The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-11-28
REAL FIREWORKS
OF SESSION to-
OPEN UP TODAY
Investigations Galore of League
Bureaus Demanded BY
Opposition
TO RESTORE MISS NELSON
Independents Would Repeal the
Board of Administration
Act in Entirety
% RESTORE MISS NELSON
HITS AT LEAGUE


Rep. Harris introduced two bills
today aiming at league control.
One would restore the management
, Of the schools to Miss Nelson.
The other abolshes board of adj
ministration and places institu-
tions in hands of board composed
Of governor, attorney general,
state auditor and state treasurer.
The real fireworks of the special
session, if there is to be any, is eX.
pected to, start this afternoon, with the
beginning of the last legislative day
for the introduction Of bills.
1t is expected that the administra
TONS concurrent resolution for the
appointment Of committee of five to
investigate the official acts of Attorney
General Langer, Secretary OF Stat.
Hall and Auditor KostiZky will go III
this afternoon, following a secret eau
Gus Of league members this morning.
AS Il companion piece the opposition
will introduce concurrent resolution
asking an investigation of GovernO"
Frazicr's Labor day address, in which
he suggested direct action" should cf
forts to bring about "thc revolution
through the ballot prove too slow; al
investigation Of Governor FraZier's
declaration Of marital law, his seizur,
Of the coal mines, and his private Op.
Grafton of these properties; and inves
tiga ton of the workmen's compensa
rion bureau, with a demand for an &c.
counting for the more than $50O,OO9
which the bureau, has collected in fees ;
an investigation OF the Bank Of North
Dakota, with a view to determining
the source Of its $5S,O00 in profits, aud
the reason for its failure to accommo
date farmers whose applications for
farm loans have been pending from
one month to four; an investigation or
the Industrial commission; an invest;
cation Of the state board Of admins
tration, with particular view to DIS
covering the nature of literature which
G.. +. Stangcland head of the stat
library, is placing in the school libra.
ries and the circulating. libraries of
the state: an investigation Of the
banking boards action in closing the
Scandinavian-American bank and in
pIctttI lIIS Vic It'ulIl 10 tHt ANTI IColl
state bank of Valley City Of excess
profits alleged to have been retained
by TOwnley organizers Of that institu'
ton, and quiz into numerous other
departments of the state government.
TO RESTORE MISS NELSON
A lively battle is bound to follow the
Introduction OF bill repeating the
board of administration act and restOr-
ing to Miss Minnie ]. Nelson the pow.
crs which the Very Rev. George A. Tor.
ten ct al have wrcsted from the state
superintendent of public instruction
1t will be charged that the act as It
now stands does not, under the interp.
rotation placed upon 1t by the SUI
preme court, carry out the legislative
intent nor the desires Of the more than
10000 voters who elected Miss Nelson
to head the states educational sys-
TEN; it will be charged that promises
proceeding the referendum election
have been violated, and that the act as
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