The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-11-27

The governor failed to include ii
his proclamation the raising Of mon
| ey for current state expenses. Money
must be raised but how. That will be
one Of the hardest nuts to crack, but
it will be cracked some way. It must
I be. At the present time state depart
ments are being operated by the trans
fer Of money from the school and en-
dowment funds. So far $280,00O has
been so transferred under Section Is
Of the banking act. Robbing Peter to
pay Paul is alright, but Pete must be
repaid sooner or later. "A
The debt limit is fixed and cannot
be changed by the legislature. The
legislature might remain on the job
for ten months and couldn't bond for
ten cents except to submit bond is
sue question to the vote of the people.
Auditor Kositzky, who Judge Robin
son seems to have taken under his
wing as a Second John the Baptist"
and an honest man, refuses to pay
these warrants.
AS long as Kositzky is in office, ev-
cry little while he is pretty apt to re-
fuse to pay warrants. Which calls to
mind another bit of legislation which
is planned to facilitate" matters.
Some one else will be authorized to
draw warrants besides the auditor.
Simple little matter Of slipping over
the needed legislation is all there is
to it.
Bishop Lenke some time since an
nounced the repeal of the Situs Tax
Law. His ideas were later backed by
j. R. Waters and Job Wells Brinton.
The Situs Tax is that particular stat
ute which provides the attorney gen
eral with ways and means and power
Of forcing foreign corporations to pay
mill tax on the business they do
in North Dakota. The Attorney Cen
,eral has been pounding away at these
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and 9TH
Ter corporations which do business Of
various kinds in the state and has I'M
covered a great share of approximate
ly $4,000, 900 of taxable moneys ana
credits. This means y revenue of
about $4,000 a year. Still, it
hits such organizations as the United
States Sisal Trust and besides the
state doesn't need that $4,000 and
the business men in the state may just
IS; well pay it. His taxes are being
boosted so high anyway that little
more or less won't hurt him.
The repeal of the law which created
the state license department is anoth-
err bit of special legislation which
must be put through by the socialist
leaders whose toes hame been tromp-
ed on. This department controls the
aters, pool halls, etc, and is self sus-
tainng from the license fees collected.
However, it is department which
permits the attorney general to en-
force the law. Since the establish
ment of the department over 600 ar
rests have been made by it's officials
on charges ranging from sales of
snuff to operation Of stills, conduct of
decidedly disorderly houses to a
clamping of the ban on dance halls
where the "shimny" was too ex=
IRENE. cigarette and liquor sales, and
gambling and operation of pool halls
on Sunday. A weapon by which the
attorney general can enforce the
laws gives him too much power, for
by law enforcement he wins friends
and wins votes. He must be cut down
to his two assistants and his two
stenographers to write "pretty- please
won't you stop that, l haven't the
right to impose any penalty on you,
SOL expect you to be good" letters.
Law enforcement is one of Langer's
hobbies, if law is on the books he
believes in enforcing it. If it is
poor law, let the legislature strike it
off. 1t was law enforcement which
made LANCER political, made him
thousands of friends. However, the.
state license department provides too
much law enforcement. The policy
Of the Townley legislation undoubted-
ly will be 'less law enforcement and
therefore less friends for LANCER"
r When will this legislation be ef-
fective? That is where the big fight
comes in. To put the legislation into
effect Immediately require a two
thirds vote of both the house and the
senate on the so-called emergency
clause Possibly the socialist have the
control of the house and could pass the
two-thirds majority vote on the emer-
+gency there. Howaver, they have not
the required two-thirds in the senate.
That is why the big fight is under
way in Towner county. And the cleo
ton of C. P. Peterson, "Candle-P Pow
er" Peterson they called him after
his famous concurrent resolution was
introduced at the special session in
1918. Remember that? Whereas,
certain politicians and self-styled pa
triots have traversed the state under
!: cloak Of the noble orders Of the Red
Cross and YIN. C. A. thrusting their
poisonous daggers and defaming our
state government and its people"
Anyway the election of Peterson
would facilitate" the program in the !
senate.
Around Bismarck it is suggested
that the records be labeled the ga
cilitation Session" rather than "Spe-
cial"
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