Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-01-10
To Meet at Bismarck Wednes-
day, January q Purposes
Of Extra Session Stated n
Proclamation.

Bismarck, Jan. Gov. Frazier
has called the legislature In special
session, for the purpose of revising
the county seed bonding law and for
other war purposes.
The governors proclamation was
filed with Secretary Hall. yesterday
afternoon at o'clock.
Other War Measures May Be Intro
duced.
In addition to legislating relief
from the present serious seed and
feed situation, one or two other war
measures are expected to be intro
duced in the session, especially with
regard to providing protection 70
soldiers properly during the time
they are in the service.
Prohibition leaders, it Is unde1-
stood, since the filing of the procfs-
nation for special session will ask
that the legislature also ratffy the
national prohibition amendment 90
that North Dakota might receive tho :.
distinction Of being one Of the first
states to act. 1t is the intention OF
Governor Frazier to confine the. ses-
sion to strictly war legislation and
to make the session as brief a. pos-
sible.
Proclamation.
The governors proclamation fol-
lows:
I'm view of the extraordinary
conditions existing:-that our
nation needs all the food pro-
ducts, .especially~grain, that can
possibly be produced; and that
owing to the poor crops of the
past two years assistance is nee
essary in about half of the cOun-
ties OF our state to supply seed
grains and feed; and that all
provision for sufficient seed and
feed have seemingly failed; and
that the present laws Of our state
are inadequate to meet the situa-
tion-it is deemed necessary that
ture be called to revise the cOun-
ty seed bonding law in order that
the necessary seed and feed can
be supplied to assure good crop
acreage being planted next
spring and to provide for any
other war measures that may be
deemed advisable.
Therefore, I, Lynn ]. Frazier,
80 no1 70
hereby call the Fifteenth legisla-
session at the capitol at Bis
marck on Wednesday, January
%, 1918, at 9 o'clock a. m.
"Given under my hand and the
great seal of the state of North s
Dakota at Bismarck, this 8th
day of January, 1918.
BY the Governor: ::
l& Lynn J. Frazier, Governor"
Thomas Hall, Secretary of State.
All Appeals Fail.
Urgent appeals for aid to finance
the seed and feed situation in about
half the counties in the state prompt
ed the action of the governor in call
ing q special session of the legisla-
ture. Approximately $4,000, 900. 1T
is conservatively estimated by Com
missioner Of Agriculture and Labor.
John N. Hagan, will be necessary to, .
finance the seed and feed situation
in those counties where help is
needed. {
No action was taken by the state
officials until after all other means
to provide sufficient feed and seed a
had failed. The banks were first
asked to finance the situation but let
It be- known that they would be nm
able to handle it, and later con-
gress, thru q bill introduced by Con
gresham John NJ. Baer. was asked
to appropriate $4,000, 900. All hope
for any relief from the federal goy-S
ernment has also been abandoned IS
Law Found Inadequate.
The present county seed bonding
law was also found inadequate to-
meet the situation inasmuch as un-I
der the present wording Of the Law q
each farmer is limited to 150 bush
els Of wheat or It's equivalent. The
law also provides that the county
can supply only SUFFICIENT feed for
planting the grain loaned by the
county. With the average North
Dakota farm consisting Sofs 8 Is acres,
nc iss pointed out. the i'll III s sbuSha