Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-05
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
WHY DENY THE RECORD?

WHY DENY THE RECORD?
The Fargo News with its usual un'
fairness and deceptiveness, IN All
ored two column article under the
flaming headlines Mr.. Gilbreath Tn
masked" attempts to show how thal
gentleman voted on railroad assess
ment during the 1909 session OF the
board of equalization. A perusal OF this
complex and jumbled mixture of facts
and fiction, doubtless written by some
Sancho Panza, gives the reader only
an imperfect, and possibly erroneous
impression as to how Mr.. Gilbreath
voted on railroad assessment during
the 1909 session of the board Of equali'
zation.
And then comes the Grand Forks
Herald in it's answer to ten questions
one of them being in relation to
railroad assessment and what does the
Herald say? 1t says, in the face of the
record, that Governor Burke did not
vote against the motion Of Mr.. Gill
breath to fix the valuation of rail-
roads at $4,000 per mile. TO use the
Herald's exact words: THE Repub-
lican member referred to, (Mr. Gil
breath), who for campaign purposes
claims to have made such a motion,
resorts to a deliberate falsehood, as
the records of the board meetings
show"
In order to set the News right. as
we'll as those who read that article.
the following facts are presented: Mr.
Gilbreath voted against the motions to
assess the main lines of the differ
ent railroads at the following fig
ures:
Northern Pacific. $4,000
Great Northern. $4,000
oOO l'.'o'
Chicago, Mil & PCT Sd. $500
A separate motion was made ON
these different railroad asses 'menis
and Mr.. Gilbcath voted against each
motion.
Mr.. Gilbreath moved and voted 70"
the assessment of the main lines of
the following railroads at the fig
Snt hn T.,
porations named:
Northern Pacific .. $4,000
Great Northern .l3.ooo
Mr.. Gilbreath voted agains: the
assessment of the 500 main line a;
$4,000 per mile, because he believed
that it was not assessed or equali2ed
with. either the Northern Pacific or
Great Northern.
Mr.. Gilbreath voted against the as.
sessment of the Chicago. Milw aukee
& Puget Sound main line at $3.50"
per mile for the reason that it was
part of transcontinental line and
that to asses it at $1,000 per mile
while the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern were assessed at $l3,"NO
per mile was q gross inequality and
not a proper equalization. but showed
a palpable discrimination.
When Mr.. Gilbreath found he WAS
hoplessly in the minority he offered
the following resolution which was I'm.
animously adopted:
Resolved, That the assessed val.
uation of all property within the
state of North Dakota as equalized
by the state board of equalization be
and hereby is increased twelve and
one-half (12h) per cent"
{. The "unmasking of Mr.. Gilbreath,"
according to the News headlines, is
found on page 126 of the official pro
ceedings, when the motion came up
for final assessment of railroads, af-
ter the addition of Mr.. Gilbreath's
motion to increase the railroad as
sessment twelve and one-half per cent
had been adopted. s...
Mr.. Gilbreath did not vote for this
omnibus motion for the very good rea.
son that he had voted against the as.
sessment Of the main lines of the
500 and Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railroads, because they were
No. sa.eseal or equalixed IN harmony
With tie main lines Of the Northern