The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-03-11

.pr1atiOns for the deaf school ut Devils
Lake. the Valley City normal school,
the Mayville normal school, agricul-
tural college, soldiers home repairing
executive mansion, state university de-
ficiency, state. industrial school and the
two-fifths mill. tax for the state uni
versity.
Bismarck, N. D., March 3.-The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges against Judge Glaspell yesters
day afternoon filed it's report with the
house.. The report made no recon-
mendations and merely stated the pro-
cedures and filed the testimony for the
consideration of the house. The re-
port was ordered printed in the jour-
nal and will be considered as a special
order tomorrow. The report accom-
panying the testimony is as follows:
Your committee have to the best OF
their ability confined the investigation.
to the prayer of the petitioner, namely,
the newspaper report given herewith.
All witnesses presenting themselves
have been examined under oath and
their testimony is hereto attached and
made a part of this report, together
with the correspondence between the
committee and the petitioner. Your
committee have to the, best Of their
ability studiously avoided the bringing
up Of any. matter not contemplated
by their appointment. None Of the In
formation contained in this report has
been given to the public because in
the opinion. of the committee it would
result in injustice to the petitioner to
have the same printed and commented
upon until the same could be con-
sidered in it's entirety, thus avoiding
inference and conclusion that might
be drawn when only a part of the mat.
tiers the committee was considering
were proven to the public. Your COM
mittee make no recommendations as
to what action the house should take
in relation to the subject of this re-
port, for the reason 1t is beyond the
scope of authority given to them by
the house in their appointment as your
committee understands the same.
"Your committee begs leave to fur
ther report that after having taken the
testimony aforesaid, which was given
by witnesses who voluntarily ap-
peared before the committee, the Pc
titioner's- attorney was informed what
the testimony in support Of the verac-
ity of Peter p. Pearson was, he being
before that time In possession of what
the balance of the testimony had been,
and was asked If he desired to have
further evidence taken and whether or
not. Judge Glaspell would appear be-
fore the committee. He informed the
committee that he had not and that
Judge Glaspell would not appear as q
witness, The committee accepted no
testimony except that of witnesses
who appeared before it and testified
except the report of Public Examiner
Langlie, hercinbefore set forth, for the
reason that it believed an ex parte af-
fdavit is not such evidence as should
convict or acquit a person, charged
with an offense and that injustice
would be done the petitioner by allow
ing affidavits to be filed, as many mat
tiers might be thus injected into the
hearing that the committee would not
be willing. to. consider under their. up
pointment, The exception in the case
Of Public Examiner Langlie was solely
because he was one of, the officers of
the state::"
The report is signed BY R. N. Stew
ems, chairman, and Messrs. Allen, Ba-
con, AllshOuse and Wallace. !
The work Of the legislature is nearly
done, only a few bills remaining to be
acted on, and these will be reported
for action to the two houses by the
steering committee tomorrow. In the
senate to-day the report of the special
committee in the matter of President
Worst, Of the agricultural college, was
adopted, seven senators voting against
the report exonerating Worst-Messrs.
Laidlaw.. La .Moure. Fuller of Penn
bina, Green, Arnold, Dunlap and Lee
wang. Senator La Moure spoke on the
report, insisting that Worst's position
as professor of political economy ut
the college had been merely q conven-
tent subterfuge under which, he could
draw tile salaries as president of the
college and lieutenant governor. Sena-
tor Ames said the committee had felt
it Its duty to elicit all ting facts and
the law In the case for the information
Of the senate and state in general, and
had not felt it its duty to report facts
merely as wished by the senator from
Pembina. The house put in the en-
tire day in passing senate bills re-
ported by the steering committee, and
the following We're among. those
passed:
For an, assistant to the state exami-
ner;;, appropriating $500 for travelling
expenses of railroad commissioners;
making appropriations to pay Leck s
Leck and s. e.. Olson:. reimbursing
Burleighs county 81, 1877 for the prosecu-
tion of w. II. Leonard; making addi-
tional appropriation for clerk hire and
the commissioner Of agriculture. and
labor; concurrent resolution for I'm
amendment to the constitution to per-
init the location of a school for feeble
minded ut Grafton.
The senate passed q large, number Of
house bills, none of them particularly
important. The personal liability bill
excites much opposition from the rail-
roads, but the bill was expected to
| pass in the senate and probably be-