The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-12-04

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That the Socialistic leaders will hav.
hard time putting anything ove1
which the minority does not want es
pecially in the line of radical legisla
ton which would curb the political pos
sibilities of the auditor, attorney gen.
eral, and secretary of state, without
the people of the state first having
something to say seems evident as q
result of the vote taken on a few bills
Monday afternoon. The strongest
show Of strength which the Non-Par.
tisan league developed was on the re.
peal of the anti-injunction act when
the vote stood 81 nay and 40 aye.
While bills may be passed it is GER
tain that the emergency clause will
not be attached and the laws will not
become effective until July list, the be-
ginning of the fiscal year. I
The expose of the socialistic liter
ature which has been placed in the
travelling public library to dissemin-
ate the germ of Bolshevism is the
most astonishing thing which has
come to light. To the spectator watch
ing the house work, it was evident
that the disclosure took the wind out
of the sails of the Leaguers: Abso-
lutte refusal of the League members
and legislators to believe the stories
which have been current concerning
the spread of Bolshevistic propagan-
da could no longer be in force.
Burtness quoted from books which
carried the card of he>North Dakota
Public Travelling Library. Perhaps
the most sensational part of the af-
fairs that Walter Maddox, a floor
leader of the league seconded the mo-
ton of Twitchell of the minority that
a committee be named consisting of
five majority members and two mi
nority members.
The Soldiers Bonus act will I'M
doubtedly be passd with the amend
ments providing the payments be made
to men to invest in trade or busin-
ess or to buy tools for craft or
trade. Twitchell of Cass moved that
the bill be further amended to read
that payment of bonuses be made to
ex-service men without any strings
attached, and more than one Lacquer
to favor that method.
Women's suffrage passed both the
house and the, senate with six nay
votes in the house. .o
Bills reducing the appropriations
for the auditor and the attorney gen.
eral, giving the governor the power to
appoint special assistant attorney
generals; throwing the auditor off
the emergency commission, the audit
ing board and the board Of equaliza-
ton, have been introduced and are
holly contested.
A bill which will bring forth gen.
uine fight will be the house bill which
reduces the reserve of banks to 16 per
cent Of the deposits in place of the 20
per cent as at present, and levying a
fine for violating of the law, remov-
ing the penalty.
Several election laws are under con-
One changes the date of
the primary election from the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in
June to the third Wednesday in Aug
ust. Another provides that women
residing more than one half mile from
the polls shall be allowed to use the
absent voter baot.
The bill to repeal the anti-injur.,-
ton act, known as the I. W. w. law,
and which limits the powers of the
courts to grant injunctions against
picketing, strikes, meetings Of any
kind, etc, was killed by vote of 81
to 40. However this gives an indica-
ton Of the strength of the league.
This is one bill which Judge Robinson
urged be taken from the statute books
in that it pandered to the labor vote
It is also the bill which every 1. w. w.
in the northwest has had a copy.
The bill defining Syndicalism, which
was an exact copy of the Michigan
statute to curb the spreading Of ter
roism was also killed by the league
members as result of decision a.
dopted in the league caucus.
4 bill which will develop perhaps the
hottest fight of the session is that Civ
ing the railroad commission the du-
ties of a trade commission and the
authoritarian to fix rules and issue
orders to preent profteering.
Investigation of the Brinton Grab
Act Newspaper graft and investiga-
ton of the varioups officials has not
as yet come up for discussion up to