The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1923, Page 1

2 WEATHER FORECAST Partly overcast tonight and Sdturday. Slightly warmer tonight: ESTABLISHED 1878 OPPOSE BRAN JURY IS TOLD: » OF FLOGGING OF N. D. YOUTH , Witness Says That Tabert Was Beaten 97 Times by Lash by Higginbotham N. DAKOTA IS ASSAILED Counsel for Defense Declares State Raised “Slush Fund” For Prosecution LASHES WOULD KILL Lake City, Fla, June 29.— Bulletin—Dr. E, F. Brown tes- tified in his opinion — seventy five blows of lash as described would be sufficient to product death. Lake City, Fla, June 29—With night sessions.in sight the prosecu- tion in the trial of Walter Higgin- hotham, charged with the murder of Martin Tabert of North Dakota in a private convict camp, today expected to close its case. The state continued presentation of evidence in the trial. The state charges that Tabert’s ath was the result of excess whip- ping by Higginbotham, “the convict | whipping boss,” where the youth was serving a three months sentence for stealing a ride on a train, The state announced last night that it probably would complete its case today. John W. Tyson, a prisoner, recent- ly released was the first witness. He testified that he saw the whipping of Tabert and counted 97 lashes. On cross examination Tyson said that Higginbotham applied the lash a seven and one-half pound lash, while standing on Tabert. He declared that he and several of the suards weighed the strap before the whipping, Tyson was not a prisoner at the time of the whipping it was brought out, but recently served a term and was brought here under writ of habeas corpus by the state to testify. Charges by the defense that a /“slush fund” had been raised in North Dakota to. prosecute Thomas Walter Higginbotham, convict whip- ping boss, and to pay expenses of G. Grimson, assistant attorney gen- eral of North Dakota, to come to Florida to spread “propaganda” and coach witnesses, which was charac- terized by the state as a play to prejudice the jury features yester- day’e session of the Higginbotham trial, Counsel for both sides continued to clash. The state took exception to ions made by the efense that Graham Ward, a state witness, claim- cd he had been offered $5,000 by the state to testify, ‘Ward denied such an offer hag been made and also en- teed a denial that he had made a Statement to that effect. The tilt, which lasted throughout the morning session, came after the state tendered the witness tq the de- fense for cross examination, after he has testifieq he saw Higginbotham wQip a prisoner, whom he presumed tbe Tabert, giving him as many as 87 licks before he quit counting. Grants “No Quarter.” Leonidas E, Wade, leading counsel for the defense, declared he “granted no quarter” in cross examining a witness ang the “state must take the consequences for tendering this wit- | ness to the defense.” Stafford Caldwill, assistant state's attorney, sdid he welcomed “dyna- mite” as Mr, Wade claimeg himself to be, but when the defense attorney proceeded with the examination and asked the witness a question relative to the $5,000 bribe, State Attorney James R. Kelly resented the charge that he had taken part in a plot to bribe a witness, Mr. Kelly, termed the defense counsel’s tactics as “an effort to stab my back” and appealed to the court. Mr. Wade declared he intended to show a “slush fund” had been raised in North Dakota for the purpose of taking care of witnesses and that Mr. Grimson was riot taking an active part in this trial but was remaining in the background to spread propa- ganda, This, Mr. Wade added, “was not done down here but probably was a method in North Dakota where 1 understand I, W. W.’s dominate.” Controlled by I. W. W. The court ordered the trial to pro- cced, but Mr, Caldwell declared, “1 object and take exception to the in- \sinuations and slurs directed at Mr. ‘ Grimson. He is a duly accredited attorney ‘at law and state’s attorney of Cavalier county, assistant attorney general of North Dakota and the ac- éredited representative of a sover- eign commonwealth. If the defense’ counsel would show that this witness or any other “had received as much as a dime, or been promised any amount, or had ‘any improper in- ducement hald out to them to testify, of could show any improper conduct by Mr. Grimson or any one for the state, we would welcome the proof and challenge counsel to produce it; that pending such showing Mr. Grim- son should be protected from slurs and gnsinuations.” / In North Carolina thers are just twdygrounds for divorce, infidelity and 10 years’ ‘abandonment if there are children, marry THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [naam BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS — THE BRIDE AND GROOM | Here’s an exclusive picture of Asa G. Candler, multi-millio re soft | drink manufacturer of Atlanta, G nd his bride of a few days photo-} ‘aphed at Washington, D. C., as they stopped on their honeymoon. Candler is 7. His Lride, who was Mrs, May Little Ragin, is 35. gust 1, ang will go to about 7,000 | tion meeting and consulting with of- eee | DEVINE NAMED |* "Ny N. D. EDITION IMMIGRATION A special edition of the North- western Banker of Des Moines, lowa, featuring North Dakota resources COMMISSIONER and possibilities will be issued Au- i | bankers in Iowa, North Dakota, Min- | pac | nesota, Wisconsin, western Illinois nd eastern South Dakota, Roy V. Governor Announces Appoint-| Lentz, special representative, said Mandan Training School | ficials on the forthcoming edition, SUCCEEDS DR. J. H: WORST: SEES FUTURE tment on Board of Ad-| IN M ARM ARTH istration Not to be | A Made Until Monday = Resident Says People Are) Confident of Oil De- velopment Joseph M. Devine, former Gover- | nor and former superintendent of the state training school at Man- dan, today was appointed sioner of immigration by Governor Nesto effective July 1. He succeed Dr. J. H, Wors In making the appointment the Governor said that he had scanned the list of 14 applicants and believ- ed Mr. Devine best fitted for the, place. commis- gaat : | People of Marmarth are confident | of great oil development in that re- will! gion and they desire very much to |see the Mott branch of the Northern Pacific extended to Marmarth, James Cramer, former mayor of | Marmarth, who is visiting H. J. Duemeland, said here today. ‘ ‘An oil company formed by of The Governor, who is to go today|cials of the Northern Pacific Ra to Gladstone for a talky said that he| road Company has*a great outfit 18 would not announce the appointment] miles southwest of Marmarth, and of a member of the state board of| the oil well now is down over 2,000 administration to succeed R. TT. feet. It is understood the well will Muir before Monday, and at, that} go 6,000 feet if necessary. No fav- time also would announce the per-| ors were asked, Mr. Cramer said, sonnel of the board of managers for; the company simply moving expen- the Grand Forks mill and elevator; sive equipment in and — beginning as provided in the last of the 1923) work. While the oil well derrick is session of the legislature. on Montana soil Marmarth people 3. M. Devine was born March 15,{have been informed by geologists 1861 at Wheeling, W. Va. In 1884{ that the main part of the oil struc- he came to North Dakota and locat-! ture is in North Dakota. ed at La Moure. From 1886 to 1906/ A new road will be opened on} he held the position of superintend-| July 8, called the oil road. It leads; ent of schools in La Moure county.| from Marmarth to the oil company’s In 1896 he was elected lieutenant! scene of operations. Dedication was | governor, By the death of Gov.,to have been July 1 but was post- Briggs in 1898 he became governor| Pponed because the company stopped of the state, serving yntil the end| drilling to let cement casing harden. of the term and in the following year he was elected lieutenant gov- Fone Be ge ated Mewaait ee | Shepeane Wires ais he became state superintendent of | schools. is Following his retirement from; Valley City, June 29.—The Shey- public office he entered business at'enne river claimed its first victim Minot and took a deep and practical! of the season here this week when interest in all phases of farming and, William Forson, son of Mr. and agricultural development. —Gov.| Mrs. G. E. Forson, fell from a min- Hanna appointed him superintendent] iature raft on which he was riding. of the sthte reform schdol at Man-'He could not swim, and went down dan, which position he held until) before help .could arrive. A+broth- the League: regime. er of the lad, four years old, , was (Continued on Page 3) the only one to witness the tragedy. GRIEF LEADS FORMER DAKOTAN TO KILL WIFE AND SLAY SELF Minneapolis, June _29—Charles O. Johnson, 43: years old, Osakis, Minn., shot and killed hisy wife, 38 ‘years old, between three and four o'clock this mdrning and then committed suicide at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Miller, where they were visiting the police announced today. Johnson's act was said to have been, caused by depression following the death ‘of a two-year-old son from scarlet fever at Grand Forks last Christmas. The Johnsons are sur- vived by a six-year old daughter. Johnson was formerly custodian of the finance building at the Univer- sity of North Dakota, Grand Forks. . According to Mrs, Miller. who was Johnson's sister, she heard Johnson stirring around this morning and then heard a,sound like a window slamming. Arising, she saw a-light in the room, investigated and found the couple lying dead on the bed, | we have been able to stay right here, | DEPRESSION | CONQUERED BY COOPERATION President Harding Praises} Business, Labor and Gov- ernment Forces NATION PROSPEROUS Now There Are Half Million To Million Jobs Unfilled, He Déclares Butte, Montana, June 29.—Present- ing here in Butte today a report on the post-war revival of business President Harding declared that na- tiona] mobilization by business, labor and government forces to overcome depression was “no less an accom- plishment than the greater co-oper- ation to win the war.” Outlining the steps taken under | government direction to wipe out un- employment and to restore confidence in business the President asserted “if our procedures have been rather plain and old-fashioned they have} yet produced results that’ justify pride «nd require no apology.” “If we are accused of getting no- where in particular,” he added, “we may very well reply that at any rate that we regard it as a good place to stay and that day by day we have bech getting better ang better. 1 am disposed freely to admit that some other folks have had more ex- tement than we have had but a good many people in this world would be glad to exchange their stock of excitement for a modest share in our American accumulation of sim- ple contentment and dinner-table necessaries.” Not Claiming Credit. The President said he did not pre- sent the report on revived business conditions “as the accomplishment of a particular administration or the justification of any party’s claim up- on the public confidence.” “Rather it is placed before you as testimony to the supreme sense and sound genius of a nation which could make its opinion extend to a con- tinent an its altruisms embrace a} hundred million of humanity, he add- | ed. “That is what the American peo- ple have done in the last two years. No other people has ‘had the fortune toxparallel the achievement. None other looks out today upon so clear | a horizon; and I venture, that we stand only in the doorway of the new era. Thus convinced I know you will | permit me to add just one word for | the price, the satisfaction and the gratitude which the national admin-| istration feels in having been able to contribute something of suggestion of leadership, suggestion to this ac- complishmest. We will not claim | much; for the great etd could have been attained only through the com plete unity in spirit, purpose a| patriotism of the whole Amer people, Need More Men, “Two years ago we mage a careful census of unemployment in the Unit- eq States and found 4,500,000 or ~,- 000,000 workers without jobs. ‘hat was bad, but since then matters ha’ been reversed and if nowadays we are disposed to worry about the prob- lem of unemployment we have to consider ways and means to fill a half million or a million jobs which want workers and can’t find them. That is the simplest picture of the | industrial evolution of the last two years, That is the bedrock founda- tion upon which American business and American administration have erected this confidence that this people will not be led into the pa of devious experimentation, mazes of untried economic theories, the labrinth of doctrinary altru- ism. i Among the efforts taken to achieve this eng the President mentioned r duction in the federal reserve dis- count rate moderation of budget sys- tem, lightening and more equitable distribution of the tax burden, the arms conference, revival of the Fed- era] Farm Loan Board, and the fi- nance corporation and the national conferences, on unemployment and housing. The address here was the first of of two scheduled’ today in the state of Montana. The other will be given tonight at Helena. the IN MONTANA ry On ‘Board President Harding's Special Train,» June 29.—President Harding and his party.en route to Alaska with many stops throughout the west entered the Montana cop- per country today. The President was scheduled to make two address- es today, one at Butte and one at Helena. In a speech last night at Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mr. Harding declared the present need was to shorten the bridge between producers and con- sumers, and proposed a plan of co- operation among consumers financ- ed in part By an adaption of the principles of the savings banks or the building and loan societies. Canadi manufacturing estab. lishments produce $450 worth of products pet ¢apita annually. x ATTACKS PLAN OF LAFOLLETTE ON HIGH COURT Giving Power to Congress tu Decide Constitutionality Of Laws Is Hit BANKERS’ HELP A. G. Divet Urges Them to udy Problem, Stand Ready To Defend Constitution 8s ting his attack at “the most dious attack on constitutional government that, has in and dangerous even been attempted” and speaking particularly against to break the power of the su- Preme court of the United States in deciding constitutional questions, A. G. Divet of Fargo, attorney for the North Dakota Bankers Association, culled upon the bankers in _ session here today to inform themselves up- on constitutional questions and urg- ed them to be prepaged to defend the constitution. ‘There is in active progress, the most insidious and dangerous at- tack on constitutional government that has ever been attempted—insidi- ous because disguised and offered under the pretense of an improve- ment--dangerous because not un- derstood, and so deceptive in its dis- guise as to attract the favor of men who reverence our constitution and the government based upon it,” de- clared Mr. Divet. “This attack is in the form of a proposal to amend; the purpose of proposals down which proposal that there shall be embodied in the constitution it- self a provision that the courts shall not have power to declare a law un- constitutional. This proposal takes) different forms as to details, Some of the current forms are an abso- lute prohibition upon the courts requirement that it shall take a un-{ animous decision of the court; proposal that if Congress shall en- act the same law a second time af- ter it been declared unconstitu- tional it shall nevertheless be a v lid law and do into operation. The ultimate end of the proposals is the same--that is, to make the legisla- ture supreme and empower it to do as it will unrestrained by any force. This means in its last analysis that a law shall operate whether it be constitutional or not.” Step in Complete Plan “But it is said the provision is only to apply to the Supreme Court of the United States, and all other courts will be left untrammeled and unshorn of power. That is true at least of some of the concrete pro- s, but I trust no man in this audience is so simple minded as to suppose that; the Supreme Court, the highest court of the land—is to be shorn of power and other courts left permanently in possession of the power to do what it cannot, .It is simply a matter of an additional step. Convince us as a people that the power to declare acts of Con- gress unconstitutional should be taken from the supreme court of the United States and as a matter of course we must and will apply the same principle to all other courts. “Senator LaFollette, probably the greatest mal-content in high offi today, may be said to be the oft cial Father of the proposal, having adopted it from the agitators again- st the existence of constitutional government. It is not difficult to guess then where our little trog- lodytes are to be found. The great danger in the proposal is well man- ifested by the fact that good-in- tentioned men of good intelligence can be found on almost any occa- sion who will say ‘I never thought much of that man LaFollette but I am with him on this _ proposition.’ Why should five, or seven or nine men in a Supreme Court set them- selves up as knowing more than Congress, or the: legislatures of the several statcs?” “Such expressions show an utter lack of understanding\of what is involved, and show that the work of the teachers above mentioned has had its effect. “The question is not whether Congress in the one case, or state legislatures in the other, may know more or less than the Supreme Court, nor whether in a given case they might be able,to and would pass a law that would be better, if there was no constitution—the ques- tion is this, and ponder well what it, means: Shall the legislature— state or national—be permitted to pass any law it sees fit just as though there was no constitution? It is of course plain to all of you men and women that if a good law that violates the constitution must stand, then a bad law which violates it must also stand, So then, in its last analysis the question is: Have we such confidence in our legisla- tures, present and for all time to come, that we are willing to say to them—there shall be no limit upon how far you may go in enacting laws, except your own wil?” Points To England Answering argument. that the, courts of England do not declare | acts of Parliament void, Mr. Divet said it might be remarked that Eng- land also has a King who holds his (Continued on Page 2) BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION GOLF CUP COMES TO BISMARCK FOR NEXT YEAR A. S. Bolster Wins Cup Which Was Keenly Contested For By Bankers of Larger Cities, Trying to Take it From Town of Dogden Where It Has Rested For the Last Year — State Bankers Win Ball Game The bankers association golf c! pionship cup will rest in the First National bank of Bismarck for the next year. A. S. Bolster, assistant cashier, won the much coveted cup from a large field of bankers at the Country club, scoring an 83 in the 18-hole scratch play to an 88 for Thomas Hull of the Northwestern Trust com- pany of Fargo, Keen competition was manifested over the golf cup, given last year for the first time. R. W. Pence o Minot won it for the Dogden State | bank, of which he is a director. Tho hankers in some of the larger cities of the state were keen to rest it away from Dogden ang went in hard for the cup. Mr, Pence was in the competition again, but finished fifth, with a 103 card The results announced today were: A. S. Bolster, 88; Thomas Hull, 88; i National, Bismarck, st National, Fargo, Dogden State bank, rley, Valley City, 104; am C. R, Hodges, Citizens National, Jamestown, 107 T. Mudgett, First National, Valley City, 110; E, Beis- barth, First National, Brinsmade, 115; O. N. Dunham, First National, Bismarck, 118. F. A. Irish and Thos, Hull of Far- go were declared winners in the in- ter-city match play. ‘Their score, with handicap was 171, to 172 for C. B. Little and A. S. Bolster, of Bis- marek. J. J. Earley of Valley City, and F, N, Shephard of New York, {third with 174 J. Bishop and A. L. Anderson, St, Paul, fourth ith 182; C. R, Hodge and E. Beis- borth, Jamestown, fifth with 187; and R. E, Barron and R. W. Pence, Minot, sixth with 190. 0. D. Sprecher of New Leipzig won the tennis singles championship over K. H. Brunsdale of Portland, 6-3, 8-6. One of the big features of the en- tertainment yesterday was the base- hall game between the state and na- tional bankers, The state bankers won this 5 to 3, in a contest marked by the rooting of the supporters of the two teams. c BANKERS PLAN BIG PROGRAM OF EDUCATION MAKES PROTEST ON ROUND-UP H. F. Lewith, a veteran new publisher of Charleston, . today entered a protest, against “the kill ing of all those animals at the hor- rribley round-up which I am reliably informed will be held at Mandan paper | July The writer of the letter was invit-; 9 ed to come and try “gentlen j ~: : peas arc “ind: words” with’ “Dynamite! N. Shephard Explains Plan Heart River Croppy and the Black Eagle and some of the other famous outlaw horses and was assured a place on the program. BOND BIDS ARE REJECTED Industrial Commission Will! ganters of the nation, Receive New Bids Today \the American Bankers Association, jare answering attacks made upon jthem and our form of government The state Indu Commission| through a campaign of education, received two bids 1 on, Fred N. Shephard of New York, ex- Launched by American Bankers Association CITES PONSIBILITY Theory Is That Our Govern- ment, Whatever Fauits, Is The Best System through state bond for sale! ecutive manager of the American but because it was said the bidders! Bankers ociation, told fhe mem- had not complied with all regula- bers of the North Dak State tions the bids were rejected and, Bankers Association in session here new bids asked for this afternoon. | today. The bids were submitted by Sp{t-| The banker has a two-fold re- zer, Rorick and Co., Toledo, 0.; and' sponsibility, he said: (1) to: create a group of Twin City houses includ-|a sound and intelligent opinion on ing Minnesota Loan and Trust Com-| banking and allied subjects pany, Minneapolis Trust! Company, his own people; and (2) to the ex- Wells-Dickey Co., Lane, Piper and tent of his ability to develop the Jaffray and Stacy, Brown & Co, same thing in the minds of the gen- The issues on which bids had eral public. been asked were $3,000,000 real e “The American Bankers Associa- tate bonds; $700,000 milling bonds: tion has undertakea activity in the to provide working capital for the public education,” Mr. Shephard. “I refer to its effort to create an intelligent public opin- ion through lectures in the schools on Banking and Elementary Econo- mics. This work, done through the instrumentality of the Committee on Public Education is, like the In- stitute, undergoing a process of evo- lution. There have been prepared on the various phases of banking nine lectures—one for each month in the school year. These lectures are couched in simple terms which pupils in the grades and high schools can easily understand. Vir- tually 100,060 of these lectures have been delivered ‘by the banker near- est the school’ during the current fchool year” : The lectures, he said, include ex- planation of the evolution of the banking system, bank checks and on foreign trade. Simplest illustra- tions: are used. Mr. Shephard told the bankers that by way of illustra- ting the vast influence of one com- ; mercial activity upon another the | matter of Grand Forks mill and elevator and; $300,000 mill and elevator bonds to, said furnish funds to pay on construc- tion cost. : The Twin City syndicate bid par and a premium of one-eighth of one per cent on $1,400,000 real estate | bonds ang the Spitzer, Rorick & Co. | bid par and @ premium of 30-100 of one per cent on $1,000,000 of real es- tate bonds. The total amount of | real estate bonds for immediate de- | livery had been reduced to $1,400,000. There were no bids on the milling | and mill and elevator bonds, | INSURANCE MEN OF NO. DAKOTA IN CONVENTION Fargo, N. D., June 29.—The North Dakota Association of Insurance Agents will mect at Dunn’s resort, Lake Lizzie, Pelican Rapids, Minne- sota, Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1. The program follows: | sale of player pianos was used. Saturday. Eskimo Pie Example Report of President. Committee] “It was explained that the coun- appointments. try which prodyces most of the co- Report of secretary-treasurer. Address: Walter C. Leach, Secre- tary Minneapolis Fire and Marine In- coa which forms the covering of Es- kimo Pie is Ecuador,” he said. “Now Ecuador was in the dumps commer- surance company. “The Relation of | cially because they had an over- the Local Agent to the Company.” | productibn of cocoa when an ingen- ‘Adjournment for lunch until 1:80.| ious man conceived the idea of coat- Report of Legislative Committees.| ing with chocolate or cocoa a small Address—Henry TT. Murphy, Bis-| slab of ice cream. This delicacy be- marek. “Some Legislative Experi-|came a favorite with children in ences.” America. They demanded it to such Address — Spencer Welton, vic | great extent that the importation of president Fidelity & Deposit Co., Bal- | cocoa from Ecuador. was stimulated timore. Development of Surety Bus-| and the cocoa producers became so iness, prosperous that Edcuador sent in Ten minute recess. to us large orders for Player Address—-E. B. Dunning, regional | Piano: Z vice president, National Association of Insurance Agents. “One Year's Progress in the Insurance Profes- ston.” Election of officers, Fishing contest. Fish dinner, Dancing. Other agencies, including maga- zines and newspapers, are being us- ed in the educational program, he its said, to “explain that, with all faults, the so-called capitalistic tem is the best method yet devised for carrying on,the business of the world, and compared to which so- cialism and communism have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” ‘ : Successful operation of ouF gov- ernment, he said, implied general intelligence both political and econ- omic, , < iy “With large grants of political (Continued op Page 3) Sunday. Awarding fishing prizes. Base ball—Special Agents vs. Lo- cal Agents. Chicken dinner. Automobile manufacturing plants of Canada are operated mainly by Ameri¢an capital. among} H BANKING SYSTEM N. D. BANKERS GO ON RECORD INCONVENTION Resolutions Also Assail Activ- ities of Agitators in the Harvest Fields CONVENTION CLOSES Plan Outlined by Executive Council to Fight Yeggs in North Dakota Officers Chosen Officers of the North Dakota Bankers Association for the en- suing year were elected as fol- low: President, M. R. Porter, Mi- rot; vice president, Blanding Fisher, Devils Lake: secretary and treasurer, re-elected by exe- cutive council, respectively, W. C. MacFadden, Fargo; R. H. Farmer, Flaxton. . Members executive council by districts—2d, Blanding Fisher, Devils Lake; 3d, John Ottis, Kin- dred; 4th, Miss Mary Moviu Lidgerwood; 5th, Oscar Grea: lund, Binford; northeastern, E. Fuller, Grand Forks; western, David W. Clark, mare; Missouri Slope, H. Skauge, Dickinson. Recommended to Governor for consideration in appointntent member of Guaranty Fund Com- mission as follows: S. G. Severtson, Bismarck, present member of the commis- sion, whose term expires in July Paul Kretchmar, Venturia; J. H. Watts, Hebron; A. H. Peterson, Mandan; R. H. Farmer, Flaxton; John Ottis, Kindred; Fred Kemp Columbus; P.'L. Arms, Larimore; Guy Cook, Carrington. Fargo was awarded the 1924 convention. A resolution opposing the exter sion of the system of branch ba ing was adopted by the North Di ta State Bankers Association in its closing business ‘ses sion here today by the resolutions committee headed by J. R. Carley. of Grand Forks. There was no debate The resolution declared the exten- sion of branch banking was “to the great detriment and possible des- truction of the independent banking system which has had such a splen- fid history in our country” and that “such a practice is not in har- mony with American financial prin- ciples heretofore obtaining.” The resolution commended — th: work of the United States Banker Association Opposed to Branch Ban’ ing. Another resolution declared — th there are too many banks in Nor Dakota, and since on July 1 a nt act ofthe legislature becomes ¢ fective which permits the mergir of banks, urged “the importance u on bankers of cdhsolidating at poin where more banking institutions o jeupy the field than can be profitab maintained” and asked the state e aminer and Guaranty Fund Commi sion exercise such power as th may have to prevent opening of ne banks. Directed Against I. W. W. A third resolution. declared th we are threatened in the Nort west with serious interferences frc a class of agitators who follow t great army of farm laborers whi start with the harvest in the sout ern states and follow the harve=! season through to North Dalota a Canadian wheat fields” and urg: the cooperation of state and fede: officers to the end “that throu! their united efforts our farmers ms be supplied with needed help duri:: the harvest and threshing seasc that are fair and reasonable.” Another resolution declared tl “The Federal Reserve Banks « their branches in handling ‘collect: items’ without making the usual c lection charge and at a pecuniary loss to themselves are giving unf: and unjust competition to the me: ber banks of the system and ther by, curtailing their rightful and ju: profits without benefit to the Foc eral Reserve Banks or the syste and declared opposition to the pr tice. Debate Resolution There was some debate on ;resolution with regard to ask | state officials to discourage for) tion of new banks, but after ste: ments were made to the effect ti. {the proposition ought to be brou; jbefore the people for discussion <} resolution was carried as present: « : There also was some discussion of the resolution regarding the Fede:a’ Reserve Bank, some members fe.: -ing it would be taken as a slap at th« bank, but after explanations wre made that it was not intended as such it also was adopted as present Cc. E. McMi of Hi: paid 2 tribute to the services of the Jate Judge Engerud, for many years 2i- torney for the association, and mo: - ed that » pension of $300 be voted to his’ widow by the executive conn- cil. This was carrieq and later toe executive committee carried out tho direction of the convention. Retiring president Manville H. Sprague was presented fith a past president’s button, W. F. Hanks making the presentation speech. The new president, M. R. Porter, was es- corted to the rostrum, and in a few (Continued on Page 2)