The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-12-04
PL0YHAR DARES
TO
lMPEACH LANCER
Member From Barnes County
Calls Bluff of League Ma
jority in Upper House n
CHASTISEMENTs PROCEEDS
Insurgents Taken From State
Boards-Townley Scheme
Immune From Check
CHAsTISEMENTs PROCEEDS

IF Mr.. Langer is guilty Of all the
crimes you have charged him with OH
the floor of this house and you have
the proof, why do you not bring him
before the bar Of the senate and i'm
peach him. You do not do it because
you dare not"
The senate majority received this
defiance from Senator Ployhar Of the
minority in silence Wednesday after
noon. And by vote Of 33 to Is,
Stenmo Of Grand Forks executing his
annual switch and going back to the
majority, the senate, as Ployhar put II.
Topped Off another wing from Attorney
General LANCER. The first wing was
clipped Tuesday when the senate passed
a bill by vote Of 32 to 16. StenmO
then being with the minority which
deprived the attorney general Of the
power Of appointing special assistants
attorney general. Yesterday the SEN
ate majority reversed its action of a
year ago on bill which increased the
number Of regular attorneys generals
from two to five. This bill was forced
through year ago as an administra.
ton measure and it was repealed yes
terday as an administration measure
depriving the attorney general Of three
OF his regular assistants
TAKE OVER THE FARMS
The only other excitement in the SEN
ate came when Senator Ole Ettestad
calmly declared the governor should
have power to take over the farms Of
the state in an emergency to prevent
suffering. Ettestad made this state
ment in reply to a suggestion from Sen
ator Ployhar that Senate Bill 81 should
not limit the governors power to con-
tiscate private property in time Of
emergency, or when an emergency may
the railways. Senate Bill 81 confirms iii
the governor by statute powers which
the district court of Burleigh county
held the constitution did not confer
when it granted the Washburn Coal
Co. a writ commanding Governor Fra
zier to restore to the company its mines
at Wilton. The supreme court on q
Saturday refused to grant Governor
, Frazier a writ tying the hands Of the
district court; the mines were restored
to their owners; the miners, who had
, been on strike, returned to work for
the company under the old conditions,
and the following Monday night the tip
/ pie which handles this mines product
Of 1000 to 1,50O tons per day was
burned to the ground, and 800 men
; were again forced from employment
GOVERNORS QUIZ BILL
IT,, oEy1 i 4 =
, cussion the administration concurrent
! resolution providing for the APPOINT.
ment Of an investigating committee to
look into the actions of officials, indi-
yiduals, corporations, etc, charged
with maligning or seeking to obstruct
the league program, or with criticising
state-OWned enterprises and utilities.
The league mustered but 6S votes 70.
this measure, which has been the ma
jority's maximum during the present
special session, and which was from
four to six votes less than the number
required to carry the emergency clause
which would have given the act imme.
diate effect. AS result, the COVER
nors investigators cannot begin work
until ninety days after election, and
opponents Of the measure who brand it
as a purely political inquisition prom
Use that it will be referred to the peo.
pie as the presidential primaries in
March.
KOsITZY CURBED
Another wing was Topped from State
Auditor KositZky, one of the two in.
surgcnt state officials whom the admin.
istration is engaged in chastising,
when the senate passed by vote Of 80
to Is, Stenmo still with the majority,
Senate Bill 40, removing the staate au.
ditor from the state auditing board and
, substituting for him the commissioner
of insurance, who has been reasonably
regular from league standpoint. The
: state auditing board must approve all
claims before they are paid, ana as the
board has stood the insurgents have
been in; position to hold up some league
HOUSE KILLS PILLS =,
The annual execution Of the cigar.
cite bill was accomplished on schedule,
: time in the house Wednesday after
< noon. This is the third time in three
: years that the North Dakota legisla.
: ture has refused to repeal the statute
which places the sale of cigarettes un,
der the ban. This time 1t did it in the
: face of very vigorous pressure brought
: to bear by American legion posts, labor
: organizations and others who declared
: they Ssaw no harm in the lowly pill.
The bill, too, was sponsored by Her.
man Hardt, a Lacquer, but the vote by
! which it was to rest in the limbo of
, indefinite posfponement was not along
y factional lines
Othes attempts to repeal blue laws
D are expected to meet similar fate
These include bills legalizing ten.
round boxing exhibitions and creating
a state athletic commission to- super
t wise them: legalizing commercial Sum
s. day baseball and permitting the opera
Is. tion Of theatres on, Sunday. The same
i influence which was brought tosbear In
the matter, Of cisarettes is pressing
$ the passage of these measures, but
1t their advocates admit there is little
n hope Of procuring favorable legislative
T action. jhnd it is probable that the next
assault will be through the initiation
of measuras repeating these blue laws.
The enforcement, of these. Laws was
IS placed in the hands Of q licensing de.
IS partment in the attorney generals OF
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