The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-27
OVER 100 MEASURES
ACTED ON With 20
LEFT ON CALENDAR
50th Day Session Resumed at
$50 A. N. After Lasting In.
til z 4. N. Wednesday
SALES TAX ACT APPROVED
Proposal Providing for Liquor
Dispensation Under Munich
pal Control Favored

Bills providing for liquor dispoaaD.
ton under municipal control, Z stats
highway patrol with full state police
powers. licensing Of automobile driv-
ers. and two per cent sales tax,
were among more than q hundred
proposed measures acted upon by the
senate in attempting to clean up It's
calendar by , p. m. Wednesday.
Resuming its session ut $50 .. n.
Wednesday after working until
o'clock In the morning, the senate
planned to clean up about - addi-
tional bills on the calendar. The
measures passed were sent to the
house where they remain to b acted
upon.
The senate also approved measures
tightening cigarette law enforcement,
doubling the present tax on beer,
regulating and grading Of potatoes.
and bills calling for appropriations Of
more than $2,650000 for state insti.
tutions and state departmental actiN-
ties over the next two-year period.
Approve Unicameral Assembly
The senate, ty q vote Of q to =,
with one member absent, adopted
Senate Concurrent Resolution J.,
which would provide for m amend
ment to Article Two Of the State Con-
stitution which II approved would set
up unicameral legislature In North
Dakota. consisting Of from % 10 30
members, serving four year terms.
The bill now goes 10 tho hoalee.
Senator Bonner, sponsor oG the reoo-
luton, claimed It would promote
more effective LEGISLATION and pointed
to NebraslEa's set-up q we'll g num-
ber of provinces IN Canada.
Opposing the proposal for . sinG&
Legislature, Senators J. T. Eastgate
q Grand Forks. Harry Peterson a
Mountrail and A. johnson Of Rich
land oontended the joint house would
not b s9tisafctofy.
During the debate. reference was
made to the ''madhouse' situation In
the senate during the past few days,
charging tanning through Of legis.
lation.
Also receiving senate approval were1
Senate Bill $40. providing for . one
cent increase In the present gasoline
tax, additional revenue to be used for
schools.
Senate Bin so, providing for taa
On sale Of electricity and electric pow
e consumed within the state.
Although under the rules original
action on senate bills could no longer
be taken after : p. M, the clock was
stopped and 1t J p. m, the solons
continued to work on passage Of pro.
posals introduced IN the upper cham
Der.
College Closing Abandoned
BY agreement the senate boosted
salary adjustment budget allowances
10 per cent instead Of five Per cant
as previously granted In committee,
for teachers at all state educational
institutions and indicated the attempt
to close or curtail activities Of the
schools had been abandoned, tempo
rarily at least.
The senate also indefinitely post
poned q bill which would create q
five-man conservation commission.
Another bill passed and sent to the
house was one limiting hours OF en-
ployes Of cities Of $500 population or
moro to not more than eight hours
day, six days = week, or e hours .
week, but does not apply to firemen
and police.
The senate Wednesday also passed
bill by q Is to D vote which would
fix seven per cent Is the maximum
legal rate Of interest In North d.
kota, instead Of eight per cent 6 1t
present. The bill was passed after
the senate had voted down 80 to 10
. proposal to fix the legal rate at six
per cent.
Fair Competition hin Killed
A bill which would have established
. code Of fair competition to cooper
ate with the national government In
enforcing such codes was killed BY q
Is to q vote.
Also approved by the senate vas
Senate Bill 235. amending the absent
voters ballot law to permit voters
who are away from home to swear
to their ballots before any county or
state official, and would permit the
challenging Of absent voters ballots
IN any election.
Senate Bill 800 exempting munich
palities Of less than 800 population
from publishing official proceedings
Of city councils IN newspapers was
passed.
bans Beer Iax3oe Oancine
The senate also passed b . two.
thirds vote Senate Btll 1e6, p9opoaing
to amend the initiated booP law undGe
which dancing would b peo1dbated
where beer i sold outs3do q the uau-
inequalities.
BY failure 10 obtain . naajog1t1 vote,
. bin which would not haNo yoquirod
school districts 70 print thelf annnal
reports o. notices - nsW1popEs vas
killed.
Also killed Ms proposed I'm
which would have permitted nan.
residents TO hunt ANAL eamo tof
three days upon payment q = license
fees.
/ Another bin, Senate Mn ~, would
make possible creation of W1ter con-
servation board districts, and permit
counties or smaller subdivisions to
!! Join together IN carrying on water
conservation projects.
| A hill which would eliminate North
lDakota presidential preferential pri-
lmaEy elections and would provide for
leloctious of party committeeman. WIS
lpaaood b. the senate, = - a. Aftnr
4 (Continaas6 olfSpags Thr0ey