The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 9

N (RS} f i .I v | \ | E | | } P E B | i~ £ { P zli}.‘ THE NONPARTISAN LEADER PAGE NINE A few weeks ago we published a story about the Cotton Warehduse Terminal of the State of Louisi- ana. We herewith present a picture of that enormous structure. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, publicly owned warchouse in the world. It has 23 acres s under roof, and including, trackage,wharfage, etc., covers 1:0 acres. pointed warehouses in eexistence. This tremendous enterprise was built by the State of Louisiana, in the interest of the State. It is one of the most modernly ap- is owned by the State and operated The cotton farmers of Louisiana were forced to this method, of protecting themselves against the greed of private warehouses. They were being robbed on the matter of storage and handling charges. The State voted bonds to finance the enterprise and the building was started in January, 1914. It is now completed and is a worthy monument to the progressive spirit of the Louisiana farmer. The commission of the Port ¢f New Orleans re cent in shipping and handling charges. Big Suit Causes a General Mix-Up Bismarck, Nov. 28.—As I indicated in a recent issue the litigation start- ed in connection with the Immigra- tion Board has an ulterior motive. It will be recalled that this suit was begun not before the Supreme Court but in the district court; that a temporary restraining order was not sought but a permanent restraining order; this had the effect of placing the case upon the regular calendar of the Burleigh county district court and delaying by many months the final settlement of the litigation. Today Neyton, Dullum & Young of Bismarck applied to the Suprems Court for a writ of mandamus and prohibition restraining the State Au- ditor from making any payments of moneys whatever under the Tax Com- mission law. Monday of this week action was started by Lawrence & Murphy of Fargo to test the con- stitutionality of the bonding law. P The Contention. Contention in all three of these suits is that the statute creating the department also contained an appro- priation and is contrary to Section 62 of the state constitution which provides that any appropriation not contained, in the budget bill shall be by special bill and contain but one ‘subject—it being the theory of the parties attacking these measures that an appropriation is a separate and distinct subject from the creation of a department. Interlocking Relations. I pointed out that Sullivan, the at« torney in the Board of Immigration -case, was a law partner and close as- sociate politically and otherwise of PROBLEMS FOR CON GRESS + National defense, ravenues and traffic legislation, extension of the wartax, government ship purchase and merchant: marine, rural credits, woman, suffrage, retention of sugar duties, prohibition, Columbian, Nic- By F. T. Powers Judge Hanley, an appointee of Gov- ernor Hanna; Newton, Dullum & Young are attorneys for E. A. Hughes of the Hughes Electric Company of Bismarck, who is closely associated, with Alex MeKenzie; Hinckley, the relater in the Tax Commission case, is an old-time pal of McKenzie’s and un- til recently a member of the city commission of Bismarck ,and associ- ‘ated politically with Ed Patterson and E. A. Hughes. Real Aim of the Action. That the real aim of this litiga- tion is at the Tax Commission is not doubted about the capital. General Thomas H. Poole, who is the official trouble maker and goat for the lo- cal McKenzie machine, boasts that if he does not get the Tax Commission in this way he will in some other. He makes no secret of the fact that the fight on the Tax Commission is McKenzie’s fight and it is not a far stretch of the imagination of one fa- miliar with North Dakota politics to know that McKenzie’s inspiration comes from the legal department of the Hill railroads. It is perhaps sig- nificant that Poole, who has been bit« terly opposed to Hanna for the past two years owing as he alleges to the failure of Hanna to appoint him bank examiner as he promised, has experi- enced a change of heart and, if not actually shouting for Hanna, is say- ing nothing against him. The Political Back-Fire. The instigators of this litigation, however, did, not fully understand “the nature of the pelitical back-fire they were starting. If the conten- tion of General Poole and his legal arauguan and Haitian treaties; war export embargo resolutions; curbing senate debates by cloture. Filipino independence, develorment of gov- ernment resources, gas, coal, oil and grazing leases; attacks on LaFollette seaman’s law, child labor regulation, income - and inheritance tax exten- ports that this public warehouse saves fully 40 per advisors is correct the Supreme Court will be obliged to declare unconstitu- tional every department of state gov- ernment not created by the Constitu- tion, which means everything outside of the elective officials. It will leave the educational institutions of the State without the mill tax appropria- tion of $350,000 and, without either the Board of Regents or Trustees; it will leave the state penal and char- itable institutions without manage- ment of any description. Will Create General Chaos. It will abolish the public examin- er’s department, the game and fish board, the emergency board—in fact, it will leave nothing standing except the oil inspection law outside of those protected by constitutional pro- vicions. : This will mean a sppcial session of the Legislalture which is generally conceded would be politically disas- trous to Governor Hanna. As it is it furnishes the obsequies over the grave of the late lamented 1915 Leg- islative Assembly. It would be hard to conceive of a greater general mix- up and muss than that in which these wise men left the state. .The instigators in this litigation hoped that it would reach the Tax Commission and probably not carry with it any other departments except the Immigration Board but it has as- sumed such proportions that there is coniternation, in the entire stalwart camp. The attempt to saddle the re- sponsibility upon Hellstrom or the Society of Equity has proved futile and the people generally are credit- ing the Hanna-McKenzie organization with it. sion, a national budget. Asiatic im- migration exclusion, direct presiden- tial primaries, Canadian fisheries con- vention, Niagara falls power conser~ vation, national moving picture e:n- sorship, parcel post extension, gov- ernment ownership of telegraphs and telephones. - ; : $ One of State’s Great Resources Is Its Valuable Clay Deposits The various and vast clay deposits of the State are a rich resource of actual and prospective wealth to North Dakota. Clays for the manu- facture of common building brick are found in practically every county in the State. Six counties furnish clay from which the finest of pressed brick are made. In three counties the clay found is especially. suitable for the manufacture of paving brick and another trio of counties furnich clay for the manufacture of firebrick. The clays in all the counties west of the Missouri river are.suitable for drain tile, flowerpots and other uten- sils. Pottery and Porcelain. In a number of counties also are found the finer clay deposits suited for the manufacture of pottery and porcelain ware, articles manufactur- ed from which vie in beauty with the most splendid European and Chinese porcelain. In support of this claim most magnificent sp>cimens of the potter’s art have been created from these clays and today are on exhibi- tion in various parts of the country. These are proof to the most techni- cal critic that North Dakota abounds in this valuable resource and in suffi- cient quantity to supply the world with pottery and chinaware for a thousand years to come. It is mere- ly waiting for the attention of cap- ital and the willing hand of man to be converted into articles of beauty and service, thereby producing wealth. Best Pressed Brick. The manufacture of pressed brick has already reached large propor- tions in, the State. Several splendid- ly equipped establishments are en- gaged in this business and their out- put is found as far west as Seattle and other coast cities and is also com- peting in the southern and eastern ‘markets with the best product of the most famous brickmakers. North Da- kota pressed brick can be found in several buildings in New Yory City. Quite recently the government su- pervising architect, the official en- trusted with the selection of brick for all Federal buldings, pronounced presged brick from North Dakota to be the best ever submitted to him. So successfully did it pass through the rigid tests imposed on it that the official suggested that perhaps it had, been specially prepared for the oceca- sion. Fresh . selections were made, however, from the run of the kiln, with equally good results. SIX BOOKS WILL EDUCATE YOU St. Louis, Nov. 28.—Rabbi Leon Harrison of Temple Israel today, in an address before the St. Louis Ad- vertising Club, gave the name of six books the reading of which would make onyone an edudcated man. They are: Flammarion’s “Wonders of the Hea- vens,” Geikie’s “Primer of Geology,” Taylor’s “Primitive Culture,” Her- bert Spencer’s “Study of Sociology,” Leckey’s “History of European Mor- als,” and Clarke’s “The Ten Great Religions of the World.” Rabbi Harrison said the books could be read in six months if a half hour each night were devoted to them. The reading of the “Five-Foot Shelf of Books,” chosen by Doctor Eliot, for- mer president of Harvard University, was not necessary, he said, for a thoroughly self-educated man. Wmn. J. Snyder of Arvilla was anx- ious to finish his fall discing but that did not prevent him from spend- ing two long; cold days in the league car helping the organizer clean up * the next township. 1} 1 i