon
ger had an idea that they should be
fenced in, in an east and west district,
but Jones had his way and turned
them loose.
During the session We have had
introduced 252 senate bills and 313
house bills, making a total OF sos bills
altogether. 1t looks like when Cover
nor Shafer gets through signing
these bills he will have writer S
cramps. But anyway. they we're al
good ideas and the best of the bunch
was Representative Hotties house bill
No. 388 regulating the size of eggs a
hen should lay. The house passed the
bill but the senate laid down on it
and hens are now permitted to use
their own head.
Any Color Gas
Representative Bishop of Stark
county, an undertaken from Beifield
who is chairman of the public health
committee, is the gentleman who is
helping Representative Maui from
Ransom put through house bill No.
|177, the bill permitting the public to
buy any color gasoline it wishes and
as Robt. w. Service. the poet who
writes about Alaska. said, We Will
now have green, yellow and red
Senator Whitman of Grand Forks
is the gentleman who introduced SEN
ate bill No. 81 which defines intoxl-
eating liquor. The bill goes on tn
state that alcohol, brandy, whisky
rum, gin. beer. ale and wine are in
toxicating. But that's not so smart
Anybody that EVER took a drink knows
that. And anyway I think he slipped
a bit, as he didn't mention this Rus
sian drink they have around here.
They call it kimmel. but it tastes like
the dead sea. However, I presume
the anti Saloon League will take cal {
Of that.
Senate bill No. ZIG is a good idea
also. It was introduced by Senators
I Atkins and Cain and it gives Adju-
tant General Fraser q road patrol Of
80 men, but they don't give him any
money to pay the men OF buy equip
ment, so it looks to me folks those OF
you who have a bicycle send 1t to Ad-
jutant General Fraser and he can get
his patrol under way. Fraser on q
bicycle should be able to catch most
any bank robber.
And that's that folks. There arc
a couple smart senators and repre-
sentatives near me here trying to flae
me down, as It seems they are afraii
I will tell about the party they staged
over in Mandan last night, and t.
avoid having my throat cut I'll be
saying so long,"