The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-11
MILL COMMISSION
BILL IS APPROVED
AS PARTY MEASURE
]. '. AS and Nonpartisa,ts Split
Sharply on Legislation
Asked by Governor

report recommending passage Of the
administration measure to create q
commission to manage the state mill
and elevator was adopted by the
North Dakota senate today. The vote
was ~ to "a.
Independents voted solidly in favor
OF the proposal, with the Nonpartisan
membership opposing 1t.
Senator F. E. Ployhar Of Barnes
county, chairman of the senate COM
mittee on state affairs, offered the
majority report recommending pas
sage while Senator D. H. Hamilton
OF McHenry county submitted q mi
nority report to indefinitely postpone
the bill.
There was no debate on the oun
mittec reports. Indications are that
the assembly will move along similar
lines when the bill comes up for final
passage, with the vote showing the
same party division that appeared
today.
Every member of the senate wa
present when the vote was taken.
Senator Ployhar requested a call of
the senate. and w. E. Martin of Nor
ton county, who was out of the
chamber, va returned to the assem-
bly,. q
Roll Call Taken
The first vote was taken by roll
call on Senator Hamilton's motion
that the minority report be adopted.
When this failed by a a to % vote,
the senate adopted the majority re-
port by a vive oce vote.
The bill provides that the governor,
who Is nov manager of the mill and
elevator. be empowered to appoint q
commission Of three members to take
over the m~anagership of the mill.
Governor George F. Shafer urged in
his message to the legislature that
such a law be enacted.
While the senate was voting on the
mill bill, the house was debating on a
measure to permit the sale Of the
unused state mill at Drake. The
house approved the bill by a II to AZ
vote, many Nonpartisans joining the
solid Independent group in support
ing the proposal. Governor Shafer
also recommended that steps be taken
to dispose O. the Drake mill.
A usually routine matter, that of
printing certai matter in the jour-
nal, stirred the senate to debate to-
clay when a resolution by Senators
ID. II. Hamilton of McHenry county
and S. j. Atkins of Towner county
was reported on by the state affairs
committee.
The resolution, to petition congress
to pass the Farmers Farm Relief
bill" was adopted by the senate by
a % to 10 vote.
FIoyhar Is Opposed
After the senate adopted the pro-
posal by a vivc vocc vote. Senator
Frank e. Ployhar Of Barnes county,
asked that the vote be reconSidered,
so that he could be shown in the rec
ords as opposed to the resolution. He
explained that the committee had
agreed to bring in the measure with
out recommendation, but that through
an error the report read to the SEN
ate carried a recommendation Of pas
sage.
SeQator Dell Patterson Of Renville
county asked that the resolution be
printed in the juornal. together with
the congressional bill to which it
refers.
Senator E. w. Jones Of Killdeer
opposed tho motion to print the pro-
posal in the journal. declaring that
tho resolution vas "a lot Of political
bunk
Several members arose to urge that
the resolution be printed, and the
motion to have that done finally
carried.
The resolution refers to the bill in
trod,lccd in congress by Senator Lynn
J.. Frazier Of North Dakota to "liqui-
date and refinance agricultural in
~debtedness. by establishing an eff
Gent credit system"
The senate approved a bill provid-
Ing that supervision Of refunds Of the
gasoline tax be placed with the tax
commissioner, instead of the state
auditor. A strictcr check Of refund
claims is provided by the measure.