The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-28

other school authorities are in favor
of this law.
CALLS N VICIOUS
well, now, ] wonder who these pro.
fessors are working under. Aren't
they working under the same admins
tration that is trying to make a figure
head out of Miss Nelson, and wouldn' t
it he a bad policy II they sholld object
to any measures that the administr:l-
ton that has given them thei. offices
were for. wouldn't it be a bad policy
for them to knock these measures?
Furthermore. venture to say that 9S
per cent Of the educators In this. state
are against this BILL And even such
educators as George d. Strayer. presi-
dent of the National Educational asso.
clatiOn. professor of educational adj
ministratiOn. Teachers college. Colum:
bia university, New York city, made a
statement at MinOt that this is one OF
the most vicious measures he has ever
studied and ever seen. II Miss Nelson
is not able and competent to run that
office to which she was elected, let
the people have a voice in that matter
two years from now at the polls. The
people are the ones that elected her
to fill that position, and not the pres
ent administration. -
"NOw, l contend that as an Ameri-
can citizen and taxpayer of this
state, | have perfect right to OBJ
ject to such laws as the printing law
and the administration law, and be-
lieve that am acting as a good citi-
zen when l combat such measures,
which, il allowed. to stand, will hang
onto the people of this state two OF the
most unAmerican and /undemocratic
laws ever enacted in this state ZAP
plause.)
"NOw we have the judicial law Be-
fore the opening of the session of the
legislature several legislative men,
bers>rame to Bismarck with drafted
bill proposing to reduce the number of
judicial districts in this state from II
to 10. AS evidence. they~had a report
showing the number OF days that each
judge during the last year performed
jury duty, or in other words had jury
cases. In the first district, the judge
had 40 days of Jury; the second, Ga:
the third, 143; fourth, u; fifth, 81;
sixth, "a; seventh, 5; eighth, 70; ninth,
40; tenth, 6S; eleventh, 81; twelfth. AZ.
They brought this along, showing that
instead of II judges working in the
state the work could be done very
easily by 10, and some Of them con-
tended eight judges could do the work
In this state very easily. And, as fur
Their evidence they had reports show
ing, that Judge Nuessle performed
nearly all the court work in Judge
Hanley's district, while he was over in
France, and the judge told me he had
plenty of time to spare at that. Other
Judges came down here and opposed
this bill, or opposed increasing the
judges as this bill provided, but when
these members told Mr.. Lemke about
their proposition of reducing the num-
Der of judges from II to 10 what did
Bishop Lemke tell them? NO" he
says; we are going to have Is instead
of H. apd the law as it now stands
does provide for Is judges. which will
cost the taxpayers an additional tax OF
100000 for the two years..
We will see what they tell about
the judges in this state supplement
to the Nonpartisan Leader. THE ju-
dicial redistricting bill. Prior to the
last session OF the legislature there ex-
listed in the state of North Dakota IL
judicial districts, each of which had a
district judge to handle the business
in that particular district. In some
districts the business of the court was
very light and judges worked but q
small portion of the time" !,
CASES VERY LARGE
BY the way, these people who came
down from up north with this proposed
bill, had evidence OF facts showing
that some of the judges spent their
winter months in California and Flor
ida and others spent their summer
months in Wisconsin and Minnesota
So this is true.
I'm other Districts the number OF
! cases to be tried was very large, the
work of the court exceedingly heavy
In some of these districts cases were
pending over year, and litigants have
been forced to wait long periods OF
time before securing relief" F.
l asked one OF the representatives
the other day why they increased the
number of judges from II to Is, and
he told me practically the same thing.
There were cases pending in court
cases pending in court which should
have been decided for a year or more.
The Judge was holding it up. / asked
him il Ne knew the law on that propo-
sition, and pulled this here report, OF
mine out and read him what appears
on page 16 in regard to district judges
holding up cases and decisions, which
in part reads as follows II have been
informed that during the year 1910
several prominent attorneys from the
northern part of the state appeared
before state officials at Bismarck and
attempted to persuade them to with
hold payment of the salary of GER
tain district judge in compliance with
the provisions Of section 1888, of the
1913 compiled laws, which requires
that each Judge of the district court
file with the state auditor at the end
of each quarter certificate to the
effect that there are no motions, appli-
cations, questions or issues Of fact re-
manning undecided in his court for
over period of 80 days. During the
1911 session of the legislature i'm
parchment proceedings were filed
against this Judge and according to
the record in this Office the case cost
the taxpayers Of the state $4,000.
My standing with some of the dis
trict judges in this state is not very
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