The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-15
LEAGUE SQUARES
AWAY TO VOYAGE
UNCHARTED SEAS.
With Seven Amendments Ratir
fled and Principal Bills in
Hopper All's Set
TWO NEW MEASURES IN
N0npartisan Home Building and
Elevator and Mill AssO-
-, citation Provided y

William Pieasance Of Pembina
county who insurged against rati-
flying the league amendments and
cast his vote with the "unhoIy"
minority, is under investigation
for insubor rdination. He came
down perfectly good Lacquer, it
10 said, and now the caucus which
met Tuesday evening has selected
committee to investigate this
APPARENT slipping from the Town
ley path Of duty. "
Senator Walter Wexford also Of
Pembina is chairman OF commits
mittec to investigate Representa-
tive P,easance and it is said that
a committee Of PIeasance con,
stituents is to come down in his
behalf. The committee to con-.
slider whether PIeasance will cor
rupt the caucus by further affilia.
ton has asked for more time to
inquire into this rather unusual
independence which the gentle.
men from Pembjna seems to have
accumulated in the last few days.
" I'LL I'LL VI llc lcdSuC SC'Sn Nou0
stitutional amendments ratified by the
house, and with three or four Of them
ready to be reported out on the floor
of the senate, where they arc equally
certain of ratification, and with four
bills embodying, the meat Of the
leagues economic program already i'll
troduced and in committee, the Non
partisan league will, before the close
Of the present week have in shape to
place in immediate effect all. of the
radical experiments in pure democracy
to which it stands committed. The
only important bill not yet introduced
by the league is that, involving its
new theory Of 4 near single tax, ex-
empting all improvements on land and
other personal property, or classifying
them SO low that 1t accomplished the
same effect, and placing the heaviest
upon the lands; upon moneys.
and corporate property.
L. After the house had ratified the
first Of the seven league amendments,
the process became mOnotOnous. Mi
nority orators talked long and ear
nestly In opposition to the five am
endments whose fate now rests in the
hands Of the supreme, court. They
might az well have talked to one Of
the Missouri river buttes for all the
effect their objections had upon the
solid ranks of the league majority.
The majority is standing more pat
than ever did any solid stalwart ma
jority of old. and the legislators are
enjoying the expert
ence Of being in the seat instead Of
under the wheels of IL 1919 model
steam roller.
There has been no marked acrimOny
on either side. Rep. Twitchell took a
sniper's shot at the league public own
ership scheme yesterday when he said
he didn't believe the state should en-
gage in everything from raising Bel
gian hares to running a barber shop.
Rep Patterson retorted rather sharply
when he said some folks didn't even
want to give the farmer the right to
run his own little lemonade stand. On
the whole. the procedure is being TAX.
en- on both sides as Il matter of course.
and the opposition is more formal than
frey. >s ~. 80 -, r. -.
TWO NEW BILLS IN.
The league state home-building as
ISOLATION and its mill and elevator as
ISOLATION bills were introduced in the
senate Tuesday by the state affairs
committee, which thus divides honors
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