The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1919, Page 1

Uneettied. THE BISMAR( THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO: 45. FEB. STATE BONDING DEPARTMENT TO TAKE “EM ALL Every State, County, Municipal,’ Township and School Dis- trict Officer “Covered” WILL. HAVE BLUE BOOK Publication of Valuation Refer- ence Work to Be Resumed by General Assembly | Senate Bill 48, amending the state! MARY WALKER: SURGEON OF 64, 1S DEAD Famous ‘Woman Doctor Permit- ted by Congress to Dress as Man, Dies at 87 BECAME MASCULINE EARLY Declared That Clothes of the Sterner Sex Gave Her More Confidence in Self Watértown, N. Y., Feo. /22.—Dr. ~ ponding. act of 1915 to make it appli-|Mary Walker, aged 87 years, died at cable to state officals and employes as well as public servants of:all mi- nor civil subdivisions, passed the sen- ate Friday with little oppisition. The premium for sureties issued by the tate bonding department is fixed at 5 cents per hundred per annum, with a minimum bonding fee of $2.50 per annum, Officials covered by this act are permitted to furnish in lieu of the insurance provided for in this act! a bond furnished by persona] sureties or.by a surety company, but no officer or board of the state or any county, city or town, school distyict or town- ship shall have the right to pay for; any such bond or bonds out of any public funds, except, for such bonds are are procured to replace insucance| cancelled by the commissioner or to cover the excess ‘over the amount car-; ried |in ‘the state bonding fund. *‘commisfsoner ot _insurance,! who administers the Wonding’ fund, may reinsure any part of any Itabil: ity in excess of $25,000 upon any one/ public employe at a cost not to ex- ceed the rate of the premium provid- ed for in this act, and the expense of such reinsurance shall be paid out of) the state bonding fund. i The bonding .act. although passel, by the fourtéenth general assembly; in 1915, was held through actions brought in the supreme courts of this state and of the United States until 1917. The first full year’s’ operation of the department under Commission er of Insurance Olsness has producet a nice balance to the credit of the} fund. No losses were paid during this period, and only a small number of county officers were insured, because} a majority had procured their bonds before the supreme court of’ the “Unit-' ed’ States handed down its ruling in this matter, ‘upholding‘'the ‘constitu- tionality of the “Nort Dakota’ act, which has’ been’’attacked by a trust company doing a large bonding busi- ness in the state. . To Have Blue. Book. The North Dakota Plue-Book, which has not been published ‘since 1913, willbe brought to. life if Senate Bill “166, which passed he a Heldey, meets with equal, ry A. fhe, house, Senators urged that i ater of the book was insignificant |, when, com, pared with the value of. this volumo . a8 a text book in the schools, and for reference purposes generally. In ad- dition to the usual matter biographic- al sketches and cuts of the 162 mem- bers of ‘North Dakota's most famous general assembly will be included. It is planned to publish 10,000 copies. The senate also padsed S. B. 63, making an, appropriation for vocation- al education; S. B. 114, to appropriate money to reimburse W. J. Curren of Valley City; S. B, 175, providing for an extension of the capital street rail- way line and prescribing, the duties of the state industrial commission in respect thereto. PHYSICIANS FIND PREMIER HARD PATIENT ’ Paris, Feb. 22.—Premier Clemen: ceau rested. well during the » night. Seemingly he had suffered nothing during the strenuous work of yester- day when he insisted upon seeing 40 persons waich the physicians. declare was too much for a man of his age with a bullet in, his back. i An injgction of morphine . was thought necessary to relieve. condi- tions in his lung but none of the doc- tors dared to propose it to the pre- mier. “Finally Dr, Laubry volunteered and when he pled with Clemenceau as a “fellow doctor” to permit the in- jection, the Premier grabbed him by the shoulder and said: _ 2 “Are you too in the pay of the Bolsheviki? Do you want to finish me?” . a The injection was abandoned. Dr. ‘Laubry threw up his hands and sald: “We wanted to give your chest a rest and now you nearly burst it.” Today, however, Premiter Clemen- ceau showed signs of fatigue and no visitors were permitted. PEACE TREATY NEARLY FINISHED Paris (Friday). Feb. 22.—The su- preme war council ‘has completed the principal details of the military treaty which will be’ presented to: the Ger- mans. This documents is considered a highly important one, being in its terms a permanent armistice, but in effect a iilitary treaty, disarming and demobi- lizing Germany down to a bare police force. <The frontier fortifications as well as Helgoland and the Kiel canal are to be dismantled. It is understood ng. os her home last ,night after a long ill- ness. She was a surgeon in the Civil war and was awarded a congressional medal. She was the only woman al- lowed to appear in male attire by an act of congress. ‘- ‘Dr. Mary E. Walker led a pictur- esque career. Four years were spent on the battlefields of the Civil war. The remainder of her active life was spent in fighting for feminine dress reform and woman’s right to political suffrage, in which.movement she was a pioneer. She frequentiy claimed to have been the first American wom- an to attempt to cast a ballot in a legal election. Her livelihood was earned during all these years by her pelvare medical practice and by writ- ing. : By ‘special authoriaztion from the Federal congress Dr. Walker adopted male atire during the Civil war and for the half century since she had she had continued to wear it in civil life —the only woman in the country who ever had her rights in this respect prescribed by the national legislators. She wore a black frock coat. trousers cane. Dr. Walker also was distinguished as the only woman in history who, when held as a captive in war, was exchanged as a prisoner of war for a man of equal rank in the army of the foe. She was also the first wom- an to be regularly enlisted in an army as a surgeon. Bogn.in Oswego, N. Y., in 1832, Miss Walker was a, graduate docior with he degree of M. D. at the age of 23. Beginning practice immediately she soon’ adopted mascluine clothes. Her war career began at the age of 29. She volunteered her services, enter- ».Union army as. an assistant Jontinued ‘on! Page ‘Three.) SENATE WANTS ‘UNITED STATES: TO KEEP ROADS Unanimously: Adopts Resolution Calling - for.Kive Years’ Extension of ContYol jet The senate unanimously went on recordrecord in favor of further exper- iment with government control of ruil- ways, when on Friday it adopted with- out an opposing vote the following con- current resolution, introduced by Mos- tad of Minot: Whereas, the government of the United States has taken control of all the railroads in the United States dur- ing the great world war, and ‘ Wheres the government of the United States has not had control of the railroads for a sufficient period of time to fairly test the desirab'lity of permanent, government .coutrol of rail- frector General» McAdoo: has recommended, to congress. that the railroads ‘pf the United States: be. un- der goyernment;control for.a period of five years from and after the 1st of January, 1919, and u Whereas, It is the sense of this legis- lature that the government should try out thoroughly, the feasibility of gov- ernment control and ownership of rail- roads, and eee Whereas, five years appearsito‘be nd such a question a fair and’ thorough trial, therefore, Be _ It Repotoes by the Senate, the House Of Representatives coneur- ring: e That they urge congress to pass such legislation as is necessary to author- ize government control of all the rail- roads in the United States for a period of five years from and after the 1st of January, 1919, Be It\ Further Resolved, That the secretary of state send a copy of these resolutions, one to each senator and member of congress for North Dakota, and to the chairman of the committee on railroads of the national senate and house of representatives. : WHEAT BILL PASSES HOUSE Washington, D. Gc Feb. 22.—The wheat guaranty bill authorizing the president to.use existing agencies’ or create new ones to buy wheat of the 1918-19 crop at the government guar- anty prices and dispose of ‘it at mar- ket prices. was passed by the house this afternoon by 277 to 17. The measure, which carries an ap- propriation of a billion, was passed with only two important amendments, one changing the date when the act shall cease to be effective from Octo- her 15,1920, to June 1, 1921, and the thority to restrict the importation of that only five to ten divisions are to be_allowed Germany. Further details of the treaty will be perfected Monday, and it will be pre- sented for final consideration Tuesday. OBES ud due- loss. “. b ‘The president has control of the wheat market, millers, bakers and ex- “Se ve and a high silk hat and carried a more than a reasonable. time. to give}. other giving the president greater au-| wheat to prevent the nation from un-| berg BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA: SATURDAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON -: The President Today Writes About ‘the First Birthday, the: Boyhood Days and the Last Day of Our First. President : BY WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States. (Taken . from the. life of George Washington, copygight, 1906, by Harper & Brothers, with special per- mission from the publishers.) Change’ of time and of affairs, the stir of growing life in Virginia as she ceased from being a colony and be- came a commonwealth, boasting her own breed of gentlemen, merchants, scholars, and statesmen, laid upon the Washingtons, as upon other men, a touch of: transformation. Seventy-six. years had gone by since John Washington came out of Bedsfordshire and took up lands on Bridges’ Creek in Westmoreland in Virginia, and still his children were to be fould in the old seats he bad chosen at the first. There the Washingtons have be- come country gentlemen of comfort- able estate upon the accepted model. John had begotten Lawrence. and Lawrence had begoten Augustine. John had thriftily taken care to see his offspring put in a way to “prosper at the very first. He had acquired a substantial property of his own where the land lay very fertile upon the ‘vanks of the Potomac, and he had, besides, by three mntarriages, made good a very close gonnection with several families tnat had thriven thereabouts before him. ‘His sons and grandsons, though they slackened a little the pace he had set them in his: energy at the outset, throve none the less substan- tially upon the estates he had left them, abated nothing of the dignity and worth they had inherited, lived simply and kept their; place of re- spect In the parish and state. Wars came and went without dis- MUNICH IN THROES OF REVOLUTION Munich, Feb, 22.---The assassination ;of Burt Kisner caused a riot in Mu-| nich, The streets were thronged with crowds. “The chumber where the diet was in session was stormed by a mob. The dict, which had adjourned for half an hour when the news of the assassination was received, had just re- assembled when a sold appeared ‘in the hall, shooting us he advanced. The deputies fled in a great panic. RIOTING IN CITY. London, Feb. 22.—Tt trouble _ in Munich ,took a more serious. turn yes- terday afternoon. Church. bells jbegan ringing and 10,000 workers marched in- to the city, and a short time, later vio- lent. firing, Wak \heard,, it is said, The mobs are reported .to have started plun- dering shops. Conditions are described as virtually civil war. 3 The veports-recelyed state, that: dic- tatorship ofthe workmen. will be pro- claimed and predict that the killing of Fisner will be avetiged. .'Armed auto- mobiles are rushing thro he, streets of: Manteh, 70 lat) od both Attenipts Diave beet miade “op... the Lives taf -opponwetits! of Eisner as, a, unt tee of reveilgd;) | isner was the’ idol ofthe: ultra’ ¥adicals and was, uncom promisingly forthe national assembly. "The political situation has been drift- ing to a polut of explosion. Adjournment of the diet after the shooting was due to the fear of foment- ing more trouble. EXCITEMENT GROWING Berlin, Feb. 22.—Excitement is growing at Munich. (Motor cars car- rying placards, reading “revenge’ for Elsner,” are scurrying through the streets. Large bodies or armed dem- onstrators have collected in various parts of the city, and there have been Promiscuous shooting episodes. DEPUTY UviL SHUT. London, Feb, 22.—According to re- ports from Munica, Deputy Osil was shot and killed during the riots. A representative of the war office, news | # advices indicate, was’‘wounded. Un- der Sepretary Jarichtlso was in- jured. ‘Herr Unterlichtner,’ minister of so- cial affairs, according ‘to this account was wounded when ‘Premier Eisned was killed, he being Eisner’s compan- ion. ‘3 It is reported that Count Arco Val~ ley. who shot Premier Eisner, was ‘killed by a naval guard. . The count is sa‘: .to have been a young student. DANIBLSTALKS 800 NILES ON RADIO. PHONE Secreary Daniels'transmitted a tele- phonic greeting to the president today by naval radio, The sécretary’s voice was ‘carried to the transport George Washington netirly 800. miles off the, coast. 6 ARRANGE FOR VISIT. On Board*U. 8. 8S. George Washing- | ton (Friday), Feb. 21.—Favored by good weather, President —Wilson’s steamer tonight was less, than 1,000 | mniles due east of Boston and heading in for shore at a rate of 17 miles an hour. The George Washington ‘is ex- corted by the cruiser South Carolina. The plang for the president’s recep- tion at Boston: have been “virtually | completed. They call for a speech by him during the afternoon and possibly a reception by the Massachusetts legis- lature, and his departure immediately thereafter for Washington. It seems provable the president will | reserve his full statement on the peace conference for hjs discussion of these matters with gress. RESUME BATTLE. Paris, Feb: 22.—The battle at Lem- erg has been resumed. The Ukrain- fans attacked violently. They are credited with thd object of capturing the city before the arrival of the in- A_portrait of George Washington by Remington ‘Peale, showing the “father of his country” in civilian garb of the early Republic times. turbing incident “for them, as the French moved upon the dorders oy impulse of politics from over sea; and then long peace set in, equally without incident. to stay a whole gen- eration, _ while: good farming went quietly forward, and politicians at home and in the colonies planned an- other’ move, in their game, It was, in. the midst of this time of poise, preparation, and ‘expectancy URGE LRAGUE TO SUPPRESS PRUSSIANISH Democratic Side Opens Up, At- tack Upon ‘Covenant for World Union “ENGLAND. WOULD Washitiizton, DIG, Fe league of the’ allies to: suppress Pr iunisni dnd hiperiilism was urged by David Jayne ‘Hill here today ‘in ad- j dressing ‘the ‘sous ang daughters, of: ‘an“Reyolution ‘in; urging a] the “Amel substitute for the league of nations. “I would not. besunderstogd ‘as offer: ing offensive criticism’. of thecpla there-are ‘many adinirable features it, but: in view. ofthe complications a ire .certain “toy arise, 1. would participation: in ‘its by re- the, words used in the Hague of 1908 and i in 1907. “The ambassador quoted this: restric- tion as follows :) ‘Nothing contained: {tt this conyention: shall be so construed as to require the United States to de- part from its policy of refusing to intrude in. or become entangled with the foreign policy of any foreign ite; nor the relinquishing by the United States of its hereditary attitude to- ward pyrely national policies.” Support for the republican attucks in the senate upon the proposed league of natiens came from the democratic side today, when Senator Reed of Mis- sourl, democrat, delivered a prepared address In Genuziciation of the plan. “Free American government would through the league,be largely replaced by a:government of European ‘mon- rehg and Astatic despots,” sald Reed. “England” senator Reed asserted, virtually, would dominate the league, and on all. questions the United States would: be ‘overwhelmingly outvoted. “The fangs of bolshevism: are: plain- ly visible’on thé league constitution,” declared Reed, condemning the league usa inove toward internationalism. THLS PLACID-FACED AMAZON BELONGS TO FINN WHITE GUARD ns * Women fought with rifles o: tween Whites and: Reds in Finland. Here is a who battled under the Mannerheim banner. h v Norwegian Red Cross sisters. Under the work or fight rule in Russia, hundreds of women ch their ‘husbands and brothers in to clear the Volga: River valley of invaders. brought to America by Garl Sandburg, just returned from northern WOODROW WILSON ‘| NOT. EXCESSIVE, "{ much Ee 22, 1919 an PRICE FIVE CENTS that George Washington was born, Sail the 22nd of February, in the year] 1iz2, “about ton in the morning.” William, Gooch, gentlest of Marl- borough’s captains, being governor of Vinrginia. He came into the world at the: plain but, spacious homestead | on Bridges’ Creek, fourth son, fifth child, ‘of. Augustine Wasnington, and of the third generation from John Washington, on of the one-time rector of Purleigh. ‘The homestead stood upon a green and gentle slope that fell away, but at+a little distance, to the waters of the Potomac, and from it could be seen th ebroad reaches of the stream stretching wide to the Maryland saore beyond, and flooding~with slow, full tide to the great bay below. The spot gave token of the quiet youth of the boy, of the years of grateful peace in which he: was to learn the first lessons of life, ere war and the changing fortunes gf his country hurried him ‘to. the field and the council. : George Washington was cast for his career by a very scant and home- ly training. Augustine Washington, his father, lacked neither the will nor the means to set him handsome- ly afoot, with as good a schooling, both in books and in affairs, as was tobe had; ne would have done all that a liberal and provident man should do to advance his boy in the | world. had he lived to go with him through: h¥§ youth. s But the end came for him before ve could see the lad out of boyhood. He died April 12, 1743, when he wsa but 49 years of age, and before George was 12; and in his will there was, of course, for George only a younger sons’ portion. Fortunately Mary Washington was (Continued on Page Four.) PROFIT IN MEAT SAYS SWIFT & CO. Swift & Company's 119 year book sets for the Strides of tlie packing fn- dustry in an interesting manner. In his annual address to the stock- ‘holders Mr, Louis F. Swift) says ill observe that in this year i rofits on, the United States meat i Feont on the regula fuod admin s greater than, in” previous: year and totaling $92: 6.10, our profits inthe nieat departments amount to less than 2 1-2 cents on each dol- of sales. : Mr ift declares that the margin f profit in the meat departments. alone Jvas 2.04 per cent of the turnover. A i , is paid the-Ameriean farmer for. the. part he played’in increasing’ the production of live stock. P mhe Swift company now, hy ) hareholders, 4.000 ‘of witoni' “are “em-) 1 Atterition is called, to the in- crease in overhead ane! toy war | labor Condittons. On compe: ‘tition Mr. Swift: Sily | “switt & “Company has no agree. fimént or understinding with compett- {tors and is ‘in keen and open compe- tition’ with every other packer—both in buying and selling. “We have never been given an op- portunity by the federal trade com- mission to refute their allega ns. We know that anv unbiased referees would exonerate us of the charges’ that have been made.” LIEUT. LIPP IS BACK FROM WAR Lieut. George E. Lipp, U. S. M. 0. €., after nine months’ exciting service with base hospital units and evacua- tion hospitals in France, where he pur- ticipated'in the fighting in the-Argonne forest and inthe brilliant-drive, on the St. Mihiel: salient, is home to. resume his practice with the firm of Roan: & Strauss. " Dr. Lipp’ was badly gassed. several months’ ago while serving on the St. Mihiel section. but he is fully.-recov- ered, and returns home feeling better for his experience. ver! n both sides in the Civil War be- Mongol Finn woman With her are two to fight. They went along with the campaign of the soviet army The picture was | FRASER APPLIES CLINCHER| |ingi.tdgse provisions, as applied to U ‘under 16 years of age in iny | this state, THREE YEARS OF NONPARTISAN RULE SEES TAX BURDEN GROW, $10,000,000, SAYS COMMISSION Board Which Is Two-Thirds League Forced to Tell Truth About Mounting Expenses of State Government Under Townley Rule as Result of Resolution Introduced by O'Connor>—Pos- sible Levy of $31,690. Apparent Under Bills Now Pending in Assembly—People Save State from Additional Boost of $7,500,000. Three years of Nonpartisan administration in North Dakota have sltoved the total tax levy for state and local purposes from $16,192,169, the total for the last year of the so-called “eld gang’ administration, to $25,800,000, as estimated by Townley’s own tax commission to be the tax burden for the current year. Townleyism in three years has cost North Dakota almost $10,000,000 over and above the expense of old gangism—$9,254,076 to be exact. And ’tis not Jerry Bacon nor Norm Black nor T.'J.. Nelson who are authority for this statement, but George E. Wallace, chair- man of the present tax commission, and who is to be the league’s new one-man tax commission; and Frank E. Packard, recently reappointed tax commissioner for six years, but who is to be Attorney General Langer’s first assistant attorney general. -Both Mr. Wallace and Mr. Packard, who form a two-thirds majority of the tax commission, are leaguers, owing the positions they now hold and those which they expect to hold, to-league favor. The truth of their statements as to the tax burdens which a Townley government has imposed upon North Dakota are also vouched for by H. H. Steele, the third membe r of the commission, and a hold- over from the Hanna administration. AMENDED CHIL TABOR BILL IS PUT TO SLEEP Senate Objects to Radical Changes Striking at Heart of Present Laws Following a fruitless wrangle in the enate over the propriety of permit- ting minors to work, senate Dill 166, introduced by Cahill of Grant, and which amended the child labor laws of 1913, was defeated Friday afternoon by a bi-partisan vote of 12 to 14, four being absent. ‘The 28 members opposed to the bill were equally divided. be- tween Nonpurtisans. and independents, with the former possibly d trifle in the majority. » Senator Cahill’s: bill ,originaily | for- bade the employment of_any, male child below 4, years of age, or any female »child -belaw ithe age of 18, and ‘extend- to.those-engaged in distributing or’ sell- ing newspapers-and magazines. It also made it uilaawfpl to employ any child rvlod during the how when the — public schools are in se om, unless such ch had been excused from attendance in the mu ovided for by the cam- pulsory school attendance act. In the senate committee on public health the minimum age for boys wa: reduced to 12, and it was further pro- vided that permits might be issued to boys between the ages of 10 and 12 to sell newspavers and magazines. The umendments also removed the admin- istration of the act from the public welfare commission. Intense opposition developed to these amendments, and # result of the argu-! ment was that hoth the amendments} and the original bill were lost. Fraser, who voted with the majority agaist the bill, then moved to reconsid Hyland moved that this moti on the table, thus applying the clincher. An aye and nay vote was demanded by Cahill on Hyland’s motion, which eurried, 23 to 21, and as.a result the bill can now be resurrected ouly by a two-thirds vote of the senate. DIVERGENCE OF “OPINION FOUND Wilbur and Day Do Not Seem to Agree‘on Affect of League 3 Insurance Bills A wide divergence of opinion is ap- parent between Harry Curran Wilbur, secret@ry of the North Dakota insur-| ance federation, and Harry E. Day secrétary of the American Natio! Fire Insurance Co., both of whom hail from Fargo. as to Qhe effect of league insurance members now before the as-| sembly. i Wilbur has declared,that some of the league measures are calculated to drive insurance companies from the state. \Day, on the other hand, insists that the insurance men have nothing to fear from these measures. The American National is a North Dakota company which could not withdraw from the state if it wished to, it is claimed, but Secretary Duy. on the other hand, says the company could get off its risks in if it so desired. He insists,‘ however, that there is no cause for panic. The security which Secretary’ Day feels may be connected in some degree with the fact that Patrick M. Casey. of Fargo, president of the Equity Co- operative Packine Co., vice pgesident of the North Dakota Equity anion. a member of the state board of control, and a prominent leaguer, is second vice president of the American National and active in the directorate of the qom- pany. } $232,000,000, “Under the limitations. proposed by this assembly upon local levies, it ts possible that the general property tax can increase to $27,000,000,” says the state tax commission in @ report filed with the house Friday in response. to a resolution introduced by Rep, J. F. T. O'Connor, directing that the com- mission furnish an estimate of the taxes which it believes will be raised under various bills introduced in the senate and house during the present session and under laws already on the statute-books. “The total tax levied for all pur- poses, state, county, township,’ city and school district for 1918, aggre- Gated $21,500,v00, an increase of §$2,- 500,000 or 13 per cent during the first year of the Nonpartisan administra- tion over the aggregate for 1917, which was $19,000,000. Values Over Billion. “Under class 1 as provided for -by the laws, of 1917 there was assessed property In 1918 to the amount , of presuming the assess- ment to Have been: made.in -accord- ance...with the. law at #) per cent. “Applying the actual 100 per cent value called for in Senate Bill 43,” says the tax commission, “we, get a total of $1,124,300,000.. The property falling. within the provision of/Otass? 2 under the present lyws aggregated! for $1918 $69,380,190; deducting ‘from this certain properties which have ‘een transferred to Class 1'by actual value, we get $150,000, property imi@labs ¥‘under the ‘present law is iBractically all exempted un- ‘der thd! Mrdvisions of Senate Bill 44; also certain personal property exemp- tions ando certain improvements on real property. It is conservative to 1/say that an assessed valuation of $1,- | 200,000,000 can be reached under Sen- ate Bill 43, as against $400,000,000 for 1918, an increase of 30 per cent. Possible Tax Burdens, “The posible tax burden under all of the révenue measures introduced presents a question of much difficulty. Taking all of the available data into consideration, we have concluded that under a rigid enforcement of these acts, if they become laws, £ae follow- ing revenue Would be possible: Three per cent gross sales tax on oil . o Mncome tax Corporation e Four-mill levy 090,000 Dues and fees + InherHthnce tax ... Moneys and credits . Motor vehicle license.... Three cents per. acre hail tax . Utility property tax . . Sinking and interest and levy for soldiers ....... 1,000,000 $16.990,000 $39,190,000 Tax Possible. “Of the total tax levied last year, $19,888,000 was for local purposes,” says the tax commission report. Add- ing to thi sthe local tax increase for the preceding year, we would get not less than $22,200,000. Adding tais to the possible tax, we get a total of $39,190,000. However, as the utility Property tax measure, House Bill 177, which appropriated as well as levied $7,500,000, has been defeated, itleaves a total possible tax levy of $31,690,000 under the bills now pending. Possible Total Tax Burden, “Starting with a total tax burden of $22,200,000, the posisble total tax burden depends upon the appropria- tions made by the legislative assem- bly, etther through the budget bill or direct. It appears probable that the total dppropriations from the general fund of tie state will run from seven to eight millions for the biennial per- iod. Selecting the conservative fig- ure of seven millions, this gives an amnual expenditure from the general fund of §3.500,000, which, added to the local tax burden gives a total tax bur- den of $25,700,000. Adding to this the motor vehicle license tax of $480,000, and the three cents per &cre hail in: surance tax of $900,000, and $1,000,000" interest and sinking funds and levy for soldiers, we get a total t&& bur- den of $28,080,000. If the legislative \appropirations exceed $3,500,000 an- nually, then this excess must be add- ed to the above figures to arrive at the total expenditures. If it is a.mil- lion more, then the total ex) will be $29,080,000. \ _. ‘Increase in Total Burden. “Tt might be instructive to this hon- orable body,” says the Day and A. C. Shiveley of Fargo, first vice president of the company and acting in a managerial city, are (Continued on Page ) sion, “to know! rent biennial | commission that (Contineed Bill 43, and applying."50 bet cat - iv aloe i"