Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-30
PROTEST AGAINST
Low WHEAT PRICE
SENDS NOTICE TO HOOVER or
pIsAPPRovAL OF PROPOSED
PRICE OF $1.e5 TO FARMER.
0olNGs At STATE CAPITOL
Mat 10 Transplrlno In the Different
Departments Where the Affairs Of
State Government Are
Administered.

AomlEl8I0feos
Bismarck.
Herbert Hoover and the national
price fixing committee have been ad.
yised by Commissioner of Agriculture
and Labor John N. Hagan that North
Dakota heartily disapproves of propos-
als to fix the price of wheat at $1.65.
Mr.. Hagan advised the committee
that unless fair price is fixed, there
will be serious reduction in the acre.
age next year. He declares that farm.
ers borrowed money to buy expensive
seed and have paid exorbitant prices
'or everything entering into the rails
ing Of crop on the assurance that
hey would receive a fair price.
He also advises Mr.. Hoover as to
The condition now existing with $1.39
offered for wheat at Dickinson and 50
1t Bismarck and declares the need Of
funds is driving farmers to sell their
product for anything they can get.
School Heads to Meet.
Every county superintendent Of
schools in the state Is expected to at
lend the meeting to be held at Bis.
narck, November 1, and give three
minute address on tho subject, Some
one thing l have planned to do during
The present school year to improve ru-
ral schools in my county. and how I
expect to do it,
Among the speakers at the meeting
will be Governor Lynn ]. Frazier, N.
:. Macdonald, state superintendent of
public instruction, and DR.. Winship.
Round table conferences will be held
1t which many of the modern prob.
lens encountered by educational prog.
cess will be discussed. Free mileage
will be given to those who attend.
Governor Advises Removal.
Governor Frazier has wired the War
department, advising them to have
Carl Zemmler of Mercer county exemp.
ton board removed and to appoint
James A. Harris, former represents.
tive. .Zemmler is charged with ex.
smpting naturalized Germans without
discrimination.
Grain Grading Act O. K.
The constitutionality Of North Da-
kota's new grain grading act was up.
held, and writ of habeas corpus by
which G. M. Gaulke of Grand Forks
sought relief from custody of the sher-
tf'of Grand Forks county was quashed
In an opinion handed down by the SUI
preme court Just before noon today.
The court sustains the constitution.
atty Of the act as a whole, but ad-
mits that the feature which provides
for the charging for inspection of a
fee which, in addition to providing for
the expenses of operating the act will
suffice to lay aside an amount equal
to rs per cent Of the cost of opera
lions for the accumulation Of ter
minal elevator fund, is unconstitution-
al. The court contends, however. that
the fact that this one feature is not
constitutional does not impair the
workableness of the act, nor does it
prohibit the charging of a fec of any
kind for inspection. A fee which
would cover the cost of operating the
act can be constitutionally charged, is
the courts opinion.
Finishes Work With Auditors.
The state board Of equalization has
completed its audiences with county
auditors. and its next important con.
ferences will be with the railway
companies. Former Congressman-at.
Large James Manahan of st. Paul was
closeted with the Non-partisan mem.
bers Of the board for some hours dur.
ing the week, but whether his visit
was In any way definitely connected
with the request which Chairman F..
E. Packard Of the tax commission has
made for 20 per cent boost in the
assessed valuation of railway property
could not be learned.
No action has been taken in con.
nection with the equalization of values
In any Of the counties. State Audi.
tor Kositzky has not completed his
abstract. some Of the county boards
having delayed making their reports
and the state board cannot act intel
ligently until it has this abstract
showing the total assessed valuation
OF various forms of property
as equalized by the county boards.
Fire Marshal's Office leaal.
The act creating the Office of state
hre marshal is not an unconstitutional
interference with the local government
Of cities and villages and is therefore
not for that reason invalid, and the
section which empowers the marshal
subject to appeal to district court. to
order the removal, destruction or re
pair of buildings regarded q menace
to other property IL not unconstitu
tfonal, rules the supreme court.