The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1919, Page 1

‘ by » A, > THE WEATHER Generally Fair eae | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE =: LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH. YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS HOUSE PASSES EMERGENCY ACT BY 66 T0 41 Every. Act of Present Special Session Declared an Emer- gency Measure . REHASH ELECTION STEAL “Frauds” By Which Riba Gained Seat Threshed Over— Attack On Langer! | The adoption’ of House Eill 60, which precijfitated Monday's fight, and which would declare all acts of this session emergency legislation et fective within 10 days; the. tabling, of a concurrnt resolution, introduced by minority members of the commit- tee on delayed bills, demanding the investigation of William Lemke, vice president of the National 2 Nonpartisan league, for alleged lobbying; the be- ginning of a retrial of the alleged Sar-|_ \gent county election frauds of'a year ago, whose first milling over resulted in all of the dallots in Forman ‘elec- tion being thrown out, the unseating of Peter Weber, independent, and the seating of Frank Riba, leaguer; the adoption of a new budget bill which reduced appropriations made at the last regular session $581,000; the pas- sage of a bill which reduces all state taxes, except the hail insurance and soldiers’ bounty levies, 25 per cent, and the adoption of a report from \Attorney General Langer, declaring | he had investigated alleged election frauds in Sargent county as directed - by the last assembly, and ‘had found} no grounds for criminal prosecution, ‘were high lights of a busy but not, over-exciting day in the house. The “emergency legislation” * Dill was passed by a vote of 66 to 41, Reishus, one,of the minority me: being absent... The ayes. were not tho two-thirds requ'red to ‘pass an emer- gency clause which would give this bill immediate effect, but the passage of the bill is held to give this meas- ure immediate effect upon other measures which it gives inmediate effect. Burtness suggested that - it would. be. simpliersfor_the log’slature to repeal ‘the ‘constitutional amend- ment approved by the people one year ago requiring a two-thirds vote to| give legislation immediate effect, but the majority did not agrée with him. Twichell of Cass, led a vigorous at-! tack upon the new budget bills, which bites deep into the appropriations 9f state officials opposing Townley. The state auditor loses $48,509 of his} $71,000 ajfpropriatfon for the bien-j| nium; the attorney general is shorn| of $69,700 of his $99,000 appropriation and is left with only $30,000 for the; next 18 months, or +,Twichell said, presiming that he has already spent one-fourth of his orginal appropria- tion, with only $10,000 for the next year and a half, There is a deep bite into the secretary of siate’s funds, and the state superintendent of public instruction suffers several severe cuts. “This $581,297 is being taken out of the budget! merely to put out of busi- ness state departments established by the constitution.” Twichell assert- ed. As the direct reverse of its action on the budget, the house a few min- utes later, concurred in an amend- ment to Senate Bill 42, which would increase the mergency commission’s fund from $25,000 to $75,000. House Bill 59, remitting and refund- ing 25 per cent of the state taxes for 1919, was amended before final pas- sage so as to! throw a bouquet at the league's state-owned industries, which ‘were referred to as “self-sup- porting.” These industries to date, consist of a $20,000 flour mill at Drake and the Bank of North Dakota. ‘An effort upon the part of Paul Johnson to further amend the bill to provide for the remission of 50 per cent of the 1919 taxes fafled. House Bill 48, which provides for the governor's “inquisitorial commis- sion, was amended by the house to place the $25,000 appropriated for the use of this commission at the disposal of the chairman, ,to be deposited by him in the Bank of North Dakota, and to ‘be checked out by him as he sees fit. J. F, T. O’Connor vigorously opposed this amendment, declaring that in handling $25,000 of the pub- lic’s funds over to one man to do with as he pleases the state was establish- ing a dangerous precedent for which no justification ‘could be found. LANGER REPORT ADOPTED, Attorney General Langer’s report on the Sargent county election “frauds” was adopted’ over the pro- test of the majority, headed by Walk- er, whose motion that the report be rejected, was voted down, 48 to 34. \ The attorney. general investigated the Sargent county election in re- sponse to a resolution adopted at the Jast session. In his report yesterday ho advised that 300 people attended the hearing at the Sargent county court house and seyeral of them vol- unteered, their testimony. “The testimony ‘clearly showed that there was no fraud in theselec- tion held November 5, 1918; that the election board did everything ‘possi- le to protect the interests of the ‘county and, also Mr, Riba and ‘Mr. ‘Weber; that the election in Forman was fair and honest; that Mr. Riba got 48 votes and Mr. Weber 69 votes in the city, and that there was noth- NATION'S C |police. company, whose trial by court BYERLY OF VELVA MADE COLLECTOR President Wilson Makes’ Ap- pointment Today i Washington, Dee. . 10.— President Wilson today nominated William E. Byerty of Velya, N. D., to be collector of internal revenue district of North Dakota (new office.) FREE LOVE FANS) BLAZE: ANEW AS LETTER IS. READ Communication From Women’s Club on Stangeland, et al, Starts - Riot | LOWER HOUSE IS DIVIDED , Investigating Committee Sub- mits Unanimous Report on Library Books A communication from Mrs, Ed Colton, chairman, and Guri Wambheim, secretary of a wom- en's elub Hatton, demanding that C, E. Stangeland, George A. Totten, Robert Muir and ‘others responsible for the dastardly at- tempt had . corrupting our j childhood be forthwith removed from any. connection with the educational systém of our state,” precipitated another riot on the | floor of the house when it was | reach } Leaguers: and nn-leaguers were | | | | divided as to whether it would he policy to exclude such communi- cations from the journal. Mr. Hoare, one of the league floor | leaders, spoke against the adop- tion of such a policy. Free Love Committee Reports. { The house committee investigating the presence of books on fee love and other volumnes on the shelves ot the stave library reported this after) noon. The report was signed by both | the majority and minoricy thembers: Tho report states that all of ti books mentioned »by Represen_ati Burtness a week ago Monday were ‘n the library and orler by CE, Stange | land on advice from .wiss Bvel.n i erson. Mr. Stangeland, the re states, said that the library w i sufficiently supplied with works on} sociology and economics and quo.es; the assistant librarian that love ani) i i 1 | i ‘ng that the question of the repeal of | gli rary and were not- designed, for promi: ous circulat‘on for the schools, | Revive. Licensing Department. { House‘ Bill 7 originally repealing: the state lHvensing department but amended after being recalled yester- day so as. to continue it but transfer; the department from the attorney! genéral's office to the office of thej state sher‘ff newly created, passed; the house this afternoon by a vote of; 66 to 41. The vote was insufficient} to carry the emeggency clause. H AUSTRALIAN FLIES | FROM ENGLAND IN | . LONGEST JOURNEY ; Makes Trin -to Kanszaroo. Land} and Wins $50,000 Prize | Port Darwin, Australia, Dec. 10.— Capt. Ross ‘Smith, the Australian aviator, arrived here today from Eng- land, thus winning’ a prize of, 10,000 pounds sterling: offered for the first aviator to make the voyage. ~ . Capt. Ross Smith. left the Hounslow aviation - field. near. London at 9 o'clock, November 12, on his flight to Australia.. On November 18 . he reached Cairo and the next day he continued. his fight ‘east until reach- ing Rangoon, turning southward at that city, making a number -of stops along the Malay peninsular and’ in the islands of Oceanica. He arrived at Bima an Sunbawa island near Java Monday n‘ght. Port Darwin is close to the north- ermost tip of Australia, WITH TORTURE OF SOLDIERS ABROAD) Former Commanding Officer of 308th Military Police Faces Army Trial ef New York, Dec. 40. — Bruta® treat: ment. and eyen deliberate torture of} enlisted men in the Amerivan Expedi- tionary Forces are charged aganist Capt, Karl W. Detzer, formerly. cont: manding officer’, of the 808. milita martial opened at Governors island today. The evidence wag expected to be as ing done which would watrant the arrest of any one, “On October 12, 1918, an order had|now are serving prison sentences for}. W.° Harris of brutality to American soldiers in Paris. | ; (Continued on Page Three) . sensational as in the trials of Lieut. +10 round bouts {ples in shams or f ito interfere with the peace, repose POLAND'S Warsaw—Ahbove is the latest picture of Premier Paderewski of Poland, tak en as he left the Pollsh seym or par unent. The speaker of the seym is Adalbert” ‘Trampsyznski, (below. ) PETITION BEING SIGNED TO VOTE ON “BLUE LAWS” Sunday Baseball, Theaters, Sale’ of Cigarettes and Boxing Included NAMES OBTAINED READILY | Rumors of Petition\on Bill Giv- ing Governor Excent- ional Powers N Petitions are being ¢ uted in smarek as well as practically every; und. town in the: state. request: ci be left to a refer: 2 people, tion to make its ap-| pearance in this city was placed in he Harris & Co. store last night and short time more than 8) ached, ‘The same ceadiness to obtain signatures to petition is teported from other ¢ in the state and it is expect before the end of the wee cally all of the 10,000 signers will have been obtained. Four Measures. petition provides the state's blue 1 endum vote of t The first pe that four measures be submitted to a vote of} the people of the state on the third The Tuesday in March. The first measure provides for a state athletic commission consisting; of caree men appointed by the gov- ernor to regulate boxing in the state, issue and revoke licenses to clubs and others conducting boxing, provide tor and penalizes princi- ‘ake fights. ‘Measure No. 2 provides for the li-! censing of the sale of cigarettes to all but minors with a $109 annual li- cense and penalties for selling to min- ors and violating the proposed law. Sunday Baseball. Sunday baseball is provided for in the third measure on the petition, which provides for the amendment of chapter 9238 compiled laws providing for baseball “when conducted in a: quiet and orderly manner so, as not and comfort of the community” and when played between 1 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, provided no zames are played within 500 feet of any eburch edifice. ! In the fourth measure, the repeal of chapter 9232 is asked which prohibits the-opening of theatres on Snuday, FIERCE FIGHT EXPECTED/ H It is expected that there will be a} flerce battle waged all over the state! by the forces upholding the blue laws to defeat: the measite proposed.’ It is) freely predicted that there will be dit-| ficulty in securing the necessary num- ber of petitions to*place the measures before the people for decision, but the final enactment: of the proposal at 4 referendum, election is a matter for conjecture. / The Struggle is expected to conter afound tHe last measure that repealing the law closing theatres on Sundays. The licensing Of the sale of cigaret: will probably meet stern opposition at the hands of the W. C. ‘T, U. which or- ganization is fathering a movement to prohibit the sale.of the lowly “fag” ail over the country, PRTITION ON: “DICTATORSHIP” Rumors .of the circulation of: peti- tion for the vote of the people on A ssed by the spe SCs: ture, empowering the governor to take oyer public utilities in times of emergency are current. and it’ ig understoood that the matter fs in nds of opponents of the measure, No verification of these rumors could be obtained today. i Services Well Attended. 8 In spite of the cold weather Sunday both services at the Presbyterian church were well attended. In. the morning -27 adults were admitted to “Hard Boil” Smith and Sgt. Ball who ¥ the church and in the evening Dr. Bozeman, Mont. Spoke on “Faith.” \Delezates at Nonpartisan Con- LEADERS $40,000 FIRE HAS DESTROYED BISBEE BUSINESS BLOCKS Disastrous Blaze Threatened Downtown District and De- stroyed Four Buildings Bisbee, N. D., Dee. 10.—-A disas- trous fire which started from a de- fective chimney~ in the Arvilla hardware store here yesterday threatened the entire business dis- trict and caused the total destin tion of four of the leading business blocks before it Ww ontrolled, The damage is estimated $40,- 000. The plaees were insured for about $20,000. Sf LEAGUE LEADERS OPPOSE MEASURE URGED BY YANKS vention Want the National | | Sedition Law Amended ' PROTECTS BOLSHEVIKI| American Legion Has Strongly | Favored Bill in Congress Under Question St. Paul. Minn, Dee, 10.—1 tions to be formulated tomorroy opening of the national conyention of the Nonpartisan league w e | today among delegates from severs states who had already arrived. The meeting has been postponed two days because of delay in adjournment of the special si ion of the North Dakota legislatur Amendments to the sedition law pending in, congress will be urge Delegates declared that “mobg which deport citizens” and groups which con- spire to surpress free speech and free assemblages are seditious, FAVOR PLUMB PLAN Resolutions are being prepared op- pesing the return of the railroads to priyate ownership ahd favoring the Plumb plan. re ise WAR MOTHERS AND LEGION MEN SEND PROTEST ON BOOKS Leeds’ Patriotic Organization | Do Not Favor Volumes For Children Leeds, N. D., Dec. 10.—The follow-! ing telegrams, regarding the circula- tion of socialistic books in the state! library, have been sent. by the war) mothers’ organizat‘on of this! city, and the local post of the American} legion to Senator W. J. Church of Benson county: War Mothers’ Message. “We demand the completcere- moval from all public schools and state libraries all free love, so- elalistie, and anarchistic books, and demand t powers formerly held by the state superintendent i truction be returned ‘on at this session. *. Page, War Mother, Mrs. J. BE. Conway, Secretary,” American Yegion Telegram. “We. demand 'the removal of all books pertaining to free love and anarchy now in the state library. Also demand the removal of Stangeland from office. “Stened: William Whalen Post, OAL STRIKE FORMALLY MINNEAPOLIS DOES NOT WANT SERVICE Voters Turn Down Control of Car Lines Minneapolis, Minn, Dec. 10.— By nearly 7000 votes the proposed cost of service franchise giving the city con- trol of street car service was defeated at the special election yesterday. De- spite intense cold a heavy vote was cast the completed count. today stand+ ing for the franchise 28,372 against the! franchise 30,315. | RECORD OF COLD WAVE MADE HERE WITH 26 BELOW Thermometer Reaches Lowest Mark of Season at 8:30 o’Clock This Morning WARMER fOR TOMORROW Weather Bureau Believes Mer-| cury Will Climb Somewhat in the Northwest The cold weather record for the sea- son was made here this morning when the thermometer reached 26 degrees below zero at 8:30 o'clock this morn- ing. During the present cold wave the jlowest temperatures have been 28 de-| gres below practically cevry morning since Saturday. _ The cold wave which covers the cn-| tire northwest is due to an excceding- ly high pressure over this region. With one or two exceptions in Montana the record temperature here this morning is as low as any temperatures report- ed to the local weather bureau in the United States, No foreca: offered for an immedi- ate material ¢ in temperature in this section, altho it is believed there will be some slight relief from the present. extreme cold. Indications of | a snow fall are evident, but not posi- tively predicted. NOPES FOR RELIEF 1 Chicago, Dee. 10.-—Hopes for reliet! from sub normal temperatures hy to- morrow were held forth hy the weath-{ er bureau today with the announce: | ment that the crest of the cold wave would pass over the Mississippi today and tonight. 1 where floods have} In the south caused considerable property damage rendered hundred homel and cost; three lives during the past) 24 homs} the rains have ceased to be followed] a decided drop in temperature, WHITE RIVER COLDEST SPOT | The coldest spot on the weather map} was White River, Ontario, with « minimum of 44 below zero, Duluth re-} ported 22 below, Des Moines, 20; Clin- ton, la. 23; Paul, Minn., 16; Green F and Ka s City, 6 be mometer at Oklahoma City regis izero. The full effect of the cold waye has not been felt in the east. At New York vas comparatively warm today f 46 above zero, De- above and Indian- go's lowest mark of the season was recorded shortly after] 7 o'clock this morning when the gov: | ernment station reported § be'ow drop of one degree under the previous honr's record. TRAIN REDUCTION IN’ EFFECT | As a further coal conservation meas ure the most severe curtailment of aissenger train service ever known 1s effective today with extension of the federal railroad administration “train mile” saving order to the east- ern region. The order already was operative in the other railroad regions. It was estimated 15,000 tons of coal would be saved daily by it and that until the end of the present, week it would be necessary to save an addi- tional 200,000 train miles daily. In the western country where al- most record snow falls accompanied the unseasonable cold, rail and wire communication also was handicapped. RECORD SNOW STORMS In eastern Washington and Oregon one of the worst snow storms in his- tory was recorded. In Wyoming the| snow was banked in deep drifts. About Redding, Calf, 5 inches of} snow had fallen . today an unusual amount for that region. It gradually deepened northward to Bend, Ore.. where 28 inches the heaviest ee 1884 fell. Near Astoria, Ore. logging camps were foreed ta close by the heaviest snow in 25 years. SHIPYARDS CLOSE DOWN Two Portland. Ore.. shipyards were forced to close by the snow and cold and schools there were closed, FLOODS IN SOUTH Atlanta, Ga. Dee. 10,— Torrential rains over the greater part of tho south that first had proved a blessing by enabling large hydro-electr'e plants to operate without consumption of coal today had continued in such force as to flood rivers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi causing thousands of dollars damage and at least three deaths, Ten inches o» more of rain fell at yarious points in Alabama and Georgia. Fair weather and a cold wave were predicted for Alabama and Mississippi and, the drop in temper: ature was expected to cause severe suffering around Meridan. Miss., wher? floods had left a thousand nersons homeloss after a rainfall of 10.10 troit reported apolis two. Chi OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ADOPT THE Over 400,000 Bituminous Miners of Country Will Return to Work With Fourteen Per Cent Wage Advance and Commission to Formulate New Pay Agreement in Sixty Days Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 10.—The strike of 400,000 bituminous coal miners of the country was settled here today when the general committee of the United Mine Workers of America agreed to ac- cept the plan offered by President Wilson. The members voted to accept the proposal of President Wilson shortly before 3 o’clock this afternoon. At that time it was said no vote had been taken on the question of holding a convention of the union. The committee was still in session at that hour. RETURN AT ONCE The plan provides that the miners shall return to work at once at an increase of fourteen per cent in wages; that a com- mission of three persons be appointed to investigate and determine within sixty days if possible a basis for a new wage agreement. The conference was made uv of international and district officials and members of the executive board and scale committee of the PLAN TO RESUME WORK AT ONCE and declared .the republican party a | American organization. | Washington, Dec. 10.—There of the coal strike, Fuel Admini: today. KEYNOTE SPEECH FOR REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN MADE Governor Sproul Indicates That the G. O. P. Will Make Strong Fight PREDICTS BIG VICTORY, Strong Mexican Policy and Res- | toration of American Dee, 10. — Governor} Sproul of Pennsylvania In a keynote speech at the meeting today of the re-! publican national committee attacked the administration’s Mexican polic Washington, proached the coming presidential cam- paign with confidence that the people would endorse its policy. His outline included a better rela- tion between capital and labor, econo- my and business management in ad-j ration, firm handling of the Mexican situation , restoration of, Americanism and sonstitutional gov- st,/ernment and a sound solution of the railread problem, CLEAN UP GOVERNMENT MESS | Referring briefly to the question of peace the governor decalred that the republican citizenship had ‘endeavored to co-operate in the conclusion of the matter with only such limitations as will preserve to this republic its full right to determine its own affairs” un- der the constitution. “We must be prepared,” said Governor Sproul “not only to clean up the governmental | mess in which we find ourselves but we must lay our plans for restoring our nation to the position of respect which it once held.” TIME AND PLACE UNDECIDED. Washington, Dec. 10—The time and place for the 1920 republican national convention are to. be selected late to- day by the national committee at its quadrennial meeting here. The odds for the convention honor] before the meeting convened seemed to rest with Chicago, but the St. Louis delegation was waging a vigo- | rous fight and declared they had aj chance to win. Discuss‘on of the probable date cen- tered about tWe first half of June,! with many of the leaders urging that Tuesday, June §&, be selected for the opeining of the convention. MEXICANS PREVENT, PRODUCTION OF OIL. Protest | Overators Against Latest Decrees | Washington, Dec. 10.—Production of | oil in Mexico pracitcally has ceased a result of decrees promulgated by President Carranza and the general) attitude of the Mexican government towards foreign of] companies Chair- min Paine of the shipping board was fold today by a delegation of American New York. Another Offensive Attack Esthonians at Norva and Sustain Losses Reval, Esthonia, Dee. 10.—The Bol- sheviki have begun a new offensive on the Norva front. After terrible artil- lery. fire ten assaults were delivered upon the Esthonian’s position. All the attacks were repulsed the reports state with heavy losses to the Bolshevik American Legion.” inches. Mentioned ii | was ripe. oil men headed by F. R. Kellogg of! | Precipitation ,. ‘ RESTRICTIGNS ON FUEL REMAIN will be no relaxation of restric- tions on the use of coal for the present as the result of the ending istrator Garfield announced late REFUSE TO REJECT Washington, Dec. 10.—Repre- sentatives of the United Mine Workers of America today voted down a proposal to reject the strike settlement offer made by President Wilson, according to information reaching Washing- ton from Indianapolis, where the union officials are in session. Acting President Lewis of the Mine Workers, according to the information, said the Presidéent’s offer would be accepted before night. Indianapolis, Ind., Dee. 10.— With President Wilson’s proposal for ending the strike still under consideration: at the conference of the miners recessed 05 this afternoon until 1:30 for Acting President Jobn “fi. aid he “expected the miners to today. Otherwise he would make No comment. Ind., Dee. 10.—The general committee of the United Mine Workers of America reconvened short- ly before 10 o'clock this morning fo> fur consideration of President x proposal for ending. the s of 400,000 bituminous con miners of the country. It was gener- ally expected the proposal providing for the immediate return to work of the miners at an increase of fourteen perceni in wages and the appointment. of a commission of three men to ml- just dages would be accepted before the conference adjourned for the day. _ As the committee which consists of international and district officers and members of the executive board and scale committee gathered gossip as to the causes of the prolonged session With few exceptions, how- ever, all agreed that President Wil- son’s proposal would be accepted some- time today. Indianapolis, | YOUNG MAN FOUND HERE ACCUSED OF A SERIOUS CHARGE Says He Passed Bad Checks in Valley City and James- town, Say Police Frank Spisla, 21 years old, of Courtney, who was arrested by offt- cers Jack Serres and Ed Randolph, was found to be wanted at Valley City and Jamestown on charges of cashing bad checks. The young man is await- ing the sheriff of Stutsman county for a trip back to Jamestown to face charges there. Spisla was picked up by Serres and Randolph when they found him loi- tering around the streets\ with ap- parently nothing to do. When taken to the police station, Chief of Police Martineson questioned the prisoner and discovered that he had been. pass- ing ‘bad checks at Valley City, The prisoner was sentenced to the reform school at Mandan about 1912. He: will be taken back to Jamestown oday. Today’s Weather For .twenty-four hours ending at noon, Dee. 10: Temperature at 7%. m. Temperature at noon. Highest yesterday Low yesterday . Low last night. Temperature at S Highest wind velocit\ Forecast. For North Dakota: Increasing jcloudiness and not so cold_tonight, pos- jsibly snow west portion; Thursday un- settled and not so cold. Lowest Temperatures Fargo .. Williston St. Paul.. Winnipeg Chicago. Swift Current Kansas City. ......4 ORRIS W. forces.