The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 11

i l ! SN "Donald, 1ouse 1s [.ined Up for Program - Speaker Wood Names Committees Composed of Men Pledged to , Carry Out Will of People as Expressed at Polls ISMARCK, Jan. 6.—Howard R. ‘Wood speaker of the house of representatives of the fifteenth legislative assembly, announced the members of the house committees this afternoon and no close scrunity of the appointments is needed to sec that the Nonpartisan League members have been given their share of the important chairmanships and committees, Every man appointed was named on a com- mittee upon which he is well qualified to give valuable service to the state and in picking the members of the various committees Mr. Wood paid particular attention to the personal qualifications and -.the geographical location of the men. The Nonpartisan League members control every com- mittee and they are pledged to carry out a regular program included in the platform upon which they were elected and which has been endorsed by the people by the overwhelming majorities given the League candidates. Under the conditiong of a resolution adopted at a meeting of Nonpartisan League members of the house the membership of every committee, with the exception of the appointment com- mittee, has been reduced, the latter being fixed by law. HOUSE COMMITTEES CHOSEN WITH CARE The committee appointments an- nounced this afternoon are as follows: School and Public Lands—Brown, chairman; Hanson, Quam, Lowe, Gun- hus. State Library—Leiderback, chair- man; Pleasance, Sandbeck, Stinger, Geizler, Ferguson, Meyer. Supplies and = Expenditure—Nims, chairman; Moen, Harris, Harding, Welda. State Affairs—Maddock, chairman; Bowman, Sinclair, Pratter, Knox, Wi- ley, Laird, Church. Temperance—F. Smith,” chairman; Nathan, Kimball, Hoare, Harris, Han- son, l.arsomn. Tax and Tax Laws—Mees, chair- man; Peterson, Lagéson, Whipple, Lathrop, Hagan, Wadeson, Tenneson, Maddock. ; : Warehouse and ' Grain Grading— Stair, chairman; ‘Q. 'H. Olson, Riba, Du Puis, Frederickson,; Schlck Kim- ball, Strom, Kelley: Mileage and Per Diem-—Moen, chalr- man; ‘Rice, Schick ; Muniripal Corporations—Cole, chaic- mon; Lathrop, Reischus, O’Connor, Live 8¢ ok — Larson, chairusn; Ward, Gunhis. Christenson, Carigaan, Erb,-Schrag. Ways and Means—Wiley, chairman; C:.urch, Haines, Sandbeck, McDonnel. Educational Institutions — Wilson, chairman; Church, Hoare, Xunkel, Martin, Kimball, Pleasance, Meyer, McManus. LEAGUE MEMBERS GET GOOD POSITIONS Engrossment — Fraser, chairman; ‘Allen Kunkel, Bryans. Otto C. Federal Relations—Lazier, chairman; ‘Weld, Myhre, Meyer, John Maddock. Forestry—Weld, chairman; Magnu- egon, Riba, Larson, Renauld. Highways — Reishus, chairman; Laird, Eckert, Wadeson, Larson, Ebel, Arnold, Wm. Olson, Ferguson, Game and Fish—Oksendahl, chair- man; Isaak, Stair, Kurtz, Arnold. Insurance—Geiger, chairman; Mag- puson, Whipple, Olson, Hendrickson, Pratter, Noltimier, Immigration—Obert Olson, chair- man; Stinger, Magnuson, Knox, Kellsr. Joint Rules—Hoghaug, chairman; Fraser, Walter Maddock, Lageson, Haines, Martin,~ Bryans, Peterson, Weld. Judiciary—Divet, chairman; Fraser, ginclair, Prater, O'Connor, A, H, Olson, Pu Puis, Patterson, Tenneson. Labor—Havens, chairman; Nathan, O’Connor, Oksendahl, Geisler, Brown, Gunhus. Rules—Mackoff, chairman; Fraser, Bryans, Peterson, Miller, O'Connor, Bowman, Hendrickson, Cole. THESE WILL HELP CARRY OUT PROGRAM Railroads—Du Puis, chairman; Mc- Harding, Larson, Kurts, Mann, McManus, Kunkel,. Carignan, Hendrickson. ‘ Agriculture — Dettler, chairman; Havens, O'Connor, Peaterson, Quam, Carignan, Martz, Bryans, Wilson, Appropriations—Walton, chairman; Nims, Lang, Qeiger; Maxwell, Peterson, Turner, Cole, Lageson. Banking—Bailey, chairman; Erb, Tenneson, Lang, Myhre, Hagan, Ward. Counties and Boundaries—Renauld, chairman; Ebel, Martin, Rott, Strom, Mackoff, Schick. Corporations other than municipal— Moen, chairman; Harding, Mees, Var- num, Olson. Coal Lands and Mining—McManus, chairman; Lowe, Keller, Isaak, Olson, Rice, Schrag. Charitable Institutions — Bowman, chairman; Larson, Dettler, Everson, ‘Weber, Quam, Sandbeck. Education—Carr, chairman; Harris, Weber, McDonnell, Kellep, Haines, Moen, Miller, Marshall. Drainage and Irrigation—Storstad, Lathrop, O’Connor, Ferguson, M. Lar- son, Myhre, Dyrne. Delayed Bills—Sinclair, chairman; Willey, Hochaug, Wright, Lierbach. Election and Election Privileges— Hagan, chairman; Smith, Nims, Max- well, Whipple, Vanum, Haines, PLEDGED TO CARRY OUT PEOPLE’'S WILL Revision and Correction of Journal —Miller, chairman; Mackoff, Stinger. Joint Committee, Penal Institutions —Everson, chairman; Kelly, Kurtz, Strom,, Marshall, Smith, Allen, Ebel, Renauld. Public' Printing—John R. Maddock, chairman; Weld, Erb, Eckert, Lowe. Puilic Debt—Christenson, chairman; Storstad, Divet, Peterson, Frederick- son. Public Health—Keitzman, chair- man; Walton, Lazier, Bailey, Knox, Martin, Larson, Isaak. Public Buildings—Hanson, chair- man; Schrag, Pleasance, Wilson, Ward, Olson, Eckert. Manufactures — Martz, chairman; Turner, Brown, Oksendahl, Christen- son, Allen, Olson. State Public Utilitics—Patterson, chairman; Mees, Geiger, Bowman, Stair, Maxwell, Olson, Peterson, Webc:-, : Appointment—Pleasance, chairman; Sinclair, Ferguson, Christianson, Han- son, T. O'Connor, Lageson, Strom, Cole, Sandbeck, Wadeson, Meyer, Peterson, Martin Larson, Carr, Ever=- son, Frederickson, Schrag, Renauld, Maddock, Hoghaug, Martz, Larson, Havens, Knox, Ward, Bailey, Miller, Walton, Schick, Blanchard, Xunkle, Fraser, Nathan, Rott, Ebel, Noltimier, Arnold, Brown, Byron, Lowe, Patter- son, Haines, Bryans, Rice, Keller, Leiderbach, Carignan. . Farmer Governor and His Family This is a picture of Governof and Mrs. Lynn J. Frazier, taken at the executive mansion at Bismarck, at which the farmer governor of North Dakota took up his residence last week. Photograph by Holmboe, Bismarck. Senate Springs a Trap Gets Back of Delaying Bill for Constitutional Amendment —League Members Urged to Write to Legislature their opposition to the amend- ment of the constitution and a constitutional convention, the anti- League members of the state senate have introduced and got behind a bill for the calling of a constitutional con- vention. The bill, introduced by Sena- tor McBride of Stark county, Stalwart, who defeated the Deasue candidate for the senate on account of the big- anti-L.eaguo vote in Dickinson, pro- vides for a special and two regular elections and a procedure that will take thtree or four years before any part of the League program can be made effective. The anti-League bill for a constitu- tional convention provides exaefly the kind of procedure that the League senators and representatives have opposed, because it unnecesarily delays the League program. This is just what the League opposition wants bécause they hope by delay to undermine the farmers’ organization and eventually block the farmers' program. ASK THE FARMERS TO WRITE LEGISLATURE A conference of all League senators and representatives after the introduc- tion of the McBride bill denounced the bl in strong résolutions. The League BISMARCK. Jan. 9.—Withdrawing ‘members decided to appeal to the farmers of the state for expressions of opinion on the subject. AIl members of the League in North Dakota are asked, without delay, to write their senators and representatives, whether they are League senators and repre- sentatives or not. They are urged to give members of the legislature their opinion on the subject of constitutional amendment—whether they want the delaying procedure outlined in the Mec- Bridte bill, or whether they want a s;horter, easier, more efficient and cer- tain plan of constitutional amendment 'to carry out what the people demand- ed in strong terms at the November 7 election. The McBride bill calls. for a special election next November at which the people will decide whether or not they want a constitutional convention. The hold-over senators claim the vote of the people last fall was not & mandate to amend the constifution and they want another expression on the sub- jeet at a special election next fall The McBride bill then provides that, if the people vote to have a constitu- tional convention, they will vote again in June, 1818, to elect delegates to such a convention. Then the convention so elected will submit a constitution to the voters at the on in November, 1918, Should the constitution be adopted by the people in November, ELEVEN 1918, then the legislature which meets in 19719 can take steps to carry out the League program. M’BRIDE BILL MAKES FOR DELAY As can be seen this takes three elec- tions and another session of the legis- lature to carry out the program and is Just the kind of delay the opponents of the farmers’ program want. The plan League senators and representatives favor is simply for this legislature to appoint a constitutional convention which will frame a new constitution at once and submit it ata special election this summer, the pre‘ ent lezislature tormeet in apecial gezrion =aon (hava after and enact the League program into law, taking in all not more than a year, against three or four years by the McBride plan, and taking one elec- tion instead of three. It would also spare the people the expense of a con- stitutional convention elected by the people. It is on what plan of constitutional convention that the people want that all voters are urged to write their senators and representatives. The fol- lowing resolution was adopted by the League senators and representatives in conference: “Resolved, That it {s the sense of the (Continued on page 23)