The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1919, Page 1

Fair tonight! \> ‘BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS THURSDAY 10 BE EPOCHAL DAY - IN HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA « WITH PROGRAM OF LEAGUE UP Half-Dozen Important Public Utility, Bond Issue - and Taxation Measures to Be Considered by Two Houses Tomorrow THIRTY-NINTH. YEAR. NO. 36. MORY STANDS — ROYLANCE BILL BOOSTS FARMERS’ [Cra As qunatna ais nm STATE TAXES $1,451,644 YEARLY| (egestas ASSESSMENT RUSS FACTIONS GOESTOOVER MAY COMPOSE | HALF-BILLION ALL DIFFERENCES Agriculturists Save $24,752 on Various Rarties Accept Invita- Personal, Pays $2,362,- tions to, Formal Con- 234 on Land ference ee Thursday will be an epochal day in the 16th general assembly. At 10 a. m. as a special order of business the house will have under consideration House Bill 17, which makes Governor Frazier, as chariman of the state industrial commission, the money master and industrial king of. North Dakota. pate) At 11 o’clock, under ‘special orders, the house will take up House Bill 18, which creates the Bank of North Dakota, an institu- tion with greater power and more resources than any similar per cent and business structures ‘on - ident as he left the building, which he CITY PROPERTY TREBLED Municipal Lots and Buildings Given Decided Advance —Railways Hit Farm lands, now assessed, at %0 per cent of their actual value, at $221,- 459,525, and paying in: state: tareg at a rate of four mills $885,836 ‘per dg: num, will under the league’s” 80 :pér. cent classification. measures, inqw in the senate, be assessed: an aggregaie of $590,558,648 and, in’ state taxes, at: a rate of four mills,-will pay $2,362,234 per annum, 3.) Heads 2 aVy On the other;*hand ;‘improvements’ on am, of atl aggregate, value of i 9 4, peying an‘annual. state tax o! sates: will’ be -axempted from “taxa: tlon,i which ' wilt} reduce: the: neg: bur- ‘state taxes {which will fall on the farmer to $2,337,482, per annum, as compared with the present annual levy of $885,838, of a net increase in cost to the farmers of North Dakota of $1,451,644, or about 133 per cent. Town and city lots, now. assessed on a 30 per cent basis at $15,,340,001, un- der the 80 per cent classification in! the Roylance bill will be assessed at $40,906,4C0, and instead of paying in state taxes $56,360, as at present, they} will pay $163,625, Improvements on city lots, now as- sessed on a 20 per cent basis at $20, 578,287, under the Roylance classifica. tion charged at approximately 60 per cent of their full-and actual value, as divided ‘between “buildings on city lots used as home and assessed at 40 {ty lots’ assessed \at (80 per «cent, will! ‘$61,724,861, and instead} ate "tax:‘of $82,313, | 246,929. 20 per cent of its full and actual value, which aggregates. $77,849,105, under the-new.-plan: will be-assessed at 100, per. cent, or-$269,397,010, and the an- nual bill ‘for. state taxes. will be, $1,-/ © Railways prepercy, ‘how ‘assessed at t SOVIET POSITION UNKNOWN Great Financial Problems Fol- lowing War Are Being Discussed \ ve Prospects are brightening for the as- sembling of four of the Russian fae- tions at Princes islands. Word has come that the Ukraine government will participate. The government of the Crimea’ already has, accepted, as has the Bolsheviki government. It is be- ginning to appear that a_ sufficient number of other factions will be in evidence to meet the Bolsheviki. The success of the meeting, how- ‘ever, is said to depend on the willing- ness of the soviets to give sufticient guarantees. It is by no means certuin that the soviet government will agree to any such guarantees. Meetings are going on today be- tween men who have gone to Paris at the call of President Wilson’ and the premiers to deal with great finan- cial problems arising from the war. Every delegation admits the gravity of} the problems presented. In no place is it regarded as so evi- dent that there must be the fullest and most cordial co-operation than in the effort to restore the stability of cur- rency, get rid of superfluous issues of war paper, prevent excessive fluctua tions of exchange and regulate int st on, and amount of bonds to be; issued. The plan, will meet with the most determined resistance from America, REACH AGREEMENT “The purpose of the agreement.” Mr. Polk, said, “is'to assist the Russians in Siberia in ‘regaining: their: normal life and it. has been reached. ona definite understanding that the railroads are be: operated for the interests of Si- The: United States und Japan voiced their disinterested: alt Under the plan, the Siberlan system, including the Chinese Eastery rallroad, is to be supervised by an allied) com- mittee, with-a Ryssian.as, chairman: JELLICORTELLS OF BRITISH | _ NAVAL FEATS SMERT EOE THE PECPLE. BeOPLES ABU: ab iv LINCOLN-A COMRADE IN’ THE |. “CRUSADE FOR’ DEMOCRACY | By the Rev. Charles Steize. war and its horrors, who tries to “That this nation; nader God, shall! drive ‘out of his tind the heart-break have a. new owitti6. ‘Treedum--and; of widows, and orphans—of mothers the that“government’ ofthe ‘people, bythe |4nd fathers, 'too—who _ neglects people, for the people, shall not perish | eu who come back ‘to us’ with shut- from ‘the earth.” tered bodies: and ruined minds and financial establishment in the northwest. At 1 p.m. the house will take up House Bill 49, which provides for the issuance of $2,000,000 worth of state bonds which are to finance the Bank of North Dakota. TART TO TALK IN CAPITAL FRIDAY “NOON Former President Will Speak Here on ‘League of + Nations! BIG CROWDS' ARE COMING William Howard Taft, America’s only ex-president, will speak from the rear platform of Northern Pacific train No. 3 during its 15-minute stop HF Bimarck shortly before noon Fri- ay. The former president comes. to Bis- marck direct from Minneapolis, where he is attending a three days’ conference for the northwestern dis- trict of the League to ‘Enforce Peace. In Bismarck Judge Taft will speak on the plans of the league, which is not a peace league nor a pacifist or- ganiaztion, but a proposed league of nations - banded together and equip- ped with such powers as will enable this federation to preserve world peace by force of arms if necessary. This will be the first opportunity offered many centralNorth Dakotans to hear former President Taft: and: a great congregation is expected at the Northern . Pacific station, to. greet him. En rottte to Bismarck, the former -president will speak briefly at Valley City and Jamestown. MOTOR VEHICLE The senate will convene at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, when it will take up senate bill 97, the new motur ve- hicle registration measure. The Joint highways committees, after milling over this bill for’ several days have returned to the original provisions as to basis of registration, which are a composition of one-half of one yer cent of the list price; 20 cents for cach hundred pounds weight, and 19 cents for each unit of horse powe+” Under this provision a car costing “2,4 would pay $12.50 on the list prke; if it weighed 2,500 pounds it'-would pay $5. under this classification, ani. if of 40: horse r, $4 under this classification. making the total régis- tration fee $21.50, as compared with $25 per annum on a straight one per cent assessment on the list price, or $50 under the two per cent fee pro- vided for by a former amendment which was rejected by the house. The framers of the bill have en(eay- ored to assess cars according to their money value and to also take tato consideration ‘the percentage of ‘ear on roads resulting from the use of these cars. After No. 97 is disposed of, the seu- ate will take up senate bill 43, Teiat- ing to the classification of property. Under this: bill railways and public utilities’ will be assessed at 100 per cent of their true value; all’ land,' ex- clusive~of' structures’ and ‘improve- ments; all bank stocks, flour’ ‘mills, elevators, , warehouses,’ storehouses, buildings und improvements on. rail Way 'rights-6f-wity or. tea Seabed from *?’ railway companies or” ‘ol ‘public ” utilities, and structures and: imptove- ments on town and city lots, at ‘80 per cent; livestock, agricultural: and other tools nnd. machinery, has and. other engines and - bolléts,” threshing machines, etc.; all vehicles, :automo- biles, motor trucks, etc, and struc- 031,588; “{iistead of thé present. $311,- rf eae f ae os fat om va : REACH AGHEEMENT?: ” i jolly KI oe Loot 2) "Phis was.the high resolve voiced. by | broken lives, isn’t worthy of a place tures and improvements” used’ for Phoné*comnpantés!! now adsessed’ at] “Washingtoh>Feb.'12+-Acting Secro Ho-Cdmindndéer in’ Book! Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg | in the democracy fox, which;;1jncoly, pines on town and city, lots, at 40° per... 743, On a By an aggregate of $1 d ‘will < pay four per cefit’’” valuation; mills state tax on 810, undér the 100 percent classifi¢u< tion. : 1 Beta All ofthe persotial property in the state, including bank stocks, bonds, etc., is now assessed at $56,631,693, on a valuation ranging from 5eto 30 per cent, and it is more difficult to dis- cover how the Roylance reclassifica- tion will affect this division. BBERT IS PRESIDENT _OFGERMANY fond 2 Plaudits ‘Once Show- Receives ered: «Upon Emperor .. :, William GALA -DAY FOR »WEIMAR (By Associated Press) fi |.committee: on international labor leg- 1918, h Bs Welmar (Tuesday), Feb. 12.—Peal-liation. The: committee’ is one: of tack, In Ne says: . department in Great Britain and/lic especially interested in the motor!» North Dakota, real estate series, t ing church ‘Bells announced to the peo- the few having anAmerican at its] PUNISHMENT WAITED THEM Northern Conference Opens] France’ was announced today. Tn ad-| vehicle registration measure, which Srinnee “the: tavtk “loan operations’ of total of $3,875] 5 ways in Siberfa. ¢ 4/7 ret tary Polk.announced today that th i “4 United States had ‘actepted forma 18 Just,,,. Written Relates roposals: of: the Japanese’ government) # (i 110 ge jifs K relative to the rehibilitation of rail- he Bea Exploits, sila 5 i ier lls LL BL EXPLAINS ‘POSITION. Tokio, Feb. 12.—Vice Foreign Min- ister Tschida speaking today of the ‘ publication of Chinese treaties with) Wondon, Feb. 12.--The dangers. to Jatan sala: tant the latter had sara which the British grand fleet was ex- ly calle 0 the attention o' ina St rei ra a p.] the established procedure under which posed during the a st owe. Ue aa neither nation has power to publish | e478 of the war owing to the German confidential communications . without | use of submarines, mines and. torpe- the consent of the other. does is described in a book written “Japan has no intention of inter-|)y Vice Admiral Jellicoe, former ¢om- fering where the Chinese prefer to a le omblic present questions to the peace con- pe of the fleet, and made public today. ference,” he said. ' cma Admiral Jellicoe points out ‘hat the pane TREAT Somer ebepidext German high seus fleet possessed & Wilson and the allied delegates are| destroyers, compared with 42 for--the perfecting plans for a sociéty of na-|-British grand fleepi. / % tions and arranging the ‘new terms to] - ‘Neither in Mi DANGERS’ ARE DESCRIBED Mane lay, 1915, nor in 1916, be imposed upon Germany upon the] giq the Britipli' iit 6 euperiority, address in’ 1863. It was prophetic of ; pleaded. hat we «muy well reaffirm today— and with even grenter emphasis. that no scorning of public opiu ‘oMfo:, this task jwe must subordinate scolding of neighbors,’ nor scott: of every. selfish impulse,;-every mean de- friends, nor scorning of shopmates, nor sire, every unworthy ambition. scorching of the press, will equal the The spirit of Lincoln—who, “with scourging of his own conscience in the malice toward ‘non with charity for day of reckoning. all,” with firmnes 1 the right, stead-| But he whose beart is quickened by fastly poured out his life in those try-|the sufferings of humanity, who fee ing years when our own land wes dyed that this vicarious suffering was ¢ red- with the blood of our’ soldiecs—'dured so that his own place in the must be the spirit of us all todey. | world might be made safer, an! who No true man con look out upon the resolves. thut he will pay te future world without seeing the pall hands heavy over the nations of all,the present and to the past—not for- the earth. ; {getting his obligations to those who. And how, can any man who sees tie live today—such a man may stand be- burdens that distress the: peoples ef side Abraham Lincoln and the mar- every Jand calmly fold his hands and tyrs of every generation, feeling tha say: “It 1s no concern of mine?” © |he too is a citizen of the world, a com- Any man who so soon forgets the rade in the crusade for democracy. LEADERS OF. (NAME company ba, nor TO LIQUIDATE And let every'siéh man’ ‘remember! that generations the debt that he ewes to! expiration of the armistice next (Mon- day, other important: details are be- ing prepared. It is-expécted the -con- ference will pass on a majority. of these projects Monday and -will pass them on to the society of nations. Foremost on this secondary pto- gram are the recommendations of the ple of Weimar at 4:15 this’ afternoon that the German folk for the first time in history had chosen the head of their own state. Frederick Ebert appeared before the assembly. 25 minutes later and received as the president of Ger- many the plaudits formerly reserved for the emperor of Germany, who had once designated the members of the party to which Ebert belonged as un- worthy to bear the name of Germans. The gallery resembled the reichstag tribune of olden days, with men and women in gala attire jammed into ev- ery available space. The voting by ballot caused confusion as the dele- gates struggied along aisles. Great crowds massed: outside during the session, awaiting patiently in the cold for a chance to see the pres- did immediafgely after making a brief speech of acceptance. Rete The vote against him probably came from the old conservative block and a few of the independent liberals. An- nouncement of a solitary vote for Ma- thias Erzberger brought a laugh from the house. which also laughed on the second day of the session when he was proposed for president. The national assembly adjourned until Thursday. AZIER. SIGNS SENATE “BILLS Governor Frazier yesterday advised the senate that he-had signed three senate bills, as follows: Senate Bill 1, providing for calling in judges of other districts for the trial of civil actions. 8. B. 29, relating to the removal of state, county and municipal officers by the governor. 8. B. 14, Senator Drown’s amended the- narrow |’ head, and Samuel Gompers, the presi- dent, has been pushing the work along. There has been difficulty in reconciling the diverse views of Brit- ish and American labor interests, as each is radical in some respeets and conservative in others according to the representative labor leaders. INSOLENT MESSAGE ~ SUPPRESSED justify him “in disregarding the en- emy’s, torpedo firgi The condition grad- ually improved after 1916, after the battle of Jutland,, considerably reduc- ing the danger of successful torpedo attack, while class K submarines made it possible that ‘the enemy would suf- fer more sériously from submariuc: at- “The position was asSuredand we could have afforded to take risks which in 1916 Would have been most unwise. If the German fleet had come out to battle, a terrible punishment zwaited them.” One-third of the book is devote:l to the battle of Jutland. Admiral Jellicoe says he knew ships were inadequately protected armor when in battle with cruisers of the battleship type. In addition, the Germans possessed “a-.imost. efficient armor piercing shell.” The adtirai continues : “When the batle fleets approached there was a difference of reckoning |, between the British battle fleet and battle cruiser squadrons; due. to the cruisers having been engaged for sev- “LEAGUE. IDEA ~INMILL CITY WAR CONTRACTS Washington, D. ©., Feb. 12.—Ap- pointment of the United States Liqui- dation company, war department, to liquidate fiancial affairs of the war dition to settling all claims of ant against ‘associated governments, the committee will be in power to dispose of all movable and immovable prop- erty used by the Americah government in England and France. Headquarters will be maintained in Paris. With ‘Addresses by Dr. Lowell and Herbert Houston WILLIAM H. TAFT ATTENDS Minneapolis, Minn.,. Feb. 12.—Dr. Lowell, president of Harvard, Herbert Hotston and Henry Morgenthau, for- mer ambassador to Turkey, were the leading speakers at the opening of RQUITY OPENS “The plain necessity for a lengue of | Large Attendance ‘of Delegates tions,” was thi ibject. dis d. nations,” was the su iscusses for First eau Former. President William H. ‘aiid "other * Yeaders’ will deliver ad- nual Convention Berne, Feb. 12.—German officers in-|eral hours and having reepatedly al- terned in Switzerland celebrated’ the {tered their course. Hence, instewl of birthday of the former emperor atj being encountered right ahead, the en- Luzerne, all, of them’ drinking. to his|emy appeared on the starboard bow: dresses at ater sessions. Mr.. Taft spoke in St. Paul at noon today. «Mr. Morgenthau in his address, said The annual state convention of the North Dakota Equity society opened good health and his early return. to power. They then drafted a telegram to Emerongeon, so insulting to. the al- lied nations that the telegraph office tefused to accept it. > SIBERIAN CASUALTIES. “Instant aetion was n ty and he decided to.employ on the port winz division, :to prevent being crossed. This maneuver, which has been described as: masterly by reviewers, threw the en-" emy into complete confusion. The Ger- man commander in ‘chief realized that, Washington, Feb. 12—A cablegram | his only hope lay in making an.escape, today from the statistics department} profiting by his superiority in torpedo the ‘American forces in Siberia up tO} ness and place of his mine fields.” February 10 it 10 officers and 314} “The enemy fired hundreds of torpe- killed, died of disease, and wounded | does,” he writes, as the Germans have}: in action. since stated and although the Germans The total divided as follows: Killed}were in the gravest peril, the grand in action. 2 officers, 60 men; died _of| fleet was in danger from torpedoes in wounds, 1 officer, 14 men; died of dis-}a heavy sea. By turning its position ease, 54 men; died of accident. 5 men;|three or four times, the grand fleet wounded severely 2 officers, 6¢ men;| got clear of the torpedoes. wounded slightly, 3 officers, 30 men;| “If this country in the future desires missing in action, 31 men. to rely for safety upon the fleet alone, i: These casualties are being published | it is necessary. that we possess a great- grain gradi bill_providing for tate varesu of Wwelghtd ad sbanure. Sede ELOw ph petes individually in .the regular. .cagualty|er margin. of superiority than we did Uste cas wal cae ot Sin August, 1914.” : : /mascus, Jerusalem and Constantino- of the A.B. F. says the casualties of| craft, low visibility. approach of dark- ‘ish: arising out of war. old position tenable.” that four former great nations of Eu- rope will disappear from the map. , ““They will permanently disappear from the; face of the earth, Turkey is for the first time since the invasion | was made by Pres. P. R. Fields of the Of Asia:Minor deprived: of the, great |Bismarck Commercial club. The ap- posts on which-she rests, Bagdad, Da- | pointment of a commiittee on commit- tees, followed, and then adjournment was taken until this evening, in order sh ianare Perea that. members: might observe Lincoln “ATL Furope will have to struggle to day with the general assembly... Ad- Texain.:its. normal status.” |dresses by Governor Frazier and by -Dr. : Lowell discussed ‘the -problems ; National President Tittlemore of Mad- “The past. two |ison, Wis., will feature subsequent ses- sdciety,. whose conven- in the Commercial club rooms at 10 o'clock this morning with a large at- tendance. Pres. Anthony Walton resided. An address of welcome nde. Alljare in ‘possession of thé Brit- years,” he said) “have shown that or | sions‘of the ere SEEK SUPPORT. , oN READ LINCOLN SPEECH. | 3 le Wash.,, . . 12.—Seattie | = Washington, Keb. 12—In accord- trades unionists will-Teave today for ance with fong established custom, > isolation is no longer j tion will. d. until the last of the BILL AGAIN IS PUT OVER DAY Amended Measure to Receive More Consideration at Re- quest of Hyland TAX MEASURES DEFERRED Declaring that Senate Bills 97, the new motor vehicle registration meas- {| ure; 43, the league’s classification of property bill, and 44, relating to the exemption of property from taxation, were three .of the most important measures that had come vefore the senate, and that, amended as they had been in committee, more time should be allowed for their considera- tion, Senator Hyland of Devils Lake on Tuesday secured a postponement of these bills until Thursday. He also secured favorable action on a motion that 1,000 copies of 97 and 44, as amended, be printed and placed on the desks of members of the assembly. He declared the pub- he declared should not be passed with- out the most careful consideration. Senator Church presented the only opposition to Hyland’s motion. He merely contended that inasmuch as legislative delays were holding up the registration department, action should be taken at the earliest pos- sible moment. He thought the motor vehicle registration bill as amended would, when explained, be found sat- istactory. This bill returns to the or- iginal principle of asessing cars on 1-2 of one per cent of the list price; 20 cents per hundred pounds of; weight, and 10 cents per unit of devel- oped horsepower, as to pleasure cars, with additional fees for heavier motor trucks. The principal objection to this plan is that it is too complicat- ed and car-owners will have a hack of a time figuring out what they should pay. DEPALMA BREAKS SPEED RECORDS SS Daytonia, Fla., Feb. 12.—Ralph De Palma. broke the world’s record here today for a mile and kilometer. The time for the mile was twenty-four and two hundredths seconds, as against Bob ‘Burman’s twenty-five and forty hundredths seconds. His record for a kilometer, 168 seconds, is slightly low- er than the past records. DRAKE FARMER WANTS ’PHONE The bill, carries an emergency clause which would: give it immediate effect, The result of the passage of this bill will be an immediate necessity for the reprinting of all supplies and forms used by assessors. It will also invall- date all work already done in making assessments for this year in Grand Forks, Fargo, Devils Lake, Jamestown, Minot, Bismarck and other cities, in which, under the law, the task of assessing was begun January 1, and more than a month’s work already has been done. Then the senate will take up senate * bill 44, which provides for the exemp- tion from taxation of all improvements on farm lands, and which exempts to a value of $1,000 improvements on city lots used for homes, and personal property, wearing apparel, tools, im- plements, ete., of a value ranging from $800 to $1,000, This bill has been amended to exempt all personal and real property owned by fraternfties,) ,...5) not organized for profit and used by ~~ them for places of meeting, and all sororities or other organizations of stu- dents, used exclusively for fraternal purposes and not for profit. And last, but far from least, among the senate bills the upper house will have under consideration Thursday No. 130, providing for the issuance of $10,- 000,000 worth of bonds of the state the Bank of North Dakota. NEW JUDICIAL BILL DEFEATED House Delays Redistricting State After Spirited Op- position Because of spirited opposition from minority ‘members who insisted that the bill would add to the @xpense of government without conferring any Teal benefits, the house Tueday failed to pass House Bill 124, which re- duced the number of judicial districts from 12 to six and increases the num- ber of judges from 12 to 15. Hanson of Grand Forks, Paul John- son of Pembina and Murtha of Stark were among those voting against the bill. Patterson voted no and stated he would move to reconsider. MISTAKES IN SEED AND FEED BONDING BILL ARE REMED