Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-07
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county IN small sums, the money does
but very little good.
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DoURINE.
The Federal and State Government!
through their veterinary department.
have made a strong effort in the pas
Year to stamp out dourine in NORTH
Dakota. Many horses have beer
killed. The Federal Government
agreed to pay and have paid o1e-hal
of the claims presented to cover the
appraised valuation of the horse!
Killed, with the understanding that the
lGovernor would recommend to the
legislature that the state pass an ap
propriation bill to pay the other half
AS Governor of the State, l agreed tt
this and in fulfillment of my promise
l recommend to this legislature the
passage of ar appropriation bill sui
&ffcient to pay the states share of the
ldourine claims. Il feel that these
claims are just and should be paid.
LEVER BILL.
The so.called Lever Bill is now q
law and under it North Dakota is en-
titled to 100000 a year for farm ex
tension work. Each year the amount
of money apportioned to each state
becomes larger, but we can only re-
ceive this additional money by pass
ing an appropriation that shall meet
the conditions imposed by the Federal
Government. l wish to call the at
tention of the Legislature to this sub
ject and to ask that a bill be drawn
to meet the conditions of the Federal
Government and any member Of the
House OF Senate interested can obtain
copies of the Federal law and what it
proposes to do at my office.
SCHOOL LANDS.
A certain amount of school and in
stitutional lands should be sold each
year, not a large amount. but some.
wherever the crop conditions and
financial conditions warrant, SO that
gradually these lands will be gotten
under cultivation and will pay their
share of the taxes for the support OF
the state. In addition this would give
to the state a very large fund to loan
to the farmers of North Dakota upon
their farm mortgages at a moderate
rate of interest. BY doing this l be-
lieve that we in North Dakota can
solve the so-called farm credit propo,
sition. I know of nc other way by
which we car obtain a large sum OF
money at a low rate of interest and
make it available to our farmers upon
mortgages on their lands.
In the past year the Board Of Uni
versity and School Lands have loaned
a large sum of money upon farm mort
cages. They have ~endeavored to *
ercise care and judgment and l be-
lieve that the loans have been uni
formly we'll made and the %loaning OF
this money has been a great help to
the people of the state, but the
amount of money the state has now
for loaniag is limited.
When the state loans any of the
school funds upon bonds or farm mort
cages, it should require that after the
bond OF mortgage shall have been in
force three years that one-tenth or
one-twentieth of the principal be paid
each year. This would give the state
a revolving afuad and many more ap.
plicants for loans could be cared for
and, as principal payments we're made,
the loans would become safer.
The bulk of the farm mortgages OF
North Dakota are held outside the
state and when we pay the interest
on these mortgages the interest leaves
North Dakota and never comes back
unless 1t shall be reloaned to us, 0ut
when money is loaned by the state
from the school funds upon North
Dakota farm mortgages the interest