Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-07
HOUSE..

Cne session mas cleared the calendar OF
all house bills and has very few senate
bills left to act upon. 1t acted upon
forty bills in all besides transacting other
business.
REPORTED FAvoRABLY BY THE STEERING
COMMITTEE.
House bill %, Galbraith, lessees of
school lands, their rights and privileges.
Senate bill 223, special committee, sur
cites of defunct banks.
Senate bill 219 Hegge, supplies to
auditors.
Senate bill 224, Ames, library tax.
Senate bill 225, Ames, sinking fund for
special school districts.
Senate bill 233, Ames, attendance of
witnesses.
Senate bill 228, Cashel, sale of school
lands.
Senate bill 164, Hegge, railroad Us.
Senate bill l54, Wolbert, taxation of
express, telephone and telegraph compa-
MES.
Senate bill lat, Cox Valley City nor
NAL school bonds.
Senate bill 27, Lewis, geological sur
vey.
Senate bill 20, Taylor, university grad
yates from law department TO practice
on certificate.
THE GAULKE CASE
The special committee in the Gaulke
matter made the following report:
Mr.. Speaker: Your special committee
appointed to investigate the charges
made against Senator Lewis and Mr.. w.
F. Leech, of this house, by Walter F.
Gaulke, journal clerk on the force of this
house, in which he is reported to have
charged that Senator Lewis and Mr..
Leech we're to receive $1,000 each for Sc
curing the passage of senate bill 81, "a
fetal societies, orders or associations -
Gavlke, Messrs. Thordarson, Nicholson
and Michels and Mr. Payne of Fargo
touching said charges, and have heard
the statements of Mr.. Leech and Sena-
tor Lewis in relation thereto, and found
the facts to be as follows: That Mr..
Gaulke stated to ,Mr. Thordarson that
Mr.. Leech and Mr.. Lewis were to have a
thousand dollars each for procuring the
passage of senate bill 81 through the
legislature; that Mr.. Michels overheard
the statement as made to Mr.. Thordar
son and Mr.. Nicholson. There was no
evidence before the committee except
the unsupported evidence of Gaulke that
anyone at any time or place stated to
said Gaulke that there was the sum of
$4,000, or any other sum, which was at
the command of anyone for the purpose
of securing the passage Of senate bill 81
by this assembly. Mr.. Payne stated
positively that while he did have con-
versation with Mr.. Gaulke in relation to
the bill referred to, he also stated that
no sum of money to secure the passage
of the bill was mentioned in any way.
Your committee therefore find that the
statements of said Walter F. Gaulke in
regard to the use or proposed use Of any
sum of money to secure the support Of
Senator Lewis or Mr.. Leech for senate
bill q, are without any truth or founda
ton whatever.
Your committee therefor recommend
that Walter F. Gaulke be dismissed from
his place of journal clerk of this house
unless he shall voluntarily sign a retrac
ton certifying to the untruthfulness of
the statements so made by him and pub
licly apologize to this house and Senator
Lewis and Mr.. Leech.
All of which is respectfully submitted
for the consideration of the house.
G. A. HALL,
A. w. THOMAS,
JAMES M1CHELs,
Committee.
Mr. Michels requested that the SER
geant alarms be directed to bring Mr.
Gaulke before the house.
The sergeant-at- arms reported Mr..
Gaulke present.
The report of the investigating COM
mittee having been read, the speaker
stated that Mr.. Gaulke would be heard
in compliance with the conditions of the
report.
Mr.. Gaulke said:
wish to say, Mr.. Speaker and mem
bers of the house, that am perfectly
willing to apologize SO far as Mr.. Lewis
and Mr.. Leech are concerned, for any
statement I made, but I cannot retract
or apologize to Mr.. Payne for the stand
he has taken. am perfectly willing to
apologize to Senator Lewis and Mr.
Leech for anything have said. So far
as Mr.. Payne is concerned, and the
statements he made to me, don't feel l
would be justified in retracting Or justi
fed in apologizing to him.
MIR. Packard:
AS Mr.. Payne is not member Of this
house, and, of course, has not an oppor.
tunity, to speak. l would call Mr..
Gaulke;s attention to the fact that in
his statement the other day he said:
II will say, Mr.. Speaker and members
of this house that MIR. Leech is entirely
ignorant and wrong in the facts that hi
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