The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1919, Page 1

i] it eit ls i THE WEATHER Generally Fair. SISMAR NO. 52. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MC NDAY, MARCH | 3, 1919 ; “PRICE FIVE CEN’ - TOWNLE 7ISM REBUKED IN LAST HOU TWO SIGNAL DEFEATS FOR : LEAGUE MARK CLOSING OF | {6TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Nonpartisan Bosses Fail to Drive Through House Emergency Clause on Job W. Brinton’s Newspaper Grab That Would Im- mediately Slaughter Independent Press—Senate ‘Turns Down} , Propaganda Resolutions of Czar Towsley With Only One Dissenting Voice. The most notable legislative session of any commonwealth closed at 1 o’clock Sunday morning after the league, despite hours! of stormy debate and in spite of the fact that it had absolute con- | i we of. both houses of the assembly, had suffered two signal de-! eats. The first and perhaps more important of these from a league: standpoint was its failure to attach to the Brinton newspaper monopoly bill an emergency clause which would have spelled i imme-: diate death to the independent press of North Dakota. i The second was the league’s failure to secure the concurrence ; of the senate in a set of resolutions introduced in the house -de- nouncing as traitcrs and 'falsifiers members of the minority whose: names were attached to a circular recently sent out from the Inde- pendent Voters’ association headquarters here, condemning the: “HALF DOZEN EUROPEAN RIVERS AND PORTS LIKELY 10 BE MADE FREE TO ALL NATIONS G Dal cS wy RUS SIA yarn, Nai nt 7, ‘ a \ ere! RoeRM= ua RNA A ‘ \ i Nain JONG ( MscHgie < 5 § CPECHO SLOVAKIMG. UKRAINE / F a ay NN PaRis ae Re ERANCE SegeAee CT, feumania ‘ ) Be 8 2. Vey S23 SREUME PSE mom coeds NS SLAVIA. BUGARIA ESky E S = me TORREY ee ¢ 1G . @DANELLES LONE Pars se" %, a 9, NG as ane d¥ JAF RICA'S : 7 \gacpad S OF NOTABLE ASSEMBLY RANK, OPEN LOBBYING AND INTIMIDATION FAIL TO GET EMERGENCY ON PRESS BILL Members Wrested From Grasp of Insulting Lobbyists to Give Them Opportunity to Vote—Krueger, for “Private” Reasons, Couldn’t Ballot Against Bill to Which He Had Professed i Decided Opposition Earlier in Afternoon—-O’Connor Pays Respects to Vicious Type of Legislation. For the third time within the course of a trifle more than 24 hours, the house of representatives late Saturday evening, within a {few hours of the close of the session, was called upon once more to istand between Job Wells Brinton, one of the coterie of Townley jlieutenants which includes Jack J. Hastings and Thomas Allan Box, jand the independent country press of North Dakota. { For the third time in two days Senate Bill 157, giving Job ‘Brinton’s newspaper trust an absolute monopoly of public patron- jage, estimated to be worth more than $300,000 per annum, was ‘denied the two-thirds majority required to carry the emergency jelause which would eet the act in immediate effect. [eek Open Lobbying. ‘ante-chamber and the gallery from jJeague’s legislative program as socialistic and confiscatory and | tending to destroy and annul private rights. Came at ‘Last Moment. It was near 9 o'clock Saturday even- ing, after the important business of the session had been disposed of and when the two houses were engaging in the usual closing hour pranks, pending final adjournment, thay tue state affairs, which has been the league’s legislative steering comiit- tee, introduced in the house a long set of resolutions - bitterly reviling members of the minority whose names appeared on the Independent Voters association circular. ‘These member: were called traitors, liars and paid hirelings of big business, and at the close of'the resolutions, which.includ- ed a copy of the l. V. A. circular, the names of the members attached | thereto were read, and chey were call- ed upon to tisclaim responsibility for the statements concained ‘therein. As the name of each minority mem- ber, in the «house: was read he re: sponded “Ayé’’ or ‘Present,’ and there was. no evidence that the high-rolling phrases had intimidated anyone of them. The adoption of the resolution was. moved ‘by Walter Maddock of Mountrail} chairman of the committes on ‘state affairs!°~Its adoption’ “was opposed by Rép. .O, B, Buriness of Grand’ Forks, Rep) Twichell: of Cass county and other: members of the n nority, who defended the s-atements in the I. V. A. circular and denounced the house and teh machine which had controlled it throughout the session for the tactics resorted to in forging tahrough such legislation as the board of administration bill, throttle Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state superintendent of public instruction, and the Brinton bill, whose aim is t} stifle the independent press of the state. A vivid recital of the methods of the secret caucus, of the rank lobby- ing resorted to by Neil C. Macdonald, for whom the board of administration bill, it was contended, was introduced; J. W. Brinton, owner, stockiolder, or promoter in 40 newspapers to each of which the league voted an annuity; of $6,000; William Lemke, league's St. Paul offices; President A. C. Townley and Governor Frazier. himself, marked the response of min: ority members to the league resolu- tions. Townley had left in high dudgeon Friday evening after sufficient number of leaguers had shown such independence as to twice defeat his| attempt to bull through an emergency clause on the Brinton newspaper trust bill. Erinton followed his master's example Saturday. evening, when for a third time the house rejected his demands for immediate slaughter of the independent press of the state, but Governor Frazier was present on the side-lines; so, too, was William Lemke, and Albert J. Fox, de-facto owner of the ‘Nonpartisan Courier- News was there when he was not busy on the ‘phone in an eciort to bring back to the house icasue mem- hers: who had left early The final upshot of it all in tne house, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, was a vote along strictly, league lines, | but without all of the leagvers stand- ing with tae majority, whicn barely carried the league's resolutions. ‘hen the resolutions went. to the senate where they found just one man--A. A. Liederbach of Dunn county, a league organizer and a member of the upper house—to support them. and Liederbach’s voice was. the enly one raised in opposition to the motioa to reject. The senate during its closing hours passed ; House Bill 163, requiring the union label on all public printing; House Bill 151, repealing state aid to fire insurance companies from the fire insurance premium tax; H. B. 34, pro- hibiting discrimination in the sale of commodities; H. B. 123, creating a commissioner of immigration, with an appropiration of "$200,000; H. B. 193, relating to salaries of resident offi- cers at the state hospital for the in- sane, and H. B. 189, creating a state flood control commission. The public utiluities bill, drawn .by a member of the state railway com- mission and giving that body control over all public service corporation in the state, passed during the closing hours of the session, when a confer- ence _ committee report on amend-} ments which had been made by both houses was adopted. A senate bill providing for the ex- tension of the capitol street railway (Continued on Page Four ) designed to! of the} The resolu: | tions were rejected by viva voce vote, | CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE UPON INDUSTRY Secretary Wi Wilso: son Advises Against Reduction in ; | Wage Scale PRES. GREETS GOVERNORS: | Promises Cooperation of Federal: Government — in Solving | Reconstruction Problems —_ the whité -hotse conference of gov nors. und mayors, , President W: ilson | promised that the‘federal government | would: consider itself the servant. of) the states in solving reeonstruction | problems.” The president said that he! hoped the conference diseussion would sume a wide range and direct: itself ch allocations of labor and in-+ as may be necessary,” Touching on the peace said that the confe garded themselves onl; servants andj not masters of the world. Consequent- ly the conferees are anxious, he said, j.to keep in close touch with the people} jto find ‘out how they can best make their lives what they wish them to be. | | He spoke briefly, confining himself jlargely to greeting the visitors. He declared the demands on his time were so great that he could not participate in the conference, Governors of many states and may- | {ors of many cities gathered at the! white house to hear President Wil- son’s views upon allaying unrest by j resuming normal conditions at once, Upon the opening of the conference, it was urged that the federal and state {governments cooperate to stabilize | {economic conditions, About 300 dele- | gates, mostly mayors, crowded into the east room, where President Wilson re-! ; ceived each of, them. It is expected | that there will be a wave of prosperity ! after‘a short period of reconstruction, Secretary of Labor W#son urged} against reduction of wages at present, | undue profits bv industry and any ae- tion that, would disturb the existing | ‘wage scale. He sgid that it would be! one year before the nation’s army} forces are demobilized. ' BUFFER EMPLOYMENT i Secretary of Labor Wilson told the governors that the recent strikes at! Spokane, Butte and elsewhere were not. rorganized labor movements, but were! the outgrowth of a deliberate attempt | oference he | at Paris re- :to establish in America a soviet gov- | ernment. “I don't believe any country owes every man a living. but I do believe every country owes every man a chance to earn a living,” he said. - Because of a threatened lack of em- Ployment during demobilization and re- organization” buffer, employment must be provided. He advVoeated the engage- ment by the- government in every pos- sible work of internal improvement. One reason why the return of troops has been slowed up, Secretary Baker explained, was that Great Britain: withdrew troopships to carry home! Australian, New Zealand and Canadian soldiers who had been in service longer than the Americans. He reiterated that | by April 300,000 Americans would be! returning monthly. { The mayors and governors in. con- ference-adopted~a resolution directing | Secretary of Labor Wilson to order the deportation of all undesirable aliens who sought to destroy estab- lished zovermmient by the use of force,’ i TO ASSIST SOLDIERS Washington, D. C., Mar. 3—With} the appointment of A. H. Woods, for-j mer police commissioner of New York, as special assistant to Secretary Baker, the war department today entered up- on a nation-wide campaign to provide re-employment for soldiers. The labor department's employment \(Continued on Page Five.) vthe new i hetween nations. Washington, D. C,,: Mar, 8.—Openine |. | of free access to the seas. Would be to threaten their economic Rivers and cities in héavy type on this map:are likely to be made free to all nations aaueet ‘supervision of the League of Nations. 50-50"; HAZEN | Only. Way: to Protect Small Countries With No Seaports! From Being Strangled by More | Powerful. RN GOES | a NEW SPEAKER oo cas ‘International Railways May Be Included and All Operated by Commission Under League of Exciting Return Game on Me- ~ PUTS UP RIGHT Nations. , Lean County Seat High School | Floor Divides Honors Ry HAROLD FE; BECHTOL, i : European Manager of N. 1. Washburn, D.. Mar. The | i Paris, Mar. 3 ashburn high school basketball ; me of ports, waters y i i | Tt soutiad deadly thing: split a doubleheader with the: ! But that “phrase holds one of the; Haven cohorts on Friday evening at} i most important of all the ‘steps which; the Hazen school, before a crowd | H rd win to its time in the which filled the gymnas micity. It was the second NWashburn fo visit’ Hazen, vu" ujust Loca) control of international! tempt to ‘initiate into the rivers and-crailroads and: “sewed Sup!" the peace conference is taking tow era of. closer, freer. relation ate stories: of} Ketball the growing youngsters of | need for such control. It is the outlet for Antwerp, one of the greatest ports in Europe, but the mouth of the river is in Dutch territory. This Scheldt | question is second in importance only F tor Washburn, ‘to reparation in Belgium's eyes. : i Wholly national railways mean con-{ The Washburn boys entered the fray handic rapped by the nbs nee of © aptain st chi nging: fares an rates and; pe actics 2 | changing aia crews at every bound- | ankle at practice the early part of the | speedy girls’ aggregation at Hazen.| Hilda Monson made al? the points i | Mazen, Gertrude Schweizer and Marie | | | Brummond tossed four ops apieke | Lary especially when trains are run-| Werk: But the visitors put mp a plucky | | f ning, Mar ning through small countries—and the | piiron hays, improved —cansitierably cent hy. the social {chances are that there will be a lot; - . s are, thatit nee their defeat at Washburn a cou-| to be a conv a § ies he B: i pmore small count hefore the peace! nie of weeks ago, traveled across the International control of certain rait-{ oor with almost clock-work regularity ways. at least, is going to be vital in| £0" @ time. The star performer. fo the jew’ era; peacers sav. i “on was Newton Duffinrud, left for- What, is to be done about ports is) . Who made four baskets the’ fi | perhaps the most difficult of all thet hal eter aS ire onion jquestions connected with international | Mond) Johnson, the left guard, nego: | transportation control. ‘The whole port | tiated fou tu sks also, while Arthur | ty crehtent eedent.| Lindquist made one, —____—_ question received its sreates t recog! ni ‘After. tho games, the -Hagen, actool [Munch in the well equipped and model | Washington, D. C.. Mar. 3.—With | the Liberty loan bill out of the w oth branches of congress went to wor today with the hope of clearing up mass of bills. Democratic leaders pre- | i free speech, i wood and other T, v. W's, repeal of | the espionage act and to take such| ther steps as may he deemed wise. A number of the invitations have heen closely ¢ inspected and photo-} graphed. PROBLEM OF SMAI Here again the new s formed will add to the problem as well ; as to the need for an application to the principle, Some of the little nations | seem likely to have no coast or no port. | To leave them in such a Desltion| ‘DEATH SENTENCE 1S COMMUTED) Washington, D. C,, Mar, 3.—Disap-| proval by President” Wilson of — the death sentence upon Max Sandin, 3 ‘ientious objector commuted He was! life at birth. Ports now most com- monly mentioned for early internation- alization are Constantinople, Danzig, | to a sentence of 15 yea : tear: Trieste, Fiume, Antwerp and Durazzo | os ee © Waki dicted that the army and navy bills in addition to the Dardanelles and such | found. auilty of refusing to obey his might not pass Iut that the bition international straits. ws order to clean up a pile of | dollar wheat nty bill and defi-| will be! rubbish, in the’« cieney appropriation bills would be en- That the Bagdad raflway placed under international coutrol 008 | without saying. On thé broad question the powers | are in complete aceord and the princi-! ple is almost’ certain to he incorporat-| ed in the peace treaty. But the com-| mission whieh. is to work out the de-| {" tails has a long job ahead. | Peace commissioners incline to the!) cted by tomorrow noon. Speeches were set for today in the | senate on the leagne of nations. Ther hance of getting through | including the agricultural C.. Mar. 3—fecre | bill, repealing the daylight saving bill. | mucted the commind-! These are only a few of the mea yal training} ures that are expected to die on the cal- izute reports; endar. Hope virtually abandoned | view that the ultimate solution will be that a number of men there had been j of starting a fillibuster on the suffrage ; the setpal operation of the necessary | involved in irregular similar to | amendment. rivers, ports and railroads by commis.; {208 recently disclosed in the New | sion, accountable to the Teagne of na.| York istrict | Harrison Drug / Se oubereamar 98 E ‘Uphold Conviction: | Act Constitutional FRANCE DEMANDS | Under Spy Measure) wasningo. 0-6, Mar. 2—The en BILLION FI POUNDS) Washinton tO the Hine preme court tod dee itu. | | . tional the provision in the Ha on passing specifically on the con: -drug law prohibiting the sale of | Paris, Mar. 3.—The. peace conference | ality of the espionage act, the supreme | drugs, except on prescriptions. on the repatriation has presented a pre-} court foday sustained the. government | a Hminary report. France, the state-j in its sentence of Abraham Sugarman MUST REPORT INCOME. ment adds, demands one billion pounds, | of Minneapolis under this act. The! Washington, March 3.—Salesmen part in gold, part in material and part { court held no constitutional questions | and other employes receiving per diem| in foreign securities and the remainder | were involved and aoa it had no juris- }salaries are required to report these in a period: of 25 to 35 years, diction, > jin income tax returns, |WIDEN SCOPE OF NAVAL PROBE Dd. My ‘ashington, y Daniels in: { ‘WILL ‘Partisan Hevy | dispatch our men to any qua j executive council , translate 1 oon danger P ANDORA BOX eT SAYS SHER MAN ‘ Minois Senator Rips Covenant Pieces in Ad- dress to ./ ment CORCH Attack Made Woodrow Wilson’s Idea for World Peace EARTH Upon Match <2.—The, Washington, posed constijution of the league of na-, tions was pictured to the senate to Mlinois, ‘day by. Sherman pt republi- “pandora’ , asking wid attior! rear above the republ: ana ft is simple but deadly Apparently an open covenant of peace, it is sacred charted of unceasing war ithe hands of Mars but the voice of | Woodrow, “If we cut the cable of constitution- al government here, we are cz in the irresistible tide tht will up into the maelstrom ot world's blood current. All we know is that a few men in some hidden known as the executive lite and nameles on he wielded powers of The creation of a tuing to sit in star chamber se: an wield implicit decree c cannot by free men. It destroy credit, leave our me rotting on piers, shut the Pa order congress to declare taxes, appropriate money support armies and ne untenanced ndise ama can- war, and of the globe to fight and die because an alien has willed it and May delude Themselves. “Sincere men mav have deliided themselves in their sincee hope for a purified world, but no delusion, how- ever sincere, would warrant this sen- ate joining with President Wilson in ‘.; his illusions. jon nor in- will not ratify an impossible to a weapon of national “Against the wisdom and fore of American forefathers there is now rising up the dre: amer and the man, the socialist, the mere haber- dasher in phrases intoxicate and mislead.” “Tt an © id which ings of the ernment to let Europe settie her own j quarrels, be considered now. “When | America went to war against a com- it did not lend itself to perpetual alliance to draw the fanrd whenever an European govern- ment voted it upon us. McCumber Speaks After Senator Sherman of Illinois, ‘had finished sharply attacking the covenant of nations and President Wil- (Continued on Page Five.) Take, No Action on Dry Measure Washington, D. C.. Mar. 3:—Agree- ment was reached in the senate judi- ciary committee today to take no ac tion on the enforcement of war time July 1. ep | the old) | which will| are not content to let prohibition, which becomes effective on | early morning until late in the after- noon, The net result of nis work as it finally appeared in the roll call prpenied to be the winning over of Runkel, a leaguer who had voted against the emergency, and Roquetto and Murtha of Stark county, minority members whose reason for this elev- enth-hour flop are not known, Form- er Senator Li ie A. Simpson arrived lin the city early Saturday morning and was much in evidence about the capital When there at last arrived a mo- when Brinton believed ae had influenced a sufficient number. of house members to change their votes. Patterson of Renville made a motion that Senate Lill 157 be reconsidered. The motion was conded by Walker, Patterson's team-mate, Burtness ob- ‘jected, ading from the journal of the previous day to show that both , Patterson and Walker had voted with the minority side and therefore could not move to reconsider. Steele County Honored. Steele county then enjoyed the non- Mr. or of seeing its representative, Johnson, who had only a few mo- +, ments before been buttonholed by , ,Urinton, e and make the motion whos: to, give imniedi- ate effect to what has been dubbed by purpose was parts have to be wiped out before there, Hhe enterprising five-year-old commun | StS eine oie yer," e at this auth ; Natt he the free I phcentaeat Ae And for the second time, I zon | FREDERICH H GILLETTE eats ae found i He conetlti eA ueTS ane non-leaguers, alike as the the free necess.to the seas. f ried. of most of, the honors, al} Frederick Huntington Gillett of the | tion of the United Suites Girtiest and al Loget ner ese a Dody.'so Heressary to the success ot, though the Washburn players on their! second M. district has | 4 end despicable ; piece of leg islation the’ league of hations and to. world row floor so far have proved invinei-| held pub of” the, time! anatt ea web ache watie une apamiae: | eam en aN peace, | ble. ears after e a. aan . . 1 Seta Samet ead Aare sernou Years the great Danube was une} ‘The tournament opened with a fast ears er tiea: tio Hs.” the ‘senator Now in the) Uurtness of Grand Forks was in- der. control, of the international Dan-| exhibition between the Washburn and 17902 and TRA bes eee eo ene aoe ones aoe toindon ii aden or eH rigger ors ube commistion, free from Jocal influ. | Wazen high school girls, with the for- | ther ; Gillett ts one. of | See, this “Caasar fod Ut Manan |iuakibg emotion to.recoasider ueayee: ence, which simply “van” the river. It) mer winning by a score of 17 to 7 /the oldest members in point of | erg hinselt A Ee ESOTHERE aetna (tHGSE eenLisinGat had Beni meaOe xed and collected toils from which it! The Hazen xirls played some last sea-| service. Seo ee ae eae eee ON Ema eate hata: (heas comet at REE paid ifs expenses and it operated patrol | son but on account of the influenza epi-|” In the last congress he: was rank Champion of peace etemal And the! Neat Mie vnubly vicious this bilt ships, lighthouses, tugs and even hos-| demic have played little this year, On ing Republican member on the. im. | SU#rdian of mankind. As he Bent We te ilo they aek us Lo reconsider, our pitals. ‘The Rhine had a similar inter-| invitation by Washbura, they agreed | portant appropriations committee, | OUt OF War in, its. so he will Heap te ee we cause they believe this. bill national arrangement. fo try their fortune, however, and ae) and if he hadn't won the speakership | ov tne necessities of 1450, If we ac Should be killed?” asked the Bene RIVERS TO BE CONTROLLED —_; (uilted themselves with marked eredit.| ght he would be the chairman of/Paye him again "man from Grand Fork It is probable that the Rhine and) Some of the novices got a little excit-; that committee in the 66th congress. SCPE MM akan we “Or is this being done merely to Danube arrangements will be con-| 4 md hmaged the ball with tne ee | ge te er ice, was Bive the majority, which already has served and extended to other rivers, | ane three and got together woe start: , Like j its neutrality, derice: ; wae Fe aetmostriletona ners onnortaaity fut as the ‘Vistula, Prufh, Fae and Hing compact, but it was amply proven S0CI A LI TS T0 oie co league, engiges not in one war, t0 attempt to fasten on this bill an [Scheldt. The Scheldt iMlustrates the | (Mul Professor Shaw has some tne we pat in all wars that scorch the earth, emergency clause which this house has twice voted down O'Connor Txplains. T. O'Connor undertook ation: has passed both for the govern Rep. J to explain the “Senate Bill houses. It is ready ignature, and, as it now stands, it will become effective July 1. 1915, when the work of destr g the free and independent press of North Da- kota will begin. Those who are most interested in the success of this bill e asking us to give them a thirt change to pass the emergency clause is attached to this measure, and the reason tor this is that they the independ- ent press live until July 1, only a few months hence. ‘They want to begin their work of destruction now, teu or tomorrow, tiey want the right. to sink the dagger they now hold sus- pended deep in the heart of the in- dependent press of North» Dakota. s the bill stands how, you will destroy the independent press July 1, If you vote to reconsider and thirds vote, then carries with it the em- and the slaughter begins at Burtness Calls Lobbyist. did I have the reason to be- lieve that this motion to reconsider made in good faith, T would voto ” said Burtnes: “I do not be- limiting discussion or con- sideration of a measure of such it portance But I am convinced this motion was not made in good faith, that its purpose was not to bring the bill back for reconsideration with a view to ing or kiting it, bat to get this bill before the house once. more to see if you cannot get enough votes to carry this emergency clause. “I say again, this motion was not made in good faith. I saw the gentle- man who made this motion in confer- ence during recess with Mr. Brinton, the man whom every member in this ‘house knows is back of this bill, the man whom the league’s own organs have repeatedly asserted is ‘handling” the league's newspaper Dills.” Frederiskson Balks. A_ roll call was demanded on the motion to reconsider. It resulted in the motion’s carrying 63 to 41, Mur- tha andjRoquette of Stark county vot- ing with the majority, wnile. Bollin- ger, Frederickson, Harris, Herbert Koller, Nathon of Sheridan, Nathan of Logan, Pleasance and Wad | voted with the minority. “T voted twice in favor of this (Continued_on Page Four.)