The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-20
SENATE FAVORS BILL
TO GIVE GOVERNOR
INDUSTRIAL POWER
Many !. v. AS Join Nonparti-
sans in Vote; Bonner
Senses Dynamite

Measures giving the governor veto
powers over the acts Of the industrial
commission, OF which he is chairman
and placing the state mill and eleva-
tor under the commissions supervi-
sion. received the approval OF the
North Dakota senate Saturday by
overwhelming votes.
The bills, which now 60 to the
house, passed with emergency clauses
which would make them effective inn
n.ediately after enactment.
There was no debate on the meas
ureS, with the mill and elevator pro-
posal passing AZ to Z. and the veto
power measure, 80 to 10.
On the veto power bill number Of
I. v. A. members joined with the Nom
partisan League senators in tavoring
the bill. while few Nonpartisans
Joined the opposition.
Senator A. F.. Bonner, Jr. Richland
county. explaining his vote against the
bill, told the senate: There must be
something wrong. I can't quite con-
ceive or understand why this ultra
conservative body. which since 1919
has been fighting this same bill. is
favoring 1T now. There must be a
package Of dynamite in it, SO am
going to vote No"
Others opposing the measure were
Senator'S Drew Eastgate, Fredrickson.
Gronvold, Handley Plath, Simonson.
Trovatten and Watt. The remaining
members, except Sen. Lynch, who VA;
absent, voted for the measure.
Requires Governors Presence
The proposal also provides that the
governor must be present at indus
trial commission meetings to consti-
tute q quorum. Besides the governor
the attorney general and commission
er Of agriculture and labor are men,
bers Of the commission.
Under the mill and elevator meas
ure, the three-man commi S. on
created by the 1881 legislature to d.
rect the state-oWned enterprise is
abolished and its affairs are transfer
red to the industrial commission.
Sen NelS Magnuson. who introd-
uced the two measures. offered a third
proposal. setting forth that acts OF
the Bank of North Dakota shall be
acts of the state, functiOning as the
state itself. This bill passed with only
two dissenting votes. The provision
contained in the measure is incorpor- !
ated in the other two bills, to declare
the acts Of the industrial commission !
and mill and elevator association the |
scts of the state.
Lack of constitutional majority |
caused the defeat of Sen. Bonzer's
bill providing for one publication Of
the delinquent tax sales notice. with
q l5-cent charge against each des-
cription. The vote was "a to 81 for
passage. but Is votes are necessary
to declare a measure passed.
The measure proposed to amend |
the initiated law adopted in the fall
election, abolishing publication OF
the delinquent tax list.
Favor County Consolidation
The senate passed bill providing
for consolidation OF counties and
parts Of counties, sending the pro-
posal to the house.
BY q vote OF 46 to 3, the senate
passed Sen w. E. Matthaei'S mea-
sure to revise the hail insurance
laws.
Matthaei. explaining the bill said
that under 1t the overhead expenses
Of the department are cut $4,000.
Other features of the measure in
clude reducing the indemnity to 81
and So an acre, reducing the amount |
Of interest from six to five per cent |
where warrants are registered, and |
making the hail indemnity tax lien a
prior lien.
County auditors would be permit
ted to write hail insurance. starting
June l, and change in the proceed
ure of arbitration of claims is pro-
vided for.
The measure also carries a topper
cent deductible clause on indemnity.
A bill to prohibit loans to officers
and directors of insurance compan-
les passed As to 2. 1t was sponsored
by Sen. Nels Magnuson.