The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1919, Page 1

., corporation excise tax, THE WEATHER Fair tonight. \ THE BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 20. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 1919. DAKOTA MINES MUST SAFEGUARD THEIR WORKERS Bill Drawn Along Modern Lines of Safety and Sanita- tion Introduced NEW HOLIDAY ASKED FOR J. F. T. Would Make Discovery Day Legal—Senate Does Some Business Bills creating a state mine inspec- tor and regulating the coal mining in- dustry in North Dakota, and estab- lishing a workmen's compensation commission and abolishing the pres- ent common law defenses in personal injury actions arising from industry, were introduced in the house Wed- nesday. House Bill 55, introduced by Ma- Jone, regulates the operation of all coal mines, provides for the appoint- ment by the governor of a state coal mine inspector for a term of two years, at $2,500 per annum, such in- spector to be 35 years old, a citizen of the United States, a qualified resi- dent of ‘North Dakota, and to have ‘been actually employed as a coal min- er ten years prior to his appointment and to have had at least five years’ experience in lignite mines. Semi-Annual Inspections. He is required to examine at least once every six months all mines hav- ing an ‘annual production of 1,200 toris or more and he is made ex-officto sealer of weights and measures and is given authority to issue certificates of qualification to mine foremen, who cannot serve without such sertificates, and to appoint mine examiners. The bill requires the mines to provide suitable wash houses; to see that their mines are properly ventilated and kept in a safe and sanitary condi- tion through the adoption of modern safeguards. Workmen's Compensation. House Bill 56, also introduced by Malone, is che league’s workmen’s compensation act, modeled largely on the Ohio statute, providing for the creation of a state insurance fund through premiums paid by employers of three or more persons in hazardous industries, from which the cpst of all medical and hospital attention and any compensation which may become due as a result of industrial injury shall be paid. Hospital and. medical attention: shall be furnished from the moment of the injury, but compensa- tion, which shall not exceed $20 per week nor be less. than $6 per week, except in case where the actual: wage earned is less than that amount,: and: which shall. geherally be computed at two-thirds of the average weekly wage of the employe, shaJl not. vegin until three days, following the injury. There is a comprehensive table of specific compensation ‘payments tobe madé for ‘death, temporary total or. partial disability and permanent total or par- tial disability; dependents. and. their rights are defined. A dependent wid- ow or widower entitled under the act to compensation only until remar- riage, is made liable to a fine of $2,- 000 if convicted of accepting compen- sation after ‘such remarriage. Com- pensation ordinarily to be paid in weekly instalments to the injured em- ploye, or. in case of death, to his de- pendents, but lump sum payments of compensation in an amount not to ex- ceed 419 weeks, may be made when the ‘board feels that such payments are advisable. Anti-Injunction Bill. House -Bill 57, introduced. by. O' Lrien, is a league labor measure pro- hibiting the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes, except when it can be shown that property is being sub- jected to irreparavle harm for which there is no remedy at‘law, and which reserves to labor the right to agitate, picket and boycot as means of gain- ing its ends. ‘House Bill 58, introduced by J. F. T. O’Connor of Grand Forks, adds to the list of legal holidays Discovery dav. October 12, the date upon which Christopher Columbus sighted Ameri-| can soil, and which is now a holiday in 33 American states. Wants Vital Statistics. In the senate Stortad of Cass coun-| ty introduced Senate Bill 34, amend- ing and reenacting Section 453 of the compiled laws of 1913, Fosiuir ing local registrars to furnish the state board of health and the county ‘board with vital statistics, and allowing each lo- cal registrar 25 cents for each birth and death certificate properly made out and registered., To Help Taxation. Senate Bill 35, introduced ‘by Mc: Nair, amends Sections 2110 of the compiléd laws of 1913, relating to the listing of property of. corporations, joint stock companies and associa- tions, and providing that they must give the amount of their, capital amount paid up, the market value or the actual value of such shares. This bill, a league measure designed to as: sist the state in levying its special carries an emergency clause. Grain Grading ‘Act. The senate passed on third reading Senator Drown’s Senate. Bill 14 amending the present grain grading act, making the state inspector also insnector of weights and measures with authority to appoint deputies. and creating of the grain grading and inspection department and the bureau of. weights and measures a depart- ment distinct from the state railwav commisison, which had supervision of this work under the original act. The senate also passed Senate Bill 23, Hagan, an act to prevent the fore- closure of a m eo. ‘without due notice to the mt ahd Senate SINGLE TAX IS BEFORESENATE | WITHN,P.’S 0.K. Approved in Secret League Cau- * cus, Walter Thomas Mills’ Pet Trots Out OTHER INCOME CREEPERS Nonparty Realizes Necessity for Adding Millions to Pres- ent State ‘Income The single tax is here.. During the heat of the last campaign leaguers | rather resented having their taxation amendment to the constitution em- powering the legislature to exempt) from taxation all personal property, | including improvements on land, re-! ferred to as the single tax theory of Governor Proposes Radical Reforms } For Tennessee the late Henry George. ‘Today comes before the 16th assembly a bill from-|! ed in the league offices at St. Paul and approved by the secret league; caucus here which embodies all of| the vital features of. the ‘Henry George single tax. | The bill amends and ree | tions 2078 of the sesison law 1913 and exempts from taxation all structures and improvements on ag-! ricultural Jands and all sctructures and improvements used as homes on town or city lots to the amount of $2,500! provided that the total value of such! improvements does not exceed $3,500. ‘There are also exempted under this vill household goods to the amount of $500, provided the total value of such goods is not more than $1,000; cloth- ing and personal effects to the amount of $300, provided the total value does not exceed $1,000, and all agricultural implements and tools of working me, Companion Bills. Companion bills approved in se: cret caucus last night and introduced today amend Chapt. 59 of the session laws of 1917 relating to the classiii- cation of property for assessment and provide that unused land of aii-de- seriptions, railroads and public util- ities, franchises and patents and all! real and personal property “connect- ed thereto,” shall he assesed at 100 per cent of its true value; used land. bank stocks, flour mills, e!evators and structures used for business purpos es at 60 per cent of their truc value live tock, agricultural tools, automo- ‘biles and city -homes: at 40 per ‘cent of their true value; the assessment for purposes of taxation of the gross sajes of all ofl companies; the platting | of any..portion of a railroad right ‘of way not used for railway purposes and the assessment of such portion of the ame rate as any other realestate, the purpgse of :thig bill, being: 'to,.tax elevators. on railroad. rights-of-way which heretofore ‘have’ escaped ’ as- sessment. - Another bill!’ amends and reenacts Section’ 2095 of the compiled laws of 1918 and, requires: that, capital. stock, :.(Continued,.on .Page , Four.) BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED BY BSTHONIANS London, Jan. 23.—Ksthonian offi- cials claim that the defeat of the Bol- sheviks after the capture of Narva amounted to a complete rout, fliing to a Helsingford dispatch. onian advance guards now are within 65 miles of Petrograd. It is reported they intend to push as far as the Plu- ga and Pliza rivers, whi¢h will 6n- able them to surround the city of Piskov. | of | Bil .., providing for the serving of + (Continned on Page, Bight.) Ay rts, elected governor of T2 ne of the largest ma- joriti given, is proposing radi- cal reforms. in taxation and ass ment laws to keep state expenditures within income. Many political offi- ces will be eliminated, MACDONALD IS 8 AGAIN SEEKING TO OUST RIVAL Not Satisfied With Two Spank- gs, Chubby Cherub Bobs Up for a Third SAYS HE’S ONLY ORIGINAL Solemnly Asserts He’s_ Still State Superintendent and Only One Qualified Summons and complaint in a quo wararnto - proceeding insti-uted by Neil C. Macdonald, defeated state su- pberintendent of public instruction, to test the qualifications of his succes- rv Miss Minnie J. Nielson, were served onthe latter late Wednesday evening. The summons was issued out of-¢ke «Burleigh county ‘district ‘court. ‘fhe ‘complaint cites some ot the allegations which Macdonald. at- tempted throygh counset to place be- fore the supreme, court inthe man- damus action which Miss Nielson was compelled::to bring to, oust; Macdonald, when. he refused to turn over the of- fice to her.at the beginning of the new year.-% « “ “Mactonald,.in a very. long and learned and,circuitous complaint, sol- emnly, declares. that he’s. :North Da- kota’s only and original state super: intendent of .pudlic instruction, ibe- cause, he sa: Nielson, doesn’t possess the qualifications that he pos- st and therefore cannot qualify for the job that is h Mr. (Macdonald begs the court to restore him to the job from which the good people of North Dakota so unceremoniously ousted him’ and from which Sheriff Welch, with a writ of the supreme court as his authority, jerked him, and he desires that as little time as possible be lost in terminating the present hiatus .between his pockets and the state's moneybags, tuation which does not appeal.to his thrifty sow, at all. LEAGUE INCOME TAX BILL GOES INTO ASSEMBLY Big Fellows Hit Hard; Little Ones Let Off. Easy Under League Scheme | . |GET MORE, PAY MORE PLAN Exemptions: Allowed Reduce i Rate for Small Earnings to Almost Nothing With the approval of the league | caucus, the committee on taxation j this afternoon introduced in the sen-| | ate the administration's graduated in-} come tax bill, which is expected to furnish the materially increased reve-! !nues which North Dakota will need it [it is to carry out the league's elabor-! jate program of state ownership and) i paternalistic democracy. i ! Roylance Did It. | +. H. Koylance, formerly head of the economics department of the Uni-j versity of Utah, but for some time} past attached to the Townley machine | at St. Paul, is author of the league's! {income tax. bill, ‘which provides for the levying of an income tax on all individuals, corporations, joint stock j companieg-and associations on a class- ified and graduated basis. “Any earnings, wages, profits or increases from whatever source de- rived” are ‘Classified ,as “earned” or unearned” income. ¢Earned income is considered to mean wages, salaries, or fees for personal services, the prof- its from any personally conducted Dusiness, or rents derived from prop- erty owned by .a»resident tax-payer. Unearned income is held to be any revenue derived from rents of land or other: property; interest on mort- gages, notes or bonds; dividends on shares of stock in any business not personally conducted by the. taxpay- ers; receipts from annuities and from any other source other than the labor, | skill ‘or personally conducted. business of the person deriving such income. The first $1,000. of unearned income is taxed one-half of one per cent, with | an additional one-half of one per cent on each: additional $1,000 or fraction thereof, up to $10,000. Incomes of $10,000. will therefore be taxed 5 per cent, or $590. Incomes in excess of $10,000 and not over $20,000 will pay 16 per cent, the annual tax on an in- come of $20,000 ‘being $1,200. Net incomes in excess of $20,000 and not over $90,000 will pay eight per cent, the annual tax on- $20,000 being $2,400, while ‘all incomes in-excess of $30,000 / will pay 10 per cent. On ‘earned’ incomes, the: tax ony the ‘first thousand is one-fourth ‘of; one per cent; with an additional quar-! ter of one per cent on each thousand | up to $20,000; six per cent on earned incomes over $20,000 and not exceed- ing $30,000; elght per cent-on earned incomes over $30,,000 and not exceed-} ing $40,000; ten per cent on all earn- ed incomes in excess of 940,000. | ro. Individual: Incomes. An unmarried head of a family is allowed an- exemption of $1,000 per annum, which is not taxed; married men and women are allowed an in- come exemption of $2,000. In other words, an unmarried man, head of a family, and earning $2,500. per annum. would pay on earned income a tax of one-half of one per cent on $1,500 per, annum, of $7.50. A married man or! woman earning the same salary would pay but one-fourth of one per cent} per annum on an earned income of $50, or a yearly income tax of $1 All persons are required to file wi PRICE FIVE CENTS |HUN BOLSHEVIKI MARTYRIZE HER Berlin riots, Rosa Luxemburg, his as- ociate in radicalism and in publica- on of The Red Flag, may prove a greater force for the spread of Bol- shevism than when alive. The Reas are making reyenge for death a rally- ing cry. FIREMEN MEET 10 PLAN NEXT | ANNUAL JOUST Convention Deferred from 1918 to be’ Made Double: Header in 1919 | of the North Dakota Vol- unteer emens association—W, T. Craswell of Valley City, chairman; | State Fire ‘shal H. L, Reade of Bismarck, secretary, and J, G. Phin- ister of Glen Ullin, R. i. Geise of Jamestown and R, S. Campbell of Lis- bon—met in the fire marshal's office Wednesday to go over the Lusiness of the last year and to make’ plans for the annual convention and tourney in 1919. Although no convention was held in 1919, owing to war conditions, it was a busy and profitable year for the asociation, reported Secretary Reade, during which the organization was espe ly active in patriotic work. While its funds are not large, the as- sociation during 1918- invested $800 in. Liberty’bonds and war savings stamps; contributed $195 to the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A.; $116.15 to the children’s home at Fargo; $5 to the Knights of Columbus war service; $10 to the committee of the Father- less Children of France; $5 to the Jewish relief work, and $20 to the United War fund, a total of $: National Council Of Defense Urges Post War Activities New York, nn, 28—To meet the emergencies of the readjustment and demobilization period, the council of national defense has asked that legis- lation be instituted in the various j states to provide for the development of wholesome community organiza- tions under state leadership to suc-; ceed the present system. This an- nouncement. was made today by Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director of the United States council of national de- fense. i ‘Mr, Clarkson stated the machinery of the council is composed of 184,400) units of state, county and community councils, which since the signing of the armistice have added to their ac- tivities the formation of 1,840 employ- ment bureaus. “This vast network of the state tax commisisoner, not later than March 1, a duplicate of thetr in-| (Continued on Page Four.) aa | communities shall become «he perm anent heirs of the state council of defense system.” KING AND QUEEN SALUTED OLD GLORY! WHEN YANKS ENTERED BRUSSELS THE The picture shows American color bearers at the left carrying the Stars and Stripes as American infan- trymen parade past the king and queen of the Belgians, shown in the center, King Albert on his war horse salut- ing the American flag as it enters Brussels, his redeemed capital city. © ' | Dernoerg, RUSSIAN QUESTION STILL TAKES COUNCIL'S ATTENTION; SIGN PEACE TERMS BY JUNE British Opinions on League of Nations Advanced First—May Give President Wilson a Tactical Advantage Later in Deliberations Paris, Jan. 23.—The preliminary peace will be signed early in June, says Marshal Houtin in the Echo d’Paris today. The supreme council turned today to the establishment of a league of nations. This question promises to monopolize the atiention of the delegates until the Russian negotiations show results. It is regarded as quite significant that the first plan for a league of nations to be considered comes from Premier Lloyd George. This is in consonance with what has been known in a small circle that President Wilson plans to have European ideas come before the congress in advance of his own. American offi- cials explain that Mr. Wilson’s purpose is not only out of defer- ence to European nations, which have sacrificed so much in the war, but that there is a tactical advantage in reserving American opinions until all others have been discussed, in order that they may form a bridge of agreement. Ready for Better Plan President Wilson has stated that he is quite willing to place himself in a position of supporting some other nation’s plan rather than his own, if he feels that plan will best serve the common purpose. While awaiting results from the efforts to compose dif- ferences between the Russian factions, all efforts, Mr. Wilson be- lieves, will be bent to forming an agreement between the dele- gates here. Solution of Problem The solution of the Russian problem proposed by the supreme council of the peace congress is considered here as the first visible manifestation of American and British accord on the great issues before the congr It is understood that inasmuch as the su- preme council has accepted the American plan for the settlement of the Russian problem, the British plan may form the foundation of the structure which the congress will erect to house the league of nations. The plan for settling the Russian question is virtually identical with that which Lloyd George suggested in his note to Stephen Pichon on January 5. It is understood that no official admission has been made that the British plan for the formation of a league of nations is virtually identical with that which Amer- icans formulated. May Recede Although the congress is silent on the question of Russia’s foreign debt, it is understood that assurance has been received that the Bolsheviks will recede from their announced intention of repudiating this debt in exchange for relief from dire immediate necessities. } The position assumed by the supreme council in the Russian situation is that in the event of its rejection by the Bolsheviks, public opinion may be expected to support any measure necessary to restore order. President Ador of Switzerland, who arrived here today from Berne, before he meets President Wilson tomorrow, will confer with President Poincaire and Premier Clemenceau. $i He came to Paris bearing official statements of the Swiss gov- ernment relating to questions before the peace congress. i What Swiss Want 1. Switzerland expects to be admitted to the peace nego- tiations as far. as they will deal with her own interests or prob- lems of general importance. Exclusion from deliberations on the problem of league of nations would be considered by the Swiss people as inconsistent with the principles of democracy. 2. Switzerland highly approves of the creation of a league of nations for preserving peace and expects from it a complete reform of international relations. Recognizes Necessity 3. Switzerland recognizes the necessity for action which may ultimately consist of military pressure within the assistance of the league of nations. Nevertheless Switzerland is determined not to abandon her neutrality, which is laid down in the Swiss legislation and based on 400 years of peaceful politics. 4. Freedom of production and commerce is of vital import- ance for Switzerland. As far as limitations will be imposed con- cerning importations, exportations and free passage uf raw mate- rials, all states should mutually accord each other most favored national treatment. Land Locked Country 5. Switzerland, as a land locked country, highly approved the principle of free access to the sea. Switzerland expects it will soon be possible to come to an understanding with France and Italy for opening the Rhone and Poe Ticino rivers for naviga- tion on a large scale and obtain recognition of similar principles regarding these rivers as are in vogue for already international- ized highways. It also is of vital interest to Switzerland to obtain right of age over railroady to the sea and through European states tward. 6. The political, legal and economic principles formulated by President Wilson are so entirely in conformity with the tradi- tional wants of Switzerland that she will adhere tc them what- jever difficulties lie in the way of their realization. With replies from the various Russian factions being awaited, |the supreme council of the peace conference met at 10:30 o’clock today: Meanwhile the joint allied committee is being made up. All the members of ‘the council were present. | i ‘Election Returns SENATE VOTES _ Are Still in Doubt the general election, ¢a%s an official yarcless sent out from Berlin and St. Paul, Minn., Jan, 23.—The gsen-| P'¢ oo uy, here. The opinion prevails ate today passed a resclution memo- Berne. the dispatch says, that the vializing congress to pass the woman’s | ™aJority Socialists havo ‘a large ma- suffrage resolution. .The vote was 49 jority. It is presumed that the ma- to 7." The house passed it yesterday, | jority socialists and democrats sup- iegegese ported by an overwhelshing majority TO PRACTICE of the people will be in a position to dominate the national assembly. AT ENDERLIN Among those whose seats are assured is Count Busadowsky, Dr. Bernhard Former Chief of Police Lieutenant W. H. Nollman of En-|£ichhorn and Hugo Hasse. derlin, who until.recently has been an! instructor in military science at the| ELECTION RETURNS. Agricultural college, was admitted to; Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 23—he practice in this state by the supreme|Ports from Germany show the ma- court today. jority socialists wilt have a plurality He trained for military service at|in the assembly. The members are di- American Lake. Then he was detailed | vided as follows: for service at Fargo. with the students} Majority socialists, 164; central training corps. While there he de-|christian people's party, 88; demo- cided to remain in :the state and he| Crate, 77; German national perty, 34; will now become associated in law| minority social! ‘German peo- practice with Charles G. Bangart. Lieut. Nollman is not. a stranger;jants’ letgue, 4; to the state. He lived at Graften ten/geois party, 2; peasants’ years ago. jocratic