The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1921, Page 1

THIRTY-NINTH YEAR E BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS HOUSE BLOCKS | EYES OF AMERICA ON THREE WOMEN; LEAGUE EFFORT ON ACCOUNTANTS Rejects Resolution to Bring Members of Company Staff Before Body | | | | | ' DEBATE WAXES WARM Independents Charge Effort to! Smother; League Charges Prejudiced Report | By a vote of 57 to 54. the largest majority given the independents _on any question to date, the house Fri-! day afternoon killed the resolution in. troduced by Representative Miller of | Bottineau, calling for the presence of | the accountants making the audit for the state board of auditors at the’ time the report of Bishop, Brissman | & Co. was reported. | This resolution was the same as; that introduced in the senate by Sen- ator Leiderbach, and passed by that body. It was introduced by the Non- | partisans following the passage yes | terday of the resolution ordering the accountants to make their report di-' rect to the House. i H During the debate Speaker Twit-' chell read a message from Bishop Brissman & Co., St. Paul, to Chiet Clerk Dawson, as follows: ‘Order oi, house received and will be complied with.” Asks Committee Reference | Representative Miller moved the adoption of the resolution. Repre- sentative Kelly of Logan-McIntosh, independent, moved that it be refer- red to the state affairs committee. In response to a request for ex planation of the purpose of the reso- ution. Mr. Miller said: “The resolution is similar to the one passed yesterday. The part which has_ been added provides—” Mr. Kelly jumped to his feet and said that what he was interested in knowing what was going on as soon as possible, to which Mr. Miller replied with a reiteration of his state- ment that the only difference was that it would have the auditors. At this stage cf the discussion Speaker Twitchell called Representa- tive Shipley of Stark, to the chair. Mr. Twitchell charged that he had information that steps were being taken to prevent the submission of the audit report to the house and that the resclution was merely a move to block ; the submission of the report to the house. “It is ridiculous.” he said, “to think of bringing twenty five or thirty peo- ; ple here with the report. We can call; for as many people as we want after, we get the report. | To Bar No One | “We are going to bar no one. But the purpose of the gentleman behind | the resolution is to keep us from get- | ting the report. He has no right to tell Bishop, Brissman & Co. to bring twenty-five or thirty men here. If you; pass a resolution of this kind you are going to make such a damn fool of the legislature that the people down there will not pay any attention to our message.” Sherman of Kidder, protested. de- \ claring he did not want the report.- Mr. Twitchell questioned him as to whether he thought he would get the report if he demanded that the com pany bring twenty or thirty men here. , “Wait until I get through,” Mr. Sherman replied. “I don’t know how, imany were engaged. I know that in! small matters directors have often called ‘officials who made the audit before them. The report will contain: things the average layman cannot un-, derstand.” Mr. Twitchell rose to speak but was interrupted by two Nonpartisans jumping to the floor to the point of order that he had speken three times. Mr. Twitchell agreed and sat down.' but Maddock of Mountrail. asked unanimous consent of the house for him to continue. which request was quickly seconded by another Nonpart- isan leader. Dell Patterson. “We will get the gentlemen we want when the time comes,” asserted the speaker. “The amendment calls not only for the auditors but all state employees connected with the audit. Any of these persons we may want we have the right to send the sargent- at arms after whenever we desire.” Takes Exception “Kitchen cf Golden Valley took ex- ception to the insinuation. he said. that the farmers were unable to form a judgment from the report which would be presented. He said he had taken a course in commercial account- ing and he was certain there were twenty mcre in the house who could analyze it better than he. It was at this point in the discus- sion that Speaker Twitchell who had taken the chair, read the telegram. Larkin of Eddy, Nonpartisan, pro tested that he was an accountant but that he didn’t feel confident to pass on the report. The resoluticn, declared Mr. Pat-’ terson, again addressing the chair, is one relating: to one of the most im- portant movements in the United States. This industrial movement is one of the greatest ever started in this country. Maddock’s View Maddock of Mountrail, urged that ninety per cent of the members of the house. he would say, and ninety- nine per cent of the people of the state wanted the information con tained in the audit. The house, he maintained, “was not making a ‘darn’ or something else fool of itself today but had done that yesterday. called on Speaker Twitchell to furnish information on which he based his charge that an attempt was being made to suppress the report. Watt of Cass, answered Maddock later to this. He said that the inde- pendents had learned yesterday that the new board of auditors was plan- ning to get out an injunction to pro- hibit the submission of the report to the legislature if the report was not satisfactory to it. | Freeman cf Grand Forks, stated he| (Continued on page 2) i | OEMAND THE CQNVICTION OF— PROSECUTOR Eyes of America are on three wo- A judge. Each is the first woman to hoid her respective ollice. The mayor is Mrs, Lillian Brown- lee of Washington, She was ap pointed on the death of her husoand, | Mrs, Rrownl ambition to| make Washington “the best place | in Amerita in whieh to bring up! boys and girl | She no sooner hid taken office than she ordeyet the police to rid} the town of undesirables he lid on the poolroom bootleggers: and to cl casies, As chief magistrate Mrs. lee holds police court—and the fines | she’s giving offenders shows. she has little tolerance for the wilful law-) ‘oreaker. “Pm Ddringing up a boy--now 14— in Washington,” says the m “and I'm going to make this town, safe for him and other women’s sons | and daughters.” | FARM BUREAU 10 BE FORMED IN BURLEIGH Delegates Are Named to State Convention to Be Held at Fargo | A prosecutor. | | i | ' Plans are under way for the organi- zation of a Burleigh county farm bureau. At a meeting of the organization committee elected last summer to per- fect the plan of organization, which was held in the office of former coun ty agent G. W. Gustafson, who at the present time is with the State Fed- eration of Farm Bureaus, it was de cided that the county organization should affiliate with the state organi- zation. A permanent stute organiza- uon is to be formed at a meeting to be held in Fargo on Jan. 21. J. M. Thempson, of Wilton. has been named delegate from Burleigh county and Mrs. T. Ellison, of Sterling, has been named alternate. A campaign committee. composed of Mr. Thompson. Mrs. Ellison and John Schneider, of Bismarck, has been named to solicit members of the bureau in Burleigh county. A series of meetings will be held throughout the county for the purpose of bring ing befcre the people the work of the National Federation of Farm Bureaus, it is announced. Men connected with ‘the state federation will speak and their schedule will be made public later. All farmers will be invited to join, it is Ellendale Listens In On Services 800 Miles Away Pittsburg, Pa. Jan Persons re siding within 80 miles of Pittsburg da having wirel telephone — re will be able to “1 on services at the Calvary Protestant Episcopal church Yere tomorrow. A manufacturing concern handling wire- less telephone equipment ha stalled wireless transmitting appara tus at the church. The company has been informed by many amateur op erators that they the music of the services last Sunday. Among those that listened in were operators at Baudett, Minn., and Ell- endale, iN. D. AMES DEFEATED BY MISSOURI U. Columbia, Jan. 8.—The university of ‘Missouri defeated Ames 30 to 11 in the opening of the Missouri valley conference basketball race. MAYOR, PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE a) CLEAN THts TOWN) ~ Csi| OF CROOKS, ae g ry Above, at leit, Prosecutor Davey; at right, Judge Allen; below, Mayor Brownlee, The prosecutor is Miss Mary Ki Davey of Hocking county, Ohio, } Davey the only Democrat! elected in her county. She is pre-} paring evidence for submission to the coming session of the grand jury. “When women acquired the vote,” says M Davey, “they merely ob- tained half their rights in govern- ment. : “Their full rights will not be at- tained until women are taking an equal part with men in operating the STATE TURNS DOWN BOND SALE PLAN OF | one—especially to witnesses who have: steam in the city of Bismarck. 1 FORTUNE LEFT SAYS IT IS ALL A MISTAKE {| ‘Mitwaukee, Jan, 8.--John Ws | said to be a comparatively poor man, ja moulder in the West Milwaukee car | shops, t-day turned his back %n a for- | tune of $500,090 willed to him, re was | notified by a woman whose lite he ‘is reported to have saved thirty years Ugo. | “Fam sure J am not the person re- | 1 | | | Uses Spiritualism To Abduct Wife Of Wisconsin Man Madison, Wis., Jan, 8.—-Pierre Au- thor who is alleged to have forcibly taken Mrs. Mary ‘Franzen, wife of an’ j employe of the University of Wiscon- sin, from her husband Tuesday, will) be returned here from (st. (Louis for | “trial on a grand larceny charge, the | local police announced. i Mrs. J. 'F. Wenucr, of Sheboyan, an aunt of Mrs. Franzen, told of her i neice’s belief. in spiritualism and of) a Clairvoyant’s assertion that Author land she “were intended for cach| other.” | ! CITIZENS IN MOVE 10 CUT UTILITY RATES machingry of government. | Petition Filed Against Tariffs “I'm going to do my bit to make: = i this a government ty men and wo, Charged by Hughes Elec- tric Light Company JUDGE men, for men and women—and chil-' diyen.” The judge is Miss Morence E. Allen’ -—_— of Cleveland, Ohio Application for reduction in the She is a Democrat, but was elected: yates charged by the Hughes Electric common pleas judge on a nonparti- Co. for electric light, heat and power san_ ticket. i and steam for domestic and other “Speed, with fairness,” is Judge purposes was filed today by more Allen’s slogan. than 80 consumers of the city, com- “Delay in courts is unfair to every | prising same of the heaviest users of nothing to gain Protest Rates, Her first e took only 90 min- he petition it is said is in pro- utes, from the impanelling of the jury! test to the recently 40 per cent in- to the return of the verdict. ‘crease in heat rates in view of a de- Miss Allen wears a plain, tailored) clining market in coal, labor and suit. Her shoes are flat-heeled, broad! other essentials. Slight increases, toed. Her cars are visible. were granted by the farmer railroad! Theugh she's ‘most womanly, in| commission on electric light rates. | court she impresses owe not as a wo-; The petition sets forth the follow- man (but as a judge. ing: | She may Preside at the coming! To the Honorable Boara of Rail-| trial of another judge, (Chief Justice} road Commissioners of the State of; W. H. MeGannon of municipal court,| North Dakota: i charged with shooting and killing a! We, the undersigned, citizens of friend in a row. | Bismarck and consumers and pur-' | chasers of electricity for Hght, heat lor power and consumers and pur- |chasers of steam for heating pur- poses, all from the Hughes Electric | Co. respectfully represent. j That the Hughes Electric company ; is a public utility of the city of Bis- 'marck operating under a charter ‘from the city of Bismarck and is fur- nishing and selling to citizens of the! , ‘city and to the undersigned. electric- ‘ity for light, power and heat and The co-operative movement — be- tween the state administration and bankers inaugurated at a meeting held here Dec. 7 apparently is at an end today. Bankers left for their, homes last ‘night, after a long conference with the industrial commission, stating that they had gone as far as they could, and that their efforts to sell state bonds and the organization of the North Dakota finance corpora- tion to relieve financial conditions in sa the state must end. The industrial commission's reply to the proposition laid before it by the bankers was to be made toda’ in a formal statement. The commi sion’s attitude, it is understood, the org Some state offic: there is a probability of a further get-together meeting. The conference, which was held in the governcr’s office, ended long aft- er dark last night. The bankers were represented by a speci: mittee of the state ass members of the s ers committee named . state was represented by Governor Frazier, Attorne neral Lemke, Commissioner of Agriculture John Hagan and Director General of the bank, F. W. Cathro. The banke: the chief spokesmen for whom were G. Hf. Hollister and KE. J. Weiser of Fargo, laid before officials the changes in 5 they id were demanded — by eastern investors before they could buy the bonds, The action is held by bankers to mean that unless methods of financir are vised work: on thg Grand Fork mill and elevator and home building must spended — indefinitely Plans sale of bonds to take up the real estate mortgage bonds and provide a cash capital stock for the Bank of North Dakota are disrupted. Plans] for the sale of county and school} tion and warrants through the finance cor-|> poration are ended. The proposition | put before the industrial commission | follows: | Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 7. 1921. To the Honorable, The Industrial} Commission. and The Bank of! North Dakota: The committee of bankers, invitee | under date of Dec. 30. last. to con- fer with you with a view of devising | ~~ i RICH, ASKS SOLITUDE \ i | Boston, Jan. 8.—Solitude. That’s all Miss Mary Jane MacNevin wants —-and she has inherited half a mil-| - 0,000 of home building bonds. AT apes $1,000,000 of the Bank of North Ds- kota bonds steam for heating, all for domestic and other Purposes: al . at said Hughes Electric com- some means of selling available se- | pany, is now charging to and collect- curities and bettering the financial jpg from the consumers and pur- situation throughout the state, beg to , chasers of general lighting and steam submit the following: heat service excessive exhorbitant "Through the numerous conferences | and unreasonable rates for said serv-| of the past month, it would appear | ice. that the most immediate and impor- tant question is the sale of the sev-| eral issues of the state bonds now being offered. The banke! earnestly endeavored to assist in the bonds, but so far with- The administration has Tble Commission. also been unable to sell them. Therefore, we do petition the Board The bankers have ascertained the of Railroad Commissioners of the condition under which those bonds | tate of North Dakota, to fix a time Could now ld by them, and with and a place where a hearing will be before them, make had upon this complaint and that a notice of said hearing be servea upon the Hughes Electric company and the undersigned. $3,000.00 of farm loan bonds, as _Farther that the excessive exhorbi- well ag the balance of the $10,000,000, fmt and unreasonable rates wow as reasonably needed and the thar- charged by the Hughes Electric com- Ket will aheerh pany for general lighting and steam $2,000,000 of mill and elevator bonds, heat be, thereafter reduced by order to complete und put in operation the aude sion to rates which are rea- Grand Forks mill and elevator. sonable and Juat. Charges Violation. That the excessive and unreasona-| ble rates for general lighting were} put into force and effect by said of the state have’ Hughes Electric company without; authority and in violation of a sus- pension order isgued by your Hon- the prope : The bankers would undertake to To bring this about. it would be ne ary on the part of the admin- ' istration p To limit the operation of the Ba a oY of North ota to the administration enactment of a sounties. Dublin, Jan. 8.--The police bar- townships, school distri boards of racks at Trammor, county Water. education, lages and cities. making ford, in_ m: jal law arca, were at- g bank a permanent pub- tacked last evening and a_ military tary, and fixing the rate of perly sent to the relief of the police interest hy statute, providing alse ambushed. After heavy fighting, for public an assurances that de- s the statement, the members of sits world be prop ributed.: the ambushing party were dispersed, Provide some assurance to ihe pule leaving three dead. It is be lic that the so-called farmers’ indus- adds the statement, that the attacking trial program will be conte? to the force suffered other casualties. Grand Forks mill and elevator, to Drake mill, and the Bank .ot co? an Dekotte and that no sate ine HARDING CONFERS other than tie above ve ON NAVAL MATTER the term of the pres- SARS USE? 7 ‘ation. Marion, O., Jan, 7.—Representa- To confer wich attorneys for bond tive ‘Butler, of Pennsylvania, ii buyers at an early date, and if any man of ihe house naval commit new or amendatory legislation. oF was called into conference today by industry re, farm loan bonds. To procure the new depo ary law fo order of the industrial commission {is president-elect Harding to consider 3 required, to make the bonds more means of reducing naval ex: ; Teadily marketable, to seo ihat it is without impairing the efficiency provided. the nation’s first line defense. AAA, Although favoring a navy strong lion. She also inherits the house of enough to insure safety to American: M Ibert Knight, whose serv- shores and American commerce the ant She now occupies its 14, President elect feels that a large part rooms alone. Husband and auto? No, Of the proposed expenditures could She wants only to be left alone. ibe dispensed with. | MOULDER SPURNS $500,000 | Secretary Houston ‘tion of $5,000. Other features carried | excise taxes. HUSBAND SAYS LICENSELAW AMENDMENT IS 10 BE ASKED ferred to in the will, af 1 thought: F, L, Watkins Plans Amendment ‘there was the remotest possibility to So Called “Pool Hall that 1 am the man I certainly would ” ‘be-on the job,” tay Relatives and friends say they re-| member the incident of the saving, SOME ASK REPEAL but that Mr, Wagner suffered a sun- stroke a few years after the deed ji which erased previous events from Hold That Supervision Chocat Be Left With Local his memory. HIM RECENTLY; i Authorities Is it or isn't it constitutional? Will it or will it not be repealed, or will a happy medium of revision ‘be ac- ceptable to the forces of the State OF SUR TAX IS Enforcement league and the Billiard Men's association who are waging a lobby warfare over the so-called pool hall act? The executive committee of the North Dakota Billiard Men’s associa- don was due to arrive in Bismarck Proposes today for a conference with reference to the law which in 1919 created the state licensing department under the loffice of the attorney general. Bil- liard hall men of the state prefer that their places be sea'n Piece une der inspection and regulation of the NATIONAL POLL CHARGE | towns or cities in which they are lo- | cated. Leaders of the North Dakote. 7 enforcement league say they are well Would Subject Every One Over s:tisfied with the present law but ask for more stringent penalties for 21 Years to Charge of law violations, Five Dollars Complete Revampng of Income Law Under the provisions of the state license department act theatres and wasnt ‘taxicab stands in cities are called _ Washington, Jan. 8.—A comprehen- upon to pay a fee of $50.00 per year sive Program for revision of the fed- While in towns or villages the fee is eral laws estimated to yield annually ‘$10.00 on theatres and $15.00 o: taxi- the four billion dollars which Secre-. cab stands. F. L. Watkins, superin- tary Houston has said the treasury; tendeut of the enforcement league 18 required, was filed today with the the author of a bill amending the house ways and means committee by present statute in which theatres and the tax committee of the national re-| Movie houses would pay a minimum tail dry goods association. fee of $10.00 and a fee of $4.00 per The plan contains several proposals hundred seating capacity. This it is not heretofore advanced, including the , held furnishes an equitable fee re- assessment of a federal poll tax of $5 Placing the present system which on each person over 21 y: old who forces theatre men of small incor- an independent income. In- Porated cities like Crystal, Aneta, come tax exemption, it is proposed, #2d Steele, with populations of less would be raised from $1,000 to $2,500 than 500 to pay the same fee as thea- for unmarried persons and from $2,000 res in Fargo, Grand Forks and other to $2,000 tor heads of families, Al] Populous centers. business would be allowed an exemp- License All Places. ii er (ge ete Watkins would also include in his ip the progran which was approved amended law the licensing of all T4 nt a referendum of the organ- places where cigars and tobaccos are P . G Id. This. is admittedly for the pur- from salaries, wages, bs bonuses and commissions should ‘ao { yagi ae epee ta ‘the Deities be taxed at so high a rate as income] penalties of the licensing act- This from business and investment. {e aan On Busines: is | penalty section he would amend so 8 Itself that any violator of any two laws Income derived from __ business’ e835 ' such as the sale of cigarettes, and in should be taxed on the business itself! the case of a pool hall, allowing and be subject to no additional tax minors to enter his place. would suf- when distributed to partners or stock- fer revocation of Hcense, and injunc- holders. ‘tion closing the place of business. All other income, including profit; 4 plea of guilt on a second offense from the sales of capital assets should’ would, under the: Watkins amend- be taxed at a higher rate than income ment, call for the same drastic pen- from business and in a still higher de- alty.” gree than from manual or mental ef- The state licensing department dur- forts. ing the 20 months of its operation There should be a tax on gross sales! under the supervision of William of all goods sufficient when added to Langer, caused the arrest of approxi- all other taxes proposed to aggregate mately 300 men for violation of the the required $4,000,000,000. anti-cigarette law. It is conserva- The program would eliminate from tively estimated that city and county the present revenue act the present officials in various parts of the state excess profit taxes, surtaxes or indi- arrested perhaps 500 more. Of the viduals, taxes on transportation, insur- 850 arrests made in 20 months for ance, admission dues, and on non-alco- violations of the cigarette law. retir- holic beverages and special and capital ing officials of the licensing depart- stock taxes, stamp taxes and certain ment hazard the estimate that 98 per cent are again selling cigarettes, merely having boosted the retail price on the commodity. Say It Is Unpopular. Retailers insist that the law is not 1] b)) only unpopular to the extreme, but a farce and point to the repeal of cigarette laws in practically every state in the union. Watkins and his forces insist that more stringent en- forcement and penalties are needed. Men in close touch with the bil- liard hall men of the ate declare . 5 that no effort will be made to intro- Former Enderlin Girl Under quce or pass a law for the licensed y 5 J A sale of cigarettes. but they point to Charge Which She Denies roposed amendments as being con- as Preposterous fiscatory and the present law as giv- ing an undue discretionary and arbi- ; ee ra er to an a int! icial. Minneapolis, Jan. 8.—Thelma Jess- trary OU GE. ae en ee Sa wein, 16, daughter of Gus E. Jesswein, jg questioned. Nearly a year ago d that she had “doped” sjyage Frank Allen of Lisbon, held y CHICA Oy and had. the present law unconstitutional. A nto_marriage. A tele- pool man in his district was arrested gram from ago stated that Ryan for failing to obtain a license under had been awarded an annulment of the Jaw. He obtained a writ of ‘their marriage after he had testified jaheas corpus from Judge Allen on that on October 10, 1919, the Minne- the ground that the law was uncon- apolis girl had given him some candy | gtitutional in that it violated the right containing “knockout drops,” brought of self-government granted to the him before a justice of the peace at yarious cities by the constitution. Crown Point, iL, and induced him to’ Judge Allen further held the law un- consent to a marriage ceremony while ¢onstitutional in that it took from he was suffering from the effects of sheriffs created by the constitution the drug. and lodged the same “T have always lived in the count '$ created by legislative she said. “We had just come to C enactment. cago from Enderlin, North Dakota. J No appeal was taken from the de- cannot understand his statement that cision of Judge Allen and as a con. T had drugged him and forced him in-| sequence the law {s unconstitutional Mrs. Je in, the girl's mother, throughout the rest of the state. said today that she had mistrusted Refused to Pay. TT NAT western county of the state advised MOTOR COMPANY a billiard hall man clfent not to pay the present law was imperative. « When questioned upon this matter - the attorney declared that in ‘his opinion the present law by the special n part of the state sheriff law: that the state sheriff law was referred to the people and renealed; that by Bs virtue of this repeal of the state sher- ich., Jan. 8.—"The Liberty partment was repealed. A prominent company that has been OP-. jurist of the state ig Quoted as say- staff announced today that it would to that ar toa reemploy several hundred men Jan. age afeumen| sreat. deal of, to a marriage. }in the sixth district and effective yan from the first time the, et. elie eee Recently an attorney in a south: his license fee on the grounds that ion was revised and amended and iff act the original state licensing de- erating a decidedly curtailed jng “there is a great deal of force 17. Tn this connection Justice James E. ee aS RENEE en Robinson of the supreme court in his LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON recent message to the legislature Norfolk, Va., Jan. 8.—Lord Mayor | gaid: “Do not fail to undo the city O'Callaghan’s party will leave for; pool ha!l and theater tax levy. ft Washington and New York tonight. ' (Continued on page 2) !