The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-28

the senate successors TO }. A. rowe
and Emil Scow, whose terms expir
by law July l. Instead OF nominal
ing two candidates, the governor
placing implicit reliance on the Opir
ion of LANCER, submitted the name
Of five men-iDr w. G. Brown of Fal
go, for six years; Robert Muir o
Sar]es and Rev. G.. E. Vcrmilya o
Valley City for four years, ant
George Totten Of Bowman and Ros
cOe Deigle of Sawyer, for two years
Nominations Rejected.
The senate promptly rejected thu
nominations and returned them t
the governor. President Crawford
and other members of the board O
regents fastened to Bismarck, where
! they were served with formal no
! tice from Governor Frazier advising
that pursuant to all opinion rem
dered by. the attorney general of the
state that the board of regents is
not legally constituted, and for other
reasons, ] deem it for the best in
tercsts Of the state that declare
the Office held by you as a member
of the state board of regents OF
North Dakota vacant"
At the governors invitation there
was a conference, at which he adj
viscd that he intended to stand pat
and when the regents borrowed the
| leagues slogan, well stick"
Eleventh Hour Strategy.
The naEc$ Of Frazicr's five pro-
tcges again went to the senate and
a second time came back. Finally
when the senate was in it's eleventh
| hour, the nominations quietly bobbet
up once more. And through quicl
! rally Of majority members, who ha(
| been taken somewhat by surprise
| whether Intentionally or otherwise
! the league minority again was over
| ruled. and the session came to al
end with no nominations having beer
made for members OF the state boart
Of regents by and with the approva
Of the senate.
New Board Organizes.
Then came solemn day wher
Governor FraZier!s own board of re
gents, each with shiny new com
; mission in his hand, and with the
chief executive at their head, filed
into the Office of the board. which
then was in session, and informed
the old board that the new board was
ready to go On the job. And the ole
board very calmly informed Cover
nor Frazier and the new board thai
it (the old board) couldn't see then
at all, and Governor Frazier and the
new board filed out again, and the
old board proceeded with it's bust
ness, which it has been doing dill
gently ever since that time.
Given Mileage Books.
Governor FraZiers board spent &
day or two closeted in the executive
chambers. 1t organized by electing
DR.. Brown president and Herbert A
Hard of Fargo, secretary. Then i,
fingered around day or two wait
ing for 2,000-mile mileage books
which Governor Frazicrs auditing
board had kindly voted to present
them at the expense of the dear
down-trodden people. And when
Deputy State Treasurer Lyngstad de-
clined to stand for this little drag
on the public purse, the new board
of regents folded its tents and quiet
ly stole away.
Custer proceedings already had
been filed by Attorney General Lang
er. The case was in court-avowedly
a debatable question-when the state
auditing board, which includes the
governor, attorney General LANCER
and State Auditor Kositzky. all lcag
uers, voted to open the state trea
sury to five men whose status as be
tween public servants and private
citizens was yet in doubt.
The Hearing.
The supreme court accepted juris
diction in the custer, proceedings
and the case came up for argument
in due time Attorney General Lang
er, tri1e dubious perhaps, was sud
denly called away on the eve of bat.
tie, leaving Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Daniel " Brennan to appear on
the firing line as chief of command
for the state. with Assistant AttOr.
ney General ri. A. Bronson as aide.
Aubrey Lawrence appeared for the
defense. with former Chief Justice
C. J. Fisk and former Attorney Gen
eral Henry J. Linde as counsel.
A day was devoted to the argu-
ment, and then everyone settled
down for a six weeks wait, relieved
only temporarily by an ex-cathedra
personal opinion from Justice J. f.
Robinson, who led all other league
candidates in the race for the SUI
preme bench last fall. This greatest
Lacquer of them all, former partner
OF "Bill' Lemke, the legal brains of
the league, privately. in one of his
famous Saturday night letters, de-
clared the whole affair a kinder
garten case"
Press Agents Busy.
In the meantime league press
agents have been very busy Mali
cious reports to the effect that DR..
E. F. Ladd, president of the state
agricultural college, and most high in
the esteem Of the Townleyites, was
to be removed; that Professor BOlley
and Professor Arvold and ever so
many others were to be decapitatcd,
we're assiduously circulated with q
view to creating sentiment against
the present board Of regents. The
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