The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 1

The Weather ‘PAIR THE BIS Last Edition _ THIRTY-NINTH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, ‘FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1 921 .CK TRIBUNE! PRICE FIVE CENTS HARDING TAKE HOUSE PROBERS FLAY INDUSTRY RECORD AND STATE OFFICIALS © WHILE SENATE DEFENDS THEM SENATE HOLDS SAY TAXPAYERS INDUSTRIES IN TO BEAR BURDEN GOOD SHOWING OF MONEY WASTE Refute, Allegations That They House Committee Assails A!- Have Not Made Profits or | leged Lack of Business Sense Succeeded | In Administration HIT WATERS, BRINTO Ni REPORT “IS EXHAUSTIVE Claim Financial Crisis Is Not! Elaborate Discussion. of Situa-| Alone Confined to | State ' Representatives _At about the time of the submis-| The house investigation committee, | sion of the’ house. investigation) in an exhaustive report made today rene to the house, the senate this; and presented to the house of repre- al exhoon submitted findings of the sentatives, scores the conduct of the senate investigation committee, as-| state government and industries under serine that all accounts are in excel-! the present administration. lent con x - : tries Poepecinns and” “dengiag all The report, going, Into detalls on: te charges of irregularities brought hy | Pas Bulidate and Denke al cube the house. | ; the showing in the Bishop, Brissman ‘The senate committee report places tion and Laws Given to | CENTER OF LAST MINUTE DEBATES Legislature to Adjourn Offi-; gially at 12 o’clock but | Timepiece to Go Back } MONEY THE BIG SUBJECT. House Scraps for Ten Hours on’ Budget—License Bill Also | to Be Disposed of j I. OW. Fraser, clerk of Divide | counsy, was escorted out of the | house this morning bythe serg- | canteat-arms, asa. part of the | start of heetle last day. , The morning fight began on the question of concurring In senate amendments to house bill No. 105 | Speaker Twickell declared the amendments were desi ned. to | break up the anti-Townley Rep- | ublican State committee, making it a misdemeanor to net as a party | committeemen to any body = not | chosen in the preeinct meetin 's, | A vote was taken, It showed an Independent majority of two, Six Independent metibers of the house audit committee were not | in the house, being at a meeting downtown, Nonpartisans charged that two representatives, not Re GENERAL BUDGET | the blame for the trouble which the! industries have faced on. the activi-' ties of J. W. Brinton, former secretary to A. C. Townley, and J. R. Waters, former manager of the Bank of North, Dakota, and asserts they were dis- charged because they proved them- and ‘company, flays without mercy the alleged waste of money and declares the taxpayers must bear the cost. The committee conciuded in part: “These impractical theorists have launched the state into an orgy of financial excesses and a delirium of socialistic experimentation born in hate and nurtured in prejudice, the results of which are such that it will re years of conservative practical ration of public affairs to eliminate the nefarious consequences resultant therefrom. Available to Prosecutors “It is not for this committee to pass | upon the questions pertaining to, the selves “traitors .to the farmers’ cause.” The senate report contains 15,00 words, A summary of the allegations declares that: be 1—All funds in state industries are properly accounted for. 2—State industries are not only self- sustaining, but up to December 31, 1920, show actual profit of $217,111.09, after deducting Drake mill loss, Far-' violations of the criminal laws of this go mill. and elevator office expense,’ state. The evidence taken at this in- and deferred asset account of home-) vestigation is submitted herewith and building association, That house com:| will therefore be available to the states mittee refuses to give credit to in- attorneys of the counties involved and dustries making profits, singling out.the question involving the crimnial only losses. features would properiy be subject tor 3—This success, according to the grand jury investigation there-in. report, has been made in face of “most “These theorists have had a wonder- terrific concentrated financial and po- ful opportunity to demonstrate their litical. attacks from platform, pulpit yse in practice in North Dakota; an and’ press that eyer has been made gpporiumty to prove to the world their against any program of ‘progress in claim of far reaching benefits and the United States. values of their contentions. 4—The opposition “to theprogress’ “What do the results show? of ‘state industries have novintent of “North Dakota is a pitiful object les- fair representation of facts and that son to the world as to what greed, dis- purpose only is to gain political ad- honesty and faithlessness to a great vantage even at cost of misrepresent- crust, combined with misguided theo- ations and deceit to the people of; ies of government, can accomplish. North Dakota. : & Ltt i Not Fighting Lies S—Two witnesses before the house, “The representatives in office of J. W. Brinton and J. R. Waters, have * attempted to discredit the industrial these Proponents are not fighting lies. program at house committee direc- They would _welcome lies. They are tions and that they “entered into a Contesting with the power of the truth conspiracy.to perjure themselves to 2bout themselves. The knowledge of discredit the farmers’ movement in their own weaknesses inspires their North Dakota.’ That when in state 24! to dispel the light of truth by a! employ these men “occupied their po-| Shade of hatred and prejudice, and at- sitions to further their own interests tempt to shield their own transgres- for personal aggrandizement. As soon Sons by construing criticism of their | as. their true nature was discovered Wn misconduct as attacks upon the their resignations were demanded. constituency which they have claimed They were traitors to the cause they ‘0 represent. _ were supposed to-espouse. “That fol- “The committee recommends that! lowing their resignations, they began) the state confine its business activities to seek revenge on the state by at-' to the matters which are in their na- | tempting to wreck the program and: ture at least quasi-governmental in wrote to Governor Frazier, critisizing character; that it awake trom its the Bank of North Dakota and F. W., socialistic dream of empire, independ- Cathro, director general.” That ent of its neighboring states; that it; “Brinton’s charge that F. W, Cathro brand a# “quack” the remedies for in-! and William Lemke embezzled funds dustrial injustice that may have been was disproved.” recommended as the panacea for all! 6—Chargéd ‘of ‘Waters that Cathro ills ‘and confine itself to a specific favored 'the . Séatidftiavian-American | remedy for each specific injustice that. Bank of Fargo are untrue and that may become apparent in the body poli-/ testimony and letters signed by Wat- tic; that it divorce itself from the false ers proved that all public funds so, prophets whose leadership has ousted | deposited by Bank of North Dakoia it from a place of honor among the were transferred there by. Waters. states of the union. (Continued on page 4) “That if, in its efforts to accomplish | —__---— these results a “major opertion” : lits youth and-native strength and la-! tent power of recuperation will soon fit it for the stimulant that will permit! it to recall its present pitable plight as an experiment valuable only as an devoted to a presentation of the precedent which has stood since the resolution by the House of represen-/ days of Washington, President Hard- tatives under which the investigation; ing appeared today at an executive wee conducted, the form of organiza- session of the senate and within five tion adopted by the committee, the minutes after his inaugural address time devoted to the hearings, a gen-/ George Washington's Bible a few min- paragraph devoted to the attitude of| utes after one o'clock. Governor Frazier and Attorney Gen-' The first applause in the new presi-' eral William Lemke evidently is in-| dent’s declaration was that the repub- tended as an answer to the claim) manuscript to make reference to the ‘ ays: injured soldiers watching the ore Hee ee ee tended te money, saying that the nation would = t never be ungrateful and that\he hop-, pitas eth aaenanag era ed for a liberal policy for their treat: ' the committee, if’ he so desired, and| house late today when the amended poenaed to appear before the commit- H. B. 14 providing for state owned) tee on Feb. 17. However, the govern- | electric plant at Bismarck was up for|or did not see fit to accept the invita- passage. The house refused to con-| tion and Mr. Lemke ignored the sub-| cur in the senate amendment which | poena. ' necessary that it provide itself with the anaesthetic, submit to the opera-; OF H IS CABINET example to posterity.” The Introduction had been delivered, the senate had era! outline of the work of the com- confirmed all cabinet nominations. mittee and a list of the witnesses. { lic must proceed with the policy of made by Lemke before the senate non-involvement in European affairs. committee that he was denied an op- ment. ‘at his convenience, to make any state- ‘ment he deemed expedient. William) tion with the certain knowledge that Introductery sections of the report! Washington, Mar. 4.—Breaking a are The president-elect took the oath on While not so indicated, an early! He departed from his prepared portunity to testify before the house, Lemke, attorney general, was sub-| REFUSE TO CONCUR. A lively contest occurred in the members of the committee, were voted who were not present, After a verification which still showed an Independent majority leaguers ; stocd up in 2 body shouting “Mr. Speaker.” It was during this con- fusion that Fraser was alleged to have injected him: in diseus- sion on the floor, and Rep. Watt complained of outsiders crowding onty the floor and talking to mem- hers. Another vote was finally taken, during which there was a scur- rying for absent members, and the league side won, but a little later the house audit, members, brouzht by automobile, came in, | and the house ‘refuscd to concur. | ‘A’ house employe, who went aft- | er the missing members grabbed | Gov, Frazier's automobile, and | | | UiStent back the Independents in t. On suggestion of Rep. Burk- hardt, Nonpartisan, the speaker | ordered the benches inside the house railing placed outside, and all persons not members, employ- es or newspaper men prohibited from coming Inside the railing. The 17th legislative assembly of- ficially ends at midnight tonight. That the clock will be turned baci and the session will end in the wee hours of Saturday morning appeared a certainty, with a large volume of business to be disposed of. . The senate had four bills on its cal- endar at the beginning of today’s ses- sions while the house nineteen. In addition the appropriation bill was sure to be carried to a conference! committee, as well as several other, bills. The reports of the house and: senate investigating committees were) submitted this afternoon, and the; question of payment for the expenses, of the investigations wus expected to’ be settled. | Both the senate and house conven- ed at 10 a. m. with an afternoon and night session in each house follow-' ing. The house récessed at 2 a. m./ today until 10 a. m. and the appro-| priation bill, on which the house; fought for nearly 10 hours was to be; passed by the house. Budget Bi Fight Senate bill No. 18, the state pool: hall license bill, was another import- | ant measure on the house calendar, and the question of a proposed $60,000; appropriation for the immigration dc-! partment and the enactment of a de-) pository law were among the unsettl- | ed questions when the solons began their last day's deliberations. i The spectacular fight on the general | budget bill embroiled the house in ita! most bitter argument late yesterday | afternoon and last night. With In-' dependent representatives from three | desirous of putting | through appropriations for buildings | PRINCIPALS IN INAUGURATION CEREMONIES OATH OF OFFI Calvin Coolidge aise AAMRNE AA HARDING'S OATH | | Washington, Mar. 4.—The oath | | of office of president as adminis- | | tered today by the Chief Justice | | of the United States, Edward | | Douglass White, follows: i | “I, Warren Gamaliel ‘Harding, | | do solemnly swear that 1 will | | faithfully execute the office of | | President of the United States,, | | and will, to the best of my ability, | preserve, protect and defend the | | Constitution of the United | | States.” e—_—______——_- SOUTH DAKOTA IN ADVICE 10 . STATE SOLONS Agricultural Costs and Movies Subjects of Resolutions Forwarded Here Tho Icgislature of South _ Dakota | cities in which educational institutions | has séme advice for the legislature of | prome fulfill are located North Dakota. A copy of senate bill No. 162, as In the background is the east front of the Capitol buildin& where Warren G. Harding took the oath of office as President Right, Chief Justice Edward White of the U: S. Supreme Court, who administered the oath, FICE NEW PRESIDENT ENTERS CAPITOL WITH MR. WILSON | Retiring Chief Executive Walk- | ing With Cane Suffers In- i tense Physical Agony |\NAMES NEW CABINET Nation’s Head Submits Advisors Immediately to Senate for Confirmation Washington, March 4—War- ren G. Harding of Ohio, and Cal- vin Coolidge of. Mass.,. were in- augurated today president and vice-president. Pressing his lips to an historic Bible used at the inauguration of George Washington took the oath of office administered by Chief Justice White. President Wilson yielding to the last minute entreaties of his family and his physicians took ao part other than to accompany the incoming president from the White House to the Capitol and then went with Mrs. Wilson to he new home which will be their’s. Turns to Crowd Immediately after the admin- ‘stration of the oath, Mr. Hard- ng turned to the vast crowd and WORLD SUPERGOVERNMENT IS CONTRARY TOA MERICAN IDEALS ~—-SAYSHARDING IN HIS INAUGURAL | Urges Association of Nations Without Yielding Sovereign Rights to Maintain Peace of. the World. Supreme Task Is Resump- tion of “Our Onward Normal Way.” Readjustments After the Disturbances of War Most Important Problems Before the People. Washington, Mar., 4.— President ‘Harding in his inaugural address said: | My countrymen, when one surveys {the world about him after the great (storm, noting the marks of destruction jand yet rejoicing in the ruggedness of ithe things which withstood it, if he is jan American he breathes the clarified ‘atmosphere with a strange mingling ‘of regret and new hope. We have seen world passion spend its fury, but \we contemplate our republic unshaken and hold our civilization secure. Lib- | erty--liberty within the law—and civ- ilization are inseparable and though ‘both were threatened we find them now secure, and there comes to Americans ithe profound assurance that our rep- resentative government is the highest expressign and surest guaranty of both. Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feel- ‘ing the emotions which no one, may know until he senses the great weight (of responsibility for himself, I must {utter my belief in ithe divine inspira- | tion of the founding fathers. Surely there must have been God’s intent in the making of this world republic. ‘Ours is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that ef- faced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, the na- tion supreme and its concord inspiring. | We have seen the world rivet its hope- ful gaze on the great truths on which the founders wrought. We have seen ivil, human and religious liberty veri- fied und glorified. In the beginning, !the old world scoffed at our experi- ,ment, today our foundations of politi- ,cal and social belief stand unshaken, ‘a precious inheritance to ourselves, ‘an inspiring example of freedom and strengthened devotion, in grateful rev- ‘erance for the immortal beginning, and utter our confidence in the su- ment. 5 PROGRESS PROVES WISDOM The recorded progress of our repub- and with the majority of the apPro-| introduced in the South Dakota legis-/ lic, materially and spiritually, in itself priations ,committee committed the postponement of all building; programs possible, as a measure of! jeconomy, the Nonpartisans had the! proad powe opportunity and tried their utmost, to; put over the appropriation bill practi-| cally as t passed the senate. | The general appropriation bill as introduced in the senate carried ap- propriations of about $7,600,000. The) senate raised this to nearly $7,800,- | 000 and the house committee cut them) to under $7,000,000. When the bill/ finally was approved by the house: | sitting as a committee of the whole, the appropriations had been pushed upward $300,000 from the house com- mittee figure. Speaker Twitchell made the hardest fight of the legislative asembly to prevent the adoption of the majority report in the afternoon, session when Representative Freeman, of Grand Forks, opened the debate by an im- passioned speech for adequate appro- priations for the educational institu- tions. Rep. Grangaard, Independent | of Barnes, also took the same stand, Dakota le; ure, It provides for a department of agriculture, with and duti A concur- rent resolution requesting the cooper- 1 states in the Ui- h and practicable in- to the cost of crop and live stock production was forwarded as was a resolution memorializ' and inviting the states to co-operate with South Dakota. Another resolution urged censorship of moving pictures. WILSON VETOES TARIFF BILL Washingion, Mar. 4.—President Wil- son vetoed the tariff bill today on the ground that it was inimical to the in- terests of the farmers in whose in- terests it apparently had been drawn. ation of the s! ion in a tho vestigation as federal toi lature. was forwarded to the Nori! proves the wisdom of the inherited policy of non-involvement in old world ‘affairs. Confident of our ability to work out our own destiny and jealous- ly guarding our right to do so, we seek no part in directing the destinies of the old world. entangled. We will accept no respon- sibility except. as our own conscience fand judgment in each instance may determine. Our eyes never will be blinded to a developing menace, our eyes never deaf to the call of civilization. We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which prog- ress has wrought. ‘We sence the feel- ing of the human heart for fellowship, fraternity and co-operation. We crave friendship and harbor no hate. But America, our America, the Amer- ica builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. Can enter into no political commit- ments nor assume any economic obli- gations or subject our decisions to any other than our own authority. I am sure our own people will) not misunderstand and nor will the world We do not mean to be! ‘ship. We wish to promote understand- ing. We want to do our part in mak- ing offensive warfare so hateful that governments and peoples who resort to it must prove the righteousness of their cause or stand as outlaws before the bar of civilization . ASSOCIATION FOR COUNCIL We are ready to associate ourselves | with the nations of the world, great and small, for conference. ,for counsel, to seek the expressed views of world opinion, to recommend a way to ap- proximate disarmament and _ relieve the crushing burdens of military and naval establishments. We elect to participate in suggesting plans for mediation, conciliation and arbitra- ‘tion, and would gladly join in that ex- pressed conscience of progress, which seeks to clarify and write the laws of jinternational relationship, and etab- lish a world court for the disposition of such justiciable questions as na- tions are agreed to submit thereto, in expressing aspirations, in seeking practical plans, in translating human- ity’s new concept of righteousness, justice and its hatred of war into rec- ommended action we are ready most heartily to unite, but every commit- ment must be made in the exercise of our national sovereignty. Since freedom impelled and inde- pendence inspired and nationally ex- ‘alted, a world supergovernment is contrary to everything we cherish and ‘can have no sanction by our republic. This is not sefishness. It is sanctity. It is not aloofness, it is security. It is not suspicion of others, it is patri- otic adherence to the things which made us what we are. Today, better than ever before, we know the aspirations of human kind and share them. We have come to a new realization of our place in the , world and a new appraisal of our na- tion by the world. The unselfishness | {of these United tSates, is a thing pro- ven, our devotion to peace for our- selves and for the world is well estab- lished, our concern for preserved civ- ilization has had its impassioned and heroic exp ion. There was no American failure to resist the attempt- ed reversion of civilization, there will be no failure today or tomorrow. EST ON POPULAR WILL The of our popular govern- ment rests wholly upon the correct terpretation of the deliberate, intelli- gent, dependable popular will of Amer- ica. In deliberate questioning of a suggested change of national policy where internationality was to super- cede nationality, we turned to a refer- ‘endum to the American people. There was ample discussion and there is a public, mandate in manifest under- standing. Americ ready to encourage, eager to initiate, anxious to participate in rany scemly program likely to lessen the probability of war and promote that brotherhood of mankind which must be God's highest conception of human relationship. Because we cherish ideals of justice and peace, because we appraise international comity and helpful relationship no less highly than any people of the degan the delivery of the inaug- aral address. Sound amplifiers zarried his voice to the outskirts of the crowd. Arrive At Capitol. Soon after 11 o'clock today Presi- jent Wilson and President-elect Hard- ing arrived at the Capitol for the in- iugural ceremonies which were be- 3un exactly an hour later. Arrived at the capitol the president paused outside the door and changed his glasses, and using his cane Mr. Wilson. walked into the. building. unas- sisted but very slowly. The remainder of the presidential darty accompanied the president-elect into the west wing. The president walked very slowly, smiling to the people: in passing despite the evidence of physical effort. There were numerous expressions of sympathy as the president passed ind entered the elevator which’ tock tim within a short distance of tho president’s room where he passed 01 some bills. President-elect Harding was in the president’s room when the president's party before Mr. Wilson arrived and the president-elect chatted with her until his arrival. There was brisk handclapping w! the president entered the room, which Mr. Harding joined. Soon after the president Mr. Harding went to the chamber. WHI Submit Names Just before Mr. Harding went to the east partico it was learned that he planned an innovation by submit- ting the names of his cabinet mem~- bers to the senate immediately after delivering his speech. Warren Gamaliel Harding was in- augurated President of the United 3tates today with ceremonies as sim- gle as those the historians have de- scribed in chronicling the induction nto office of George Washington morc than a century ago. Had Mr. Harding’s personal wishes een adhered to, strictly, the ceremon- ies would have been even more sim- ple, but the Congressional Inaugural Committee made some arrangements on its own account. These included a cavalry escort of four troops for the President in his ride from his hotel | to the capitol and thence to the Whitc House. This little cavalcade, contrasted strangely with the great military and civil processions which have attended inaugurations for half a century or more. ia entered, senate Cavalry Escort | Besides the cavalry escort ,the Con- gressional Committee also had ar- ranged to have several companies of Marines in full dress uniform at the capitol as a guard of honor and for the presence of the Marine Band —“the President’s Own"—which played “The Star Spangled Banner” immediately jafter Mr. Harding had taken the oath j of office. | The very simplicity of the ceremon- lies on the East portico of the capitol ‘added to their impressiveness. Simplo }and impfessive also were those in the Senate chamber, where Calvin Cool- | idge was sworn in by Vice-president |Marshall and.where Mr. Coolidge in turn swore into office the new sen- ators elected last November. | Formal Calls The day’s ceremonies began with |formal calls on the President-elect and | Vice President-elect at the New Will- jard hotel by the Congressional Com- mittee, headed by Senator Knox. of |Pennsylvania. The Presidential party and the congressional committee then left the hotel for the capitol. Pennsylvania avenue from the White ‘House to the capitol was crowded with home folks and yisitors anxious for a glimpse of the new and retir’ng Presidents. There were no reviewing istands and most of the spectators were forced to stand along the sidc- included the electric plant feature in| “E. R. Sinkler, attorney at law, ofjand some other Independents inter-! The house failed to rally the two- (Continued on page 4) a bill providing for condemnation of | Minot, appeared at each of said hear-| ested in appropriations for education- | thirds MaGjor-ty necessary to pass it water plants. i (Continued on Page Six) | | (Continued on Page Seven) jover his veto. 4 misconstrue. We have no thought to| world, we aspire to a high place in the | Jimpede the paths to closer relation- (Continued on page 2) i