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Show ILEGISLATURE EfiDS VVITHFISJ FIGHTS Furor Mark Closing Hours in North Dakota BISMARCK, N. D, March l Fist fights and furor marked the closing hour of ths North Dakota legislative legisla-tive session early today. Bitter contention that haa marked moat of the session developed aa uproarloua aeaaion in which oppoelnit factiona mixed It , verbally and otherwise. Former State Auditor Earl Koattxky loat the popular decision In a fracas with the sergeant-at-anna when he attempted to prevent ejection of Francis Murphy of'Mlnot, after the latter had been charged - with con- j tempt of the senate for failure to I answer questions regarding attorney's fees he charged during Investigation of the state industrial commission. , J. F. Sullivan. Mandan. another attorney, at-torney, wae ordered Jailed on a aim- ' liar charge, and Koaitsky attempted to prevent the sergeant-at-arms ' taking him to Jail. For a few I minutes a free for all prevailed. The j sergeant-at-arms held Sullivan In a aide office. Attorney Murphy escaped. es-caped. Senators sought to make the attorneys at-torneys answer aa to charges of $20 a day for forty days for work during the hearings. They refused to answer an-swer questions. . I |