Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-12
zion. To all Of which / call your at.
IGNITION and ask your careful eonsidera.
ton.
WOULD REPEAL THE
WOLF BOUNTY LAW,

WOLF BOUNTY LAW.
The state auditor has issued a state
ment showing the amount of taxes
levied and the amount of taxes paid
under the wolf bounty law since it's
enactment and recommending the re-
peal OF this law. The law is unjust to
the people in the eastern and central
part of the state, where there are no
wolves, and the law authorizing the
payment of wolf bounty by counties is
fair and just and apparently adequate
under present circumstances and con-
| ditions.
According to the adjutant generals
report the members of the national
guard of this state are we'll satisfied
with the new military code and with
present appropriations. The report
recommends that the adjutant general
be made eX-officio member of the mill
tary board controlling the military
reservation and that there be a small
standing appropriation for the care
and improvement of the military
grounds. The recommendations are
just and Reasonable.
In the attorney generals report you
will find comments on the recent coal
rate case and the probability of it's
again being brought into the courts
by the railroads. The questions in
volved in this case were not per-
manently settled in the decision of
| tho clnror,n ooI1rt Nf tbo T1~;+o1
States and the railroads were given
the right to bring another action at
any time they can show that the rates
fixed by the legislature are unreason-
able. The attorney generals Office is
handicapped by not having funds to
cover the costs of such actions.
The last legislative assembly appro-
priated $40, 900 to secure and improve
a site for a tuberculosis sanitarium.
AS provided by law the board met, or
gained and finally selected a site for
such sanitarium on the south side of
the Turtle mountains. To the mem
bers of the board it seems like an
ideal spot-high altitude, pure air,
pure water, shade and sunshine and
protection from the bleak winds of the
north and west. Everywhere val is
being waged against the great white
plague. Let us not be behind the
times in this respect. We have al
ready made a start and I recommend a
reasonable appropriation for the build
ing of a sanitarium upon the site Sc
lected.
STRONG PLEA FOR ANTI
PASS LEGISLATION
In the campaigns of 1908 and 1910
the two great political parties of this
state were pledged in their platforms
20 enact an anti-pass law. The legis
.ature in 1909 refused to redeem the
pledges made in the party platforms
by failing to pass the law. The par
ties in 1910, knowing that there was
a general sentiment throughout the
state for anti-pass legislation, again
pledged such legislation in their party
platforms. You are all members OF
one party or the other. You have all
been elected to this legislative assem-
bly, upon one or the other platform
both of which are pledged to anti-pass
legislation. 1t is now up to you tc
redeem or repudiate this pledge that
has been twice made to the people by
the two great political parties in this
state. There is no argument that car
be used in favor of the pass. 1t is
contrary to the principles of our gov
eminent of equal rights and of equality
before the law. 1 have every conf
dence that this legislative assembly
will redeem the party pledges and that
this law will be enacted. Do not en-
danger it by connecting it with any
other legislation. Let the bill include
only anti-pass legislation and intro
duce it into this assembly just as soor
as possible.
In 1907 the legislature passed a law
indemnifying owner for loss of horses
killed by order of the state veterinar
ians on account of having the disease
Of CHAMBERS, but there being no ap
preparation for the payment of such in
demnity there was no way to pay the
bills accommodating against the state
on account of the killing of such
horses and the legislature of 1909 ap
%propriated $4,000 for the payment o.
such claims without repeating the law
passed in 1907. 1t being still in force
after the appropriation of $4,000
made by the last legislative assembly
wass exhausted, the bills again begar
to accumulate in the auditors office
until there. are today bills aggregating
S53,970.S3 awaiting the action of this
Legislature. 1 believe the claims are
Just and should be paid
SHOULD RATlFY INCOME
TAX AMENDMENT.
Hon p. C. Knox, secretary of state
of the United States, has certified to
the secretary of state of this state a
joint resolution proposing IN amend.
ment to the Constitution of the United
States providing for an income tax.
1t is my duty to submit this resolu-
ton to you for ratification or rejec.
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