The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 2

STt ~ > ‘..‘.‘.—.'.'._.'..Q‘....‘.....Q.'...“'...‘.‘ .33 oooocoooQ,to'oc'oo‘o'oooocoooooooocooooooooooooooooooooboi ........0.0...............‘.. PRECINC League members - will meet in every Votlng precmct Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 2 p.m. . Meet at the regular precmct Votlng place. _OUR busmess Iy to elect a committee in each pre— L cinct to see that every League member and friend of the farmer gets out to vote November 7th s The League candtdates for the Supfeme Cou e - - - Robmson Birdzell and Grace See that all voters vote for thimi fick. MEETINGS | -, < y i — cm——— —-- — i 2 So That the People Mdy Know, Here’s How the Mlll TaX Repeal - 1 HE VOTERS of North Dakota are going to have a chance at the November 7 election to put the “kibosh” on at least one piece of perfidious: legislation passed by the last legislature. The legislature passed an act, which was signed by the governor, repealing the tax for terminal elevators which the 1913 legislature put on the statute books. 2 By virtue of referendum petxtaons filed against this repeal bill by the farmers last year, it has not gone. into effect and is to be voted upon November 7 by the people of the state.. If a. majority of those voting upon it VOTE AGAINST IT, the attempt of the legislature 'to repeal < this clevator tax will have been futile. . This proposition appears on the special, separate ballot for referendum measures, of which there are two before the people.: . The tax repeal bill is at the top of this’ referendum’ ballot under 'the headmg “REFERRING REPEAL OF MILL TAX FOR TERMINAL ELEVATORS.” If the last legislature’s attempt to. throttle completely all legislation intended . to carry out the mandate of the: people is to be balked, then' alT friends of the ter- mjnal elevator proposition and members . . of the Nonpartisan League must not ove look this first proposition on the refe endum *‘ballot: THEY MUST -VOTE 1 “NO” ONAT. W PUT AN “X” IN LOWER SQUARE e TO KILL 'THE REPEAL LAW A facsmule of the elevator tax. repeal proposition appears ‘in connectmn with- this article, just as it will appear on thé ballot, showing an “X!” marked in the! - legislature. tned to ‘put. over;, . “NO” ON IT . mext legislative assembly. proper square to kill this bi ‘awhich the 1 bll Wlll Ap;kar on the Spemal Ballott e | REFERENDUM OF LEGISLATION =~ . = . REFERRING REPEAL OF MILL TAX FOR TERMINAL ELEVATORS i i An.act known as Chapter 258 of tlx 1915 Sumn La lld (he ey t:xnfor g 5 e vu, nnedn' nnldm' Clnphr m “of &a Lnn of 1913. rel-hn' to - Shall Chapter 258 of the Session Laws of 1915 be approved reQdmg as followl. ) iy Be it-eiacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State ‘of North-Dakota: 0 W Section 1. - There shall be levied upon all the taxable property within this state, real and peno)u!, for the years 1915 nd 1916 s and to be paidt during each of saidl years, the sum of $1,000.00, and all the revenue collected iinder such levy shall be converted: into a special fund to be known as the state terminal elevator fnnd, which, ah§ll be used for the foljowing and no other purpose, viz: for . ; the erection, purchase, equipment, maintenance and.operation, and for mveefigahon as o tlm pmtwnblhty of a terminal elcvator* 3 T N i or elevators in the state of North Dakota, Minnesota or Wisconsin.: 2 Section 2. It is hereby made the duty of the board of railroad commnmonen, in. nddmon to ull other duhu unponed upo ey by law, to investigate the matter of the location of such elevator or elevators, the cost of building and obtaining sites, and.to mbmn e ) a general plan for the building and.equipment of such elevator or elevators, and methods and rules of operation of the sams to tho bt 5 legislative assembly ‘of this state; in case it shall' deem the project feasible and practicable, and it is hereby made the duty o said board of railroad commissioners to so rBport their conclusions upon mh hnnbihty a.nd prhbab:h at t.ho meeting ot tfi. ; And there is hereby appropnated out of said sum the sum of two thuumd dollars'o 80 mueh tbereof n may be neceuary to el s pay ‘the expenses of such investigation and report. ik s : i Section 3. All acts or parts;of aets in conflict heremth are hereby repeafd’il S Approved by the Governor March 9, 1915, - oo Secretary of . State Thomas Hall who To g ‘gto?::gs tfo:fl Py ~had charge of putting the matter on the ' 4, time to finish ballot, made known the true purpose of -'th’ : the bill by the heading you now see over randmg as. l:he ‘elevator tax’ repeul