The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-03-05
House FACES fight
ON HAIL INSURANCE,
liquor MEASURES
TEMPERANCE Committee Unable
70 Agree; Changes to Be
Made on Floor

widely controversial - the senate
LIQUOR measure and the senate pro-
posal to impose compulsory hail In
surance.
With q recommendation for pass
age, the senate liquor bill came out
of the house temperance committee
Monday, to be placed on the calen-
dar for final action Tuesday.
The bill proposes a system OF num-
cipally-owned liquor stores through
out the state. with sale of liquor to
be generally controlled by state regu-
1ation and excise taxes.
Paul A. Sand chairman OF the
house temperance committee, de-
clared the committee had been unable
to agree on changes advanced and it
was decided to throw the measure
onto the floor for deletion Of OBJ
jectionable details.
A house proposal to legalize liquor
was soundly drubbed in the lower
assembly and was defeated. despite
q battle put for 1t by its proponents.
Better Chance for Senate Bill
Supporters Of the senate measure
contend it will have q better chance
for passage" basing their claim on
the fact that sale by the drink, con-
tanned in the house measure, Is miss
Ing in the senate proposal.
With q number of house members
definitely opposed to senate bill
96, proposing compulsory hail insur-
ance, 1t was believed due for hot re-
ception in the lower assembly.
The measure proposes that all
small grain crops in the state shall
be insured, which would result In In
surance Of approximately 100000
acres Of tillable land. according to
Harold Hopton, state insurance COM
missioner.
One feature Of the bill allows with
drawal from the fund, upon payment
Of Is per cent Of the premium rate
charged In the district from which
the withdrawal IS sought.
Opposition from Two Sides
Some representatives, in expressing
their opposition, claim 1t will work a
hardship on farmers in event Of crop
failure. Others maintain that east
ern sections Of the state would bear
the brunt, inasmuch, they assert, as
little or no nail damage occurs in
that sector.
Shortly after the house had re-
ceived a message from Governor
Walter Wexford, urging that appro-
priations be kept within $1,000, 900,
the lower assembly refused to con-
N,,p ,r,S<h kSr,o
measures which stepped up appro-
priations
The house also refused to concur
IN amendments to appropriations
which reduced the figures, in three
instances.
Stepping up the figure from 50 800
to $15,280, the senate sent an appro-
priation5 bill tor administration OF
child welfare laws to the house Mon
day, only to meet with its first re-
buff OF the day. The house refused
to concur in the raise. Previously,
the house had cut the original ap-
preparations figure Of $l2,70O to the
$1,000 figure.
Balk Training School Raise
Spurned also was the senate raise
given the Mandan state training
school. The bill as it came from the
senate Monday bore an appropria-
ton Of 5000 ,845, raise of $4,000
from that it carried when it was sent
out Of the house. Originally, the
measure asked total appropriation
Of $216,495.
Appropriations for the workmen's
compensation bureau which the
house had raised above the figure
asked. after prolonged floor fight
came back into the house Monday
with $4,000 cut off by the senate
pruning knife.
The measure as amended by the
senate called for an appropriation OF
$114,94O. The house had sent It out
with an appropriation proposed OF
$130.240. Originally. the amount pro-
posed BY the state budget board was
$l00,260.
The senate also raised the appro-
priation for the Mayville state normal
school $500, making the total pro-
posed appropriation $110,785. The
house refused to concur in the
changes.
Speaker William Crockett appoint
ed conference committees which will
meet Tuesday to iron out the differ
ences between the two assemblies.
Approved by the house, which con-
CURED In the senate action. was q
senate cut In the appropriation tor
the state dairy commissioners de-
partment. The senate cut off $500
from the house figure of $7,45O. The
measure now goes to the governor
for signature.
Legislators Invited