The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-10
MINORITY REPORT
IS ADOPTED AFTER
TW0-HOUR DEBATE
Advocates Of Change Muster 81
Votes to 81 Supporting
Opposition
ARGUE effect ON YOUTH
Each Side Says Its Aim Is to
Provide Good Conditions
For Young People
ARGUE EFFECT ON YOUTH
PRICE FIVE CENTS

minority report recommending
passage of a bill to repeal state pro-
hibition laws was adopted by the
North Dakota house Thursday night,
after two hours debate in which both
opponents and proponents pleaded the
cause OF the young generation.
The vote to adopt majority re.
port of the temperance committee
recommending indefinite postpone
ment was defeated 81 to 81, and the
report for passage then adopted by
viva voce vote.
Action on a companion bill to set
up beer commissioner and regula.
tons. if and when congress repeah
the 18th amendment. was indefinite
~ postponed.
Standing room only was available
in the assembly as the session OPEN
eo with Rep. w. j. Goodwin Of Nor
ton county, author of the bill. urging
his measure be adopted. It closed
with Rep. r. E. Strutz. Stutsman
county, emphatically urging indefi-
mite postponement.
1.-THE eighteenth amendment is the
outstanding crime of all ages" God
win declared. When we passed the
law we thought that in 10 years We
would have an ideal situation, but in
stead We have the opposite with our
youth being debauched. No one need
apologize for making mistake, but
we do condemn those who ask us TO
60 blindly on with what we are doing
| now.
Rep. Strutz then said it seemed tc
him disgrace that legislative BODY
should place such Importance On
booze and beer as we are doing"
Rep. George Ajets Of Wells coun~
~. who said he came to North ia
kota 80 years ago, declared II though
North Dakota really was q dry state.
but then they passed the 18th amend
ment.
Harms Younger People
Liquor and the liquor traffic s,s
harming the younger people. not r.o-
pie of my age" He added this was the
fault OF prohibition.
Rep. Ole Ettestad of McHenry coua-
ty. said he came to North Dakota Is
years ago and found blind pig IN
every town and everyone has bsen
trying to drink North Dakota cry
ever since.
THE Missouri river will be dry L.
the middle before 1t is dry on either
side
Rep. ]. M. Thompson, Burleigh, J.
E. Stoa, Ward: E. A. Hill. Cavalier;
and M. T. Lillehaugen, Walsh; urged
| the enforcement laws should not be
repealed until congress repeals or
modifies the 18th amendment.
| Voting on the dry side were: ArEe-
son: Anderson OF Logan: Anderson OF
Sargent; Brunsdale; Carlson; Dit
mer; Copeland: Flaten: Fuglestad:
Hagen; Hanson Of Barnes: Hanson
of Benson: Hill; Holte: Homnes: Jar
dine; Jodock: Jones: Larson of Mel
son: Larson Of Ransom; Lavik: Lille
haugen: Lofthus; Lund; McGinnes;
Morgan: Mostad: Mus; Nelson Of
Dickey; Nelson Of Morton: Nelson Of
Ward; Odegard: Oglesby; Peters:
Place: Rathbun: Ripdy; sannes;
shurr; Smith; Solberg; steedman:
Stoa; Strutz; Svingen; Swendseid:
Symington: Thompson: Twichen;
Wright, and Speaker Craig.
The others, except McManus who
was absent, voted for the report rec
ommending passage.
Passage in the house is expected
after the bill has been amended in
the committee Of the whole, where
it was to be considered Friday.
It is expected that bill to regulate
the liquor traffic will be introduced.
Tentative provisions would place the
sale Of beer in the hands Of retail
grocers, according to reports circulat-
ing about the assembly.
Since passage Of the bill by the
house is regarded as certain as the
result Of the initial test, dry forces
Friday were concentrating their ef-
forts on an attempt to defeat the bill
in the senate. The vote there Is ex-
1 pected to be close,