The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1919, Page 1

———S “ home town being Montezuma, ‘TAKING ,TO AUTOS THE WEATHER sAdneettied. i THE BI THIRTY. NINTH YEAR. NO. 48: . a BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA” MAJOR JIM 70 BE BXAMINER? MAYBE-PERHAPS Golden: Valley’ Gentleman Of- fered Another Two Years in Job He Now Holds ; anger BUT, WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Success of Bank of North Dakota May Depend Upon His ‘Being the President Marse Jim Waters, a gentleman of | JONLY ONE IN the old schgol who Is aconnoiseur of fast horses and all that—the man whio has been aptly dubbed by some wit as \the connecting link between — the lengue and the wide,-wide world, was renominated. by Governor Frazler on Tuesday to succeed himself as state | examiner, und this afternoon he was) wost unanimously confirmed by the senate, which very enthusiastically did endorse the governor's good taste und perpascuity. ‘Major Waters halls from Lowa, his fact ke has well succeeded in living down, He equipped himself for his present career as a leaguer by living in Golden Valley county, the most westernmost of all. North Dakota shires, at a time when the aforesaid Uving was precarious and uncertain. He ts a thirty-third degree brick- Jayer, and all that, and fie believes in Governor Frazier as the happiest of us belleve in our wives; and he is a bosom friend of Art Townley’s, because he neyer loaned Art any money, and ‘most everyone in North Dakota would be tickled to death tu know — that major was ‘gol to be examiner for another two years if It were not for their cherished ambition that he was to be the Moxes who would pilot the Bank of North’ Dakota oyt of the Bull shes. But, be that as it may, Major Wat- ers’ ‘second ‘term us state examiner opens March 11, 1919. And the senate’ has also contirmed the appointment of Dr. ©. J. MeGyr- ren of Devils Lake to succecd himself as sypertutendent of the state board of health; und W. H. Robinson, tu suc- a cae aed for four years as state eer and seeretury of the highway (Mr. Robinson is: from of Barnes county:and Charles A. Ul- -mer of Ransom ta be: members ofthe bourd - of * 't istees, for the, soldiers’ i for the terms ending and July 1, 1920, Ieee FIRST NORTH DAKOTA LANDS. AT HOBOKEN Message from Peake Tell of Homecoming The Fighting First, or that portion | of it which remains intact, landed at Hoboken early this, morning on the transport U. 8. Grant. A wireless message from Major -B. C. Boyd’ :of Hillsboro, returning in command of the Fighting First, now the 164th in- fantry, was received yesterday by R. D. Hoskins, secrétary to Adjutant: General Fraser. Major Boyd advised that the U., 8. Grant was then ap- proaching ¢hp \American coast-and that it would dock today. This morning a wire was received. from Gen. A. P. Peake, who is at Hoboken to welcome’ the boys as representative of the ad jutant general. General Peake ad- vised’ that,, the,.U..S. Grant. had docked, How many of the: men ‘of:the Fight;! * ing First remain with the 164th is not known. They are believed, however. to number at least 500. Ship With North Dakota| Boys Aboard In Port New York, Feb. 26—The transport President’ Gant. with.4,000 officers and men on board arrived at Ho- ‘boken today. .On board’ are some 400 or 600 North Dakot# rational guards- men.’ WILSON SIGNS LIGNITE. BILL Washington, D..C., Feb. 26-—With the approval of President Wilson of a bill authorizing the secretary of inte- rior to. investigate domestic deposits of lignite and peat in aa effort to de- velop commervial- uses’ for them, the department of the interior is pre- pared to immediately with a Tent in the southern field in Texas or in the northern field, in Montana or the Dakotas. OFFICIALS IN_CHINA|*" which + the] " President Wilson to Confer With.Senators Waghin@on, Cy Fel Presi- dent’ Wilson. will goto the capitol. to- day to meet senators to dis the for- eign situation with the nm adi ticn. he will urge haste on pre-e Lriation Pi aus cote, wie iat and other me uo LEAGUE MAKI MAKES OR BREAKS THE PRESS AT WILL Country Newspapers Absolutely at Mercy of Townley Un- der Brinton Bill A COUNTY “Regular” Sheets Where Several Abound Won- der Where They’re At The power to’ make or break any and the letting of all. printing con- tracts, by Senate Bill 157, which was entirely rewritten before ‘being re- ported out of the senate committeo on public printing Tuesday after- noon, Senate Bill 157 creates a state pub- lication and printing commission to succeed the present board of print- ing commissioners. This commissio1 is to consist of the secretary. of state, commissioner of agriculture and com- missioner of | university and school lands. It is to appoint a state printer who is to receive $2,400 per annum. Broad Powers. -oard include the making of printing contracts; the designation in each county of the state of one news-/ paper to be the official newspaper of such county and in such county for the state, and such newspaper at large as thé board may choose to designate state official newspapers, in which all legal. publications are to be made, “It shall be, the duty of said com- mission to designate in every county of this state a newspaper. which shall be ‘the official newspaper in, each county,” in which shall be published the official proceedings of the. board of county. commissioners : ‘and. all: no- tices and :publicatiotts ‘of county offi- cers; all. summons, citations’ and other processes of the -supreme,. dis-, trict or justice courts. Organized c! fes fa which ‘art official newspaper. is published ‘mu: vey euch, ‘paper, ot! erwite..the .councll/ or city com sion may, designate its own official organ. State, Papers at, Large. The commission niay also designate one of more légad; newspapers in; the atate for the publication of all state lagal notices, including ‘all; reports from the commissioner . of insurance, the secretary of state and other state officers, “and it shall haVe the power in addition to the laws now existing to make contracts with any printer, newspaper publisher. person or cor- poration for the pubiTéation of any state legal notices or for the print- ing of any public documents or re- ; ports,” ete, This dill with a halfdozen compan- \fon measures has been ardently cham- ploned by J. W. Brinton, formerly gen- era] ‘manager of the Consumers’ Unit- ed Stores, Co.,. but who for some months past, in the name of the league, has been buying country news- pavers. The league, now owns or con- trols, at least one weekly. newspaper in every county inthe state One of 'these in each county’ will become the official, newspaper. through designa- tion by. theb, Finting ' conim rinting commission. PLATINUM 1 IN "SOUTH AMERICA Colombia Fu Future Source of World Supply N. KB, A, Special-to The Tribune Bogata, Colombia, Feb. 26.—Colom- bia will be the future source of sup- ply for platinum for the whole world. Russian platinum fields in the Urals are nearing. exhaustion. Colombia’s fields ure*just coming in- to, prominence. ‘Only: in these two regions can the metal be found in paying quantities. Sometime before the war 90 per cent of the world’s supply of plutinum came from the Urals. It began -to fall off before the war made access to this sup- ply impossible. British and American engineers ure surveying and {hd both iplatinum and gold in paying ‘quantities over many square miles of the Choco district. London Press Praises Wilson’s Boston Speech London, Feb. . 26.—President Wil- scon’s first speech takes first place on the front pages of the London newspapers. These journals express tie hope that the American people ‘wil respond to the views expressed by President Wilson. The London Mail especially commends the tone of the ton speech arf declares that a return to United States’ . traditional isolation is unthinkable. } in the war,” the pape 1 _ “They wete » N, E. A. Special to The Tribune says, “and they must surely be in the ._ Pekin, Feb. 26-—A five passenger, | peace.” closed automobile in North China will ——_—___—_ usdally be seen carrying 13 persons. WALLACE NOMINATED. Reason: The ‘Closed cars. are much} ‘Washington. D. C. Feb. 26—(B: favoted by officials, who believe FR Se to be American ambassador to'Fritice} /{to succeed Sharp. in’ Shores) country, newspaper is placed In the! hands of a political commission of} three, which board ‘is to have the dis-; {tribution of all publication patronag?; The broad po’ ers conferred on this all} LATEST PICTURE i | t id ! { | This is the latest picture of Saf aanets Won't ; Take, Prison Fare *} Boston, Mass... Ft ; 16: suffragiats who were Committed to Jail Monday in connection “with ‘the. demonstration they made on the ocea- sou’ of, Wilson’s réevepfion réfused ‘to necept prison fure. of ‘them ate e prison breakfast ed tithe iorh- ing. TO COMPLETE PEACE PROGRAM NEXT FRIDAY Ten’ of the Paris, ‘Feb, 26—The | sub-conference eommlttee “expects (to, complete, - its peace program by Friday... Difficulties have been overcome and the. British proposals as a whole have been .ue- cepted. There. remain some mit more or less extraneous to the cons tution for settlement, such as the que tion of immigration, but these will be taken up later. Federal Government Must Play Larger Part Chicago, Fe President James of the Univ of Mlinvis today dis- cussed the part the federal governme: nt should take in directing and financins educaion so that all should have an equal right to the full benetits of edu- cation, “I bel ran education fac a very tical, situation.”. said Dr. James. “Some of our greatest na- tional interests are in a serious dan- gers The problems cannot be succ | fully solved unle: 4th federal po assumed its fair shire of the financial ang administrative bfrdens.” RECLAMATION BILL FAVORED Washington, D.C... Feb. 26.—A fay- orable report on the bill to appropriate $100,000,000 to make reclaimed land available for settlement by returned fighters was reported out in’ the wen- ate by the land committee today. By, means, of this measure, which provides I6ans to:men. who served with the army in France, Secretary. Lane! says jobs: can be secured for |100,000 men. “Unless we settl: these problems of employment favorably,” he-said, “these men will change political conditions. There is.no demand now from thése men that wé do these things. “The, sol- diers are not asking for a bounty, but with those who stayed at home.” ————___— RECCOMEND APPR_PRIATION. ~Wasiington; Feb. - the Bi rail: the: bulldiig ‘pro. 7 ‘in. Education| they must he given an. equal chance 26.—The ‘senate | - Lor fit|the Associated Press.)—Hugh Tem-|naval committee today. sco the sue Lamers thelr -distinction to) be invist-| ple. Wallace of. Tacomd, Wash, was oe. ne 4 ‘@ppropriation bill to the sen: bearing | Bominated iby President ‘Wilson today | ate: . oat ‘empowerifig. breeent OF WOUNDED PEACE CONGRESS PRESIDENT “CLEMENCEAU the president of. the, world peace congress, premier of France, Geor' ‘ges Clemenceau.; ‘It was snapped as he.was leaving his hou e to go to the peace congress session a in, Cottin, attempted.to:hill him. ~ -.- NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICTS ARE PAST SENATE Important Measure Approved by Upper House With Very Little- Discussion HOUSE DOES NIGHT WORK House Bill 124, redistricting the state judicially, . reducing the num- ber of districts from 12 to 6 and in- creasing the number of districts from 12 to 15, passed the senate with lit- tle opopsition, but 13. votes being reg- istered against it, and -it now lacks onfy: the governor's. signature to make it law: The bill changes the align- ment of all the present districts. Each of the new districts is given two judges,’ and in half of them there will be three judges. ‘Senator Church sought to amend the bill by striking out all of Section 8, providing for the appointment of additional judges, but his amendment i Jority for the bill. The senate took up no other bill on third reading yesterday, frecessing un- til 10 this morning, when, it ‘bucked into a long calendar. House Does Business. Following the afternoon's joint ses- sion, the house recessed until 7:30 p. m., when it tok up and passed prac- | tically everything it had on the day’s | calendar for third reading. The most important measure consid- ered’ was House Bill 186. providing for an eight hour day. for q¢rtain clesses of female workers, and fixing their minimum rate of compensation. But 21 votes were registered agains: this bill. The dills passed were: Senate bill 50, providing for the appointment by the attorney general of an assistant attorney general to act as attorney for the boatd of uni- versity and school lands, and prescrib- ing the duties of such attorney gen- eral, and requiring a bond to de giv- én and fixing his salary and making an appropriation therefor. Senate: bill 57, to appropriate mon- ey for the use of the board of railroad commisisoners ‘between. the following dates, to-wit: January Ist, 1919, to June 30th, 1919, and ‘specifying the purposes for which the apropriation is made. Senate bill 87, appropriating $1,- 11 to pay a claim against the state ‘avor of the William J. Burns -De- (Continued on Pages Eight.) f PROLETARIAT . AROUSED. OVER - EISNER MURDER TEE Feb. 26.—A ‘message from ol Rremiey-heuee by 5 repre mi iisner: by a repte- Bavarian arisen > defeat such foodallam. © WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1919. WILSON URGES was defeated. He voted with the ma- TRIBUNEL= PRICE FIVE CENTS REPUBLICANS T0 Cautions Democrats: to Leave Speech Making to Oppo- nents of League IN OPPOSITION CUMMINS Says Much That Is Good in Plan But More, That Is Bad . Washington, Feb, 26,—President -! Wilson planned today ‘to aid by his i presence at the capitol efforts of dem- ‘ ocratic leaders’ to force through big apropriation Dills and other import- ant legislation before adjournment next Tuesday. Senator Martin, the democratic floor leader, urged upon committee ec sirmen necesity for quick work and asked his colleagues to leave all speech-making, to Kepublicans. He even called on Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the foreign relations com mittee, and Senator Owen of Oklaho- ma to abandon plans for the delivery of prepared addreSses on the league 'of nations. Republican opposition to the presi- dent’s program lost no time in tak- ing shape. Plans to oppose the naval ‘Dill. building program appeared on a partisan’ vote. ‘The president’s plan ‘is*made without adequate knowledge of the situation,” republicans de clared. \ Attention was called to the fact that appropriation bills aggregated more than ‘five billion dollars, waile only five working days remained be- fore adjournment. Senator Cummins Opposed. While declaring his full sympathy with the purpose of forming an inter- national peace tribunal, Senator. Cum- mins of Iowa informed the senate to- day he was opposed to the proposed constitution of the league of nations ‘because he felt that some of its pro- visions struck at American sovereign- ty.. He said. the constitution would form .a world nation with, polyglot membership and indefinite powers. ‘He urged immediate peace with Germany .and immediate beginning of reconstruction work .to prevent, un- rest. The provisions he attacked deal iwth national. questions and provis- fons, for mandatory and reciprocal guarantees. : “There - is some good in it,” said Senator Cummings. “There is more that/is bad in it... As now proposed I would unhesitatingly vote against it.” The lowa senator sald the proposed league would tend to: destroy the na- tional structure and submit the Unit- ed States to 4 course which must end in humillation and disaster. Some of these -provisions, he. declared: are in direct conflict with the American con- stitution. The league's provisions for mandat-| tories was attacked by Senator Cum- mings as the grossest violation of our constitution. “It is. all to absurd to contemplate. When the American people consider such a course they will reject it with unanimity.” An official denial was made of ‘the report that the president desires a vote of approval of the principles of ‘the Jeague of nations. It was pointed out that the league of nations would be an integral part of the proposed peace treaty, wnich will be submitted at the next session. President Wilson was at his desk eafly today and had before him a great mass of business. White house attaches said that after his confor ence last night with Senator Martin and Senator Simmons, he saw Sen- ator Bankhead in regard to the water- power Dill, which he is: anxious to have passed and then continued work in his own room until nearly mid- night. SACRIFICE COW, HINDUS KILL 30 Village in India Burned, Mohammiedans Suffer Special to The Tribune India, Feb. 26.—Plans of Mohammedans to sacritice one cow at Katapur precipitated a riot in which Hindus—. Killed 30 Mohammedans ; Burned several to death; Injured 60 more; Burned most of the village. Kurbani ts a religious ceremonial of the Musselman in‘ which a cow is the sacrificial offering. Taking life is a violation of the Hindu religtoni Where so many races and religious are brought together as in India. the problem of reconciling them is difficult. At Katarpur the Musselmans have carried out their ceremonials within their own baliwicks in time past with- out interference, but this time all as- surance that the sacrifice would be made quietly within Mohammedan pre- cincts availed nothing. Three: thousand Hindus gathered from all surrounding towns and the Mohammedan festival was turned into a fight. ; Nearly 200 of the Hindus face pun- ishment fot inciting the outbreak. Canada Going After Commerce of Europe N. BH. A, Speciat-to The Tribune Toronto, Feb. 26—Canada is going after contracts for clothing Europe. Representatives of an organization of 42 garment concerns, making 75 per cent of the clothing produced in Can- ada, have gone to London to act: with .the Canadian trade mission. Standard- ised: cotton garments with a maximum of service at « minisnum of cost will be SHOW HANDS: TOWNLEY DON'T FRE NO DIFFERENT NOHOW NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. We Have It From the King Himself That Win or Lose He Always Has the Same Sensations, Which May Account for That Well Known Poker Face and Eagle Beak—But, the Remainder of the Party Seems to Be Considerable Hopeful—Nonpartisans Rip Off the Lid and Let Joy Be Unconfined in Joint Session While Governor Seeks to Control Twitching of Lips While He Signs THE Bills. Artaur C. Townley, .the one man whose brains and initiative and lead- ership made possible the signal vic- tory which the Nonpartisan league celebrated with a joint session in the house of representatives Tuesday af: ternoon, was hanging, dejectedly, iu the attitude of a man whose last ounce of energy had been spent, on the railing, half-way down the “grau’ Staircase,” just opposite the govern- or's office toward closing time last evening. Aren't you happy, Mr. Town- ley?” asked a newspaper man. “Feel just like | always do,” ungraciously grunted the Big Chief. “Well, you must feel a trifle different than you would had all this legislation gone under,” in- sisted the humble scribe. “You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t.” “Well, | suppose | do,” admit. ted Townley, a trifle more gta- ciously, And right there we have the cnig- ma that is Townley. Cynic, fanatic, misanthrope, pessi- mist, idealist, optimist, humanist. Yea, Verily. ne’s each and all of these At times and more. But the press insists that he did look a trifle more happy than usual during the jubilification meeting Tuesday afternoon, for, whatever it may have been to the league members of the legislature and the rank ind file who filled the galleries and side lines, to. Townley it was one. of ie greatest personal victories that uny, man ever has acnieved single-handel, “ri have to admit he has me guessing,” said a- well known news- papet man who traveled with Town- ley’ for weeks during a recent politi- UNITED STATES’ HAS. AUTHORITY, SAYS DONNELLEY Railway Attorney Insists Uncle * Sam Can Do as He.Pleases With. Tariffs PACKARD HAS HIS DOUBTS First Assistant Attorney Gen- eral in Maiden Plea Makes Good Argument Atorney Donnelley, formerly of the Northern Pacitic’s legal staff and now representing the federal railway ad- ministration, defended vigorously in supreme court Tuesday afternoon the right of this administration, under the powers vested in it by the act'of congréss of August, 1916, not only to fix and regulate intrastate commerce rates, but to ban or forbid or abolish such commerce. if it should seem to the administration to be to the best interests of the nation. F. E. Packard, of counsel ‘for the| state, in his opening argument, con- tended that state’s rights had not been | suspended by the act giving the feder- al government control of the railways. “While we are in a state of. war, we are not in a state of revolution,” said the tax commissioner. ‘The president has no power, even in time of war, to requisition private life or private property without such author- tty having been spepifically conferred upon him by act of congress. “The power upon which the taking | st over and operation of the railways fs based is not an executive power but a legislative power.” Packard argued that as a matter of fact the railways are not under fed- eral control. inasmuch as they are being operated by officers and em- ployes of the companies themselves. Donnelley insisted that the operatives are no longer employes or agents of the individual railway companies, but tha they are direct representatives of the federal government and that the Tailways are under the diréct control of the director general. He cited in support of this statement the fact that J. M. Hannaford was requited to resign. as president of the Northern Pacific before he could become fed- eral manager of this system by ap- pointment from the director general. » The hearing was on Attorney Gen- eral Langer’s application for a writ of mandamus compelling the federal Tailway administration to restore to effect in this state intrastate rates which Were operative last June when the ‘director placed in effect a new schedule 25 per cent higher as to| freight rates_and a half-cent_per mil higher on passenger hauls. The court issued an alternative writ directed to as D. Hines, director general of 8, ando the Northern. Pacific cammanding them to show cause pes “the writ of mandamus prayed should not issue. Arguments occu- pied the entire afternoon, a number of atorneys appearing for individual railway companies in addition to Mr. Donnelley’s presentation of ae case ‘ot the federal railway adm ‘The. court took the’ mater under visement. cal campaign. ~ “One day be’s ou the heights, the most affable, jovial, lik- lable fellow on earth. The next he's down in the dumps, sour, moody, un- approachable, apparently deligating in inflicting his ill humor on others.” One Wonderful Day. In any event, Tuesday was a great day for Townleyism. The orchestra played “Home, Sweet Home” as the governor bent to sign Senate Bill 19, the league home-building association measure, and the governor chuckled so forcibiy that his signgture trickled clear across the pati Everyone got it, and grinned and then laughed and finally splashed into applause, and Impressario O'Connor, was 50 tickled he tripped over his: traps. There were plenty of funny inci- dents. Won't Bushman Rave! The governor and his whole official family were rehearsed and. paraded before the movie camera just like so many Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplins and John Bunnies, and there was an awkward pause when, just: as Spedker Stair had begun to speak, the calcium began a hula-hula. And the governor, though he has posed full often, now, for camera of one kind or another, was a trifle self-conscious at first, and he seized his pen as though he were a first grader about to begin making his initial “A-B-C.’s,” If a spectotor were inclined to pick flaws or chanced to be there looking for those very things, he would have had a very nice time. BUT, the funny thing about it was that the plain ordinary folk in the league, the fellows who enjoyed it most, didn't seem to see a thing lu- dicrous about it. They did see, ap- parently, another notable ‘gathering, something ‘like the “signing of the Declaration of Independence” that our grand fathers used to have on taeir walls, or the well known picture of Honest Abe ‘setting his signature to the emancipation proclamation.» T'war Real Human, - And, because it was\-so darn du- man. and real. and ‘sinceresone ‘hed. to sort of représs any stifle he ‘Wag in- clined to smirk, and to Swallow, that Sense of Superiority, and to gor of. join in the spirit of the occasion, in spite of himself. Therd | were some mighty ‘gpoa including’ one by J... By. T. two, in fact; and ‘the nacheral .bawa orater from Grand Forks never had a more appreciati¥: audience. And one seldom: has Head ung with greater vigor or yolume’ than that self-same ‘hydin wes pealed forti at the close of the doin- ings. And. as for Mr. Townley. And, if Brother Townley “felt just as he always does,” he was kind of alone and lonesome in that sort of feeling. And, as a result of it all, neither the house nor the senate accomplish- ed much that afternoon in the way of real business, and so the house had to have a night session whic. strung out ‘way into the uncanny hours of one ahem, and thensome. ‘Tis a great life, Cerise, if the col- or’s fast and doesn’t weaken, N. D. TO KEEP SEBD FUNDS President Quamme Expresses Confident Government ‘Will Not Transfer Washington, D. C., Feb, B- western counties of ‘North Dakota suf- fered ere drouth and crop losses last yeay, E.G. Quamme, president of the . Paul Federal bank, today petitioned the department of agriculture to re- tain, the remainder of the seed grain loan fund allotted to North . Dakota fer these countries instead of tra: ferting :t to Montana, as planned. Tn a con nce with G. I., Christie, assistant secretary of agriculture, Quamme outlined the need of these dis trict The stricken. territory com- Dp the hpit of North Dakota west of a curved/line drawn approximately from Bottineau to _ Ellendale. The drouthy Howe districts excell while nearby no crops resulted. The government appropriated, $5,- 000,000 for relief of drouth stricken farmers and $600,000 of it was appro- priated to North Dakota. The depert- ment thought Montana entitled to ‘part of the amount since the/drouth also was severe there. The plan to turn & portion over to Montana relief. was. held in abeyance, however, pending the report on North Dakota. conditions. Scores of unfilled applications for seed grain loans are now in the hands of agents of the department throughout the stricken North Dakota ‘These tnust be filled within the next week or 10 days. Mr. Bonk os as: - ae His assistant, A. C. Niteee, made a tour of the territory., C. W. Warburton, spectal assistant to the secretary of agriculture at Great Falls, Mont... i Bray of ‘of the fund in it territory, that further dleposition of the fund be held up until Mr. co tae dapartnnat te ed the situation to the .