The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1920, Page 2

en THE WEATHER FAIR AND WARMER — K TRIBUN LAST EDITION - THIRTY-NINTH YEAR a PRICE FIVE CENTS BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1920 RASTER TOBE “WARMSAYS | { BUREAU HEAD if | Style Show, Will be-on Display | on Bismarck’s Fifth Avenue PRR ! FINE RELIGIOUS SERVICES | | Churches Will Observe Religious’| Festival with Fine | Music Warmer weather ‘predicted for! Faster Sunday by the weather bureau. which will be agreeable to practically 100 percent of the population of this j part of North Dakota, ACES a faster services in the different | churehes of the city will be the most pretentious on the whole that have v + ever been held ‘here. Considerable | prepatttion, has been given ‘the musf} cal portions of the services and canta- | will contribute considerably to the ef fectiveness ‘of t} In spite of the unse: for the; past week. the leadii ants of the city ‘report w good Easte business. men vieing with women in the purchase of their Easter garment. ‘Although jprices are higher this: e, than ever before, the |uyer has more concerned “with quali than with the dollar and gents signs. While Bismarck may not have its Michigan boulevard ov Fifth avenue | where spring styles are displayed on Raster Sunday, it is practically certai that with the warm weather pr | by the weather Imrean the streets of | this city will be a movin: ture of the latesf in hots, tailored shoes | and hosiery, while mere man will -be | bedecked with the clothes that mak> the men's clothing advertisements so. allurin tas, solos, quartets and other numbers j i | werthe> FOUR COMPANIE OFSTATEGUARD ARE ORGANIZED Williston,, Jamestown, Hillsboro “Vand Graitd Forks" Have “* ” Elected Officers Reorganization of the national guard of. wort aA is progressing slow- ly, but indications are that before the end of summer practically all of the larger cities and, towis~in the state will have companies recruited up to full strength. the adjutant gener office announced. today. ¥ Up to the present time. four com- panies are organized or are to be organized. These companies are-Com pany E of) Williston, Company Hi of Jamestown, Company 1. of Hillsboro. and Company M. of Grand Forks. AJ! of these companies have received en- listment and physict] planks from the adjutant general and all haye elected their officers. j | The latest company to report eles: | tion of officers is Company M of Grand .Forks. The officers named by the; members of the compaiy, are Heber L. Edwards, epptain; Leslie G. Trot-| . ter, first lieutenant. and Roy E. Schu) ler, second lieutenant. | Bismarck ahd Mandan, the adjutant | general's oflice repofts. are falling he- | hind other cities in the forming of national guard companies, At Man dan, members of the American legion EIGHT FAMOUS EASTER SUNDA YS! Easter Sunday has been the occasi of many events famed in history. hasbeen a day of discovery, conquest and defeat. Among the notable events to occ on past Easter Sunda are the fol- lowing: o> FASTER, APRIL 2, 1512 Pouce de Leon, Spanish. governor of Porto. Rie. sailing “in, search sthe“the foundation of youth.? discov- ered Florida and name it “Paseu de flores.” Meaning. “Flower of Faster.’ KASTFR: APRIL 6 1722 pest Island, . famous “‘nystery islandeca'd to be part! of a, vanished continent, was discovered in 1722 by Roggeveen ‘and named for the day 0 Aiscovery. The source of firchitecture found on ‘the igland’ has never heen explained. BASTER, APRIL 10, 1814 Napoleon's downfall began jon Ea ter, 1814, when Wellington defeated the flower of the French army at Waterloo. Napoleon abdicated at Fountainbleau the next day. : EASTER WEEK, 1 The Charch of the 1 Day Saints was founded in this week by Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, de. elared by Mormon tradition «to ha translated the Book of Mormon, wr ten on tablets of gold. The forma CORPORATION FEES |FOR MARCH SHOW SLIGHT DECREASE —_—_ New Concerns Chartered in This post are cooperjiting with the state authorities. Several former service men, who also were guard members before the war have heen trying to revive interest in Company A.of Bise{~ marek, but very little actual progress | has heen stiown tq date. | Duel With Former | President of Uruguay | Precipitates Crisis | Montevieda, Urguary, April 3. tical excitement prevails in this city | tonight as a resulteof, the death of | Washington’ Beltrain,, editor of thé} newpaper Ei} Pais. fi 4 duel with for- mer president Jose Bittle Ordones, this | morning. =, 9 74 * | After the last election in, Urgu | the nationalists accused the “Batllis- | tests” the party headed by the former president of fraud. ‘nis organizauvn | is a secret of the Coloradist party | which is at present in political con- | tro] here'and Beltrams newspaper in | an editorial disctissing the election | called Batlle the “champion of fraud: | It was this address that led to the! fatal duel. | The opponents met on a football field | in a midst of & pouring rainstorm af-| ter waiting for three hours hoping the | rain would cease, Standing fifty paces apart the duel- lists. were given the word to fire both | missing on the first exchange. Before | Beltram could fire a second shot he | was struck by a bullet from Battlle’s | + pistol and s2nk to the ground mortally } wounded. The body was taken to the | state headquarters of the national pat: | tv where it is lying in state tonight. | There is a law against duelling in/ Urguary. Berttle who was twice president of Urguary and now is a member of the National administrative council gave | him self up to the police following an order by the state prosecutor for his arrest as well as that of the doctor's seconds and other persons connecte-] with the duel. He is being held in- communicado at a police station and| will be interrogated Saturday. | State Pay $1,098.50 in » Treasury ( Zor new, corporations Dakota during = Mare pn pared esponding in North amounted | fo with $1514. month last year, a decre: of $41 aecomding to an announcement — by Thomas secretary of state. The recor y 41 new firms entered busines: the state during the month. ‘Thirty-two were of a general Poli- | nature. three were ‘co-operative and | that not a six were foreign. Receipts of general fees durin: Februa ft was announced., showed an increase of approximately $500 ove February. 1919. Despite! the decrease in the total for Emeral fees last Mi . the ‘notary fees increavéd froin $360 To $455 as compared ; with the — corresponding month in 1919. Fees for domestic cor- porations increased from $281 to and for foreign concerns there wa drep from § comparisons. The largest decrease aj- peared uider the, miscellaneous chs fication. During the first two days of April articles were filed for three corpora- tions with capital stock of $20,000, $50,000 and $250,000, respectively, Finland Threatened by Latest Red Uprisings Warsaw, April 3.—The Bolsheviki launched attacks yesterday on both sides of the river Dvina. apparently in. the beginning of their threatened drive on the northern front designed to carry them in the direction of Vilnia. Fighting on various fronts is reported in the communique today and is severe particularly in the vi- cinity of Dedino along the northern | banks of the Dvina. Uneasiness in Finland over the Bol- shevik successes in the far north is reported by the press. Newspapers declare Finland is already considering military aetion against the reds to prevent a Bolshevik invasion. | 24.50 to $140 in the two naming of the church did not take place until 1834. i WASTER, APRIL 16, 1865 The last armed section of. conse- juence in the Civil War was the sur- render of the Confederate munitions | depot) at Columbus. Ga., on Easter! j Day,4865. It was the second largest war repot.of the Confederacy, EASTER,-APRIE 10, 1898. The’ dlvislon-of the. Isle.of.Creteiuto, four provinces was made hy thé Turks on Kaster Sunday, 1808, 9 This was |.the heginning of the loss of the island to Turkey. The German Reichstag ; laid one of the foundations for the !wrent war ony aster, 1898, when it el alaw greatly increasing the it Ia : RASTER, APRIL 23. 1916 The Dublin uprising against Englisi rule called the “Easter riots,” occurred in 1916. The Republic of Ireland” was formed on that diy, There were many arrests by the British and one execu- tion, 5 H BASTER, MARCH 31, 1918 | The-97 victims of the German long | range gun wh) were killed while | worshipping on Good Friday, im the Chureh’ of St. Gervais, Paris, were | byvied Easter, 1918. Five were Amer. i The shel} fell at the instant of evition of the Host. | Americanization Hits | Chicago Chinatown and | Bullfiddle Goes for Good Chieago, Apr The hooming notes of the bullfiddle and the melancholy «strains of the peacock guitar and the , Chicago flute no longer sound in Qhi- | cago, The shuffling figures of the ity's old Chinatown, witlr their queues ’ ‘ing in the wind and their silx jcouts throwing scarlet and blue spots against the gray of Archer avenpe wand | South Clark street*have likewise pass ed into the hands of forgotten things. | A-survey of the Chinese in Chicago taken by the Baptist church reveals single) quene aws found 10) jorientals, and only xe of a Chinese woman he change has been ac complished in Jess than ten years, Th ‘hinamen. after resisting assimilation | for half a century has suddenly em- | braced Americanism, swi among the me known ¢ round feet. ja | Plan Suit to Clear Up Check Controversy Minneapolis, April Plans for in auguratilig suit against the directors of the Ninth District Federal Reserve bank to stop them from = enforcing collection of checks at par by banks throughout the northwest. are te be considered by bankers from Minnesc North ‘and South Dakota aid Wiscon- sin at a conference led for April 6 in Minneapolis, hy George H. Rich- ards, secretary of Minnesota Bank ers association. ‘ The bank will take up, the ques- tion of sending representatives from Minnesota to a conference late in April with the federatyreserve board. The suit wil] be a friendly one to de- termine the legality of the ruling of the federal reserve banks doing away with charges by banks for. collections of | checks, bankers here said. | .C. W. Cress of Cannon Falls, Peter | Bergh, Dawson, and W. B. Tscharner, Minneapolis, have been appointed committee by M. J. Dowling of: Olivia | to represent the Minnesota banks in | the, conference here, S. B. Duea of ; Pipestone is the chairman of an exe- chtive committee to plan action. , When $403,430 was ‘PROSPERITY IN THIS LOCALITY SHOWN BY BANKS | Bank Cleatings for March Break all Previous Records with $3,690,570 ONE DAY RECORD BROKE |More than $400,000 Cleared in One Day by: Institutions .in This City With the largest daily clearing in the history of the Bismarck Clear- ing House association amounting to over $400,000, the bank clearings for the month of March exceeded all pre- vious record nionthk when they totaled | $3,690,570. i i The daily clearances of the clearing 1ouse have shown a.continual increase ever since the Bank of North Dakota idopted, this convenience for trans- acting a portion of ifs business. How- sver, the*month, ‘of March, 1920; with 26 business days, topped. the best pre- ! vious record by only a small margin! The average. ddily. clearances for March was Slightly: below the average daily transaction for February, how- lever, being $142,000 as compared with 3142,604 for February. The greatest’ volume of clearings during the month ,was on March 29 a exchanged ~— by banks in this: city. Never before has any daily clearings reached $300,000. On nine days during March, the total clearings exceeded $200,000, while only on five days did. the daily clearings tall below’ $100,000. A comparitive statement follows: \March Feb. Tota] clearings.: $3,690,570 $3,137,255 Largest daily . 403,430 222,230 Average daily 142,000 142,604 State Bank Growing F. W. Cathto, director general of the Bank of North’Dakota, in a state- ment, issued covering the bank's ac- tivities for’ the last half of March stated that “the resources of the bank increased ‘$3,200,000: At a close of ousiness March’ 81, the resources totaled |$34,586,218.22, or $11.452,000 moye than.on thé ldst.day of. business Mr. Cathro's' report. further stated that ‘the net’ profits for the period were $29,504.92,’ representing a gain of, about $4,400’ for the month. A re- gérve fund of’ $3,940.48 has been set aside out of earning to cover depreci- ation.” ’ That the bank has: actually earned $33,445.40 durjng the first quar- ter of: 1920s - one. -the statements: ‘authorized by 4dr. Cathro. Wa “The finance’ committee has ap- proved 907: farm loans for a total of $3,367,750 up to March ” Mr. Cath- ro’s statment continues. “Farm loans in which: the money of the bank has been invested, reached $2,022,700 on March 31,’ -the statement claims. LARGE ACREAGE ADDED T0 TAX: Nearly Quarter Million Acres, Former Homesteads. Pay Income to State ° Practically quarter acre’ government: homesteads on which th owners have proved up. are listed as rnew taxable lands for the y March 1, 1919 t Murch 1, 1920, This announcement ,was made here today | by ‘Carl Kositsky, state autlitor, The list of new taxable lands, show- ing acl counties ‘for the above period, s folloy Adams) county, 1,747.63 acres; Ben: sam. County, i . gounfy, 20.04 DO wer : Burke’ county. 84.16 acre: acres; Divid of 10 ac acres; Burleigh county, i county, 435.72 le TASS.19 wcre: ¥ Emmons county plden Valley county Hettin county, Logan county, y comntyy LALAAS ac ASU ger county. 2,002.24 acre: Mellen MeIntosh county. Kenzie county. Leaw county, county, THL56 acre: ‘res; Morton count, Mountrail : Oli county, county, 106.76 Renvile county, 40. acres; count. 148" rt S00 acres; Sioux acres; Slope county, Stark count 1 acres: count; i 1 90 ac Wel 12. Woman Grandmother M R. + Louis, Mo. Apri 9 » has the él, a widow of th unusual distinction of being both grandmother and grandchild. She is the middle link of five living genera- tions, The grandmother, Mrs, Matilda Rose, of Matoon, Ils., is 88 years ol and ‘her grandchild. Sarah Rose T kell, is 19 month Mrs. Driskell is Due to the present depreciation of their y, the people of Gyr- man and Russia have been n back to the primitive ‘tem of barter and exchange of goods in place of purchase by the use of | money. PAYING LANDS; and Also Grandchild | OPEN BIDS SOON FIRST CONCRETE ROAD IN STATE “ Highway Commission Reports, Activity in Road and Bridge Building Projects STRUCTURE OVER JAMES sam ' Old ‘Contracts, Interrupted by Early Winter, Resumed in Few Weeks Revival of (and bridge building under supe ‘ion of the state high- way commission has made ity appear: ance and the commission expects to award several contr in conjunction county authorities ine different ‘of the state uext week, ecuuse no bids were received ou the confracts to build three and one- quarter niles of part gravel road in Kidder dounty Springs -highwa re-advertise for bids Jul, has sheen con: agitation for improvement in ystal Springs foad and the commission is Moing everything in its power, to eu ne tual construction work on this pro- ject. JAMES RIVER BRIDGE ~ A contract to construct a bridge over the James riyer in Foster county be tween Glenticld and Catrington was awarded hy the) commission to the Fargo Bridge & lron Co, of f« 102.14, The bridge will 100. feet long and will be of reinfor concrete, It will replace the present wooden bridge which not suited for the vehicle tratlie that now uses this road. The work is expected to be completed thi; aMMe: A 40-foot reinforced concrete. bridge and four and one-half*miles of earti | roud were included ina contract let in Bottineau county this week. The bridge spans ithe Mouse rive: RESUME OPERATIO! s 1 contractors have advised the commission that they intend to resume operations in! this’ state next week. This work in, the main consits of completing contracts started last year, but uncompleted because of the early winter. | Oné of the most, important ets falling under this head, ths) fon announced today, was No, 4 ving thirty and a half. miles of the ‘Cheodore Roosevelt highway running northwest from Williston. ‘The contractors expect’ to ‘complete this project in two weeks after the work ik resumed. ‘dhe “comini: ing party fivishing two! anda halt {miles of road included in| Emmons. county: project Ni hetween Linton and Hazleton. » The contract, includes 14 miles of new highw in the hands of Stanley Brothers, This work will be finished in a short time. FIRST CONCRETE ROAD. Bids for the first concrete road pro- ject in the state of North Dakota will be opened Monday at Grand Forks for one mile of road leading from within the city limits to the packing plant at Grand Forks, One-half of the road is withiii the city limits! On Tuesday, contrac will be awarded for the construction of four. j teen and a half miles of road on: the | Green Trail from Rogers to Valley City. This road will be of earth and is part of a 50 miles project in that section. The award Tuesday will be for the ‘first part of the construction only. : GRANT COUNTY REPUBLICANS OUT FOR WM. LANGER Carson, N. D., April 3.—At a meet- ing of representatives from all over Grant county affiliating with the re- publican party, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: | Whereas, the republicans of Grant | county are fully cognizant of the great work William) Langer has done: for | the state of North Dakota in exposing the autocratic grafting system which j has been inoculated into the state af- fairs by hired Sociadists and whereas William Langer has always been found on the side of. justice and fairness in all his undertakings both as_ state's! attorney of this county which former- ly was part of Morton county and as attorney general of the,state of North Dakota, and whereas we believe he is the logical candidate for the office of governor of this state of North Da- kota, fully capable, loyal, honest and faithful to any trust and confidence re- posed in him. therefore be it resolved, that the mass meeting here assembled unalterably endorse , Hon, William Langer as candidate for the office of governor of the state of North Dakota, fully pledging him our votes and in-; fluence in the coming election to the| end that the fair state of North Dakota may be reclaimed to a safe and sound | administration of its ‘affairs. Signed: | JAMES McCORMICK. | Wheat Belt Harbin, ‘The mid.) appearance—the great, scattered jarmy, of migratory workers, coming out of the south via the box car route. with Kansas City as its objective. The vanguard of this carefree multi- tude. which nevertheless is a neces- sary adjunct to the nation’s life in as. ing in doing the seasotal rebuild ing work of the railroads and garner- | ing the harvest. usually reathes Kan-! sas City when the warm winds from the Southwest asdures them that- the) winter’s snow and sleetshas vanished for another yeat. | Already. in groups about the em- ployment bureaus, may be seen the} | London date lines but until part of don has: hadseserye yes Vast Army of Migratory Workers Toward Means Resumption of Railroad Building RHUR DISTRICT AWAIT ACTION | - FROM BERLIN | Copenhagen, Decision to | call off the general strike in the entire | Rhur industrial region was reached Wt session of the executive il of the district yesterday ac- | cording to a dispatch from Exsen, Jt will be renewed. howeyer, if the Ber- lin government fails to fail obli tions entered into with the workers and in particular if it fails to halt the movement of troops against the Rhur district. a plenary coun RAIL STRIKES HOLDUP FREIGHT AT BIG TERMINAL Yards at Virtual Stand- still Today TURKS ALARMED OVER ATTITUDE OF PRES. WILSON Greeks Displeased Over Chief | : Executive’s Decision on | Adrianople Issue Constantinople, April 3<-President Wilson's note to the allies ultimating that the Turk must get out of Europe Several brief dispatches asserting’ Mr, | Wilson's adherence to that position had | been printed here under 1 and the actual’ text of the note appeared in local newspapers Turks were un willing to,believe it. Mr. Wilson's note appeared in a slightly censored form which made the position of the United States seem harsher on the. Turks than it appeared in the full text of the communication, The note was equally displeasing to the Greeks who were much offended at the Americay president's apparent unwillingness to grant their claims +0 a large. district about Smyrna andshis insistence ‘that Adrianople be given ta the Bulgarians. . tn business men here are ap- \s y the effects of the pres. s stand and there ix considerable as to the effect it will have Turkey, where 500 American born. t ‘sand relief workers are considered to he in considerable dan- ger if the protection of Turkish for should he withdrawn, CANADIANS START SOFT DRINK PLACE IN ‘NORTH DAKOTA nipeg .Residents Incorporate Company for $50,000 to, Sell Coco Cola The advent of prohibition, registered evidence fn North Dakota April 2 wit! the incorporation of $50,000. soft drink concern to be located at: Fargo. Four residents of Winnipeg, Canada. were listed among the five d: ors of the Coca Cola Bottling company of North Dakota. { According to the articles, the firm will engage in “manufdcturing, bot- tling™and sale of Coca Cola and other soft drinks, together with all by-pro ducts thereof. The directors are (. F. Roland, i P. Moore, T. J. Moore. and C.J. Daly all of Winnipeg, and W. A. McMillan of Fargo.! Oaths for the articles were sworn to by the Mes: Moore, as Mong the incoyporators, before a no tary public of the province of Man- itoha, IRISH ROADS WATCHED, FEAR i EASTER UPRISING London, April -Armed — troop were on duty along all roads leading to Londonerry last night, motor cars were minutely searched. and drivers had to produce permits and decla their business Central News ¢ patch from Dublin. It is believed this: military activity had something to do with rumors of an Easter uprisi! There was great military the suburbs of Dublin today accor to the dispatch, Parties of soldier with armored cars took up positions shortly after midnight just outside the city boundaries and all vehicles ap- proaching the capital were searched. Hay carts received particular atten- tion and tramway passengers from Lickin about seven ‘miles tof Dublin also were searched. London, April -Reports from many party of Ireland indicate that the government is taking no chances of a possible materialization of the rumored Sien Finn plot for an Easter revolution. Londonderry, Dublin and other places, reports said, were the centers of extreme military activity, a stringent watch being maintained and all travelers searched and identified. _ Elaborate preparations were being made to handle any possible untoward situation. "s w ger of. Spring and “gandy dancer,” that unit of the main- tenance department of a railroad which does track labor. Then there is the “mucker.” who performs the or- dinary labor ¢onnected with construe: tion work, and the “skinner,” or team- ster of the construction yang. Even a few of the “humpers” already have appeared—those men who toil around a railroad station and often take a lit- tle contract of their own. i} The call for harvest hands will not | gp be sounded for about two months, bat the United States employment servic? | is busy now mapping out plans to e| for these workers, many the nds of | whom are necde n the grain fields th year. Prof 1.800 1,000 SWITCHMEN ARE OUT Representatives of Brotherhood ‘in Session to Prevent Fur- ther Walkout 1600 THREATEN STRIKE Chicago, April ixteen hun. dred, five hundred railway. men in the Chicago ve als will walk out before Monday morning causing complete suspension of freight traffic unless demands of 700 striking employes of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee: an Paul road are granted, John u, leader of the strikers, announced this morning. Brothe: dof railway train. officlals, with ‘which the switchmen are affillated declared, however, that G ws organiza. tion. the Chicago Yardmen’s asso- clation, is an “out-law” union and has not authority’ to speak ‘for brotherhood members, Chicago, April Freight tratie on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads here, was still to: day and operation | of Chicags Junction railroad crippled, sult of a strike of 1.000 swite L emple wfliliated With the Chi- cago yardmen’s union. An embargo or aeceptince of all freight shipments was effect in the former road, 300: JOIN WALKOUT { Three hundred yardmen employed the Chicago junctian railroad, a link for trunk lines enter- joined the walkout late last night. The men demand the rein- statement of John Grunau, president of the union, and a scile of 95 cents in hour for switehmen and $1 for con- lnctors. } "CONFER ON SITUATION Representatives of the Brotherhood f Railway Trainmen and officials the Chicago, Rock Island and Paci railrond met today to conelude.a wi ing agreement differences’ over which chreatened a strike of trainmen em- Noyed by the road ‘ Agreement’ on yirtually all poitns vas reached at a conference last night and’ a-strike referendum taken bv vembers Of the brotherhood would he isregarded it Was: anivounced. « PRODUCTION IS CURE FOR HIGHER PRICES OF BEEF Dr. Worst Putting Forth Ef- forts to Interest More Farm- ers in Livestock Industry he growing importance of the live- stock industry in North Dakota and in yrgent appeal that the breeding of purebred animals become even nore extensive in this state than at present are the subjects of an interest - ng statement issued today by Dr, John H. Worst, state commissioner of immigration. | “The North Dakota department. of immigration is urging the farmers of he stitte to make a,study’ of the pos- sibilities of livestock industry, e: ly dairying and beef! raising, Dr] Worst. “A study of statistic lating to the beef industry will sl that industry is on a solid and. fi foundation and those who engage: in sured success for many years Te- tatistics show that we a fourth of our beef to the The ent 3 his situation, nate for the sending on ughter is plainly ‘in’ sight, while it is unfortu sumer as Tt means sof high 1 beef before the tion's herds can get back to normal, is @situation which holds wonderful opportuntties for the men who will take advantage of it in North Dakota, ithin the past few years, of sales of purebred livestock been held throvghout. the state of Dakota and there is an in- sing number of eager buyers. ar sale and fhe raisers of pure livestock are getting splendil 's with a constant incréasing de- und orth Dak livestock men are ive to the situation and they are organizing not only a state association, but an association of each of the dir ferent breeds, and they, propose at alt future si $ poor qu izations 1g up section of the state and rai: with -which to build fi adequate stock ‘pavilio sales will be held. also proposed to hold a great mid-winter show amd sale at Fargo where a big livestock pavilion has just been completed witu a show ring having a seating capacity and with> stalls. to accom. modate. 400 animals. The first big show will be held at Fargo next win- ter. Each breed association will have charge of its particular sale and every animal offered for sale will be selected a committee whiche will tell the animals he may place in scores have ‘ach bred pri + were future The first Dill to native-born and naturalized women of Canada the right to vote in federal elections has been presented to the parliament.