The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-07
Measure Appropriating $177,.
600 for Missouri Span
Goes to Governor
FINAL VOTE WAS 28 TO Fl
Opponents Of Paving in vicin.
ity Of Fargo Vote for
lsaak's Bill

The North Dakota senate Friday
approved by q vote Of 28 to Al . house
bill calling for an appropriation Of
$l77,0 900 for construction of q bridge
across the Missouri river at big
Bend" near Garrison.
Because no expression Of opposition
to the measure has come from Gov
ernor Shafer, he Is expected to sign
the bill. =,
Immediately following passage Of
the bridge appropriation bill, the
senate also approved another house
bill, providing for the transfer OF
100000 from the state bridge fund ia
state highway building fund. Efforts
to amend the figure to $500 900 failed.
Six I. v. AS joined with the solid
Nonpartisan group In the senate to
pass the bridge appropriation bill
which had been introduced by Repre-
sentative Gottlieb Isaak. Dunn
county, a Nonpartisan.
The /. ". AS favoring the bridge
were Senators Walter r. Bond, Mi
not; T. N. Putnam. Darlington: H. A.
Field, Wahpeton: F. T. Gronvold
Rugby; william Martin, Huff; and
w. s. Whitman, Grand Forks.
The debate over the measure at
times became heated and Lieutenant
Governor John w. Carr, president OF
the senate, admoniShed the senators
to refrain from personalities and t6
discuss the subject.
When the bridge appropriation bill
was reached upon the calendar, Sen
ator s. j. Atkins, Cando, made a mo-
ton that 1t be placed at the foot Of
the calendar. there being but one
more measure below 1t, this being the
bill to withdraw $500, 900 from the
bridge fund to be placed in the high
way construction fund.
Motion Voted Down
!. Senator Bond said he could see nc
reason for 50 doing, and when 9
standing vote was called for. the mo.
ton was voted down a to 10.
Senator j. P. Cain, Stark, then Of
fered an amendment to the bridge
appropriation bill which provided that
no contracts for the building Of the
bridge should be awarded or no work
done until the people Of Mercer and
Mclean counties, at q regular OF
special election, should vote upon the
question Of constructing the bridge
and each paying about one-half Of
the SIT, 900 which they must furnish.
Senator Cain declared that Mercer
county "wil not and cannot raise the
money to meet its share Of the $177,-
000," and argued that the voters Of
that county should be given an op-
portunity to accept or reject the pro-
posal.
Senator E. G. stucke, Mclean, con-
tended there was no occasion fol-
adopting such an amendment to the
bill, and said that q similar proposal
had been defeated in the house Of
representatives where the bill was In
troduced and passed. The Mclean
senator said it was the first time tc
his knowledge that such an amend
ment ever had been proposed to q
bridge appropriation bill In North
Dakota and said he wished to re-
iterate that although the commits
sioners Of Mercer county had at first
expressed opposition to the building
Of the bridge, that two Of them since
have changed their minds.
Cites MERGERS indebtedness
That Mercer county already has
$4,000 Of bonded Indebtedness, and
that tho building Of the bridge would
result In more than doubling this
figure was the declaration Of Sen
stor A. F. Bonner Of Richland county
That North Dakota, with = popu-
lation. much smaller, now has q road
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