The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1919, Page 1

THE WEATHER Generally Fair. HE BISMAR CK TR THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 74. o The Spartacans, the dispate’ move. tached to each body of troops. a dealing with the former ruling p i untouched. . CALL RAILWAY STRIKE ASes y strike has been called which is | 4 expected to spread to all parts of this country. It is feared it may lead to the establishment of a soviet republic in German-Austria. a The strike is partly for higher wages and partly in sympathy with ay Vienna, March 28.—A rai the revolution in Hungary. ure, which assures its passage. i the Kremlin. late czar. supplies, j REJECT AMENDMENT Paris, March 28.—It was reported tonight that-the amend- ment to the league of nations covenant urged by Leon Bourgoise, advocating a permanent military staff for the league of nations, ; = has been rejected by the league of nations. : TO PUBLISH DRAFT : Washington, March 28.—Publication cf the amended draft of the league of nations covenant in a few days with provisions safe- guarding the Monroe doctrine among its clauses, is expected by. 4 administration officials here according to advices received today. No official information has reached here concerning the failure of the league committee to include the Monroe doctrine in the cove- nant. Officials expressed confidence, however, that President Wilson will insist on such a provision being in the final draft when it is passed upon by the council. It is understood here that the amended covenants will be given to the public simultaneously, - in all the associated countries. me ee NING: ‘ aris, Marc! .—Today’s Paris newspapers in discussing | a yesterday’s session of the Council of Four declare that extremely aM important problems directly connected with Germany’s future a boundaries were discussed in an excellent spirit of understanding. me The Petit Parisian says it understands important results were achieved. | gufficient to lighten her —_——— London, March 28.—Action by American t Russian prisoners in Germany 1s bud an important Bolsheviki plot, a graph dispatch dated Berlin Thursday. . ee The Spartacans in Standol, the message states, a big rising for Thursday, intending to arm seve! Russians from the Ruhleben Camp. The rushed the Russians on board inten Absa rstdi oh ‘the St areca, he dispatch adds, had intended to spring the! by Townley, accetituated their de-) the Hungarians in their revolt | fiance of the edicts of the state bank- believed to h had planned ral thousand Americans, however, day night and scat- revolt as a means of backing up . RECRUIT FOR RED ARMY Copenhagen (Thursday), March for recruits to enter the rod any, in Hun ay g i onse, according to a 5 . : te ek poee TTrst of recruits from labor and second from prole- tariats already under arms. A political commissary may be at- { fficial invitation | Hungary has met with an The army will| The blue sky commission took no 27.—The o A reserve army also is being formed will be trained by officers, who, however, w power to command forces nor to carry arms. BANISH ROYALTY ede capelnvey ook E — as introduced a sites ay ap abla See austria Hungary through | ficates similar to those offe i f the house of Hapsburg-Lotheringen, in perpetu- | sal i Fee ccna Together with the banishment of all members of this | this instance being sold by the Lig-} house, together with the house of Bourbon-Parma. y a The German-Austrian republi¢ is proclaimed the owner of the real and personal estate of the former imperial house, the net pro- ceeds of which may be used for the benefit of citizens whose health was impaired during the war or whose families have been deprived 7] of their bread-winners. The private property of former Emperor } b> Charles and the immediate members of his family is to remain | consumers’ FORMER PREMIER AT LIBERTY i London, March 28.—Count Michael Karolyi, former premier, is enjoying complete liberty in Budapest, according to.a Hungarian / government wireless received here. : i POLAND FRAMES TREATY ; i Paris, March 28.—The foreign affairs committee of the Polish 2 diet’ has submitted to that body the draft, of a bill for a conclusion | of.an alliance with the entente powers. The bill asks an incorpora- tion into Poland of those eastern territories in which the Polish q population forms a majority, or where Polish culture is predomi- ‘ nant.. Desire is expressed that Lithuania, ethnographically, should form a separate state, which might ultimately be joined to Poland by a free union. The socialists have agreed to support the meas- ” APPEALS TO UNITED STATES Paris, March 28.—A rumor was current last night that the United States had received a note from Premier Lenine and War Minister Trotzky: of the Soviet government, asking recognition for the government, says M. Houtin in La Journal. M. Houtin says he cannot say that President Wilson is disinclined to give the communication favorable consideration. ROYALIST CONSPIRACY Stockholm, March 28.—An alleged royalist conspiracy has been discovered ‘at Penza, northwest of Saratov, in eastern Euro- pean Russia, according to the Russian newspaper, Krasnia Gazette, and 21 persons have been shot by the Bolsheviki in connection with the plot. The alleged leader was Sukotne, a former marshal of the r Russian nobility, who was a local commissary under the Bolshevik 4 regime. He was executed. The conspirators, it is said, planned to alm off the nephew of a local bishop as Grand Duke Demetri Pavlowitch, carry him to Moscow and make a demonstration at The Grand Duke Demetri Pavlowitch is now in England, where he holds an honorary commission as captain in the English army. He is next in succession to Grand Duke Alexis, son of the ‘ ARRANGE ‘ FOR a Paris, March 28.—The German delegation of financiers now { at Spa is expected soon’ to arrive in Paris to testify as to securities i which Germany has to offer in payment for food. Germany has > increased her deposits cf gold at Brussels in payment for food SECURITIES Neutrals also have been invited to send delegates to confer at the peace conference relative to Germany securities in their country which might be applied in payment for food. ) @ _ An agreement allowing Germany to export certain products in in exchange for food now is effective. < As to the financial problem the solution reported to have been adopted provides for the payment by Germa: f yearly i - ments on the*indemnity, of which Featiee wil Ml fos I ive. rti Pottion of the bu : receive a portion INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION f AMERICANS THWART PLOT OF SPARTACANS TO ARM BOLSHEVIKS; HUNGARY RECRUITING RED ARMY French and Other Allied Representatives Reach} Agreement on Territorial Claims—Amended Draft of League Expected Soon roops looking after | ave nipped in the ccording to an Exchange Tele- TOWNLEY CHAIN. | STORES AGAIN DEFY THESTATE Officials Completely Ignore Re- quest From North Dakota Banking Commission |TO USE STERNER M SURE Possible That Board Will Not Again Resort Merely to Polite Invitation The officers of the Consumers’ United Stores Co., one of the several league business institutions controlled ing board by a second time Thursday refusing to appear in response to an, invitation from the “blue sky com- mission for a conference. further note of this defiance than| to issue another invitation, If this| invitation is ignored, it is understood among workmen and) that more powerful means of suasion ill not be given the! may be resorted to. The blue sky commission acted un-} der an opinion from the supreme court. holding to be speculative certi-! dd for sale by the Consumers’ Stores Co., in} jnite Consumers’ Mining Co., of which }Samuel J. Aandahl of — Litchville. ‘chairman of the state railway com-| mission. | This opinion was hande. immed y board with cetase selling its cert 1 down two | thereat | rved the} an order to} es uniil it i | ! y_ laws. ( ignored in a curt jals of the company in which they informed the blue sky commission that it had no control over their business. The blue s' board then issued an invitation to the officials of the Consumers’ Co. to come in Thursday and talk things uver, paclsulurly .witn a view to. re- establishing the Conspmers'. United Stores Co, on a cooperative basis uw der which the certificate-hold who have invested more than $1,5(0,- 000. in, the concern, will have, some share ‘in its profits and a voice in its management. The second communication has been ignored entirely, except the Town has used the action of the bue commision as a pretext for a se of attacks upon Attorney. Gener Langer, who with Secretary of State Hall and Governor Frazier constitute the blue sky commission. It was in connection with one the Townley’s organ’s stories impug! ing the motives of Attorney General Langer in seeking an investigation of the Townley chain store system that charges were made that a fund of $40,000, to which Fargo wholesalers and jovbers had contributed, was be- ing raised in the Twin Cities for the purpose of throttling the Consumers’ Co. The publication of these alle- gations was immediately followed by | an offer of a reward of $1,000 by At- torney Langer, who served notice per- sonally upon President A. C. Townley and the Courier-News that this sum had been deposited in a Mandan bank to the credit of any person who would produce proof that the Courier- News’ charges of an illegal combina- tion against the Consumers’ Stores Co_were founded on fact. The Consumers’ Co. is much in the position of the Equity Cooperative Packing Co. of Fargo and the Equity Exchange of St. Paul, Both of these concerns were alleged to be operating in North Dakota without having com- plied with the provisions of the blue} sky act. They were notified to cease} jselling stock in North Dakota until they had procured, the approval of the blue sky board. Both companies {promptly appeared before the blue sky commission and were given a jclean Dill of healta. The ban on the le of their ‘stock was immediately | | removed. The banking commission is at a loss to understand why the, Consum: ers’ United Stores Co., a Townley o ganization, shculd not be equally will- ing to have its affairs investigated, in order that the official seal of the state may be placed on its opera- tions and the confidence of its share- jholders, somewhat shaken, it is said, by recent disclosures, restored. Bank Case Goes Over. The further investigation of the Valley City banking transactions , of |Jack Hastings and Tom Box, Townley financial agents, which was to have; come up Thursday was postponed a week because Deputy Examiner Ha!- dorson was not ready to report. A. Torkelson, cashier of the American National bank, taken over by the league, and County Auditor Nelson of Barnes were here from Valley City to testify. The Lignite Consumers’ ‘Mining Co., with home offices at New England and mines at Havelock, was admitte “THE WATCH ON THE ky: Associate Justice Luther E. Birdzell_ has received from Lieut. C. T. Hoverson, a son of Senator Hoverson of Beach, a copy of ‘No. 1, Volume 1 of “The Watch on the Rhine,” the official organ Of the American army of occupa. ley newspaper organ at Fargo, which | ¢| been laws in pi ‘HALL GRILLED [| | FOR LETTING | | PUBLIC KNOW | ¥. o Governor Frazier severely chid- ed Secretary of State Hall during the meeting of the blue sky com- mission yesterday for releasing to the press of the state actions of this board concerning the Town- ley chain stores, banks and other league entcrprises. Secretary of State Hall is sald to have resent- ed this criticism and to have de- clared the public entitled to this information and that just so long as it wag bottled up by the gov- ernor and the secretary of the commission it would continue to be available through the secre- tary of state’s office. TOWER CITY HEARSTRUTH | ABOUT LAWS State Auditor Kositzky Dis- cusses Graft and Spite Meas- ures of Last Assembly THE NEW “BIG BUSINESS” |Declares Newspaper Monopoly Iniquitous Trust Support- ed by the State ‘Tower City, N. D., March 28.--Ad- dressing a large audience compo: of league farmers here Jast night, State Auditor Kositzky, advocating the referendum of the edu cational commissioy. immigration, printing, judicial redistricting and one-man tax commission bills, said: “During the past ‘tnree years lead- ers of the Nonpartisan league have been advocating an amendment to the ive and referendum laws so tat laws. may be initiated and referred to the people more eusily, and you know that at the last election this in: itiative and referendum law amended and it was ratifis last pn of the. legislature. It w makes it much more .easy to in- itiate and refer ‘Jews than in the past. And now Teader: ple not to sign any initiative and referendum _ petitions, this mean? Is there a nigger som out, great deal during ¢ years about Big Busines: Whai is Hig business? Whenever any per- son, firm or corporation gets opoly on the. grain busines: past three the oil is big business. No dowbt there have ,ored Big Business in this state and ago, you found m wearing tortoise-rimmed ey: ses’in different counties looking for some cheap newspaper _ plant. which they generally have succeeded in buying. And of course they are working for an. association incorpor- ated under the laws of this state whic permits them to self stock They will buy some printing plant at $2,990 and immediately begin to sell prete red stock to the farmers at so much per share. Of course they promise the farmers seven per cent interest on their investment, if the business is good, and all profits over seven per cent go to the common stock, which they generally hold themselves. Now, these promoters draft a bill, which is known as Senate Bill 157. This bill was introduced in the legislature. There was _ considerable opposition, but they had them scared by threat- ening them with political ruin, one after another, unless they supported this bill. The bil was finally passed, and it now stands on our statute books, and unless repealed it will monopolize newspaper business in the state, and it will be we of the big- ed by the laws of our stat: The state auditor disc one. the other bills which he is op- posing, and he gave his hearers a clearer insight than they had before possessed, into the objectional fea- tures of these measures. He said the $200,000 immigration fund would have been better devoted to assisting peo- ple in drouth stricken regions to re- main in the state than to the pa: ment of fancy salaries and fancy stipends. for printing in the monopoly newspapers. He opposed the Tredis- tricting bill adding «three judges as unnecessary, and declared the work now handled by 12 judges could: be done by ten, while the league is in- creasing the nuorber to: 15. EXPLOSION FATAL TO THIRTY Paris, March 28.—Thirty persons were_killed and thirty others injured by the explosion of an oil tank here yesterday. i « .TERMS LIBERAL Washington, March 28.—Terms of payment in: the new victory librety loan announced today are the most liberal offered by the government. RHINE” NEWSY tion in Germany. The publication is a breezy, eight-page daily paper, edited and assembled in typical American fashion, and it teems with news we military,. athletic and social of the Non- partisan league are warning the peo- “You have also read and heard ay t years which fav-| Townley direc gest businesses in the state, support: | sed one by | IBUNE SSION OUSTS REJECTS LEGAL ADVICE OF ATTORNEY os GENERAL AND WILL EMPLOY SPECIAL — COUNSEL UNDER § TATE BANKING ACT Tax Commissioner F. E. Thursday. ieral newspaper men, but BOSS TOWNLEY | EXCOMMUNICATE BILL AND CARL Big Chief Reads Attorney Gen- eral Langer and State Audi- tor Kositzky Out “TOOLS OF BIG BUSINESS” Nonpartisan League Dictator Says They'll No Longer Take Orders From Him The Townley liquid fire attack up- where in the woodpile? | think there 0% Attorney General William Langer. is aud that it is up to use to get him; State Auditor 1 Kositzky and oth. league officials at the capital, who Aave opposed the Bruiten newspaper ‘aft bill, the Macdonald eduational spite bills and other measures which a mon-| they insist are not a part of the league program and are vicious, broke into business or the printing business, that| full blom tday in The Fargo Cour- |ier-News, whose editorial policy s at $100 per month. Mr. Townley’s statement follows in other states. Even not so very long} full: “The world is made of ‘many men jof many minds.’ We don’t all agree n anything. We can't because we have not all the same kind and de- }sree of education, information and | training. | “But on many things most of us are agreed—most of us believe that one man should not rob another; that every man should get what he earns; that one man should not will another any time he takes a notion and that the law of the land should be what most of the people are agreed upon rather than what a few of the people want. Government all over the United States somewhat represents the will of the majority of the people —in North Dakota the government just now very nearly altogether rep- \ its the majority. The law is, or should be, what the majority want it to be. | The Will of the Majority. “It is comomnly understood that the law, the will of the majority, shall govern the conduct of both the ma- jority and the minority. If one of the minority, because he does not like the law and tho he did not vote for it, shall break the law, then the ma- jority will put him in prison; if he kills a brother, the majority will hang him; and if he does the greatest crime, if he gives aid and comfort to an my in time of war, if he be- trays his country to those who would destroy his country’s homes, then his own people will shoot him at sunrisi It is a rule of nations that a traitor more to be despised and punished than any other criminal because he turns over to the enemy, for a price and without a fight or a word of warning, those whom re professés to protect. Majority Rule Must Prevail. “A nation is just an organization, | including all the people in it. Any | organization, be it a nation or part of the people of.a nation, must be governed by laws or rules -agreed wnon by a majority of its members. It in a nation any citizen could do as he wanted to, no matter what was |the law agreed to by the majorit: then there would be no order, no citi- zen would be safe, nothing could be done, enemies from without would over-run it,-rule and rob it, and it would go to pieces and die. So with any organization smaller than a na- tion. Prevails in All Organizations. “When you join a fraternal organi- AMERICAN PAPER FOR THE YANKS) =to=, you mest soige by ait the tules agreed‘to by the members of that ordér. Some you may not like. but observe them ail or get out. If you are a member of a labor organiz- ation’ and you work fr less money than the rules permit, you will be. called on the carpet. So with the medical association, manufacturers’, (Continued on Page Two.) jand discussed by other officials at the capit: ;accepted Secretary Morris’ version of the inci trust Mr. Langer with its legal affairs because tant in his office, and announced its intention of sel, as it is authorized to do under the bank of No ANG PRICE PVE CENTS Seis Ns ——— | The displacement of Attorney General Langer as counsel for the in- dustrial commission, of which he is a member, by a special attorney, prob- ably Jim Manahan or Bill Lemke, to be engaged under the state banking act, and a threat from the governor that he will demand the resignation of Packard, if the latter persists in his independence, were developments of a very stormy session of the industrial commission On alleged evidence compiled by Oliver Morris, se : - imission, the board haled before it Tax Gemmustionee Fr. E Domed ond jcharged him with responsibility for the publication of a rumor which has been current about the capitol for the last wee technical flaws in the acts authorizing the sta’ issues. Tax Commissioner Pack for the publication of these stori He admitted discussing the subj k to the effect that there are te’s seventeen million bond ard hotly denied that he was responsible les Or that he had originated the rumor. ect as a matter of common gossip with sev- declared the rumor had been generally circulated ol. The industrial commission dent, declared it could not: Mr. Packard was an assis- employing special coun- rth Dakota act. Both Jim Manahan and William Lemke were discussed, Sec- retary Morris stated last night million, if we want’ to, but I The commission is a law to itse BISMARCK SETS FORTH CLAIMS Strategic Location of City Ex: plained to Industrial Commis- sion by Committee Mails to Cap ‘Than to Any Other Town in North Dakota marck citi: tday placed tore the state industrial commi the capital claim to the mission, was to the effect that the Capita. City mail service reaches every par of North Dakota, except a shor Great Nortiern, from 1 s%to 24 hou of the state. It was shown that eas and west-bound mail is collected a the close of the business day in Bis sorthern Pacific points correspondents before the opening o! other sections of the state are re the day's business in these other s tions are received here for distrub dispatch of incoming or outgoing mail and the receipt of a response. The formal brief submitted by Bis. marck was as follows: State of North Dakota Hon. Lynn J. Frazier, governor, rieulture aud labor, and Hon, William Langer, attorney Gen. er Re, location of the State Eank o: North Dakota. Gentleme: We desire to respectfully submit, in brief, the following: of the commissioners. RECORDS AND STATE OFFICERS be located in the same city with th ee and the constituted authori. ties. CLEARINGS. ther respectful We would fur- submit that the posi. state clearings is particularly advan: tageous in view of the facts; that respondence with attorneys who ha would want to serve the commission, if you want to, can you not?” Morris was asked. “We program according to its own pe none but the people and the legislature.” Sececacae ee AAA ul City Better | . A conmittee of representative Bis; stretch of about 100 miles on the earlier than that of any other city marck and that it is laid upon the/commission . for what these state- desks of those addressed on main line|ments are worti, but in addition to before the} the underhand work against the bonds opening of business the following} which the atorney general’s assist- day, while it reaches all Soo line andjant has been guilty of, we have ob- Great Northern points before noon of} served with uneasiness the fact. that the following day. Incoming mail |'Mr. Langer for some weeks has been collected at any Northern Pacific! point after the close of business on one day is on the desks of Bismarck business the following morning, and collections made up to noon in all|terests are working upon to finally ceived here at the same time, while} collections made after tne close of! “Mr. Langer at today’s meeting of tion by noon and can be answered the same day. In no instance need more/ing up the bond acts (James Manahan than 24 hours elapse between the} and William Lemke) and to freely to- To the Industrial Commission of the Hon. J. N. Hagan, commisioner of ag- 1. RESIDENCE REQUIRED BY LAW. Bismarck, the Capitol City, is the residence required by law of each} i 2. ACCESSIBILITY TO STATE} tion of Bistmarck as a location for The southwestern portion of the that the commission was in cor- d been asked how much they “You can pay $10,000 a year can pay a don’t think we will,” said Morris. If. It can work out this industrial culiar ideas. It is responsive to Official Statement, In an official starement issued to the press last night by Governor Fra- der and Commissisuer Hagan, who constitute a majority of the tommis- sion, the following version of the af- fair is given: “The industrial commission today was forced to confront Mr. Langer, a ST member of the commission, ‘and, its attorney under the industrfal commis- sion act, with evidence ‘proving that his office had been guilty of ‘encour- aging the circulation of false: stories |whica are of the greatest -foskible ‘lamage to the industrial prograni’ of North Dakota, which this coritission is instructed by the people .to carry. jout. The attorney general a week o had his attention called to ‘this anger has assured us that, in 2 of the stories that have been ted in the anti-farmer newspapers, and in spite of the fact that his: as- ant has been circulating insinua- ons against the bond acts, that so T as he, Mr, Langer knows, the bond s are sufficient in every particu- on| lar and that he is ready at all times g ank!to defend the acts and to protect the of North Dakota, in a comprehensive| interests of the commission. brief prepared and submitted jointly} by the Commercial club, the Clearing | House association and the city com-| For What They Are Worth, However, the industrial commis- sion is charged with a grave respons- ibility in the carrying out of this pro- One of the most telling points made! gram for the people of North Dakota, i/and we cannot assume that respons- tj) ibility with any peace of mind while {|Our confidence in the attorneys. who. are doing our legal work is. not, com- plete. We are willing to take Mr, Langer’s assurances that he ‘wilt dis- charge any assistant who again at- tacks the bond acts and that he means to act in good faith toward the t t | used by the interests and the press opposed to the industrial program as a means of discrediting if possible the £}commision’s work and promoting the referendum movement which thoge tn- -|defeat the industrial program. Would Hire League Lawyer. the commission voluntarily offered to employ in his office the attorneys who assisted the legislature in draw- operate with them and back them up ‘issues and making the bond and the | industrial Program a success. We are | going to avail ourselves of Mr. Lan- {ger's offer to this extent: Without reflecting upon his professions of belief in the program or questioning the honesty of the statement he made to the board today, we are going to appoint an attorney for the Bank c° North Dakota whose salary will be )Provided for out of the bank &ppro- ;Priation. Although Mr. Langér is ni named in the commission act |torney for the commission, Wé Have the’ authority in the bank act‘to name legal counsel for the bank. ‘tn tiew of Mr. Langer’s recent activities and the. confession of Mr. Packafd tha’ he has been circulating stories dam- aging to the bond act, the industrial f The actual direction of the responsible | commission feels that { commission having in charge the bank! this special, indepandelt hes and whatever industrial enterprises | from now on i may be undertaken, we submit, should sabe iat lies Spa oughly the interests of the people of 2| North Dakota who have vot ‘tht state capitol, where exist the state| program, the legislature whi has | Provided the bond issues, atid other” necessary acts to carry it Out, and -jourselves, on whom this tremendout - | responsibility rests. section, and the portion of. the state (Continued on Page Four.) state is the most rapidly cat worked. for MEANS QUICKER SERVICE situation, but the storles conititived! in every way in protecting the bond *