The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-02-04
Urge Terminal Elevator In
Any Place Excepting Min
neapolis- -Twitchell's Good
Road Bill Assaulted--M
Bills Introduced.

Bills Introduced.
Bismarck, N. D. Feb. 3.-Three hun
dred members of North Dakota farm.
er organizations formed down town
yesterday afternoon and IL arched il a
body to the state capitol building
where they requested an audience
with the legislature that they might,
through their representatives urge the
proposition of the erection of state
owned terminal elevator at some point
outside of the state, preferably at St..
Paul as it afterwards developed.
Shortly after the session had open
ed the representatives of the farmers
thronged the galleries and floors of the
house and senate and it was shortly
after this that Burnett of Trail Sc
cured the attention of the speaker
and offered a motion that a recess be
taken at three o'clock to hear what
was to be said. When three o'clock
arrived, debate upon the good roads
bill was stopped and a recess taken.
Secretary j. M. Anderson of the
State Society of Equity made a short
address in which he stated that the
representatives of organizations and
individual farmers were not there as
an organized mob for the purpose of
running through legislation but were
here in the interests of terminal ele-
vators owned by and operated by the
state. He stated that he realized that
a great honor was being conferred
upon the speakers by being allowed to
address the assembly on the question
and closed by asking that all parties
refrain from applause and then intro
duced Judge M. D. Mum of St. Paul
who talked for about an hour and
half on the advisibility of the erection
of a terminal elevator by the state and
referring to the location he said
there is only one place where you
should not build it and that is in Min
neapolis." He took the ground that
as there were located the very forces
the terminal elevator is supposed to
fight it would be bad idea to get so
close to them. Mum took issue with
the board Of control as to their report
on terminal elevator propositions and
stated that while he believed the
members of the board were sincere in
their criticism Of the proposition he
thought they were mistaken in their
conclusions.
j. M. Anderson, secretary of the
North Dakota branch of the Society of
Equity started out to explain how the
Canadian terminal elevator scheme,
while it had lost money, was a good
thing. Anderson had a mass of fig
ures in support of his contention but
before he was finished he was asked
to give the house time to adjourn and
then given the privilege of continuing
his meeting for the rest of the after
noon. ...
After the adjournment Anderson did
not continue his remarks but Presi-
dent Johnson of the state society took
the floor for few minutes. After his
talk Mr.. Greedy, who has been at Bis.
marck since the opening of the ses-
sion in the interests of the St. Paul
commercial organizations took. charge
of the situation and for a time held
the attention of the audience with an
address upon the good things to be ac-
complished by the establishment of
terminal elevator and especially it's
establishment at st. Paul.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb 3.-AJust so
there might be the usual quota of live
scrops on the floor of the house yes
terday afternoon House Bill No. 143,
introduced by T. Twichell, came up
for third reading and final disposition.
This is one of the constitutional
amendments providing for a way Of
getting some good roads and is being
fought by number of the farmer
members of the house. The bill pro-
vides that the law contained in it must
pass two successive sessions Of the
legislature, be voted upon by the peo.
pie Of the state and then If two thirds
Of the voters in the county desire to
bond for good roads fund they may
do SO. AS soon as the bill was read
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