The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1919, Page 1

S . MINORITY HAS ITS DAY THE WEATHER i Fair tonight. iTHE BIS Poors eserOSETSae LAST. EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. % BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS LEAGUE FORCED | TO BACK UP AND TAKE ON WATER Steam Roller Plows Ahead, a Very Good Machine, But Minus a Brain Compels Nonpartisans to Admit Botchedness of the Most important Bill That a steam roller which is purely | mechanical in all its processes may make mistakes when allowed to run without a skilled engineer at the wheel was proven yesterday when the league majority voted down sev- eral perfectly desirable and neces- sary amendments to House Bill 32, an act providing for the extension from one year to two years of realty sold at mortgage foreclosure, simply be- cause these amendments were pro- posed by members of the minority. The league steam roller for the first! time during this session was com- pelled to stall and. then to back up,! and the minority, for once, had a whole-souled chortle at the expense of the majority. ifouse Eill 23 was being considered in committee gf the whole when Rep. Burtness of Grand Forks undertook to reveal some of its inequalities and in- adequacies. He asked FA, Hoare, the author of the pill, to explain it tor the benefit of its colleagues, asserting that it did not apepar clear just what the proposed amendments were to ef: fect. Rep. Hoare declined to explain, contenting himself with ‘stating that | the bil satisfied him. Rep. Burtness: then appealed to some member of the judiciary committee, which had had the bill under consideration and which had reported it into committee of the wuole with recomemndations that it pass. No member of the judiciary committce apepared ready or able to offer the explanation insisted upon. Apologizing for the committee, Wal- ter J. Maddock, occupying the speak- er’s chair, stated that a majority of the members were absent. Burtness Unkind. nep. Burtness was unkind enough to insinuate that the judiciary com- mittee really knew as litle about the ‘bill as the ‘other ‘members of the house appeared te. He suggested that in view of the fact that the period of redemption was: extended for two years, which, as.a-morigagee, .he,ap- proved of, it might not ‘be’ advisable; at the same time to réduce the rate of interest froin’ eight to: six. per cent, as is done in this bill. “He declared that investment in’ North ~-kota mortgages must:be made attractive if we expect to keep money coming inty the state. B He also-attempted ‘toe: house the fallacy of Sect the proposed: bill, which as it now stands provides: ‘The debtor under an execution foreclosure sale of real property shall be entitled to the pos- pesison, rents, use and benefit of the property sold from the date of such sale until the expiration of the per- fod of redemption.” Clearly a Mistake. “That is’clearly a mistake. . It could not: have been intended, and it would not have gone through, if the bill had received proper consideration in com- mittee,” said Rep, Burtness. “The pro- vision would give the original debtor the possession, rents, use and bene- fit of the property until the expiration of the period’ of redemption, no mat- ter how many times the property might have changed hands. ‘This clause plainly was intended ‘to read ‘the debtor, or his successor in inter- est,’ and it should "be so amended.” ‘ Burtness moved such amendment, and it was voted -down by a solid league majority. ‘Driving Out Money. Twichell of Cass county .called the atention of the committee of the whole to the fact that the bill treated in its. title of two diferent subjects and in its body of four different sub- jects, both of which are clearly uncon- stitutional. He also asserted that un- der this bill the mortgagee, by the payment of one year’s interest, smay obtain two years and four months’ of more possesion of the property un- der foreclosure, inasmuch as the time occpied in giving notice of foreclos- ure and disposing of other legal pre- Jiminaries is seldom less than four months, whereupon the payment of! one year’s interest, etc. would give the mortgagee possesison for another two years. He insisted that the ill should provide for the payment of ‘all interest, taxes, special assessments in arrear and cots of forecloure, to date. I “If this is not done, you're going to drive all the foreign money. out of the state,” declared the Cass county an, t methat’s the ‘same old cry—it's the same thing we heard before election,” rejoined Bryans of ‘McHenry. Twichell Squelches Twichell’s motion that the Dill be made a special order of business for 2:40 Wednesday lost, and the motion of Weld of Wells that the committee report the bill to pass carried. The committee then rose, and the clerk entered upon a reading of its recommendations in one report. In the meantime ‘Hoare had conferred with Twichell and had signified his desire that the bill be referred to the judiciary committee, the leaguer hav- ing discovered upon reference to his statutes that the minority members were correct in some of their conten- tions. Rep. Twichell, at Hoae’s re- quest made a motion that the report of the committee of the whole be sep- SLOPE GLAD T0 SEE JACOBSEN FOR WOLF FEES Bill Introduced by Senator from Hettinger Would Restore Coyote Bounty The Slope country, in which coy- otes and wolves have waxed fat and saucy since the repeal of the wolf bounty act, two years ago, will rejoice in the fact that this bounty igs restored by a bill introduced in the upper house yesterday by Senator Ja- cobsen of Mott. Senator Jacobsen's bill provides for a bounty of $2.50 per head on either wolves or coyotes, re- quiring that the “skin, skull and tail” of said varmint be displayed by the bounty claimant. The bill also pro- vides for the creation of a welf boun- ty fund by a levy of one-half of one- tenth mill on each dollar of assessed valuation. Claims aggregating sev- jeral thousand dollars which could not be taken care of under the bounty ap- propriation which expired two years ago have accumulated in the state auditor's office and are provided for through a direct appropriation asked by the budget board. DICKINSON MEN ASK TOO MUCH RENT FOR HALL | Budget Board Inclined to Believe Queen City Is Hurting Own Cause Sonie members of the budget board and a number of senators who have Gone over the budget board's report seem inclined to think that Dickinson is engaging in a litle hold-up in the mater of rental for quarters for the Dickinson normal. The amount asked in the budget for the ensuing bien- nium was $7, the budget board recommended $5,000. It is claimeu that the ground floor of the same building, which is the Dickinson Elks’ temple, rents for $120 per month, and that the owners of the building have sources..of revenue other than the state for the two upper floors for which they ask $300 per month, It. ig feared that this, argument. may have some: effect: on- the Dickinson normal’s request for a, building ap- Propriation. “If we make an appro- piration. for. buildings,” said a) -mem- ber of the:budget board, ‘we ;could Mot expect to have them ready for oc- cupancy, inside .of two years. In the ‘meantime we'do not feel that we shouldbe asked what appears an ex- orbitant. rental for temporary quar- ters. Jt is not probable that any buildings: will | 2be; recommended) :at Dickinson or for any other new’ proj- ect unti there is a siding into -the grounds for the hauling of material and until water and electricity are availayle.” u STARK COUNTY CONTEST OVER Adjournment Is Taken by Elec- tions Committee After In- teresting Testimony The elections committee’s hearing in the Stark county contest for seats in the house was adjourned yesterday afternoon until 4 Wednesday after- noon, Evidence presented before the committee indicated that there had been irregularities on both sides, At- torney H. E. Haney of Belfield testi- fied that he had informed the electiort obard in his village that it would be illegal to remove the ballots from the polling places to be voted, but in spite of this fact they were taken from house to house. James Cosgrove tes- tified that in Rader township, where there was a Nonpartisan election board, after the polls were cosed, the ‘ballots were removed to the home of W. K. Mozley, now state organizer for the Farmers’ union, to be canvassed. Cross examination on behalf of the contestants developed the fact that this was done for the alleged reason that there was no oil for the lamps at the polling places, while the Mozley home was electrically lighted. Valentine Kuhn and J. H. Riley, Nonpartisang, are contesting the seats won by a small majority by T. F. ‘Murtha and F. L. Roquette, democrats, who had the support of the independ- ent factions of both parties in Stark county. ESTHONIANS WIN VICTORY OVER BOLSHEVIKI London, Jan. 21—A notable suc- cess has been won against the Bol- sheviki by Esthonian troops operat- ing north of Lake Puipas, according to an official Esthonian statement. They have taken the own of Narva, on the Reval-Petrograd railway line, to- gether with a large num of pris- oners. Finnish troops perated with the Esthonians. A quantity of dooty fell into the hands of the vic- arated. The motion was put,.and 1 torious forces. an aye and nay vote it appeared to/° Leon Trotz have lost. ; “Tam making cing this (vontinued ‘on Two)! , dolshevik ‘war min- ister, it is stated,-was present i Nar- va, during the fighting 2nd fled atter| ~ DAKOTA BUDGET TOTALS EXACTLY $4,681,396.06 More Than Three Million Pared Off Original Requests by Board American Home” from The Tribune to Illustrate The exact amount of ‘North Dakota's budget as finally -corected by the} budget board, after parjng almost $3,- 000,000 from the requests of the va. fous institutions, was announced to- day as $4,(81,396.06. This is more} than »500,000 greater than the budget! as it finally went before the assem-} wly two years ago. As a striking dificulties with which the board hi to contend, the cond page of i printed report will carry a reproduc: tion of one of Alman’s cartoons ou i°The Great American Home.” It is| probably the first time in history that a serious public document has ried a syndicated comic as an integr portion. “We might devote a page of close print.to explanations and not get our position over so clearly ve, can do through this cartoon,” said} State Auditor Kositzky. Alman’s “Great American Home” is being used; through the courtesy of the Newspa-! per Enterprise association. ee | Some of the Items. i Some of the bigger items which go to make up this $4.681,396.06, are: | Agricultural college, $302.5 high schools, $170,000; schools, $325,000; feeble-minded insti-| tute, $210, hospital for the insane, $299.415; 17th legislative assembly, $'14,000° Minot normal, $185,794; {state penitentiary, $286,281; reform! school, $119.760; itarium, $179,750; Valley City normal, 200,245.99; state university, $401,860; wolf bounty fund, 74,000. Special fund appropriations not in- cluded in the general budget comprise 140,000 for a governor's mansion and new history building; $86,648 for tne game and fish department; $70,175 for the motor vehicle registration de- partment, and $190,880 for the state highway commission. The new execu- tive mansion and history building will come out of the capitol building fund of. $760,000, while the other depart- ments named earn thelr, own fecg, , ... The: budget';board’s* report Mets” as. Mabllities! the unexpendéd ‘nppropria- tion July '1,.1918; ‘of $2,565,128,.04 and estimated ‘emergency appropriations by the 16th legislative assembly of 100,000; making a total -of $2,660,- explanation of the aid to| guess‘as to mergency ‘appropriations tobe made by the 16th legislative as- sembly,’ as the amount’ called for in four state industrial commission, Bank ‘of North ‘Dakota, mill aud elevator asso- ciation*and home building association —ageregate a half-million, “and there are others.” The budget board lists as credits the | ter-deducting five per cent which it is estimated will not be paid by July 1, 1919, $367,699.09; cash on hand in the general fund July 1, 1918, $26 timated, $460,000, and tax levied for 1918 to carry on business to July 1, 1919, $. 35.46, making. a balance of $2.665.128,04, which will be about a half-million, short {f the legislature gives the league all the emergency: ap- board estimates that miscellaneo colections for. 1919-21 will be $1,015,- 200. Among recommendations made are that the school of forestry at Botti: neat be converted into an orphans’ (Cantinned on Page Three} CARTOGN PRESSES POINT! born in Minneapolis, where his father, issie es at Commission Adopts “The Great) cane to the Bismar { aunt, ‘MAJORITY — aid to rural! Hugo Haase of Ebert's Cabinet tuberculosis san-/{ 128.04... Tho budget board made a poor! members. league. dills—providing for its | 1917 tax uncollected July 1, 1918, af-; 173.49; miscellaneous collections. es-| propriations it is asking. The budget | S| cembly RAR POPULAR GRIP KNIGHT DEAD Dean Bosworth Succumbs . to Puenmonia Following: Flu Bismarck lost ‘one of its most, pop- ular grip knights when Dean Hos- worth, the Minneapolis bedding Co. representative in. this ‘territory, st cumbed: to pneumonia at his rooms in {the Van Horn. The ‘leceased con- jdays ago and pneumonia developed tacted Spanish’ influenza” several days ago, and pneumori: developed. Dean. Bosworth was, 27 years old, a veteran commercial traveler, has The deceased territory two neapolis Bedditg (Co. years ago. There survive’ the deceased young’ widow, called to Bism the sad news of his last illn parents, residing in Minneapol who is-here. with Mrs. Bos: worth, and a number of other rela- tives, ,The remains were shipped to Minneapolis last evening. Bismarck council, United Commercial Travel- evs, took charge of the local arrange- ments and did all in its power to re-! lieve the young widow. nis SOCIALISTS WIR OFFICES! Early ‘Reports from All Sections | of Germany. Indicate Party Succes INDEPENDENTS LOSE OUT _ Is Elected to National Assembly (By The “Associated Press.) Berlin, Monday, Jan. 20.—It is prob- able that former Chief of Police Eich- horn and Hugo Haase, former secre- tary of° foreign affairs in the Ebert cabinet, have been, elected to the na-{ tional assembly. Returns are coming in slowly, and the results, even in Berlin, are as. yet uncertain. Berlin newspapers announce that a warrant for the arrest. of Eichhorn has been issued. It has been said.that various! charges, conviction on which would make Bichhorn subject to, im- !prisonment for 5 years, have been made. The majority socialists seat- ed seven and ‘the independent. social- ists none. The combined vote of the {Socialists was 506,000 and the “bour- | gels parties, 920,000, in Luxembourg. In’ Mecklenberg’ and Lubek,. the combined socialists elected three Majority Socialists ‘Lead. Copenhagen, Jan. 21.—Incomplete returns from the German . election Showed! last night that’ the democrats | polled 1,234,000 votes; majority social- ists, 2,364,022; independent socialists, | 401,487; Christian people's party, J,- 237,137; German people's 266,157, and | the conservatives, 467,367, according |to advices received by the Berlingsky Teidene. While the majority socialists will have the ascendancy over any other single party, the results indicate’ the bourgeois parties together will have a majority in the national assembly. Stable Government. Warly returns from German elec- tions are interpreted to. signify prour ising prospects for the assumption of a stable government at an early date The German democrats and radical socialists will probably go in the as- over the other socialists Friedrich Von Payer, leader of the democrats, and socialists Mbert and Scheldman demonstrated their ability to work together. They also’ can spent aliust a lite time with the Min-|, count on Konstantin Fehrenback, the (Continued on Page Three.) | RUSSIAN SITUATION CONSIDERED One Slav Faction Urging Place at the General Peace Conference SEVERAL PLANS DISCUSSED President: Wilson Is Convinced That People Liberated Must Be Fed Paris, Jan. 21.—The peace confer- ence now has the Russian situation under examination, while the plans for the league of nations are being fast brought into shape and were ex- pected to be taken under general con- sideration tor the first time when the supreme council assembled. today. ‘Latest information available was that all the associated governments |} Were prepared for the presentation of HIGHER RATE OF INTEREST IS PROBABLE Maximum May Be Charged as a Result of House Bill 13, Say Opponents It shal henceforth be illegal for any implement house, lumber com- pany or other concern which sells goods on time or for the maker of a loan to specify that there shall be charged after maturity a rate of in- terest higher thn that obtaining ve- fore maturity. House Bill N. 13, a league measure, embodying this pro- vision, was passed by the senate yes- terday by a vote of 29 to 12, eight be- ing absent. It carries an emergency clause and will take effect as soon as signed by the governor, Opponents of the bill contended that its only effect would be to cause concerns accepting notes to charge the highest legal rate from the date of the execution of the instrument, while heretofore there usually has been a their memoranda on the Russian sit-| Spread of two per cent in favor of/ uation. President Wilson had in hand this morning the memoranda on the subject prepared by the Russian miss.on, .M. Sassanoff, former secre- tary of the Russian duma, has been in conference with members of the American delegation, urging admis- sion of delegates from the Omtsk con- ference in Russia, which he repre- sents. After the conference has con- sidered such reports as are available from men who. have fi hand inform- ation on Russian situations and has considered the memoranda from vari- ous governments it will attempt to some decision as to what unified ion will be taken. Informal Discussions. In informal discussions which are taking place outside the peace con- ference the two considerations given first place are believed to be whether to attempt to build a wall or estab- lish a quarantine about Bolshevik Russia, through giving assistance in setting up independent governments in the states surrounding Maximilist Russia, or to undertake to relieve con- ditions in European Russia, which many statesmen believe would re- move the’cause of Bolshevism. The third consideration is to give aid to the forces within Russia which are openly fighting Bolshevikism in the field. The last consideration is the least favored by the United States, which inclines toward the first prop- osition, the assumption being that if taken in the relief of Poland the as- sociated governments might consider the sending of armed forces to build a-walt around. Bolsheyikism, so as -to shut it off. from. western. Europe. As ‘President Wilson is convinced that the people of all the recently Hb- erated countries must be fed if they are not to be in danger of lapsing in- to Bolshevikism, the, provisioning problem continues to occupy a prom- inent place in the discussions now go- ing on. The plans for a league of na- tions are continuing to develop, and the conference may have its first full discussion of that subject by the end of the week, The Rusisan question was again taken up by the supreme council of the peace conference when it met to- day. There was a full attendance. Harold Scavenius, Danish minister to Russia, who had been asked to give his views on the Russian situa- tion. recited his experiences in Petro- tgad where he took charge of the French affairs. Tt is understood that M. Scavenius contended more emphatically than did Ambassador ‘Newlands yesterday that intervention was necessary to check the regime of terror there. Study Blockade. Owing to pressure of more urgent problems before delegates to the peace congress, various economic delega- tions are. studying the blockade prob- lem, The American viewpoint contem- (Continued on Page Three.» ac = This is the scene of the-wreck of a huge molasses tank in Boston which let loose 2,000,000 gallons of the fluid when it exploded and killed a dozen persons. No. 1 is the base of the tank. No. 2 is the roof. No. 3 is.a side blown out by the explosion. No. 4 is the spot where a dozen persons were killed-as the side of the building was smashed in. No. 5 is the ruins of a house sucked into the river by the receding tide of molasses. No. 6 indicates ‘the wrecked spans of’a railroad bridge, undermined by the force which occurred just after a train had passed. of explosion, notes or mortgages which were taken; up when due. the higher rate of in- terest prevailing only from date of amturity, , DAKOTA RAIL BOARD 0.K.S U.8, CONTROL Commission Wires Washington That Public Ownership Is the Clear Quill The North Dakota railway adminis- tration last evening wired Washing- ton its endorsement of a merger of| the telephone and telegraph systems/ of America and their ownership and | operation by the government as pro-; vided for in the Moon bill, now pend-| ing before congress, and for the oper- ation of the railways iby the federal | governments, with the administration | divided into districts instead of being regulated by states, as heretofore, but| with the state retaining representa- tion in the making of rates and the determining of policies and not sur-! rendering any of the present police! powers, This message -was -sent- in respone to advice that the house committee would hear state railway commisions at Washington on January 21, which| is today, on the matter of the mer- ger and consolidation of telephone and telegraph lines, under government) control,.and that on January 28 the government would hear state railway |voards on the question of permanent government ownership of railways. FAMOUS SEVEN AMENDMENTS ON THE JOB TODAY League Reaches Ante-Chamber of Much Press-Agented Utopia a la Mills The famous s amendments of the Nonpartisan league, making pos- sible the practice of all the tenets of} pure democracy, including ,unlimited puvlic ownership and the single tax,/ were writen into the constitution of| North Dakota yesterday when these; amendments, ratified by a league majority of both houses, signed by the speaker and lieutenant | | governor. ‘Speaker L. L. Stair, who has been; suffering for several days from a mild attack of flu, presided in the house jyesterday only long enough to com- plete the signing of these amend- ments. In the senate, Lieut-Gov. Wood, in addition to signing the} letague amendments, signed House Bill No. 19, which amends the seed} and feed bonding bill as amended by the special session of 1918 by strik- ing out the priority lien clause which made trouble with the federal farm land bank and by extending from one “| to two years, in case of necessity, the period of payment of loans for the) purchase of seed or feed. MONARCHISTS_ . SUCCESSFUL Madrid, Jan. 21—The monarchist movement in Portugal, headed by Paiva Conceiro has been successful in northern Portugal, and a govern- ment has been formed at Oporto, ac- cording to a report received by the Spanish government from the govern- ment of the province of Pontevedra, in_northwestern Spain. The report adds that Lisbon is be- lieved to have joined in the move- ment. i Bomb Intended _ for Rockefellers Blows Up Plotters Washington, Jan. 21.—Plots on the lives of John D. Rockefeller and his BANKERS HERE TO CONSIDER — NEW BANK ACT Heads of State Financial Insti- tutions See Rocks Ahead for Themselves M:! Y ARE NATIONALIZING Increasing Capital in Order to Place Themselves Under Federal Control North Dakota bankers who regard Townley's Bank of North Dakota scheme as the gravest problem which the state has ever had to face are meeting in Bismarck today to discuss the nationalization of their institu- tions as the only means of protecting their interests from the domination of the Bank of North Dakota. ‘For a majority of us it means na- tionalization; for many of the weaker banks it will mean liquidation,” said a prominent Slope banker. “There is nothing in the Bank of ‘North Dakota bill which compels banks to name this institution as their reserve agent, but the state banking board, which is con- trolled by the same one man—J refer to Mr. Townley—who through the gov- ernor of North Dakota will have abso- Iute domination of the Bank of North and all of its associate en- s, must approve the reserve agent designated by the state banks, and it will be a very easy mater for this board to withhold its approval of agents other than the Bank of ‘North Dakota or to quietly let it be known that banks which expect any consid- eration from the administration must designate the Bank of North Dakota as their reserve agent.” Banks \Nationalizing. A number of state banks have re- cently increased their capital to $25,- 000, the minimum with which a na- tional bank can be accepted. By be- coming national] banks, financial in- stitutions can escape direct domina- tion of the Bank of North Dakota. They, cannotfi however, make them- selves immune from the effect which this institution, with its one-man con- trol, may exert over the financial sit- uation of the entire state. “Central and western North Dakota every year ig forced to borrow. out- side money to tide the farmers over from seeding time in March. until crops and stock are sold.in the fall,” said a banker today. “My bank last year was forced to borrow 435,000 to take care of the farmers, in our com- munity. the amount of our capital and ‘surplus. : We got some of this money by in- uucing our correspondents to take up some of our loans. A great deal of it, however, was secured on person- al security of officers of the bank who gave their joint notes in order to s cure this line of-credit. And we did it not for the accommodation of our business men but to finance the farmers. The farmers had to have this money, and there wasn’t money enough in North Dakota to take care of them. I don’t believe that after the new order is established these out- side interests are going to pour their money into this tate to be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota. “Under the league laws the Bank of Worth Dakota is answerable to no au- thority on earth but the governor of North Dakota, and Townley, the man back of him. The Bank of ‘North Dakota will be inspected, investigated and o. kd by a state banking de- partment whose head owes his job to the. governor, who in turn, as chair- man of the state industrial commis-. sion, with full veto powers, is the act- ual one-man power vack of the bank. No provision is made tor independent supervision; no such supervision is possible under the league plan. The Bank of ‘North Dakota becomes a close corporation at all times directly responsive to Governor Frazier and President Townley. “When Governor Frazier vetoed the terminal elevator bill two years ago he was, I am convinced, taking overs froni Mr. Townley. Lam con- fident that the governor is now tak- ing orders from the president of the ational Nonpartisan league, and that as head of the state system of banking and industry he will continue to take orders. Not questioning the honesty or good intentions of Mr. Townley in the least. I yet insist that too much authority and too #uch power are being concentrated in the hands of one man, no matter how unselfish and disinterested and sincere he may be in his desire to serve the best in- terests of all the people.” Taxes to Pay Interest. A bil ‘providing for she issuance of the $2,000,0G0 in bonds which are to furnishe the capital of the Bank of sNofth Dakota has already ibeen ap- proved in league caucus and it was ready for introduction this afternoon Interest on these bonds, which is not to exceed six per cent, is to be paid from the earnings of the bank, pro- Viung these earnings suffice. Other- wise.the board of equalization shall levy a tax to provide for such inter- est payments as may fall due. There is no provision in the act creating the Bank ‘of North Dekota that these bonds be sold at par. It has been suggested that the state may take up these bands from its univers- ity and school lands funds. Barring this outlet, and presuming that the bonds are thrown on the open market, it is entirely possible that they may be offered at a discount of ten per cent, or ever more. Farmers’. notes ‘and postdated checks negotiated by the league have been discounted to & much greater amount when hawked about the. money markets of the son, John D. Rockfeller, Jr., and other wealthy men of the nation were described by a New York police. in- spector. He said thatthe bomb in- Twin Cities and other centers to east. Jack Hastings, Townley’s nancial sectetary.and the expected to head the. Bank 2 to at This was ~ more (hen: twice: