The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-31
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Bismarck, Jan. 31.-Aside from the
fact that Packard. the Valley City re-
reformer who is drawing four dollars
per day from the tax payers of the
state and doing the regular work OF
a newspaper correspondent without in
the least interesting with his duties
as clerk in the house. was again de-
nounced as an unreliable .correspon-
dent on the floor by Major Buttz, the
storm center in the house yesterday
was the Casey resolution providing for
the submission of constitutional
amendment to the people Of the state
in reference to the term of Office of
county superintendents. Following
the roll call. Major Butts arose to a
matter Of personal privilege and stated
that the Evening Times Record of VAL
ley City contained statement that he
had stated in introducing the resolu-
ton in favor of the amendment to the
denatured alcohol act, that 1t was Sen
ator Hansbrough's amendment. He
read the article in full and then said
in reply:
"The statement is absolutely false
and untrue and this man Packard,
whose name appears at the head of
the article, knew it was lie when he
wrote 1t. I did not mention Senator
Hansbrough's name; all said was
that that member of congress had
asked me to ascertain the sentiment
of the legislature on the subject, and
at his suggestion introduced the
resolution"
1t might be said in passing that the
Valley City paper which is edited by
the man denounced in these words
contained the statement that the house
had defeated the resolution, when as
q matter of fact It was passed without
dissenting voice and is now before
the senate.
Packard is securing quite an I'M
enviable reputation as a misrepresent-
er. Three times during the present
week has his articles and statements
been branded on the floor of the house
as false. One of the denunciations
came from the speaker who it should be
remembered, is the recognized leader
of the political faction for which
Packard assumed to be the newspaper
spokesman. He could not be charged
with political bias, and while it is not
believed that he would for moment
hesitate to score friend who had
done wrong, he certainly would not do
SO without being justified. Yet the
most caustic denunciation probably
ever received by any newspaper cor
respondent in the house came from
him In reply to a statement sent a
paper which he was representing.
The Routine.
The report Of the committee on rail-
roads made favorable reports on H. B.
Nos. 1S and "a and recommended that
they do pass. The first is the White
maximum rate and anti-pass bill and
while it was given considerable at
tention by the committee it is very
likely to receive some amendments.
The latter bill is the one requiring
all railroads to stop all passenger
trains at stations which are county
seats. The bill introduced by Mr..
Nalaas and known as H. B. No. IS was
reported by the committee on rail-
roads with the recommendation that
1t be indefinitely postponed. This is
a bill providing for the examination
of certain employees of railroads as
to their general fitness for the posi-
ton to which they aspire. 1t is said
the cause of the large number of
wrecks on many of the roads can be
traced to this point and that by rails
ing standard of the employees SO far
as to require them to have at least
some fundamental idea of the charac-
ter of their work, would go far to-
wards accomplishing the avoidance of
these disastrous wrecks. But the
committee thought otherwise and the
bill now sleeps in the cemetery of
legislation.
Representative Stevens called at
tention to the fact that on the pre-
vious day the house had passed the
bill introduced by Mr.. Sorlie of Trail
in reference to the construction of