Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-09-11
MANY REASONS FOR
SPECIAL SESSION
Bond Issue to Pay Expense. Of
State Suffrage Amendment,
and Relief For Needy Farm
ers Demand Attention.

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 9.-(Spc-
cial. )-While Governor Frazier con-
tinues to keep his own counsel" on
the subject of special session, VIII
liam Lemke Of the executive COM
mittee Of the national Nonpartisan
League has predicted, in his chatty,
informal way, that session will be
held, "after the farmers finish, with
their crops" /,
/Mr. Lemke declined to specify any
particular matters which a special
session might have to consider. He
suggested that q number of things
made an extraordinary assembly ad-
visable.
It seems the general belief that
were there not number Of good rea-
sons for the convening Of the assem-
bly, at this time, the league would
not take this step. The state Of the
public treasury, however, renders
some relief imperative, and it is said
that constitutioIally. such relief can
be afforded solely thru legislative ac-
tion. fs.
4 Some of the things which the leg
islators may be called upon to con-
slider are: &
A bond issue of 81, 1,O0O,0 to d.
nance the state until 1919 tav col
1oot{oro 20 n ho rnado .4 -.
Relief for needy farmers in drouth
stricken areas Of the state, whom
the Bank Of North Dakota has served
with notice to the effect that it can
do nothing for them.
Ratification of the federal amend
ment extending suffrage to women,
to which the sixteenth assembly in
regular session last winter commit
ted itself almost unanimously.
Extensions in the powers confer
red by an act Of the 18th assembly
upon the home-building association
with a view to making this act more
workable.
4 "A revision Of the charter of the
Bank Of North Dakota which will en-
able this institution to do farm
loan business In quarters where
loans are most needed. 5
Amendments to the mill and els-
vator association act which will pro-
vide more specifically for the TAX
ing over Of the Equity Packing Co.'S
plant at Fargo.
And, possibly. altho It is highly inn
probable. impeachment proceedings
against State Auditor Karl Kositzky
and Attorney General William Ian
ger.
The le&gue, it is believed, will un-
dertake impeachment proceedings
only to save its face. II is not thot
that the Townley organization will
have sufficient control Of the assem-
bly,; to put thru the removal Of KoE-5
itzkys and LANCER. I! a 4
While, however, the league has
lost strength in many communities.
where there was q reversal Of form;
IN the vote on the league laws sub
Imitted at the referendum election
last fall, sit has made gains in some
'of the larger counties with Its offer
of stat te-utilities for political support
This is said 70 be true in Cass, Grand
Forks and Ward counties, partic,l.-S
lariy The same methods to whip
legislators from these counties into
line Will be applied that succeeded
with Stark county last winter. when
al entire delega ation pposed to the
league was Won ) over ~ the goyer-8
nor's promise that unless these: or
positio solons voted for Brint ,s
npeswspapsr:bili their normal school 4
would aS receive 4 no appropriati lon:
There II no 10 means of telling how
thes lure 81 stat owned II a dustrials u
plants sfill n g toward I'M husncings !
Cass; srapt sorks and Ward county
dele tiods. alI ~ 81 II "a lfs oI-Sj
posed Stp Tia sIlhiole leax xue prog a 4
iii,s t6s nj q arsos sranadlsas alss