The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 1

% |; WEATHER FORECAST. | FORECAST. Fair tonight and Tuesday. Some- what colder tonigat. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | LAST EDITION | ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MO iD Y, FEBRUARY 19, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS PUSH ELECTION BILLS IN HOUSE GOOD ROADS BILL KILLING HIGHWAY BODY IS DEFEATED Good Roads Supporters Rally and Defeat House Bill No. 233 with Margin “CLINCHER” PUT ON Future Discussion Prevented —(iood Roads Program in Senate to be Pushéd AMEND BILLS The senate highways commit- ing the good roads ls agreed generally ¢ bill No, 45, with num- erous amendments raising fees on auto trucks and commercial tixis, making trucks generally $40 and $80 and commercial, taxis cents per passenger! carrying capacity in addition to the regular fees; and cut the pr ed allowance for highway commission expenses from $25u,- 00 ur to $150,000 the amount pr 46 on that ck it removed the counties would money already spent deral aid roads. B. 44 was upproved. This changes the highway com- ion from five members to three, making the three appoint- ed by the Governor. » With many amendments the program. bills will go before the senate. The principle of state highways is approved, on bill mis: Impending defeat was turned into} victory by supporters of state high- s building when house bill No.| was killed in the house night ion Saturday night. The bill, which commanded one vote more than necessary for pass in general orders Friday, wa. ated by 66 noes to 42 ayes, with! absent. The blll would have | ished the highway commission and declined federal aid. One Cass county representative | and the Pembina county delegation | turned solidly against the bill, al- though most of the eastern county delegagions stuck for it. Rep.” Harrington, Burleigh, imme- | diately moved the “clincher mo- tion,” which carried, and revival of | the bill ented, now clear for good roads supporters to push their leg- islative program which has been ly- ing in the senate for three weeks to a show-down on the question of | creating a system of exclusive state | highyays, Debate is Brief Debate on house bill No. 233 was brief, because of exhaustive debate the previous day, Rep. Walker, Oliver county, al- though a supporter of the bill, was the first speaker, reading affidavits which he said refuted of Rep. Twichell, Cass county, to the ‘effect that surplus war trucks were sold to contractors for $200 apiece, Rep. Walker's affidavit claim- ed a pi the price ranging around $400, The nffidavit signed by A. W. Leuhrs and J. Galloway, claimed a loss of $98.50 on two trucks sold J, A. Jardine Contracting Company, Fargo. There were no other| sales to contractors, the affidavit said, The trucks were equipment. Rep. Twichell, replying, declared one of the complaints as the sale of trucks which cost somebody about | $4,000 a piece to contracting com- panies for $300 to $400, He deelared that any oné knows about road building, that the system.of township and county road building had failed, and that “the county hasn’t got anything to show for its expenditures unless it has a federal aid road. Retorting to Mr. Twichell he said that, “I haven’t the collateral in- terest in this that my frined from Cass county has,” Says County System Failed Rep. Sagen, who said he came to North Dakota in \1879. also declared that the township systém of build- ing roads failed, the county system failed and the state system was found: necessary. Rep. + Vogel, McLean county, said that “these federal roads are All ‘right but they cost too much” and that they were built from town to town to benefit the tourist and not the farmer. Rep. Paul Johnson, Pembina, op- posing the bill and pointing to the advantage of federal aid, said: “When ‘ever would you have had this Missouri river bridge, the finest thing in the state, if it wasn’t for federal aid.” Rep, Boyd, Cass county and the only member of his delegation to vote against the’ bill, explained his vote saying that “we have a chance during the next three or four years to get nine million dollars in tho state through federal aid. “Why. should’ we turn it down, when we ‘have in all our platforms members of the United States Sen- (Continued on Page Three) surplus war who knew statements | fit of $1,812.00 on several | trucks sold’to the Northern Con- | struction Company of Grand Forks, | Gloria Morgan to Wed Vanderbilt SESSIONS AT | MAJORITY tieth NIGHT HELP CLEAR DECKS Senate Passes 24 Bills in One Night’s Sitting; House Also Passes Many WORKING Independents Able to Put Mat- ters Through on “Greased Wheels” for First Time sing twenty-four bills, killing “Iy 20 and working from 7 until 0 o'clock in its first night ses- sion on the state senate Saturday went a long way towards clearing up its slate of its “own bills” which ac- tion must be completed by the fif- legislative day, Wednesday. The house also held a night session. The work accomplished spells suc- 10 ; cessful work on the part of the sen- ‘vate + measures in emerging from the jam of which flooded in before the 35th day finally clamped on the lid. | court Of great interest to society is the apprdaching marriage of Gloria Morgan (above), daughter of the American Consul-general at Brussels, and Reginald Vanderbilt. Miss Morgan is under 20 and Vanderbilt is 43, GRAIN RATES HELD UNJUST, PROBEORDERED Railroad Commission Notifies Railroads of Impending Investigation jAFFECTS STATE MILL | An investigation into railroad ‘freight rates on grain and grain products, particularly with a view Ito removing alleged discriminations ‘existing against Grand Forks where | the state-owned mill. and elevator 1s | located, has been ordered by the | state railroad commission, it was an- | nounced today. The order is directed to the Chi- jcago and Northwestern — Railway Company, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Farmers Grain and Shipping Company, the Great Northern, the Midland Continental the Soo line and the Northern Pac! fic. No date is set for hearing on the matter. The order of the commission says: It appearing upon numerous com- plaints to this commission that the rates of (enumerating railroads) are unreasonable, unjust and discrimin- atory and impose an unfair burden upon the shippers of these cammo- ditieg within the state of North Da- kota, and it further appearing that the state mill and elevator at Grand Forks, North Dakota, will have to |compete with mills in Minnesota having more favorable freight rate jeonditions on the commodities here- in enumerated than obtain in con- nection with the state mill at Grand Forks, this condition being preferen- tial to mills in Minnesota and unlaw- fully prejudicial to the mills in North Dakota, and! it appearing tHat Grand Forks because -of the grain terminals now in existence is a pri- mary market and reasonably entitled to rate structures as they exjst at other primary grain markets. “It is ordered that this commission enter into an investigation upon its own motion of the rates on grain seed, millet seed, clover seed, flour ang other mill products in intrastate commerce within the state of North Dakota, for the purpose of determin- ing and fixing reasonable, just and non-disériminatory rates ' on these commodities in the future.” Notice was dispatched today to the railroad companies of the im- pending tinvestigation, DUKE’S DAUGHTER TO WED JOCKEY London, Feb. 19.—The morning newspapers announce today thal Lady Ursula Grosvenor, daughter 67 the Duke of Westminster, is soon to marry the \sucessful steeple chase jockey, Antony. Lady Ursula will be 21 Wednesday’ and with her coming of ‘age receives 8 fortune. ‘ / BXPORTS SLUMP Washington, Feb. 19.—Grain ex- ports from the United States last night totaled 3,650,000° bushels compared with 6,649,000 for the week previous. and grain products, including flax_| Civil Service Places Open! | Ciyil scrvice examinations may be /taken in Bismarck for the positions | ct representative in the Vet- au, salary $1,800 to $2,400 d for dentists and physi in the same bu uy, 400 tp $3,600. a year, Applications rch 13, Further infor "obtained at the loc: st- | sa COAL TRAIN IS WRECKED 14 Cars Go into Ditch on Killdeer Branch A coal train on the Northern Pacific branch line went into the ditch about 15 miles north of Man- dan Saturday night, 14 cars of coal going into the ditch. The wreck was caused by a broken flange. The wrecking crew cleaned up the wreck Sunday. A passenger train following the freight was said to be carrying one corpse, three persons on stretchers in the baggage car, and a number of women and children. In changing trains the passen- gers had a considerable distance to walk through the snow before they arrived at the relief train, FIND ANOTHER STORM VICTIM Devils Lake, N. D., Feb, 19.—Ed ward Batke of Cando, N. D., a farm- hand was found late yesterday by a searching party six miles from his home frozen to death. He was 5: years old. He had been missing sire Tuesday. When found he wa: scantily clothed, and it is thought he had wandered from the farm house in search of stock, and due to bliz- zard lost his way. WILL PUT LID ON PROFESSIONAL NAVAL BOUTS ! Chicago, Feb., 19.—Professiona’ bouts aboard the 'U. S. Ship Commo- dore here will be tabooed and ir their places will be amateur exhi- bitions, Capt, G. A. Evers, U. 8. Naval Reserve, announced in a state- ment made public today on his re- turn from Washington. Capt. Evers was called there for a conference with Asst. Sec, of the Navy Roose- velt regarding complaints made of professional bouts gboard the ship by the president of the Chicago law and order league. Men who appeared in contests on board the ship in the future will be army and navy men. DECIDES NOT TO APPOINT NEW Washington, Feb. 19.—President | Harding was said by his friends to- day to have virtually decided not to appoint Senator Harry 8. New of Indiana to a place in the cabinet. j ed a one cent | sene Of the measures passed Saturda: night, several affected procedure in actions. One permits the ap- | pointment of women bailiffs and the | Separation of male and female jur- ors when agreement is not reached 9 o'clock. Another permits the iew of a case by the supreme codit without a motion to appeal having been made in the lower | court, while a third of most far- | reaching possibilities—if passed vy the house—permits the state or the plaintiff in il or criminal action to ask for a change of venue on af- fidavits of prejudice against the judge or county, a privilege now re- served only to the defendant. Several mone smeasures were pass- ed relating to taxation, the chief of which is the re-enactment of a flat one cent per gallon tax upon gaso- line. The measure originally inelud- gallon tax on kero- but thesé were deleted from the bill before passage.. Anothertax law provides the machinery for an attempt to collect taxes on the gross earnings of Pullman fare collection within the state, and on the gross earnings of intra-state freight lines: Restore Laboratory Amount The passage of the appropriation bill granting $1,042,965 to the uni- versity for the biennium caused no debate, the only question arising as to the abolition of the appropria- tion of $10,000 for maintenance of the four public health laborat at Minot, Grand Forks, — Bis! and Fargo. School laws came in for consider- able debate over S. B. 310, which requires that common school as well as all other school district boards shall establish budget systems. The measure by Senator Steel of Stuts- man county reqiuring that children attend the public school until they complete the eighth grade was pass- ed with little debate, ‘except that amendments were included to make the renumeration to parents for hauling children to school range from 10 to 50 cents according to the distance over 2% miles from school, instead of the present minimum of 5 cents, This measure further re- quires that all parochial schoo!s must teach the common school suv- jects as taught in public schools and in the English language. Hit Newspapers Newspapers of the state were whacked again by the senate Satur- day’ afternoon when that body p ed S. B. 229 by Ettestad, (N) pro- viding for only one publication of the delinquent tax lists. The mem- bers were advised that another bill which covered the points of abbre- viation and made mandatory provi- sions for the manner in which copy should be furnjshed to the printer was passed by the house, but re- fused to defer action. Senator Ploy- har led a fight for indefinite post- yonement of the bill on the ground hat the newspapers already limited rek TOURISTS FIND NOTHRILLSIN RUHR ZONE Go and Come as Usual and See Only Busy Factories in Occupied Area TRIP CO! Thrifty Make Use of Occupa- tion to Boost Prices to Foreigners Cologne, Feb. 19.-—Weve it for certain inconveniences — the Ruhr would undoubtedly be in merican tourists. Some American sight seers have visited the Ruhr front, but failed to get the thrill, but were disappointed for the early smoke which came to | their attention was the business- like output of the factories and colleries. France has armored cars and machine guns commanding places in many Ruhr towns, but most of them are off the beaten automobilists. Tourists come from Coblenz, Berlin, Paris, and London, but many lost heart after the difficul- |ties encountered and got no fur- ther than Cologne. A favorite stunt has been to ; leave the city in the morning to “see the Ruhr by day Might” re- turning in the evening. The cost of such a ttrip is between $25 and $30. The Ruhr valley is not Jikely to become a rival of the Valley of the Kings as a sight-seeking para- dise, for the military friction may soon result in the tightening of the jgiving passage and furthermore prices in the occupied area are higher than wehn the marks § at 50,000 to the dollar. not “p OR GO 19.—A new or- MUST ACC Duesseldorf, Feb. ‘commission in the RhineJand gives German customs officials in that territory until tomorrow to decide if they will accept the offer for re- engagement or be dismissed. HOLD FINAL REHEARSALFOR MARDI GRAS The final “dress rehersal for the Mardi Gras of Trade to be held at the City Auditorium Wednes- cay night wll take place tomor- row evening at the Business and Professional Women’s club rooms, The delay occasioned by the re- cent blizzard has given the com- mittee in charge of the staging and the parti ts a week long- er in which to procure a much bet- ter line of display and to practice for the big event. The returns from the ticket sale which is open at Harris-Wood- mansee today and tomorrow indi- cates that the affair will be staged before a full hou! e. “TED” GILCHRIST KILLED ON EVE OF WEDDING DAY Furdo, S. D., Feb. 1 9.—On the eve of the day set for his wedding Ted Gilchrist, one of the most widel known baseball players in the west river section of South Dakota, was killed last night betwgen Aado and Weta when his automobile went off the highway and overturned. Gilchrist, who was driving alone, was pinned under the machine and oy other legislation as to style and vidth of copy published were being nade the goats on the economy irive. On 'the motion for indefinite postponement Ployhar, Murphy, Kelsh, McLachlin, Storstad, all ir- dependents and Martin, Whitmer and Olson of Eddy, leaguers supported it, but voted against killing the measure. ; On the final passage of the bill Kelsh and Ployhar independents and Martin, leaguer voted against the bill. The measure reduces the num ber of publications from ‘three to one. The senate also passed the com- pletely re-written statute relative to operation of the mothers pevsicn bill 45 to 0 after killing a minor amendment offered by Senator Bond. ° Common! school districts would be permitted to issue bonds at not to\exceed seven percent ins stedd of the fixed rate of five péi cent under another bill passed, white the law requiring a budget system of financing school ‘districts e adopted also received unanimous’ ap- proval. i The senate killed a total of eight- een bilis on committee reports for definite. postponement during the ay hours of the afterioon. Chief of the measures. killed was the Por- (Continued. on page 3.) was dead when found, JUSTICE STANFORD TAKES HIS OATH Washington, Web. 19.—Associate Justice E. Sanford of Tennessee took the judicial oath on the convening of the supreme court today after a recess of three weeks. Chief Justice Taft administered the oath immedi- ately after the court met. The new justice wearing his official robe repeated it after him while the court and audience stood at attention. “Re was then ,conducted to his seat at the extreme left of the supreme jus- tice bench filling for the first time since the meeting ef the court in October the e e bench, thus mak- ‘jing likely the hearing of a number of postponed cases. Cases on the calendar for the week included the attack by the Chicago Board of Trade on the constitution- ality of the “grain futures act,” un- der which the government seeks con trol over the principal grain ex- changes of the country and to which it proposes farm co-operative asso- ciation shall be admitted to member- ship, ADVANCE: track of - The engagement of Princess Ma- falda (above), second daughter ot King Emmanuel of Italy, to Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium will be ed amelie ey after the s Yolanda, eld- daughter the Italian royal tamily. at SEEK RETURN der issued by the Inter Allied High’ OF H. E. TOMS FOR ROBBERY Man Wanted in North Dakota Arrested In Los Angeles Few Hours Before Wedding BY Postal Officials Accuse Him of Rifling Mail Pouch at Kenmare TRACED CHECKS Fargo, Feb. 19.—Request for the extradition of Harry E, Toms, 29, charged with the theft of a mail pouch at the, Kenmare railway sta- tion early in January, now being held in the Los Angeles county jail, were forwarded to California today according to M. A. Hildreth, U. S. District Attorney Through the the postoffice district uttorne raced ombined efforts of ‘tment and the Toms was and finally il of checks cashed by him which were identified as some of those stolen from the mail pouch at Kenmare, Toms was arrested in Los Ange- les two hours prior to the time set marriage to a prominent Los said to be wanted by Min- neapolis authorities who he vi- olated his parole on a forgery charge. SIX PLANES T0 TEST ROUTES FOR AIR SERVICE! Washington, Feb. 19—Capt. Oliver S. Forsom has left Washington to prepare the way for the flight of six army air planes which will leave Scully, San Antonio, Texas, for San Juan, Porto Rico. The flight to Por- to Rico will demonstrate the advis- ability of pyoviding airway service. The army air service plans to ask the war department for permission to extend this experiment during the next dry season to the leaward and windward islands along the northern shore along South America to the army flying field at France fields, to Christobal, the canal zone, returning by way of Central America and Cuba. The flight circles Caribbean sea and demonstrates the practicability of augmenting the defenses of the Pan- ama capal zone by airplane patrol’ over the West Indi MANDAN MAN PASSES AWAY L, J. Erickson, for many years street commissioner of Mandan, died at Glendive, Montana, last. night, uc- cording to word received here. He had lived in Mandan for 35 years. | statement DS ‘PROGRAM IS ADVANCED IN IN SENATE] I oR In- tention to Refer Measure to State-Wide Vote TANDS erties. Announce TEST “Receives Majority in House of Representatives on Committee Report provid ing separation of state and nation candidates on ballots and} providing for state elee- tions, will be decided within the next lecti non the non-party the in state election bill, program, survived the house. Inde confident they through Solid the the crux the first endent leade! could push the of test bill Nonpartiswn opposition vote of Rep Rabe, Ind ark failed to stop S. B. 233 in the t test. There is so much opposi tion to the pregrasa, howe that it will not be recorded ing until the final ve Modification of the that a candidate for state offi have 10 per cent of for that office at the preceding elec tion to get on the ballot—which in and must the case of a candidate for governor | would he 10,000 to 12,000 signatures was regarded as a concession to the opposition, The measure also was amended to provide the words Republica Dem appear after a can with other words and p two words may appear of principles. Recall Talked. Madd oviding the in the erved notic red to vote of the people. In’this connec tion it has become known that many Nonpartisans are advocating the r erendum of these measures, whic! they believe would be unpopular be- fore the voters be se they BAN defeated at tion in 1921, ana! are proposing of Governor Nestos at the me time, the can: paign to be based in part on the rec- ord of the present session of the leg- islature. The requirement that a candidate have 10,000 to 12,000 signatures o. a petition before he can become a candidate, they claim, prevents the citizen from becoming candidate for state office except at the dictates of a big political faction. Divorcement of state and national politics and limitation or the ponti cal fight in North Dakota to a clear cut battle between the Independents and the Nonpartisans is frankly giv- on by Independent leaders as the ain of the bill, rting that on more than one occasion the Nonpartisars have been able to sweep into power in the state by ¢ minori caused by the division of uers under the banners of the publican and Democratic parties. How Amendment Reads. s of the ites Chief among the provis senate bill as amoaded in the hou is that every candidate for state of- fice must on petitions for place cn, the primary ballot to five per cent of the vote cast last preceding election for thi the house amenduent reducing thi requirement from 10 to 5 per ce With 200,000 to 230,000 votes usually cast for governor a candidate would be required to have from 10,000 to 12,000 names on petitions to get o the primary ballot. The bill as it ca ate, providing that the candidate might designate his affiliation or statement of principles after his name on the ballot in three words, and providing tks< “in such state- ment the use of the words Republi- can or Democrat or any combina- tion of words that indicate affiliation of the candidate with respect to either the Republican or Democratic parties or any nationally organized political party” was amended to pro- vide that use of these designations “shall not be permitted except in combination with another word or words which shall correctly indicate the faction, within either of such parties with relation to state issues, to which the candidate belongs; pro- vided that the words Republican and Democrat may be so used co-jointly,” and permitting us. of five words in the statement of grinciples instead of three. The bill provides that no candidate shall be duly nominated at the pri- mary unless he receives at| least as many votes as the aumber of signa- tures yequired on petitions, which in 5 per cent. Candidates double the number to ‘be chosen for an office’ would be nom- inated in the primvry, and go on the election ballot in the fall. The names of candidates for’ ono office would go in one column on’ the ballot, rotating position, The non- narty ballot would be headed “State: Ballot.” (Continued on Page 'Three) names equal office, e from the sen pendent! ure of pass-| the votes cast] : H only in combination same} | fe: al jthis bill was forced on ling i | partisan at the | |sans and I. V. PARTY LINES DRAWN CLOSE INTHE VOTE Three Measures Are Recom- mended for Passage With- out Much Debate ATTACKED Leaguers Make Furious As- saults on Measures, which Are Defended by Others BILLS The house passed late today, Three election bills--the non-party state election bill, the presidentiz! jprimary bill and the state commit- |tee org tion bill—were pushea through the house of representatives sitting in committee of the whole in auiret orde™ today. } Independents dispe' i bate, Rep Jackson, chairman of the lections committee in charge of the measures making a few remarks onl for the majority, wiich had the m chinery vel oiled for the tion. y criticised the y senate bill Ne. \2 3, ‘thes non-party election bill. ! “It was considered likely the bills | would be reached on the calendar for passage late today. Jackson’s Statement. Jackson, making a statement bill No. 233, said former Frazier recommended a n election law on Jan. 3, 7, and that the league members ed “because waat was good | icine at that time is not good ! tie now, they feel.” He as- |serted national and state issues should be voted on separately so as {not to confuse voters, He said an lextended statement was not neces- | Sary because all were familiar with i the bill. Rep. Patterson, attacking the bill, said the legislature did not follow jout Mr. Frazier's suggestion. He de- clared this and other measures show “a cunningly conceived plan to Rive | the bosses control tn the state,” a jto “‘hood-wink the people in the gre Republican and Democratic partie: Rep. Vogel declared with respect to | Rep. Jackson's renfurks that the In- dependents did not intend to go into extended debate on the measures was “because the measure will not stand debate He asserted thst “pressure has !been brought to bear as never before 8S. B. 233, with dy Rep. jon senate | Governo: jin the history of she state on men to vote for this measure who in their own heart know it is vicious.” declared they dare not show she relatiofship between this bill and the league election bill of 1917, Before any man can be a candidate for governor he must get signatures of 8,000 or 9,000 people, he asserted. “Every one of the amendments on the bosses |of the Independent Voters associa- tion,” he declared, and declared that Townley in the hey-dey of his pow- jer never used such methods.” He asserted four or five members lof the house who would not stand for the bill as originally drawn Iforeed the amendments, ; Perpetuates League, He Says Rep. ed he Walker, Nonpuarti was a Republican, jthat the Nonpartisan League began to disintegrate in 1919, after fulfii!- s purpose of reform of the Re- and that “the Non- leaggs would have been 4 thing of the past today had it not been for the fight made by the In- dependent Voters Association.” He asserted the Nonpartisan league was temporary in character, and declared that “this bill seeks to perpetuate those factions (Nonparti- A.) and destroy pa publican party | ties.” The vote was 58 to 55 in favor of recommending passing of the bill, the division being on strict party lines except that Rep Rabe, Stark county, voted against the bill. Rep. Jackson, explaining H. B. 285, said the purpose was to save for the Republicans and Democrats controi of their parties in national affairs and prevent a minority from con- trolling and destroying the parties. H. B. 282, providing the new ay portionment on the state committee, also was recommended for passuge, 57 to 53. The house committee on tax and tax laws today voted for indefinite postponement of Rep. Watt’s bills providing for “luxury taxes” on tobacco and Oe etc, MAY LOOSE FOOT AS STORM RESULT Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 19.—Jules Hagenson, whose wife was frozen to death during the blizzard last week, was taken to ‘a hospital last night and probably will have to have a foot amputated. Hagenson’s fect, side and hands were ‘frozen, ip Kearney physician held in the county. jail. on the charges of muri Fritzi Mann, pretty