The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 3

In the mterest i of a square deal - { = for the fgrme;e i | ‘A magazine that dares to print the tru_th | Oflicml Magazme of the National Nonpartxsan League ~ VOL. 9, NO. 24 - f; The Spec1al Session in North Dakota | Farmer Legislature Working to, Reduce . Appropriations—League Members | Back Bllls to‘Guard Agamet Contmued Drouth Condltlons . : i ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 15, 1919 \ = Ry : ‘ . 'WHOLE NUMBER 221 s | speelal seeslon at Bismatek. = a_ budget b111 ‘that wxll revlew, almost in entlrety, will allow this -money to be used in payment of : - the appropriations-made by the ,regular session-of: - homes or farms previously purchased oriit: may be . the legislature.- Wherever experience has shown a - used in‘starting the returned service man in any ~ | saving possible, ‘the' appropriation ‘will ‘be reduced: '~ line of business or in paying medical or hosp1ta1 eXx-. by the committee.: Although their work is'not yet - ‘pensesof the sick or injured. is hot pbss:ble Vet to nger - finished the sayings in sight' are remarkable. Re: = The legxslature further showed its interest in the etail &' list of its accomplish- - ductions are being made -alike in the offices under returned service men by holding special joint ses- i ‘mexits, but it is safe to say that farmer control and those in the hands of the farm- * “gions of .the twa houses to listen to addresses de- | “the main purposes cavered: ' ers’ enemies. It is probable that when the budget - livered by Lester R. Barlow, organization manager . ; i } Y, _Governor - Frazier - i his - review is completed the savings made by this com- ' - of the- World War Veterans, and to C. L. Dawson, . mittee, in reduction of appropriations, will total in state commander of the American, Legion, This is. ook the neighborhood of $500,000. ‘I‘hey may be greater._ an honor'that has' been.conferred in the past only. to 52 . ) the governor of the state and to presidents or for~ L2 -MONEY ENOUGR SAVED TO - B : P AY F OR SPEC 3 L SESSION it mer presidents of the United States. - .To guard 'against the situation of contlnued 257 drouth conditions’in western North Dakota;, League “members are backing two “better farming™ bills that will give state aid to-settlers who want to-en- gage-in_dairying, and which ‘will require all farm: ers.who borrow. county ‘funds’to-buy seed and feedc' - RS - to0, crop’at-least one-fourth of thejr.land in-corn or Spec i3l seasion; But: while: otk . - other ‘cultivated forage crops. The adoption of: rounding ‘Nerth' Dakota have hai 2 a. Ao ads gd their taxes .- “these laws, which will:be ‘discussed in more’ detall PR sl : e Aincreased as mich as the taxes in the: original S n the Leader later; will.do much, in. the opinion of Leegué state, Or_even' more; not one of: these. cen menti : seasion will" not ‘be_a charge en ‘the: taxpayers i of ‘the state, ]:ecanse, by: adj‘onrmng ahead of D he. - - states sur-- leadmg agncultural experts, to make North Da- Kota one” of the most prominent dairy states in the "country. They will end'the possibility of an entire “.state being “wxped out” by the failure ‘of 2. smgle crop’like wheat. . § . “While League: members of - the “leglslature have ~»made every. effort to hasten the session and finish work within a week; this has’ been prevented by ‘the dilatory taetics adopted by the: opposition..”” The P opnat!ons for the state de- I; V. A, leaders have been attempting to filibuster = ' and industries, wherever savings can be = from the start, demanding rolicall after rcllcall and effected, the North - Daketa leglslature will ‘make - taking up the time of the session by long-winded 4 ¢ i the 1 -show ;" amendments to its soldiers’ compensation law-which - .speeches’ planned 'apparently only to delay pro- > very few: ehanges are néed e industrial I 7 'will make this law, the original of its'kind in°the. ceedings: : . The reports show, however, n. at - United'States, also the best.~ The -amendments pro- =~ A despmable attempt to throw League members “ economical - management of: the mdustnes by the posed by the League and agreed to: alike by the = intoa panic was made during the:second week of - World: ‘War Veterans and the - American Legion, = the session by O. B. Burtness, an anti-League law--" .oraise the tax levy for soldiers’ compensation from" yer from Grand Forks;: Burtness declared .that one-half mill to three-fourths of » mill, and instead . the Leagne administration-was. buying “free love” ag:wmg the -soldxers “$26 per' month of serviee _.book.s to be sent out to the schoolzghfldren of the : T ~tions, as’ North Dakota is now-doing, And this “In spite of the fact that Minnesota, Montana . -and Nebraska all have had' special sessions _of _ sufficient leeway to avoid ‘the danger - e infant Hustnes runmng short of,