The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-07
STATE MILL issue
AGAIN APPEARS IN
LEC|SLAT|VEHALLS
Bill Would Place State OWned
Institution Under Indus
trial Commission
PROVIDES FOR VETO POWER
Under Proposed Statute Execu.
tive Would Be All.Power.
full on Commission

Operation Of the state mill and ele-
vator by the industrial commission,
transfer Of the state seed department
to the North Dakota Agricultural COL
lege, as a part Of the school, and
granting the governor full veto power
as chairman of the industrial commits
sion were among proposals offered In
the North Dakota senate Monday.
Under the mill and elevator bill. the
industrial commission would take over
the duties now vested in a three-man
commission created by the 1891 legis.
lature.
The measure provides that all
moneys raised by the tax for terminal
elevators be used to carry out the mil,
and elevator act. It sets the bond for
the manager Of the mill at $4,000.
incorporated into the proposed act
IS clause that in the creation of the
Mill and Elevator ASSOCIATION. 1t was
the intention of the legislature that
all acts Of the association shall be acts
of the state. "functioning in its SOW
|ereign and governmental capacity
and no court shall ever construe" the
act otherwise.
1.-The Mill and Elevator association
is not q separate agency of the SOW
ereign power. but Is the state itself,
functioning."
Into the Bank Of North Dakota act,
a similar provision is added under a
bill introduced by Nels Magnuson,
who sponsored the mill and elevator
proposal.
Acts Of State
The measure giving the governor
the veto power over acts of the indus
trial commission also carries the
clause that it was the intent of pre-
vious and the present legislature tina.
acts of the commission shall be the
acts of the state"
This latter measure provides that
the governor and one member shall
constitute q quorum for the transac-
ton of business, amending the pres
ent law which specifies two members
shall be a quorum. 1t states further
that the governor shall have full veto
power and that any act vetoed or not
approved and signed by him shall be
null and void and Of no effect, any
decision Of any court to the contrary,
Notwithstanding"
Three bills by Sen. E. o. Stucke Of
Mclean county provide for transfer.
ring the seed department to the agri-
cultural college, as part Of the
school, with authority to appoint q
commissioner vested in the president
Of the college. subject to approval by
the board Of administration. The
president Is authorized to appoint
deputies. agents. inspectors and other
employees on recommendation OF the
commissioner, with approval Of the
board Of administration. Under sep
arate bill, the North Dakota Crop I'm.
provement association Is designated as
an official cooperating agency with
the state seed department.
Provide For Embargo
A state agricultural embargo and
delayed action on foreclosures were
proposed in bills introduced in the
house.
B. w. Lemke. Towner county intro
duced measure prohibiting the state
board Of university and school lands
from cancelling in the next two years
any contracts on land sales and FORE
lclosing any real estate mortgages It
the purchaser or nortgagor pays one
years interest on the indebtedness.
The bill would compel the board to
grant mortgagors an additional two
years for redemption if foreclosure
has proceeded to q point where sher-
lifts deed has been issued.
Harvey Solberg, williams county
proposed the measure to permit courts
to defer action on judgments and
foreclosures at time when prices d
farm products are confiscatory and
upon the ground Of public policy"
i g. T. Olson, Bowman, would author
lie the governor to declare an embar-
60 on the shipment out Of the state Of
any agricultural product produced
within the state when the market
prices reaches . point where rettlrul
lare confiscatory.
| Still another measure. indirectly IT.
fecting the farmer, Is that by O. B
Larson Of Nelson county to compel
Immediate filing Of records IN any
} lSatiSfied judgment.