The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1919, Page 1

alent YEAR. NO, 15. | SENATE DEBATE | DiBATE MAY BE SLIGHT ON AMENDMENTS Some Independents. Inclined - to Believe All Has Been Said on the Subject LAST STEP IN PROGRAM Ratification in the UppemHouse Makes Proposals Part of Constitution ‘ALL TO Pass. Late this afternoon the senate ratified the various league amend- ments by a vote of 32 to 12, Be- fore: adjournment the entire pro- gram was endorsed and the ses- sion’ was then prepared to pass the (cgislation necessary to put -the'various features into effect. The elections committee of the houge today recommended that Frank Riba, a leaguer, be seated instead of John Weber. They threw out the vote of Forman vil- lage because of the election board fearing the ‘“fiu” ‘epidemic locked the! doors of the voting booth while the votes were counted. This gave. Riba eleven votes to the’ good. Today may be a big day in the sen ate, or it may ibe a very commonplace one. It all depends upon whether the independent minority, the “unholy twelve,” or the “dirty /dozen,” as they variously _ characterize themselves, choose to dedate the adoption on third readipg of concurrent resolutions rati- fying ithe seven amendments initiated wy the league at the recent election. These: resolutions were reported out for passage by the senate state ‘af-|' fairs gommittee Wednesday as House Billa 6, 7, 8, 9,.10,.11 and 12, and they will go.on third. reading and. fi- fial passage thié aftersioon. One} of the oldest and most active members of the senate, minority is adverse toprojonged debate over these: resolutions. “They. F oughly de»ated in all ‘hag been ‘sald that could id. ague is. so thoroughly organized hat pt. AUD: til doomsday. teat’ cHiat , and iftwe dld-swing-one or. two. majority ovér-it’ would “not help’ ws’ any,” sald this: senator (today. , ‘Th maximum | fumber of votes against the resolutions which. can be | mpi expected: in’ the senate {fs ‘thirteen, while the leaguers ‘will ‘have 36 votes to cast for the resolutions. ‘Should there: be no or very limited debate, |, the ratification of ;the. seven league amendments. may be’ completed’, this afternoon, and the constitution’ will then, ‘barring an adyerse decision from the supreme court on the legality of Uhe state canvassing board’s proceed- ure in relation to five of these pro- posals, have been reformed along the lines: proposed by the Nanpartisan leagué in House Bill 44 two years ago. : Initiative on Legislation. Under these amendments Section 25 of article 2 as amended by article 15 of amendments is ‘gmended to change the number: of electors required to propose any meagure by initiative pe- tition from;.at least ten per cent of “the legal, voters to, be secured in a majority of the couhties of the state to ten thousand. electors at large. Changing tiie provision ‘that the ‘initi tive petition shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than thirly days ‘befpre any regular session; he|. transmit the same to. the legis- assembly'ds goon as it convenes, and requiring legislative action there on, to provision that petition shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than ninety’ days before. the election’ at: which it isto be voted upon.! The same amendment provides for referendum on emergency ‘meas- ures and\for special elections thereon; places byrden ‘of proof upon party at- tackigg. petition; .provides that no measure -enacted or approved by a yote of the electors shall be repealed or amended by the, legislature except. upon a two-third Yea and nay vote. Ten thousand electors at large may propose any measure by initiative pe- tition: seven thousand voters large} may ‘by referéndym petition suspend the operation of any measure enacted by the legislature tah emergency meagure, which shalt i remain a law until! voted pia hy fee yud y Meatures. The Iecond I teat ‘amendment @p- plies to. emergency measires, by ~ d- ding to secon | 67, article 2 of constitution the words: vided, how- ever, that no act granting ‘a tranchise or special privilege, or act creating any vested right or interest. other than/in the gtate, sMall-be declared an emergency measu: ‘Constitutional A - The third league 10 the method of amending the consti- tutton,~ providing that amendments; need not be submitted on referendum from the legislative assembly in stich manner “that the electors shall, vote for, oF st <each.of such. amend- menta separately; reduces the ‘her of signers requiréd to initiative petitions to amend the constitution from at least 25 per cent of the legal. voters in each of got less thah one- half the coun’ eva state to. 20,000 majo! ait he cea votes, cast ! rity of all the 1 casi at the ral ele as-the consti- _ tation reads. hors pom ‘This. board will have the ad- miniate ‘the Yatount. ‘of: whose. premiums * em of | office, neatly wrapped Ammunition Found | Belonging to Irish; . Arrests Follow Find London, Jan. 17.—Twenty revolvers and Several rounds of ammunition be- longing to Sein Finners have ‘been found here. Several sirests have been made. COMPENSATION ACT SOON WILL BE INTRODUCED Protection for Workers Who Are Injured in Course of Occu- pation Is Assured NEW COMMISSION FORMED {Industrial Board Will Adminis- ter Fund and Act as Court in . Liability 1 i i Now -that, the league has*its own working prdgram well under way, it is ‘expected: in the next day or two to de- vote some:time to the labor degislation which it has promised the trades unionists ‘of ‘the state who so loyally supported the league in the recent elec- tion. Probably the first and most im-} portant. of the labor bills Mlle be a draft ‘for a -workmen’s . compensation act. This hill has alrendy been before the league ; but it is not en-} tirely ‘satisfactory 1 in its present form. . The trades union- lists had been: promised that farm la- | bor and domestic servants would. be | protected, but the original draft made | no provision for them. .This difficulty may he threahed out: in’ league caucus before. the bill comes into the open. The league compensation act pro-| vides for a commission of: ‘three of | which the commissioner. of agriculture j and labor shall be chairman, with two ‘commissioners to be appointed ‘by the governor at a salary of $2500 per an- num ‘as co-laborers.. The ‘commis.Qon is given a secretary at $1,500-per an- ation of a compensation fund froin’ which. Macmaitien for death or personal: injury incurred by employes 5 pers a Ht is fund. wi ee bi Re arn ‘of miyms part of ' émptoyds ayes ok labor, idepend upon: ‘the numbtr, ‘of persons, ed and the dxtent. of the ha ard. “At first it’ is.“probaple ‘that’ ‘em: ployment’ will’ be divided, ‘inté ‘three ' classes—ordinaty, ' ‘hazardous ‘and ,e ttra-hazardous: When .a, worker sustains a personal injury the amount, of his compensittion | will be determined’ ‘under | the ‘law’ 4h; the compensation commission, A fix- ed schedule of compensation for var-| fons losses is not_adhered to so close-: ly in the North Dakota bill as in the acts of some other staes. The matter | isMeft more generally to the discretion | of the commission. In‘ cases of tem-/ porary total disability,.sueh as the; loss of a finger, the hoard is given power to take into consideratidn not; ‘only the age and earning power of the injured, but the extent to which the; injury incapacitates. him for his pay- ticular trade .or occupation. T! board, also has power fo ‘fix the pr ium rate which employers’ shail’ piiy and to increase thispremium as €c- casion ‘demands: or ‘to reduce. it: w] wy the compensation fund - “has. Teach certain maximum. The purpose of the act isto fiat: nate, litigation. in ‘personal injury eases; to spare both employer and en- ployes attorney’s fees and 'court:bosts aswell as the possible ; anit ities which result rfom litgation, ante in- sire that evety penny paid by # je em \ployer as: comperisation will jo the) injured employe, Wages are /the de | termining factor in fixing the/rate of compensation in ordinary injury cases involving only loss of time, in case of death, and the compensation act! will provide also for the pi industry ‘should bear | the expense of any risks Anherent in| such industrg. | AMENDMENT non pay Minn. Jan. if -—Minnesota é prohibition endm 12:55 this afternodn.. i EL, WISCONSIN | ‘nih 1ST. Madison, Wis., Jai The ‘legis- lature today completed; the ratifica- tion of the prohibition simendment. POISON SNAKE, ey i PAPER; Pi Rr HOLMES. N.E. A. Special to Tribune. Honkong.—Page Sherlock Holmes. ‘Here's a mystery to Bis liking. A snake -of the speciest trimeresurus erythurus, known\to tip Chinese as ‘wo shu she, has ju: mailed to resident of the Ew in colony. Its bite means instantan death. The parcel was posted at thé general post: ! ' }moves the priprity seed and feed bonding a 1918, -At ithe league caucus last even-| F the league's constitutional law-} 4 “{in the dill as it came from the now jupheld. AGUR REPEAL) PRIORITY CLAUSE TN BONDING BILL 1918 Corrected in Amend- ments Adopted ©* w Farmers Who Had Poor Crops Last Fall Have Another Year to Pay Loans , . The Iéague made haste-too rapidly yesterday in retrieying. its mistake of the specinl session of, 1918 .when it placed on first and second reading, third rending and, final, passage, all in one day,.under spspension of thi rules, House . Bill . 19, which re from the} amended in in; sin called the senators’ attention) to the fact that no: bill can be introdyced and passed in either house during/the same legisfatiye day, and the. bill/was reintroduced. Tn, the senate foday for a first and second’ reading, and will be given its third reading and plage on ifinal passage tomorrow. During the special session ot 1918 Sen. H. P. Jacobsen of Hettinger county ‘secured! in the senate’ the elim- | ination .of' this clause, which appeared | When the, bill went hack to the hou ‘the latter, where the league/ w: the saddle, refused to concuf in the amendment. -The bill then went ton conference committee, and: fafter 48 hours’ debate this: conference commit- tee advised that Senator Jacobsen be The house dectined to. accept this report, .and, ‘the, bill fagain went | into conference, with the result ‘that; in the, furiqug. closing bours of. that special. session the senfte finally re- ceded from its positon, And the bill he- | ame an act with the’ priority’ clause included.’ Then came trouble! with the federal faym' land bank, which’ glso insists, on a priority lien; and: ‘there were threats that the bank igwpallet:. withdraw: all 2 inte: This matter |' sted bye requiring ‘desiring Idans to; ral tana bank with a} at rete fen: the: ait ats in ast ing for 4 {Nate actionjon“Hotse ; Bill | No: ‘There aretwo: objections to the Sa rinil ‘feed {Dil passed two yeara ago. First, the prtority ‘clause should ‘be | Omitted fin the ‘second place the time | for -rapaytient’ of* joans should ‘he ex4 tended? and placed at the option of the county commissioners, to — tak farg ‘of conditions in counties which poor crops last year. “Haste is ‘necessary because the county commissioners are now in ses- yon: and “if we get information to em immediately that the bill has been’ amended ‘to. permit an extension of, time, they can relieve any farmers who would be hard pressed to retire their loans now. The necessity of ‘giving the’federal farm land bank a bond should also be removed at once.” -The vote:dn the hill was 42 ayes, no ays, and Seven absent: An ‘extension’ of. time» is. granted when’ the enforcement of: payment would prevent the dohtor from putting in a ¢rop ‘the -following. spring, when another year! may be given for pay- ment. NORTH DAKOTA | CONGRESSMEN -FOR AIR MATL 1 Baer and Young in Favor of Use of Aircraft in U. S. Pos- < tal Service 5 fNe a letter to the Standard Aircraft | mapefacturers of the United States mail planes. last week, Congressman John M. Baer of North Dakota expressed his approval ‘of the! air mail service conducted by the post- office: department between New York, | Philadelphia ‘ahd Washington. im of. the opinion that the possibilities of serving the general public along this. line is untimit- + ed,” ‘he said, “and will be glad to assist in any~Way possible any’: movement that has for its object the improvement of.the pablie ser-7 vice in connection with-any of the - departments.” Congressman Baer’s statement. offers a loophole tothe residents. of North Dakota whereby they’“might: urge the}. development ‘of similar air: mail ‘set: vice in thi -state. The value of the airplane in connecting the great farm- ing districts of, tht Mcetania linking, the big cities is. apprecial There’ ix a_ strong liklihood of an extension of the-air sérvice-all over the country. Congressman George M. -Young, ‘2nd district of North ‘Dakota, has panes the’ folawing ‘statement : “I am very strongly | ‘in favor “ot expe mat | ‘Orown cart- ridge paper, by a coolig. The China- tman_stated it contained, gent by a Puropean in the office of the r the greatly increased use of ait-.: craft in the handling of mail. It = mares ot Aste value to and. in- _ estat interests of this —— MORE ‘TIME FOR DEBTORS jis atacking B ‘|ibrary ‘commisisén: in ‘addition ‘to the R= ‘Elsner from eginning of the! olution: in /€ Jread of affai Ebert in Prussia, not been challenged a clash Wat i i Tor domination | {of the new Ajermmny. » Alrendy Berlin; Berlin chitims thar | le! Hd job, has piloted ‘Bavari through the’ prefintina ry steps in or: ganization of a-repuhlic and [If it stays | outside. Germany~-is. the logjel man | tor presidpatof Wavarin. BUDGET BOARD _ REPORT GIVEN Recess Session Enables Commit: |? tee. to Get Findings: in - ’ on Tenth Day. INCREASE. OF A In order that’ the budget bo. mittee might present. Me report tenth’ legislative.day, MILLION yi when: the gudget stoi its report. Th hudget this: year will come clos: lage year’s figures, and alos 000 additional revenue to financé the + state's: its governmental depdtim the next, two. years. The budget'board .reeonmends paratively fe: ag. the list are acneW history ‘buibling miinsion, to Toe + 16d} acres, will call for the levying of auv taxes, as there hag;accumnlated, in. the »:upital building :income. d interest funds $746,000,.which’ can be used for no other * ‘pokpose, « \ The préseut.executive mansion will be sold, and the proceeds. turned. in- to the capital building fund. The new mansion willbe built of prison brick. except for facing, and is not expected ito cost avery great sum. - It is;esti- atedé.that: $100,000 wil cover the cost fa. four-story fireproof history. huild- fhg, which ‘is to’ closely, adjoin’ the state house, and which will house the| supreme court “and law library,..the} state egisative “reference” tbrary atid historical museum“and ‘brary, ‘the -df- fices of the curator and of*the-state | historical society. | SUSPEND GUARANTEES. arnment:-has- published a..de pending ‘vonStitutional euaruities in} | perintendént of: ta | kota's | whole educational system will “Associate i Spartacan Leaders Attacked by Mob; | Woman Dragged from Auto and Killed: is Shot Attempting Escape ‘Berlin, Jan. 17.—Dr. Karl Liebknecht and his associate in the Spar- } itacan uprising, cal Lux embarg, have been filled. When it became known the hotel obby. Both were spitited by the police to a side entrance where i they. were put into an n auitomobile and a‘dash to the prison was attempted. 500 DROWNED “WHEN CRAFT HITS BIG MINE!“ sa Sinks, “Almost Instantly in the Straits of Messina MANY PERSONS RESCUED (camer ‘Was the .Chaproi of Qrench Register steamer uproi struck a floatin Straight: of Me Jul mogi tantly. Five hundred eoks and Serb- Another steamer | of those on; SUPERINTENDENT: TO GET: A. RAISE louse Would Give! ‘Heduida ors at Least Semi. | u “Living « Wage Good news for; ase tant county su-| hools; -prodably the most underpaid. servants: in ‘Nortg Da- be found. in H hy W. R. Johnson -ye: ing that the salary of no assis shall be less than $160, and that in ‘ountjes having fifty. or ‘more schols! the assisants: stipend shall be 60 per cent of that of the county superin-| tendent, «providing such percentage! does not amount to ess.than $100 per: month: The bill further provides that in: counties with 150. or more schools | there shall be one-deputy for each 109! schogls .or fraction thereof ‘to, assist the county, superintendent: in visiting | schodls:and in'the general supervision’| of educational work, such deputies to! possess the qualifications of the coun- ty superintendent of schools designat- ed in Sec. 1122, C. L, 1913, and to receive $200 per annum fn excess of the amount paid to the office deputy. The ‘bill carries an emergency Clause. These* were ‘the only” new. bills _in- troduced ,in-the- house yesterday. With little de art without a. dlis- fe, ‘thé house passed H. B. 13, which proyfdes that the fate of in- terest:‘on ‘nétes shall ‘not’ be greater:' after ‘than’ before’ maturity. i government. | President Wilson, the council decided |to hold in abe !some-plan of reporting the meeting. It | ; Was said that the stir caused yester- {day was not at all unwelcomed. - jolutions asking tha one British. press ‘| proceedings of the peace conference is ‘ALL OFFICERS Police Efforts Are Futile __ Efforts of the police to save Fraulein Luxemburg were ineffec- tive. .The. automobile had only gone a short distance from the hotel: when the machine was halted. A man jumped .upon the running board and shot her through the head. The body was i dragged from the car after it had been beaten by the mob. | believed that the body was thrown into the canal. Liebknecht Rushed to Other Car "In the meantime Dr: Liebknecht was rushed to another auto- mobile and the guard started toward Moabit prison. While going through Tier Garten, a punctured tire halted the progress of the car. The prisoner was asked to get out by the soldiers, who in- tended to hail another. car.. While: waiting,-Dr. Liebknecht: at- tempted to escape and he was shot dead by the soldiers, who had janticipated such an act. Dr. Liebknecht’s capture was due to.a telephone conversation he had had with Rosa Luxemburg and which was overheard by a‘detective. He was arranging a meeting place wtih her at the hothe of a man by the name of Marteson at Willmersdorf, The police trapped both of: them and took them*to Hotel Eden. ? ‘His attempt to escape was the last dash for freedom. of a man who a few months:ago had been released from prison., When he got out of the car he was suffering from wounds which someone in the mob had inflicetd in his head. Bleeding profusely, the guard asked him if he could walk to a nearby street, where another car could be hailed. He said he could. ,. Then the party started ott slowly, but had not gone far | through the Tier Garten when Liebknecht made a dash for liberty through the underbrush. The guard opened.fire upon him. One bullet: struck him in the base of the neck and death was instan- | taneous. 5 Hand of Fate in it. The murder -of “Rosa Luxémbi ‘how: tremendous as.a result of the activity of. the spartacans.” ‘Die Freiheit..alone tries to lay the responsibility ‘upon the “This isthe fruit:of the policy of violence of Ebert Scheideman, Hasse and ‘Landburg,”' the newspaper declared: “It.is the work of Gustav Nofke and his military commander, Reinhard. . Let the blood. guilt come upon them.” General Agreement‘ agree that. Dr. Liebknecht was an “honest fanatic.” There is a general agreement that Dr. Liebknecht la¢ked the id-| qualities for a really constructive leadership and that Rosa Lux- emburg was the real leader in the spartacan movement. With the election of the national assembly but four days off, voters, both male and female, are bending every. effort to render a protest against Bolshevism. This movement is strengthened by the result of local elec- tions. It is now considered highly doubtful if the radicals jointly poll more than 45 per cent of the total vote. The bourgeois is ex- pected to poll 15 per cent.of the vote, the clerical. is given 35 per cent, while the socialist liberals are allowed a scant 10 per cent. ‘The government announced today that the circumstances would be investigated. Officers commanding; the troops escorting Dr. Karl Lieb-: knecht and Rosa Luxemburg, when those two were murdered, REPORTERS ARE EQUITY PLANT KOOSTS STOCKS DEMANDING AN OPENMERTING THREE MILLION | increase its capital stock from one to ; three million dollars was made today nce the rule of secrecy. | py the stockholders of the Equity Co- It was also decided to request repre- ; operative Packing Plant Co., meeting sentatives of the British, American | here. 2 and Htalian governments to formulate | Al! Te ‘ARMISTICE EXTENDED . Amsterdam, Jan. “Jan. 17.—The armistice hetween the Aflies and Germans has been extended. The extenkion- was signed today at Treves by the German | commissioner. Lenine Is Among Those Who Land. - At Barcelonia Madrid, Jan. 17—NicoliLenine is .reported to have bepn among tle Rhs- es who landed’ at Se ‘retynt ‘ i Paris, Jan. 17.—At the instance of of the packing plant Britsh correspondents. adopted res- | representative. be admitted, Ameri- .can., correspondents said that they { Lwould nét be satisfied . with anything | less than admittance to every session. .A committee was appointed to form- ulate a-plan of reporting the meeting, The, question of making public ‘the still discussed by the French press. Washington, Jan. 14.—Sen. Borah | of Idaho addressed the senate today | in' protest’ against secrecy at wel peace conference. ‘tHe “Fargo, N. D. 17.—ANl officers |* ot the ‘Tristate Stock and Grain ates Growers'- association were re-elected} Paris, Jan. ¥ algae se secret’ ballot lyast night as fol-|the. police leaders, and ! . jows: < military dictator, of, take come ; , | difference. for. the President—C. B, Waldron: Secre! mer. e. electio PRIS sovaiesieer na It is. Virtually the entire Berlift press regards the fate of Dr: Karl $ Liebknecht and his sister as having.something of divine justice : ‘must have béen'thé indignation which'seized ‘the people of: Betlin ; The pan-German Duchy Zeirung and ridioal Tageblatt alike '@ attending the death of Dr. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg ° / The Lokal Anzeiger says: “He brought his. fate upon. him-.... 10)