Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1906-01-25


The Record sincerely hopes that CHI
Efforts Of Representative Msl1hsl
will ultimately be crowned With sue
cess.
The attempted piece OF capit0l'
commission graft committed by thu
last legislature And aided by the pub
Usher Of our esteemed contempOrar!
is fresh and green In the minds OF TIN
men who bear the burdens Of taxa
ton"
The above Is from Mr.. Pattersnn'l
paper. Those who have been in this
county any great length of time will
not be Influenced in the least by any.
thing he may say or print unless ht
furnishes proof. But to the many
WHO have settled here in recent years,
and who do not know the gentleman 8
reputation Is to truth and veracity, q
word OF explanation Ut the capitol.
commission bill may be Of interest.
In the lengthy article Of which the
above is an extract the honesty Ut the
members Of the legislature who passed
the bill for completing the capitol
and Of the members of the capitol
commission Is bitterly attacked. And
yet Messrs. Bulge 1.-THE chairman and
Messrs. Laxdal and Sandager, the
other members, are men Of the very
b st Of reputation for honesty through.
out the state. Mr.. Bulge is an old
pioneer who in the days when tie
state revenues were insufficient to
maintain >ome of the state insti u.
lio,s borrowed money OH his persO,a
resi- onsibility for the purpose Of keep.
ing the state university at Grand
Forks, his home t,wn, in operalioa.
He is q man universally loved and re-
81 ected by the iruntiersmen Of the
early day, as we'll as by the men and
women who have been his fellow.
townspe"p!e in the years since he be.
came one IT the leading mcn IN the
business affairs Ut the states sec. nd
city. We're MIR. Patterson susceptible
to the prickings Of conscience. it would
be matter Of surprise that he p.r-
sis in his attack en- William Bulge
aud the other members of the capitol
commission.
Mr.. Patterson also attacks thos'
members OF the legislature Who voted
for the capitol commission bill as Nc
Kenzie's creatures aud TOOLS
1t is utterly and absolutely mani
festation OF wasted energy to attemlt
to set Mr.. Patterson right by dispruv-
ing the many wild assertions he makes
L., his paper. When his statemeats ar.
shown to I've false, he takes nothing
back, makes no explanation, but flies
tbs me other accusation just as un-
T asonable and untruthful.
N0w,t facts in regard to tho pas
sage OF the capitnl-co,nmission bill are
these, and any citizen Ut Emmons
county who wishes proof Of our asser
tions can have such proof by calling
at the Record Office and reading tile
Senate and House journals, which
give the yea-and-nay v,'te In both
bodies OF the measure. 1t should be
borne III mind that among the forty
members Ut tile senate aud one hundred
members of the house there we're men
Of many diverse ideas as to the vafiou
proposals that came before the session
for adoption or rejection. When the
bill came up in the huu.e the strongest
speeches in its favor were made BY
men from districts distant from the
Missouri Slope. The very stronges
speech in advocacy Ut 1t was that Of
Representative Tobias Casey, Of the
Grafton district, tile only democrat In
the house. The trend Ut the argu-
ment IN the speeches was that TIE
time had come when the people Of
the state we're in a large majority
satisfied that Bismarck was to be the
permanent capital; that the geograph-
tcal location was III her favor; that
the central and western parts OF tile
state were being settled with wonder
full rapidity, aud that the center VI
population was rapidly moving west
ward. 1t was also argued that, tie
capitol lands being lucaied in Large
bodies in certain counties, were q
constant drawback To those counties,
In that they we're q breeding place for
gophers, and the badger holes and
g"pher-mounds were a nursery for nox-
ious weeds pests THAT we're being con-
stantly fought aud had been Ia
large measure overcome OH the lands
OF actual residents IN those populous
counties; that under the enabling &C,
tile lands could not be sold for less
than el0 All &c, e; that a good part Of
the lands could be disposed OF at once
for from Two to three times that sum,
that the people Ut The counties In
which the lands were situated wers
practically unanimous in favor Of
selling the lands tn those WHO would
become taxpayers and largely actual
settlers; and that, even we're il Known