The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 14

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If You Love Mother see that she has pienty of Manchester Biscuits Always on hand. Then no matter if you have company come in unexpect- edly she will be able to get up a nice meal in short order. The children will appreciate it if you put them in their lunch basket. We have biscuits for every occasion. Try them with jam or jellies instead of tarts or ples. — Made in a sanitary factory, Manchester Biscuit Go., Fargo RK'BI”:A‘"Tfii‘is SERVICE TIRE CO. WADE H. MURRAY, Prop. 419 N. P. Ave., Fargo, N. D. Tire Repairing and Vulcan- izing. All work guaranteed. WesternHide & FurCo. 301-303 Front St., Fargo, N. D. Pays the highest prices for Wool, -Hides, Pelts, Furs and Tallow. Write for Price List Hand 'ing Politicians a Lemon (Continued from page 8) compelled to allot cars according to priority of the request, and in propor- tion to the number asked for if there are not enbugh to go around. A public welfare commission was appointed with the special purpose of investigating labor conditions sur- rounding girls and women in hotels, factories and the like, with instruc- tions ts report to the next session of the legislature, A highway commis- sion was appointed to take over super- vision of building the roads that are to be constructed by joint federal and state aid, A drainage commission was appointed to confer with other border state authorities for joint flood control, particularly of the Red river. This is a matter that has been dragging for 30 years and has entailed millions of dol- lars loss because it has not been at- tended to in the past. The farmer legislature consolidated the duties of a number of different commissioners, putting oil inspection, hotel inspection and soda fountain in- spection all under the pure food de- partment, unifying the work and cut- ting out duplication and expense. It provided that the plaintiff in garnish- ment proceedings must tender the amount of witness fees and cost of transportation to the garnishee; other- wise his service of garnishment pro- cesses will be inoperative. CURB COURTS’' POWER TO VETO PEOPLE'S WILL A woman suffrage amendment was passed for the first time which, if ap- proved by the people at large after it has passed another session of the leg- islature, will give women the right to vote for all candidates and proposi- tions. Partial suffrage was granted in a law giving as much voting power as can be granted under the present con- stitution. This enables women to vote for president of the United States, county surveyors and constables; and officers in cities, towns and villages and upon all questions submitted to political subdivisions of the state. A Torrens land title act was passed, giving counties the right to establish the system, thus doing away with clumsy and costly abstracts every time land is transferred. > One of the big things mentioned in last week’s article, for which the legis- lature deserves its share of credit, was the new legislation relating to rural schools. This provided increased ap- propriations, classification and grad- ing, and for the erection by consoli- dated districts of cottages for teachers and their families. An important gstep towards safe- guarding legislation by the people was a constitutional amendment making it impossible for the supreme court to declare a law unconstitutional unless four out of five judges so decide. This will do away with destroying legisla- tion by a mere majority vote. Another amendment to the constitution pro- poses that farmers borrowing state school land funds be supplied up to one half the value of the land given as security, instead of one-third as at present. : The farmer administration also will spend less money than the last Hanna administration. SPENT LESS MONEY THAN THEIR PREDECESSORS In 1915 the last legislature under Governor Hanna” appropriated $3,695,- 296. This same administration had as a duty the fixing of the state valua- tion for the year 1917, through its board of equalization, and also the submitting of a budget to the 1917 legislature, through its budget board. Both boards included Governor Hanna, Attorney General Linde, and State Au- ditor Jorgenson. After they had cut $30,000,000 off the assessed valuation of the state, acting as a board of equalization, thereby crippling the in- coming administration by depleting its revenues, they in their capacity of bud- get board, submitted te the farmer legislature estimates calling for the ex- penditure of $5,423,000! This was a bit of unparalleled gall. It was the largest demand ever made upon the state, and it was based upon an assessed valuation less - than they had themselves used for their expendi- tures of 1915, It was almost $2,000,000 more than the last Hanna adminis- tration itself appropriated, and there were many expenses in addition to the budget that had to be met. Faced with these conditions the farmer legislature set-about slashing the budget, and ac- tually did cut $1,300,000 off the de- mands. These economies were effected through numerous conferences be- tween the finance committees of the house and senate and with Governor Frazier and heads of departments and institutions, and after the session was PAGE FOURTEEN over, Governor Frazier vetoed about $468,000 ' of appropriations, further lightening the burden of taxation. The amount voted by the legislature for all purposes was $4,123,854. SOME ITEMS THAT WERE INCREASED This increase is accounted- for in such items as the following: For the Attorney General's office, $54,000 for law enforcement as against $25,700 for the previous administra=- tion; For improvements at the reform school at Mandan (part of which was later vetoed) $53,000 instead of $30,000 by the previous administration; For the school of mines, whose needs had been unmet for some years, $225,- 000 instead of $137,459 by the previous administration. 3 For the Agricultural college, whose building program had been held up for seven years, $86,000 instead of $39,000; For pure seed investigation, $10,000 instead of $5000; For the public health laboratories, $24,000 instead of $19,840; For the state examiner's office which now has the additional duty of supervising the bank guarantee of de- posits law) $95,550 instead of $88,1000; For the state library commission, which has been in urgent need of financial help, $33,350 instead of $17,- 235; For rural school betterment through state aid, $225,000 instead of $120,000, besides numerous other necessary in- creases of a few thousand dollars each. If the 1917 legislature had fallen into the trap set for it by the previous ad- ministration, and had approved all the money that the previous administra= tion demanded, it would have cost tax= payers $1,300,000 more than it is goe- ing to cost them. In other words, if the former administration had been continued in office and had spent the money that it demanded should be spent, the tax burden would have been that much greater. As it is the farmer legislature appropriated only $428,558 more than the last preceding vne, and $335,000 of this is accounted for iIn the list of needed appropriations above. It should also be remembered that there were further cuts by vetoes by the governor. Governor Hanna did not veto any of the appropriations of the previous legislature, so that the appro- priations as passed stand as the e%- penditures of the administration, namely $3,695,296. But Governor Frazier vetoed over $485,000 of appro- priations, because he knew they could not be paid out of the mutilated state valuation left him by the Hanna ad- ministration, This $485,000 must come out of the $4,123,854 appropriated by the farmer legislature, and when subtracted leaves the expenditures of the administration at $3,666,854 (approximately) as com- pared with $3,695,296 by the former ad- ministration, a saving to the taxpayers of around $30,000. Some of these vetoes were of items that were important, and in many of his veto messages, Governor Frazier showed his regret, but they had to be vetoed because there was no place to get the money to pay for them. Some of them could have stood if Governor Hanna and his board of equalization hadn’t arbitrarily cut $30,000,000 off the assessed valuation of the state, thereby impoverishing the treasury. ‘While there were same unavoidable . increases, owing to long neglect to pro- vide by successive previous legislae tures, there were on the other hand, many expenditures that were cut by the legislature. In a brief article such as the present one, it is impossible to do more than summarize the doings of the legislature. Its achievements in legislation for greater justice to farmers and labor= ers, greater restrictions upon corporate discrimination against the people, more freedom for cities and municipal own- ership, and in curbing the power of the courts, as well as many other things, can only be fully grasped by extended study. A.ttempt.t.o Corner Fertilizers (Continued from page 9) and would set back public operation of these industries for a generation, was C. F. Kelly, vice-president of the Ana- conda Capper Mining company, and an officer of the Montana Power and allied concerns in the Standard Oil in- terests’ group. Senator Walsh quoted the opinions eof Mr, Kelly and ‘“the Milwaukee road,” in his own statement in favor of the bill. , " This Walsh bill surrenders the bil- lions of dollars’ worth of phosphates necessary for the wheat lands of the Northwest, to Big Business.