The Washburn leader., 1904-03-19

BE IN FORCE PROM AND AFTER ITS
PASSAGE AND APPROVAL"
Senate Bill No. 30. being Chap
ter ~ of the Session Laws, an ap-
preparation for the Institution for
the Feeble Minded, contains among
other things the following items:-
Barn and ice house. .......$ $50
Live stock, implements. -. $50
Grounds and sewage. ...... 500
lighting: 1000
Books, school supplies, peri
odicals and stationery. 300
Transporting patients from
jamestown to Grafton. =. 500
After the adjournment of the leg
islature, the Governor, in approving
the bill, after reading the above
items, said:-" AND AS TO THESE
ITEMS, 1 WITHHOLD MY APPROVAL"
The necessity of two carriages
for the governors Office and exec
|
utive mansion because there is no
sufficient means of transportation
for the use of the governor, ETC."
seems to have been a more pressing
matter than did the furnishing of
the vehicle or a sewer system for
poor, unfortunate, feeble-minded
children.
On Feb. %, 1903, the Governor
approved House Bill, No. 20, being
Chapter % of the Session Laws,
the same being an appropriation for
a brass band, of $500 for rent of
band quarters, and $500 "to be paid
to the chief musician" as compen-
sation for training the tooters how
to toot. This is supposed to be on
the theory that "you should toot
your horn if you don't sell clam"
10 this act is attached an emer-
gency clause making provision for
the payment for footing done by
the brass band leader in 1901 and
1902. Do you want a third term
Governor, who IN his second term
will approve appropriations for car.
riages and brass bands and veto ap-
preparations to furnish beds to in
sane patients and sanitary improve
ments to feeble-minded children?
Did he mean what he said in his
message II DO NOT NEED TO CALL
YOUR ATTENTION TO THE DUTY THAT
THE STATE OWES TO THESE MOST
UNFORTUNATE OF OUR CITIZENS or
did his private secretary write this
part of the message without his
knowledge.
House Bill No. 142, an act max
ing appropriations for support and
maintenance of the North Dakota
Children's Home Society, a society
organized under the laws of the
state of North Dakota "for the pur-
pose of securing homes for orphans
and for homeless and abandoned,
neglected and grossly ill-treated
and for giving necessary
support to such children was pas +;
sed and went into the Governors
hands twenty-four hours before ad-
journment, and had he acted upon
the same promptly, it could have
been passed over his veto. To avoid
this the bill was held until March
10Th, the same day on which the
bill providing for two carriages tor
the Governor was approved, and
was vetoed principally because the
Governors appointces, did not con. ]
troll and manage the society. II
House Bill, No. 80, making an {,
appropriation of $500 to aid in the
maintenance and support of home
and hospital for 'friendless women
and children" met the same fate,
vetoed after adjournment. 5000 is
the amount to be paid the chief
tooter of the State brass band, and
which his excellency approved with :
alacr1ty.. SHALL A F8w POLITICIANS
WHO LIVE ONLY FOR THE "LoAvEs
AND FISHES" ELEVATE TO OFFICE
FOR THE THIRD TERN THE MAN WHO !.
WILL APPROVE THE EXPENDITURE OF
81 900 FOR CARRIAGES AND $4,000
FOR TROLLEY LINES RATHER THAN
wArKA DOZEN R1OcKs WHO WIFI
APPROVE THE PAYMENT OF $500 TO
A BRASS BAND MERELY TO TooT
' The CoNQUER1NG HERO CONES"
WHEN THE COMMANDER-IN-CH CHIEF At
TENDS A MILITARY PARADE, AND WILL
VETO AS GROSS EXTRAVA-
GANCE AND BEYOND THE
OF THE STATE