The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 3

SYSTEM OR NOT SPEND ANY MORE Jurist Points Out Belief That . Political Tenancy ‘Weakens ; Present Plan HITS BANK, RISK LAW amar ‘ Says That Workmen’s Compen- sation Bureau Is Getting >. Too Mush Money - | \ i AS i Judge J. E. Robinson, of the su- preme ‘court, in a message to the leg- islature, issued today, says: ° “To the Legislative Assembly: “Gentlemen: wary—4 to répresent mainly the toil- ers who have not made expenses dur- ing 1920, the fitting slog ig this: Throw politics to the wind. ‘Cut in two the assessments, tax, levies and appropriations for 1920 and 1921. Re- peal the bad laws; re-organize and put on a solid apd not a sandy found- ation the state bank and state indus- tries. As they are now organized it is better, far better, to let them have i good rest.shan to make turther ap- propriations for them. It is better tc let them rest until they can be: re- organized under laws putting them on a sound businesslike basist Under the present laws ‘all the industries have: 'peon.run by employees having no in-/, terest in the business. It is tlre same a&the ridiculous Plumb Plan of run- ning railroads. There is no reason for continuing ‘the present experi- ment.. It’ has gone far enough. In New Zealand, under a corporate union of public and private interest and control; the banks and the numerous industries have proven a grand suc- cess.. The Federal Reserve Banks have a model foundation and you may easily. give a similar foundation to the’ state bank and the ,several state industries. So far as possible, you should remove from the foundations every-grain of political sand and re- place the same /with solid\ rocks of self interest-and pure efficient busi- ness principles. ~ : England's Method. “The Bank of England obtained its charter during the reign of William and Mary, and for .more than two centuries it has stodd as a great fi- nancial rock and the fiscal. agent of the Government. Political have raged, “ dynasties and govern- ments have come and gone, but ‘the | Sveat bank has ever remained firm as | the Rock of Gibraltar. It has. never had’ to fear therPésiilt ‘Of ani: election’ or @ change in Ce goveininént. rier, has never becna demon4 nor a clare for the examination of it or any Fed-) eral Reserve Bank. Agpevery tub stands on its own bottom, so every state bank ana ¢ ery aude oa stand on its own foundation. It must be under the direct control of.a com- petent board of directors, having a personal interest in its success. Such directors donot, ina rented building, start a bank with Furniture and Fix- tures, $50,000.. But thats the way of doing a state business i. which the managers have no personal interest. There is no economy; it is“all waste and extravagance from start to, fin- ish. All men, even the lawmakers, are too liberal with the money of others. Seif interest ig the essential main- spring of all busincss success. “Politienl Rule. “The Governof, the Attorney-Gen- eral and the Commissioner of Agri- culture do -constitute the Industrial Commission. They. are given a Jearge appropriation—$2q0,000—with ~~ abso- lute control over’ the bank and: the— industries. Yet every tw6 years they Must Mae ‘tts Po..t.car Eoul, anus. unsuccessful, they and their depend ant industries must go by the boa Any two-membeTs of an adverse co} mission have: power to blast and ruin. the bank and the industries and they may do St without any loss to them- setves. They have nb self interest tw protect. re blesting ,and ruining may be the result of either illwill o pmpetence. rely there is no presumption that three persons who may be elécted to fill three of- fices shall be competent to control and direct the management of. great business enterprises. The presuinp- tions are all to the contrary, because a god politician is rarely, if,ever, a goo1 busifiessman. Who would think of.a Jame Hill, or any captain of in- dustry, ruhning for Governor or giv- ing much of his time to politics. Now For the Taxes: “Since 1918 the assessed valuations hav> been marked up more then to os fold. That is’the main cause of the trouble. Prior to 1919 there were no taxes only on moderate valuations. and the taxes were limited to a small per cent of the valuations. four mills on the dollar was the iimit of the annual state tax levies; but since 1918 there ha< heen no limit.. There has becn ‘¢™eesort to everv device to in cresse the assessments: and the tax levies, and so the tax system has be- com? » 1 mpire with tentaeles, spread- ing out in all directions, Regardless of any valuations. there has been Jev ied! on motor vehicles a specific tax of nearly ‘a million dollars a year. Thig 4is apportion to the stete. the highway commission and the seyeral counties; the cjties that pay the bulk of the tax-have no say as to (power to cut-and how. it shall be expended. As I think, Yowest notch, especially those for t ‘0 it has, been largely squandered.’ You ecn got the exact 1°res from the of- fice of the State Auditor and from the huge appropriatiuns made for the highway commission. The motor ve- hicle tax Should be repealed. | Indeed, I hold that it is not constitutional. Under the constitution all property must be assessed for taxation in the county, city, township, town or, vil- lage in ‘which ft is situated, in' the manner nreseri¥ed by law. (Sec. 174.) The.motor vehicle is no exception. The state tax ‘must not exceed four mills on the dollar of the assessed As you-Meet on Jan-™~ storms . 4 A “MANY FAMILIAR “PAGES MISSING. - AMONG SOLONS Not a Gathering of Qld Clans,’ Particularly in the i *. > House RRR RR HOUSE MEN TO 'Six Who’ Served in Legislature | Two Years Ago Will Be Found in Upper House SENATE at bg | ‘The \legisiature this year. will not | b2 agathering of old clans. Gener- ‘ally the'first days (of a session ara like asgchool: reunion, a bunch of xood fellows, get together and renew | friendships ald in’ this party lines are | seldom, agewn | No | membersifelt when they first answer-' ‘ed rollNeall, Benerally a few days’; {work on committees together rubbed off the rough edges and although they ‘differed., politically they . became | friends. But this ‘year many.new faces will appear and many of the old ones will not. This is due principally _to the ‘shift of control in the House from the | Nonpartisans to-the Independents and to the increase in number of Inde-) pendents inthe Senate. / { Six missing faces in the House will | be found inthe Senate chamber. Casa county elevated Henry J. Rusch, of Fargo, and Peter McLachlan, of Hu er, to the upper house, and Nels Pe terson of ‘Sargent county, is another man who makes the leap. Those thre: ie IMaepenuents. ‘he Nonnartisan: H boosted John Nathan of Sheridan, Gus Wog of Billings, Bowman, Gold- en Valley and: Slope counties, and Robt. Byrons of Williams and Mc-' ' Kenzie counties. : Floor. Leader Not Back. Frank Riba of Sargent county, whose, contest, for his seat two years ago brought’ him wide notoriety, is among the House members who will not be here in either body. ® M. E- Whipple, of Stutsman, one of the best floor leaders the league had, | will not be back; the Independents’ carrying all their candidates in the county over din | | Speaker Ly lw. while he will, not be in the-House, will doubtless be active. in legislative activities, as | |e WML Dewigh@idie ws Waraea or Lae} { penitentiary { | C:"W. McDonnelj, another Leaguer, | | will assime faa as railroad FOWAND WOOD Lieut. Gdye- 7 z v JUDGE A, M. CHRISTIANSON commissioner on ifanuary 3, H Herman: Hardt, [‘whose lively , tilts ‘with EB... W."Herbert! of Dunn, were 2 feature ‘of the’special session, Jost to! an Independent. ‘ 2 fa Bert Arnold. of. Scranton, has left the state. He wa3 the man who made |the dramatic repudiation of the League leadership following a meet- ing addressed by Attorney Generat| | Langer. F. M. Hoare of Williams,’ is a Leaguer who has forsaken the | legislature for county Office. He is now auditor of Williams. Frank Haynes of Mountraill, did the same. thing. George A. Malone of Wilton, a la- bor representative elected by the Non- partisans of McLean, has moved to Burleigh county and is managing the QM ued! Menukea OL 1 ee tor. Carol D. King. Senator King nimself\and the rest of-the Burleigh. county delegation—Frank G. Prater of Arena, L. D. Bailey of Moffit, and |G. O. Kell of McKenzie—are among thgse ,;who lost out in the drift tu- » wMrds the Independents, Their pla- cys are taken by Lynn W. Sperry, ‘senator, and Harold Semling, Victor SOHN ' Commissionar HAGAN, Acricniture ‘egive League leader, will be repre- sented by. another Leaguer. 7 i Lost in Warm Race Os J.-lveré of Grant .county, was ‘beaten in a warm race by Claude Lackey, Independent. Ivers’ long white whiskers caused the opposition to cartoon him as the League goat and thus he became famous in the last session, R. H. Walker, one of the. League floor leaders, a large powerful man from Oliver county, ran for state treasurer and was defeated by Joha Steen’ Independent. , W. L. Cadell of, Sioux county, who: caused, a sensation two years ago by stating he had received offer of « N jority of the state officials t for two on incomes, motor vehic 0 H. P. Jacob cowsm pigs, lands or any case of S¥dge jive to vote ‘against the laws enact- not a candidate foo reelection te clected tor a six ing the League program. When asked geat goes to P. D, Garberg Nonpar- property. re-elected. 'Phey~ ari keep the same and the taking of offtce for erm is but a tormalfty wiih Thomas © Halj, -seereiary of patered on his fiith consecutive ap term in that office, He is the dézn of all state officials in point | V8 ; fe | of gervic yovernor Frazier begins of Cass, F. W. Keitaman of Melson i _ Among the Independents “who will j SEEN: Soy OsSeRE CER Pe not be frequenting hotel, corridors | . 4s this winter as leBislators are: J. F. T. )| Reform with » lot of idlefs, mental Q‘Connor of Grand Forks, known as 9, or moral defectives. If they are fit $0 the silver-tongued orator of the *| Hive they should be trained to some House and always listened to with in- industry and made to earn their OWN terest by both factions. ‘He, of course, living or go on a hunger strike, Do was not a candidate again, filing in- to name the person making the offer, he refused, asserting that he didn’t «now the iman but that he wore a Bray suit. Other .Leaguers who will not be back are:~ Ole Moen ‘and Oscar Nes- vig of Traill_ county, Robert, Waffesoa mie workmen's compensati insurance \tax. is ‘five times the sum necessary. By all means you should! ssity iae risks and 1x the rates insurance and not leave that to ane bureau. . And, a8 the surplus of such} tax is-sufficient to pay the insur: 2 for two'or three. years, during thar atime U should pe no turth surance t erntOy ets another Cut to Limit. “And now, though the ta power to reduce the same just as you i picturesque members of the ‘Mefeated by J. D. Gardiner of Brocket, v Pipe Organ ———[—[—[S[—— broke with the leaders, but who was, clected with the endorsement of ‘the Nonpartisan league. “* Joe Harris Gone. William Krueger of Richland coun- ty, who was elected by the League but | broke over the line frequently, was! not a candidate for re-election. | George Robinson of McLean county, lost out this year by a close vote to! a) Leaguer. ‘ | Another face that will be missed this year is the cheerful’ one -of Joc) Narrig of Stanton, who recently died. ! He was not a candidate for re-elec- tion. } E. W. Herbert of Dunn, one of the last; house, while he will not be a member | this year, will be frequently seen as, he is night.clerk at the Van Horn ho- | tel. He was elected as a Leaguer but | broke from the ranks when he op- posed legislation which he thought too radical. y Inall there are 67 members of the House who will not be back. There will be only 20 senators missing. Two have died since the last reg- ular session, both popular and influ: ential members. They are A. S. Gib-| bong of Towner, Independent, whos: ! place was filled by a special election which was won by D. J. Beisel, Inde- pendent. E. H. Sikes of Mountraill, was in the hospital when the special session was called last winter and neyer rallied. His seat oes to Ry W. Patten, Leaguer. i Among the Leaguers who will not be-here are: 1 Walter Welford of Pembina, who is active in League official circles; J. P..Hemingsen of Grand Forks; Albert! Stenmo of Grand Forks, who refused *+ necept the League endorsement for Neutenant-governor the first election |, the Nonpartisans contested; Charles E. Drown of Cass, not elected by the! Nonpartisans but supporter of most | of their measures and ‘father of the: state prain grading act, defeated in)! the primaries; Richard McCarten of Sargent county, also (etented in prim- aries but active in Le! official cir- cles; C. I. Morkrid of Nelson county, prominent Independent; Thomas Pen- dray of Stutsman, who filed for con- Sressman against George M. Young in the Second district, and Thorwald Mo- stad of Ward county, who was defeat- ed by Independent, Walter E. Bond. John Weber, leaguer of McIntosh- Logan, another League leader of the last session was recalled and defeat-_ ed by John Schrenk. ~ at Gust Wog Here. George Hunt of Bowman, Golden Valley, Slope’and Billings, was not a: candidate for re-election, his place on HLsAnderion and 4. E. Heaton, repre-| the Nonpartisan ticket heing taken by Fe 5 w G ve g James ‘Uglum of Burke-Divide an OF t pe Cabill of tient erobebly the: most prominent. League speaker in the Senate, ran for secretary of state and, of course, was defeated ‘by. Thom- as Hall. ~ ! Other Leaguers missing ‘are Morton Mortenson of Williams-McKenzie and Ed-vard-Hamerley of Renville. Among the prominent Independents who will_not be back are: Cill Haggart of Cass. i Frank Hyland of Ramsey, succeeded bygJ. E. Stevens, Independent. M. L. McEride of Dickinson, who | filed instead for district judge. John Beck of Sheridan, who lost by harrow margin to John Nathan, Non- partisan- tisan attorney, ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine LANOUPLSDUEERD EAD ED UETEU UN TAEPAT TN Trieste, nunz rd \ % Evening at 7:15 ' Matinee Daily at 2:30 / Harry L. Wagner; Master Organist The Finest Theatre in the Northwest Perfect Ventilation Biggest ‘and. Best Pictures \ ' Offers Tonight L JACK HOLT and WANDA HAWLEY In William’ Gillette’ Stirring Stage Melodrama ‘. “HELD BY THE ENEMY”. . 5, a Also: Two ‘Reel Comedy * ‘, “TORCHY IN HIGH” oh ‘Wednesday - “CHARLES RAY NNUNZIO . VERY BITTER Fan. jast publ ACTUATE We have “Y and E” tranafer files in many styles, in wood, stecl, ‘wor jute board “Y and E” folders will fit any make oJ file. We haveall kit Thefamous“Yawma- nole” folders. 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