The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 8

R e A A B L B R P P A T e . A A S A S R At v’-“lkmmm‘_r\u.... ~ Bills Passed by Both Houses List of Measures That Have Passed Lower or Upper Branch or Both at Bismarck Are Given ISMARCK, Jan. 30.— The house B has passed 42 bills and the senate 35. The first bill passed in the house was House Bill 1, provid- ing for an emergency appropriation for the attorney general’s office, introduc- ed by Anthony Walton f Minot, one of the strong League members. The first bill passed in the senate was Senate Bill 12, giving women the right to vote for presidential electors, city officers and a few other officials. Both houses have passed Senate Bill 105, providing for $10,000 for relief of the home-coming national guardsmen. Most of the measures passed are very short, many of them amending brief sections of the code or the session laws of 1915. In the following list there are nine senate bills passed by the house, name- ly Senate Bills Nos. 12, 13, 15, 18, 44, 9, 105, 6; and 36, all of which are briefly outlined below. There are also six house bills passed by the senate, name- ly House Bills Nos. 19, 23, 16, 1, 27 dand 80. With the governor’s signature on these, there will be 15 new laws on the statute books as the result of the fifteenth legislative session. BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE The following bills have been passed by the house: House Bill 1, by Walton (League), to allow the attorney general's office $6670 for expenses until July 1. House Bill 4, by Church (League), to limit the cost of transcribing evi- dence in court cases, and making it obligatory upon court stenographers to supply such transcriptions and four carbon copies to the attorney asking for it. House Bill 13, by Miller (League), cutting down the interest rate from 10 per cent to 8 per cent. House Bill 19, by Smith of Kidder, repealing section 672 of the compiled laws, relating to the fee charged by the county auditor for filing township officers’ bonds, abolishing such fee. House Bill 23 by Noltimier, Barnes county, District 38 (League), granting cities the right to include steam heat- ing plants in the municipal enterprises they may undertake. House Bill 9, by Hoare (League), limiting attorneys’ fees in foreclosure proceedings to 10 per cent of the prin- cipal sum involved, but in no cases allowing more than $25 to be collected. House Bill 14, by Mees (League), authorizing the clerk of any district court or of any county court of in- creaged jurisdiction to summon jurors and witnesses by mail, telephone or telegraph. House Bill 15, by Walton (League), to settle the time of the beginning of the terms of supreme court judges. House Bill 24, by Peterson of Towner (League), putting hotel inspection in the hands of the pure food department under Dr. Ladd at Fargo. House Bill §, by McManus (League), providing that the interest on all debts shall be the same after maturity as before. LEGALIZING LIENS BY MECHANICS House Bill 6, by Fraser (ILeague), providing for calling in the district judge of another judicial district in cases of prejudice. House Bill 10, by Lageson (League), limiting the assessments that cities, drainage districts or other sub-divisions may make for improvements, to the actual value of such improvements. House Bill 16, by Speaker Wood (League), legalizing a lien upon prop- erty repaired by mechanics or black- smiths. House Bill 25, by Dettler (League), to tax all credits and obligations aris- ing from business done in this state by outside firms, the same as firms with- in the state are taxed. House Bill 26, by Ward (League), & concurrent resolution directed to the United States department of agricul- ture asking that Dr. Ladd’s findings ° in. milling and baking tests of wheat be considered in establishing federal grain grades. ; House Bill 18, by Sinclair, to provide that the state pay the premiums on bonds required of state officers, in- stead of requiring the officers to pay such premiums. 3 USURY IS MADE JAILABLE OFFENSE House Bill 11, by Fraser (League), limiting the amounts of cost bonds re- quired on appeals. House Bill 32, by Reishus (League), changing the date of meetings of the boards of highway improvement from the second Monday in March to the second Tuesday in February. House Bill 40 by Mees, (League), transferring $1551.45 unexpended bal- ance in one fund of the tax commis- sion to another. « House Bill 17, by Miiler (League), provxdmg penalty for usury of 90 days in jail or a fine of $300. Senate Bill 12, by Lindstrom, grant- ing limited woman suffrage. Senate Bill 13, by Lindstrom, letting viding for standardization of rural one- room schools, graded schools, and con- solidated high schools and supervision of the same. . This is one of several educational bills prepared by. N. C. Macdonald, state superintendent of public instruction, and is designed to carry out part of Governor Frazier's recommendations relative to schools. House Bill 80, by O’Connor of Pem- bina; Telating to_the salaries of town- ship clerks. House Bill 73, by Prater, relative to the boundaries of the sixth judicial viding for the election of county super- intendents for. four-year terms. MANY AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION Senate Bill 26, by McLean, for a con- stitutional amendment extending the time of legislative sessions from 60 to 90 days. Senate Bill 27, by McLean, for a con- stitutional amendment, providing for sessions of the legislature every four years instead of every two years. Senate Bill 6, by Ellingson, provid- This is a picture of Carl Kositzky, state auditor of North Dakota, elected by the farmers through the Nonpartisan League, seated at his desk at the state capitol at Bismarck. people vote-on granting constitutional woman suffrage. Senate Bill 15, by Beck, providing penalty of one to four years in the penitentiary for burning a threshing machine or automobile. House Bill 42, by Quam (League), putting oil inspection under the food commissioner. REPEALS SIDE MONEY FOR COURT House Bill 30, by Rott, repealing the law that allows judges of the supreme court $500 a year for traveling ex- penses. House Bill 27, by Church (League), relative to combining the duties of clerks of the district court and county court in certain cases. House Bill 7, by Lathrop, reducmg the rate of interest that can be. charged the redemptioner after foreclosure of a mortgage. House Bill 38, by Renauld, mcrea.smg the amount of property that may be exempted from taxation from $500 to $1000 beyond absolute exemptions. Senate Bill 44, by Ployhar, making the stealing of an automobile a felony and providing a penalty. ‘House Bill 50, by Hanson, allowing school boards to build fire “chutes” as well as customary stairway fire escapes on school buildings. House Bill 57, by Fraser, relating to~ costs in actions transferred from coun- ty courts with increased jurisdiction to district courts. Senate Bill 18, by Carey, relative to filing of deeds, mortgages and assign- - ments of mortgages by the registers of deeds. Senate Bill 9, by Martin, providing notice to the purchaser of land in de- fault before cancelling the contract. House Bill 44, by ‘A. M. Hagan, the proposed League constitution. 2 MEASURE TO AID THE RURAL SCHOOLS House Bill 21, by Hagan providing for notice to mortgagors prior to fore- closure proceedings. This bill as pre- sented to the house contained a pro- vision that notice could be served by special delivery or registered mail, but this was eliminated by the committee on banks and banking, and service was made to conform to that before dis- trict courts in civil cases. House Bill 86, by J. C. Mxller, pro- . which district, and terms of court therein, includes Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, McLean, Sheridan, and Logan counties. House Bill 58, by Lowe, providing a simplified method for taxpayers who wish to work out their road taxes in- stead of paying them in cash. House Bill 55, by.Stair, appropriat-" ing $5000 for the use of the North Da- kota, Agricultural college in further experiments. with cereals relative to~ grading, milling and baking. House Bill 74, by Weld of Kidder, making it unlawful to take any child under six months of age from its mother for the purpose of placing it in a foster home. 3 Senate Bill 6, by Ellingson, below. Senate Bill 36, by Haggart, noted below. BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE noted The following bills were passed by the senate: ? Senate Bill 12, by Lindstrom, limit- ‘ed woman suffrage. Senate Bill 13, by Lindstrom, consti- tutional woman suffrage. " Senate Bill 15, by Beck; fixing penal- ty of one to four years in the peniten- tiary for burning threshing machines or automobiles. Senate Bill 4, by Gronvold a mn to establish rural credits. Senate Bill 2, by Thereson, providing for state hail insurance upon an acre- age basis. . House Bill 16, noted above. House Bill 23, noted above. House Bill 19, noted above. Senate Bill 18, noted above. Senate Bill 16, by Welford, relative . to the cost of wagon bridges across navigable rivers.. Senate Bill 44, by Ployhar; providing a penalty of three to seven years for stealing an automobile. v Senate Bill 9, noted above. Senate Bill 36, by Haggart, establish- ing a North Dakota trademark for use on- manufactured products. * Senate Bill 17, by Kirkeide, relative to the investment. of school funds in longtime loans. Senate Bill 42, by Ha.milton, for exemption ‘of improvements on farms from taxation. Senate Bill 82, by McLean," for an amendment to the constitution pro- ity 2 EIGHT ing for compensation to persons wrongfully imprisoned and making an appropriation therefor. Senate Bill 87, by Stenmo,; providing that when an election for the removal of a county seat has taken place, no other election for that purpose shall be held within four years. Senate Bill 37, by Kretschmar, re- ducing the fee for inspecting of ¢;118 from five to three cents. Senate Bill 63, by Cahill, a.mendlng section 4606 of the compiled laws. s0 that co-operative associations, incor‘-j porated, may issue more than $50,000 worth of stock. = Senate Bill 69, by Haggart, relative to the annual reports of railroads to their stockholders on mileage in oper- ation, capital stock subscribed, cost of’ operation, maintenance, -etc. Senate Bill 60, by McGray, relative to size and construction of cabooses and other cars used for like purposes, and restricting the operation of the present law, section 4671 of the com- piled laws. Senate Bill 61, by McGray, providing “that the railroad commission may relax - the requirements upon railroads rela- tive to.the erection of overhead-or side obstructions, allowing them ‘to .be closer to the track. ‘GIVE BANKS TIME TO OBSERVE LAW Senate Bill 72, by Jacobson, relating to the procedure that must be followed in cases of the removal of officials from office by the governor. Senate Bill .7, by Hemmingson, es- tablishing the third Friday in January of each year as “temperance day” in the'schools, and providing appropriate exercises. Senate Bill 38, by Nelson of Grand Forks, allowing banks six months in which to make good after having been found by a bank examiner to have vio- lated the law limiting its investment in fixtures, lot, etc. Senate Bill 105, by Ployhar, appro- priating $10,000 for relief of any en- listed men in the North Dakota nation- al guard until they get work. Senate Bill 48, by Gronvold, provid- ing that the stockholders of every bank and' trust company in this state shall be taxed on the value of their stock in (Continued on page 17)