The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 25, 1927, Page 3

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927 HOUSE JOINS SENATE TO ASK PAY INCREASE Appropriation ‘of $2,000 For Corn Show Approved— Vote Will Come Totlay North Dakota! house members Mon- day joined with the senate in asking that their pay be increased from $5 to $10 a day. : With only minor amendments, the house concurred in a resolution pass- ea by the senate which provides that the matter of changing the constitu- tion to make the pay boost legal be stbmitted to the people at the next general election. Action was taken in the committee of the whole and formal action on the resolution, sponsored by Senator C. J. Olson, Be county, is expected today. amendment specified th gislator should draw more that $600 iu salary for any biennial period, re- gardless of whether or not special sessions are called. Corn Show Bill Approved Other actions of the committee were: Approved $2,000 appropriation for the Bismarck state corn show and reduced health department appropr tion from $54,000 to $40,500. These bills also will be up for final action today. The third piece of legislation was almost out of the law-making mill and on its way to the governor when the hi ed a few commas to 4 sthate: bit governing the right of township’ supervisors suits against the township and passed it by a 99 to 9 vote. The senate is expected to accede to the changes. Unanimous consent to the addition of the commas was given.at the request of Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, Benson county. Despite the fact that the appropria- tion for the hospital for the insane at Jamestown was passed Saturday on its recommendation, the house appro- priations committee Monday asked that the measure be reconsidered and re-referred to the committee. The motion was granted without oppo- sition. Appropriation bills passed Monday carried $101,700 for the state normal and industrial school at Ellendale, and $173,850 for the school of science at Wahpeton. The first was approved 88 to 20 and the second 107 to 0. Debate Over Science Sehool Rep. Fred Ferris, Nelson county, at- tacked the science school appropria- tion and opened up a general discus- sion of the tax question. Later he said it was one educational institu- tion which taught students to work with their hands as well as_ their heads and had a tendency to keep boys and girls on the farm. He voted for it. In opening the discussion, however, he pointed out that there were 25,000 fewer people on farms in 1925 than in 1915 gnd declared that the people are burdened with taxes. The school of science appropriation was $86,000 two years ago, he said, and asked’ where the continual increasing of appropria- gions was going to stop. He warned the legislature that it was getting too extravagant in its appropriations for educational institutions and that the people would appreciate a tax cut rather than bigger appropriations for educational institutions. The appro- priations committee, he charged, is “overlooking the poor. feople who have lost their crops.” William Watt, Cass county, appro- priations committee chairman, re- plied that the legislature has control of only six per cent of the money raised by taxation in the state and that the people voted a gasoline tax which will ratse $2,000,000 for the state highway commission without question. The science school, he said, is the only place in the ‘state where stu- dents are taught to work with their hands and is doing good work. M. H, Lynch, Richland county, also defended the institution and pointed out that thé new building provided -¢for by the appropriation would be “built largely by the students them- selves, Rep. J. H. McCay, Sioux county, s@id he favors the appropriation be- c@use the science school gives practi- cgl tfaining. ot th factor, he said, iq that the head of the institution is ‘not a hog” and the only educational institution head who admitted, two years ago, that he could get along on less money. Ferris made it plain that he was not attacking the school of science in particular and declared that the state could dispense with three_of the five normal schodls in the state since they ate trainifig teachers to work - in states other than North Dakota. In his home town, he said, there are 20 applicants. for every teaching job. Welie Appropriation Killed The “house definitely killed a bill ppropriating $300 to pay L. J. Wehe, ‘Bismarck lawyer, for services in con- (mection with an investigation of the tate library in 1919. “A minority re- jort recommended payment of the ill but the majority report was ‘adorited after a party division and the clincher provision added. ‘“Wehe@has eon presenting his bill at évery ses- ion ‘since 1921, Several Nonparti- sans contended that Wehe had done ‘the work und should be paid. Oppo- sition to the appropriation was based recy ,on the fact that Wehe was WWotiiig’ anothér'seste 4b when the work for the investigating committee was: doné. ‘The’ majority refused ‘to pay ‘him for-alleged “night work”’in onfiection “ the almost forgotten robs a Roch sitet, ‘ihe Decision to conduct a mine the reel of faotalline 2 a mu Th » Was Yeach- ata ‘mass of citizens here ane the ‘elty-owned electric iit would be ‘uttlized to sup. Ex-soldiers from the United Sts voted unanimously against a war vote. This picture sho’ ‘in defendihg| —— FOWLER EXPLAINS BILL DESIGNED T0 | CHANGE PLAN OF NAMING CANDIDATES ration hy | for upwards of fifteen years, with the A. W. Fowler, representative from tule ai county in the state legislature, who introduced house bill 25 to do away with the primary election sys tem in favor of the convention s tem of nominating candidates, to sued the following statement cerning the bill: “It has been suggested and explanation of ed new election Law (H. B. comparing it with the present prim: system and the old convention sy: tem would be of interest to the public at large and to those who n especially interested in it. to such suggestion the following submitted: “In the figst place under the old caucus system there were practices no sefeguards wi tralian ballot There was no_ rest tioneering or coercion. little or no prevention of repe: or ballot stufing. In short, the old, caucus often resulted in an unregulat-! ed, unprotected between en- th trenched politicai boss was certainly the winner, Provides Safeguards “Under the proposed law, all of the safeguards of the Australian ballot system and the corrupt practice ac and in fact of the present Prima Election Law are thrown about tho election of precinct committeemen who are to act as their party repre- sentatives. In order to run for this office nomination petitions must be filed and their names appear upon a party ballot together with those of lots are cast under all the regula- tions, restrictions and protection of a general election, These party rep- resentatives are elected from the small voting precinct’ unit so that the electors are intimately acquainted with the qualifications of the candi- dates. “In the County Convention under the proposed law as epmpared to the practice under the old system, the unit rule and the binding of the dele- gates by any rule or instructions are prohibited. The vote is by open bal- lot (no chance to dodge responsibility behind a secret ballot) and by roll call of individual delegates. Hence, each delegate must stand up and op- enly declare as a matter of record just where he stands. It is true, that under the old system, it was possible for one group to obtain control of the county convention and thus con- trol the delegation from the county. But was not this accomplished by the ‘heat, — ae ‘A, Coles, wit ave i that an Pursuant, y ed, almost! their oponents for this office. These} tes veterans’ hospital, with Mexigo in a newspaper them filling out ballots. rule and the binding of dele structions so th dividual vojce w | “Purthermore, “under pw in vogue in th extra legal whi ot leg the tains control of the de county and there is tio re (exeept-public 0} position of Munit rule o r in t Evil ate Convention, ards to bring about the hy individual dele; unit rule or instructions In addition, there is the proposed law, a provision s intended to and which it od does, abroyate one of the ps did more th one thing to bring it into repute. I refer to the provi if a respectable minority cent) is dissatisfied ations made themselves) nominate a ticket hall have and th i { pear upon the run-off prima lot. ‘slate’ was fixed up several d advance of the conver ratified by | ta to vote, I believe that the above in the old system. cratic National: Conventions), might be advisable but is a volved, viz. “Furthermore, it is believed class of candidates possible. No Legal Safeguards Pittsbu by straw of in- systen of holding ntions, lo from} str nion) upon the !m tructions, the same | perfect, and while not put forth as ts choi es unfettered by © provid-| erted in which is be- worst (forty per Tth the nomin- gether with the majority ticket, shall bat- Under the old system, often the and was a bare majority of the delegates and forced down the throats of a reluctant and helpless minority. “I remember as 4 boy, too young! king with delegates turning from an old state convention {and their main complaint was that! the ‘Slate’ had been all agreed upon when they got there and they were forced to accept it without change. provision (minority nomination) will alleviate i this ‘very bad feature which existed It has been sug- gested that this percentage should be reduced to 33 1-3 per cent (similar to the rule which now prevails in Demo- Thi detail and does’ not affect the principlé in- -of giving full protec- jtion to a respectable sized minority. that this provision will act as a ‘big stick’ over the State Convention as a whole, having the effect of forcing the ma- jority (and the minority also if it nominates) to nominate the highest “Under the existing procedure for elections, we have at least two extra virtue of the edition At the shia factional conventions, No legal ft | | the | j ‘ntral Com-} THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE safeguards” Whatever ‘are’ thrown about these conventions. Théte is no legal, enforceable method at present of preventing 2 minority nomination within the respective parties and a situation may very easily arise where- dates, three from each faction we would have the result of a candidate being nominated for U. S. Senator on the Repubilean ticket by a small minority vote, nis election following as a matter of course as demonstrat- ed by the almost unbroken political history of this state. method of factional conventions clear- ly does not make for party harmony. “Under the proposed bill, we would | wherein the various ‘party factions | could meet and endeavor to agree | upon and adopt a common platform l agreeable to 60 per cent (or two thirds, if preferred,) of the delegates; wherein an effort could be made to nominate candidates of stich character Hnd standing as would command the support of such majority if not of all the delegates; wherein men of char- acter and standing cou'd be drafted to run and serve their state and would be willing to do so under such cir- cumstances; wherein every safeguard is thrown about the individual dele | gate to insure a free, open, individual | expression of his ‘choice and judg- ment, and wherein a respectable sized minority has at all times a weapon whereby it can fully protect itself and the principles or policies | which it contends. “Furthermore, if the majority and minority fail to compose their dif- ferences in such convention and a | run-off primary becomes necessary | We are assured that in such run-off a contest between the majority and j minority candidates, resulting in a majori rty nomination and en- tirely eliminating the possibility (as |at present) of candidates, being put | forward with no hope of nomination | but solely for the purpose of defea candidates, Present System Fails “We have tried the existing system result, as everyone will I think agree, that during the past ten years we have simply had a factional state- mate. The factions have divided the state and national offices and have alternated in the control of the leg- ature. We have not been making progress politically speaking, ve we made the progress econ- and to which our State with its great resources is entitled. It is firmly be- lieved thot the proposed system will be a great improvement over the ex- jisting one, While undoubtedly. not a ‘cure all’ for all political ills we are heir to, nevertheless, it is believ- ed that combining as it does the best elements of the convention system (which is based upon representative government and delegated authority) based on direct action by the people) | that it will work much better sia | | the existing system, “Another factor which will tend ‘to make the proposed combined system | work more successfully and beneti-| cially is the fact that public opinion {has changed for the better and has/| become more militant and effective, since the old convention system was | in vogue. What was then countenanc-| ed and excused, would now be con-) !demned and denounced, and any poli-| tical boss or pojitican attempting an of the evil practices of the old con- vention days would be exposed by a |free and untrammelled public press| and driven from public life by an alert and aggressive public opinion. “The proposed bill will admitted!y | correct the present unjust and unr resentative method of ‘selecting pre-| cinct committeemen and party com-| mittees, It will do away with the} present admittedly ineffective and) undesirable presidential preferen primary. It leaves the primary elec- tion to operate just as at present in its full vigor in a sphere and area in which it can operate successfully, v in the election of precinct comm teemen, county elective officers, mem- bers of the legislature; judges of the| Supreme and District Courts; Super- intendent of Public Instruction; | County Commissioner and County Of-| ficial Newspaper. ‘It applies a.com. bined primary and convetition sys-| tem to the selection of candidates| from the larger area of the State where the direct primary has not! operated successfully. | “The proposed bill is fair to and} fully protects the interests of all fac-| tions in all parties, It should not; be made a partisan issue. It should! be considered solely upon its inerits.' If so considered, it is believed that) the conclusion must be. reached that| it is a great improvement over our) existing system and in actual prac-| tice will operate fairly and justly as/ to all pafties and-all factions in each | party, Limited Supply of North Dakota Maps | -Is Made’ ‘Available i | Senator Gerald P, Nye has available for distribution a limited supply of maps of North Dakota, made. by the United States Geological Survey, In- terlor Department, Washington, D. C. The map is in black and white, showing county boundariesy ail towns railroads, rivers and water features. The size of the map is 82 by 50 inches. Those interested “showtd write Sen- ator Nye Seanelsieis. ‘Until the supply is exhausted requests will be filled in the drder reedited. Convicted Banker Is Granted Seeond Stay inffilo, Minn., Jan: '25.—@)—S. M. Strand, Bi , Minn., banker con- Ticted an. F ana first degree ire latceny charge growing out of & $6,500 ‘shortage in the Hanover ‘State Bank, was granted a second stay of 30 days in district court today in which to complete an appeal to the supreme Gourt. ~ gre postponement “of the trial 1 Me , eer bank by with a field of four or six candi- | \ The existing! | have one common party convention, | for| primary the issue will be limited to| jing one of the admittedly stronger! ly speaking which we should! and of the primary system (which is| | -j her by the neck and pushing her to when, with suicidal intent, he leape above. The crew of a passing tug fering only from shock and subme find iMRS. BROWNING DESCRIBES HER MARRIED LIFE (Continued from trom page one.) of Mrs. Cathetine Heenan, Mrs. Browning's mother in and abuse him" because the bill was “outrage- ts.” The bill was, 10, ¢ Picture Introduced | A picture ini ced. The won “very weird woman” ‘ound her neck.” Browning asked me quainted with her a her to dinner, He sai of a cult nnd was over 50, but really young looking, I didn't think said the witness, ‘owning at the Puirfield] ness said, brought home h was deseribed African ponte wand, left the she said, | mind. Once, she said, they all Long Beach with the goos: to Browning did not ut Mr. went ee mo picture wi too, she iu goose episode” took place in gander band’s “The July, she said, three months after the marriage, Her mother had a room at the hotel with them, where sed her was at the witness s: id burns. Her pre: Browning's request, | ence Many Pictures Taken At Albany, Mrs. Browning asked to pose in all h for newspaper piotographe “Were you anno; men at the next stop, Luke asked her questioner and Mr. Epstein. “We w permen,” dresses by newspaper- attorney, not annoyed by newspa- she answered. But Mr. Browning h of his own along and he took pict all the time, He had them enlarged when we-returned to New York and he gave them to the press then.” Mis. Browning at one point in her imony told of her husband taking doa camera the floor and ‘booh? That in cident was terminated, she said, by her mother taking her from Brown ing’s room. She was still on the .{stand when court recessed for lunch, JUDGE PERMITS PRESS AND PUBLIC TO ATTEND Courthouse, White Plains, N, Y. Jan, 25.--)-—Supreme Court Just ‘eeger, at the opening of court today, | ruled that the Browning separation | trial be heard with the press and pub- lic present. He requested reporters, | however, to use discretion in report- ng possibly objectionable testimony: Giovanni Sponza, Italian immigrant, she thought, for! toy she} aid she; George?” t went Steve Brodie one better ed into the East River at New York from the highest point of the span of the Manhattan Bridge, 142 fect pulled Sponza from the water ersion. At the hospital, where th picture was made, he said he had been despondent because he couldn't | work, redo! | all young boys and girls, Ithough 200 persons tried to pres: their way into the courtroom, thi Justice's order against the young ha no effect upon the seated | 1 was found the door guards had no admitted any persons under age, an the trial quickly proceeded. ! | and ordered the’e | | | | MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR IS IN | PROSPECT | | session, | (Continued roy pare one.) pt to manufacture “political is that the aken from the and bond retirement fund i nd that the fund be re tax levy if one prov necessary. ‘The constitutional limiting state taxes to fou 8 not apply to the raising o! to terest on bond pointed out ary the could vit | tere | to be interest bill withou constitutional limita. tion aot Agles taxe not be submitted to the leg at call but through the state tion which sets each 4 Pay Call Sounded For FY y be handled ard of equal state h the Members guarterm 's detachment {comes {ba from federal funds nce from the state, ime in many months, three offic Brocopp, Lieutenant Marion D, Avery and ond’ Lieutenant Emil T. Bress' There are now about 65 enlisted men and there is at present an opening for a few recruit Athletic activities a at the present time, pany hei Fi n full s ince the quarters have been ferred to rooms in the the City National bank building. These rooms provide adequate acco- modations for basketball, wrestling and boxing, and are equipped with shower baths. The basketball work- outs are in charge of Lieuts. Bres: ler and Avery, The indoor rifle range has been completed and competitive shoots: are staged at intervals. In ddition to the regular military | ing com- trans- fy oe Meare’ 1 | Nb bead ts speetators,| t0 come and also in order to get them money state in- levy $1,500,000. a atter Members of Co. A of Company A and the are ju- and the asement of | poate neperem canna Morini PAGE THREE | instruction, Lieutenant Avery is giv- special choir of 250 voices to sing the jing the men a series of six lectures} choral sections of Beethoven's ninth Jon famous battles of some of the| symphony and four professional salo- {wars in which the United States has | ists for the solo parts promises to" be Paihia! {the feature of the tour, | Ptomaine Poise! soning Petewleumn Products | Thought Death Cause| Can. Be Extracted Thi From Oil Shale Rock | :Philadelphia, Jan, 25.—(@)--Pto- | maine poisoning was advanced by the | oe jorities today as the possible; Washington, Jan. 25.-—A use of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs.|process which’ extracts usable petri |John Wilson whose bodies, seated |leum products from oil shale rock, |in chairs facing each other, were! oil-soaked sands and surface bitumen {found in a bedroom af their home| has been devised by two engineers last night. | of the bureau of miries, C. P, Bowie Investigation revealed that. the|and J. M. Gavin. married only a few months, in! be of great economic value good financial “circumstances and/ future, the bureau declares, apparently happy, had everything to| cause it will enable the product live for. There was no odor of of Jubricants and fuels in the U , escaping gas and no sighs of violence. | States long after the present liquid 'Pheories of murder and suicide were | and freely flowing deposits of oil abandoned. have been exhausted. Wilson and his wife, each about! Maybe this Contains 35 years old, apparently had been a Hint for You! dead for two days, Solons Are Loo Are Looking Milwaukee, Wis.—“I had two large running sores and after try- Their Best as They ing all other reme- Face Photographers dies a friend told me of Dr. Pierce’s h Dakota legislators are look- them, beeen’ ine their prettiest these da gone box of Dr. The reason is that they want pds. Pierce's Salve and ity to see them ai their best one bottle of the It is a time-honored custom to have ‘Golden Medical picture ofthe members of each “Discovery,” After made at each session, Indi- using one-half box vidual photos are taken and the ‘en of the Salve and ¢,tire group of pictures are placed in| one-half bottle of one frame, The offic | photograph- the ‘Discovery’ I saw that this was s{er has asked that the members come ¢ [early so that ke enn finish his work | try (une to kelp me—the first ro- dj before the assemblymen get too busy | The’ process may in the be t \tigtise Nef I had had in the five years I had the ulcers. After using three boxes of the Salve and two bottles | of the ‘Discovery,’ the sores were jcompletely healed.” — sLester: | Erler, 3502 Lisbon Ave. All deak | ers sell Dr. Pierce's Remedies. en Racine tieanteiiea ae Watch Elimination! Good eur Depend: is Upon Good jin front of his camera before the | d|strain of law-making begins to tell too heavily, To some of the veterans who have been here many sessions it is an old story and a close observer can trace jthe advance of the years by compar- Jing their photos from to} session | One of the notable differences ong | tween the present group and the law- s of a decade or more ago of whisker: mong the as ination. semblymen, Rep. G. W. Hoffman of Pembina! aveurrtemcrwaits ¢|county has the only set of rial whis-| waste inthe blood iscalled kers in the legislature. ‘They are| a “toxic condition.” ‘This often nowy white, carefully trimm do their full share toward confe on him an air of ben tion. A moustache © ul Gives rise to a dull, la id feel- ing and, sometimes, toxic bac! aches and headaches. That kidneys are not func properly isoftenshownby burn- | ing or scanty passage of sccre- tions. Thousands have learned toassist their kidneys by drink- ing plenty of pure water and the occasional useof astimulant diuretic. 50,000 users give Doan's signed endorsement. Ask your neighber! DOAN’S "us | | Stimulant Diuretic to tho cus | Foster-Biitburn Co., Mfg. Chem., BuSalo, N.Y, C want ADSI s 1 r f ven faces are the rul ep. L, O. Richardson of Adams county, who brought an anti-evolu- tion bill to Bismarck with him and then was persuaded not to introduce bristling sandy moustache six inches long from tip to t a ‘|| Temperature and | Road Conditions \o>—_———_______—__ (Mereury readings at 7 a. m.) Bismarck—Cloudy, 8 below; roads fair. St. Cloud—Cloudy, 5 above; roads fair. Minot—Clear, 16 below; roads poor. bilant this week over the arrival of| |Mankato—Clear, 10 @bove; roads | See the quarterly pay roll which this} Por jtime totals approximately $2,000 for| _ Jamestown-—Cloudy, 7 below; roads | |Company A and a generous sum for | fair. the quartermaster’s corps. About| , Devils Lake—Clear, 22 below; ronds £1,700 of the Company A money | fair. Winona—-Cloudy, 4 good. Grand Forks—Clear, roads fair. above; roads Capitol Theater 20 below; Hibbing—clear, 24 below; roads fai | Duluth—Clear, 12 below; roads Last Time Tonight | good. Mandan—Clear, 0; roads poor, |, Fareo—Cloudy, 12 below; ronds fair. Rochester—Cleur, 15 above; ronds| | Poor. e | ‘Mill City Symphony Orchestra Prepares | For Annual Tour | | | i | Minneapolis, ‘Minn., Jan, 25—UP)= |The most nomadic symphony orches. tra in the country is getting ready to | | oam again. | Having played concerts in virtually | | every state in the Union and Canada, the Minneapoils Symphony Orchestra will begin its annual mid-winter tour | of 6,000 miles January 25. Three Pullman cars and a special baggage car have been chartered. The entire orchestra of 85 membe! directed by Henry Verbrugghen, will take the trip. Twenty-three concert engagements will be played at Iowa City, St. Louis, Birmingham, New Orleans, Laurel, Miss., Atlanta, Evansville, Blooming- ton, Ind. Lexington, Washington, New York, Lancaster, New Castle, Pa, Pittsburgh, Dayton, Urbana, Ill., and La Porte, Ind. In New York the concert will be played at Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the Symphony society of which Walter Damrosch is conductor. Two concerts will be played in Pitts- burgh. The outstanding engagement of the | tour, however, says Arthur J. Gaines, manager, will be the three concerts to be given in New Orleans where the New Orleans Philharmonic Music Club celebrates its twenty-fifth am versary. An_afl-Reethoven The funniest farce of the year Coming Tomorrow Ernst Lubitch’s concert with a nipessanting Eaton & Eaten Financial Correspondents The Union Central Lite urance Ce, City National Bank’ Building