The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 5, 1920, Page 13

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North Dakota, the Ex-Soldier’an.d Taxes (Continued from page 4) diately, while the increased “soldiers’ levy will not apply until another year. This slicing of 25 per cent general fund taxes from every farmer’s tax bill was made possible by a complete revision of the general budget bill. When the budget bill was passed at the regular session of the legislature, in January and February, 1919, it could not be foreseen, with any degree of accuracy, just what money would be needed in connection with the start- ing of the new state industries. To be on the safe side the legislature appro- priated enough money so that there could be no possibility of the new in- dustries being crippled at the - start, and the office appropriations of state officials were similarly increased to meet all possible emergencies. But the new state industries and .de- ‘partments, it proved, were put on a self-sustaining basis -more quickly than any one had believed would be possible. - Thus the Bank of North Dakota was able to return $100,000 that had been appropriated for its or- ganization expenses, the workmen’s compensation bureau $50,000, and so on. For the rest the special session of the legislature went over all appro- priations with a pruning knife; cutting out everything that was unnecessary or that could wait another year. And the result made it possible to cut state general fund taxes 25 per cent. Throughout the special session the League legislators were hampered by the anti-League opposition. The oppo- sition cast its votes solidly against the revision of the budget bill, which made reductions and savings sufficient to al- low a 25 per cent tax refund, and on the same day anti-League newspaper organs were charging the Leaguers with extravagance. The opposition did not dare to vote against the sol- diers’ bill, but dttempted to make it unworkable by proposing amendments that would have added “greatly to the expense and thus have increased the tax. burden of the state. The opposition voted against the bill revising the budget and cutting down appropriations so that it could not receive, a two-thirds majority. Failure to receive a two-thirds major- ity, they contended, would prevent the law from being put into effect until next July. In the meantime, it was predicted, Langer, Kositzky and Hall, the three turncoat state officials, whose appropriations were reduced along with all the rest, would have spent the bulk of the appropriations that the legislators were trying to re- duce and this would make the savmg in tax bills impossible. The Leaguers, however, passed a separate bill, declaring all acts of the special session emergency measures, to go into effect 10 days after adjourn- ment of the session. This bill probably will be attacked in the courts, but the League legislators take the ground that a provision in the state constitu- tion, providing that acts of the legis- lature do not take effect until the fol- lowing July, plainly was not intended to apply to special sessions, which are called as emergency matters. Proportional Representation—What It Is (Continued from page 5) country in the world which elects its administrative officials by direct vote. England, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, all the Scandinavian countries, Italy, Roumania, Switzer- land, Bulgaria and Spain have the cabinet system whereby the legisla- ture, or parliament, as it is called, se- lects the administration. This makes the law-enforcing officials directly re- sponsible to the legislature and a new election has to be called whenever the major party in the legislature appears to be out of joint with the will of the people. Over 100 American cities have adopted this principle in what is called the city manager plan. Proportional representation or, as it is sometimes called, the Hare . system is operating in many parts of the world. Many local elections in England, Scotland and Ireland are conducted under it. Switzer- land, Holland, Sweden and France make considerable use of it. The new country of Poland has adopt- ed it. So has the new German republic. The general program of the farmers of Canada demands it. Illinois elects its state repre- sentatives under a form of propor- tional representation and three of our American cities already use it in council elections. As in the case of all good things, however, which strike at the power of machine politicians, these politi- cians have developed . “improve- ments” and “just as good legislation” where the demand for proportion- al representation has become too The Illinois law really gives the machine poli- tician more power than he had under the old system. France and a number: of other European countries have adopted what is known as the party list system for some elections. This is supposed to give represéntation according to party strength. It pro- motes party deals or consolidation, gives the largest party an unfair amount of representation, and in gen- eral is quite satisfactory to vote ma- nipulators. If the voter doesn’t fol- low the dictates of the political boss under the list system his vote is likely to be as useless in electing a repre- sentative as” that of. the man who stayed at home. As voters discover how they have been deceived by the list system dnd other imitations in places where they are used, the de- mand for real proportional represen- " tation will grow. The fundamental reason for proportional = representation is that policy-determining bodies should be a cross section of the people. The minority as well as the majority should be heard. The minority may at any time become the majority in a democ- racy, and more than this, the peo- ple may elect a majority of the legislators on one or two issues and be favorable to the minority on cther issues. Thus we might elect 'a majority of Republicans to congress on the tariff issue and be opposed to them on the return of the railroads. Or we might elect Democrats on the tariff issue and be opposed to their stand on child labor. Under proportional representation we would elect Republicans and Dem- Jocrats or other party men on more There would be private own- issues. ership and public ownership Demo- crats, Wall Street Republicans and farmer or labor Republicans. Con- gressmen elected thus would be able to regroup themselves as different is- sues come up, whereas now the par- ty caucus rules and irregularity is the unpardonable sin. The two-party ma- chine system which we now use is a holding company for political pur- poses. 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