The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-03-12
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VOTERS BODY
FINISH PLANS
BALLOT CASTERS TO PASS ON
LAWS ENACTED BY NON-PAls-
TISAN LEGISLATURE.
PROGRAM PROVIDES
BILL REFERENDUM
OPPOSITION ENDEAvORING TO
PERSUADE PEOPLE NOT TO
SIGN PETITION,
The executive committee of the In
dependent Voters Association has

The executive committee of the In
dependent Voters Association has
completed its plans for the forthcom-
ing referendum election, at which the
voters of the state will pass upon the
laws enacted by the Nonpartisan leg
islature. The voters not only will de-
ternine whether or not some of these
important laws shall stand upon the
statute books, but they will be calleu
unon TO r.ciGc whether or not changes
.i,all be r,ade in that paS:, o. lie adj
ministration program which it is
deemed wise to retain. The latter
issue involves the initiation of new
measure and amendments designed to
take from the governor the absolute
power of managing the great ;udus-
tries provided for in league laws.
They would construct an industrial
commission that would not be subject
to the orders of one man, and that
would have sufficient checks upon it to
make it directly responsible to- the
people and give the people sense Of
security that would be lacking under
the present program.
| The program provides for the fol-
lowing:
! Referendum of the industrial
| commission bill.
Referendum of the state bank
l. bill.
! Referendum Of the 100000
appropriation for immigration
|. purposes. t.1,a =
! Referendum of the pr1n.lng
|. bill.
!. Referendum of the board If
administration bill.
Z Initiation of bill creating
! terminal elevator and flour mill
Il project with $4,000, 900 capital
instead of the $5,000,000 bond is
sue as now contemplated.
! { Initiation of amendments Civ !
/ ing the state board of school and
university lands authority over
the handling of the proposed $10,-
{ 100000 rural credits.
e Initiation of amendments Civ
!. ing the commissioner of agricul-
I. ture and labor authority over the
,,I Home Building plan.
Is Initiation of bill providing
IL for the Nonpartisan election Of
IL state legislative and county off :.
IS cials. and providing for the main-
Ii tenance of party organization in
+ dependent of the state issue.
II No decision was reached as to he
law abolishing the three-n1an tax
Commission and substituting a single
commissioner, but this bill probably
Twill be referred.
i The Independent Voters associa-
tion has transferred its headquarters
ito Fargo.
II. Mr.. Nelson will be in charge of the
Association campaign, and the work
ofsecuring signatures to = the refer.
endum and initiation petitions will
start at once. u J. -
; 4 March IS is the date for annual
township meetings, and on that day
Iwork rkers will circulate petitions in
/ every precinct. t@ ..' ~ ,l
( At the conclusion of the meeting
yesterday, Mr.. Nelson said: -
r "The opposition is attempting TO
, head off the referendum petitions by
appealing to the people not to sign
:, them. We are confident, on the basis
), If reports we have received, that the
= petitions will succeed, and that the
election will result in the rejection OF
1.-THE program of tn group of silicon.
|stituted leaders :: who established
themselves at Bismarck this winter,
land dictated the program" Of legls-
aation." y a
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