The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-01
House Passes Leagues
Program; Majority Big

, the proposed constitution, designated
to enable the state to carry out the
program of the state industries ap'
proved by the voters in the 1916 elec-
tions, late this afternoon was passed
by the house of the fifteenth assembly
by a vote of 81 for, % against, and four
absent and not voting.
The bill will now go to the senate
for consideration and, it is believed,
will be acted upon by that body before
the end of next week.
League leaders tonight expressed
themselves as being very much pleas
ed with the passage of the bill and con-
fident that the senate would pass the
measure.
Governor Frazier, when informed Of
the passage of the bill stated that he
was much pleased with the vote.
There were several big surprises in
the vote. All the house members elect
ed on league endorsement with the ex-
ception of four stood by the league
program, and by their slogan We'll
Stick" They proved the ability of the
farmers of the state to pick men who
will stand by them.
The four members elected by the
league, but who voted against House
Bill A, were:
Representative Everson of Walum;
Representative Lang of Mandan;
Representative Schick of Lark;
Representative Wiley Of Odense.
The three latter are all from the
same district, District &c. part of Nor
ton county.
While these four men Topped to the
minority, five members of the house
who were not elected on the league
program supported the league meas
ure. These five men favored the new
constitution and were willing to SUBJ
nit it to the people of the state. The
five men who joined with the farmer
members we're:
Representative Cole of Fargo;
Representative Olson Of Bowman;
Representative Sinclair of Ken
mare;
Representative Sandbeck of Daven-
port;
Representative Storstad of Horace.
The representatives who voted in
favor of House Bill a., and who stood
by the Nonpartisan league are:
Arnold, Bailey, Bowman, Brown,
Byrne, Church, Christensen, Cole, Dett-
Ter, Dupuis, Eckert, Erb, Ferguson,
Fraser, Frederickson, Geiger, Gunhus
Hagan, Haines, Harding, Harris, Ha.
vens, Hoare, Hoghaug, Kietzman, Kim
ball, Roller, Kunkel, Kurtz, Lageson,
Laird, Liederbach, Larson of Cass,
Larson of Ransom, Larson of Suits
man, Lazier, Lowe, Maddox of Ben
son, Maddox of Mountrail, Magnu-
son, Martin, Marshall, Martz, Maxwell,
Mees, Miller, Moen of Trail, MacDon-
nell, McManus, Nathan, Minis, MOL
timer, O'Connor of Pembina, Olsen.
dahl, Olson of Burke, Olson. Of Cava-
f., lier, Olson of Eddy, Patterson, ePters
Of Towner, Pleasance, Prater, Guam.
Riba, Reishus, Renauld,, Sandbeck,
Schrag, Sinclair, Stair, Storstad,
Strom, Wadeson, Walton, Ward, We
Der, Weld of Kidder, Whipple, Var.
mum and Speaker Wood.
The representatives who opposed
House Bill "A, and who voted against
the Nonpartisan league, are:
Allen, Blanchard, Carignan, Carr,
Divet, Edel, Evenson, Geiszler, Han
son, Henrickson, Isaak, Kelly, Knox,
Lang, Mackoff, Heyer, Moen of Adams,
Myhre, Peterson of Sargent, Rice,
Rott, Schick, Smith, Singer, Tenne-
son, Turner, Wiley, Wilson.
The representatives who were alb
sent were. Lathrop, O'Connor of
Grand Forks, Weld of Wells, and
Wright.