Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-08
LEAGUE PLANS
TO ENFORCE
LAWS ONCE
Totten Admits Leaving Out
Part of Messages to
-. the Senate. y I.

Bismarck, N. D.. Dec. S.-The house
committee on delayed bills declined
this afternoon to introduce the league
caucus bill proposing that all laws
passedsat this session be put into. ef-
fects within ten days of the session,s
adtQMrnm entssss tterson and Walter
Maddock. Nonpartisan :, floor leaders
made @ s. an .ansAccessful- protest, =, y. 4.
measures. making sWeeppg changes
In tatutes or conduct 6f various de.
partnl eqts. have been passed without
emergency clauses Nonpartisan league
legislators, evidently acting upon In
structions from headquarters,s are de-
termined to have them 60 into effect
within ten days afterl the extra ses.
sion closes. This plot which undoubt-
edly will mean court action, was re-
vealed on the moor of the house this
afternoon by Representatives Twich.
ell of Cass and Burtness of Grand
Forks. .fa Eff.'
1t was brought out when Burtness
called attention to the fact that House
Bill 10 passed by the house without
the emergency clause was read in the
senate with the! emergency clause at.
tached. 1t had been messaged to the
senate by Chief Clerk Geo. Totten az
having passed unchanged"
Twichell then, declared that ali
messages to the senate had said moth.
ing about emergency clauses being
killed. He said he had thoroughly ex-
amined the records and found that ir
nc case had a correct message re-
garding emergency clauses gone to the
senate. In the case Of senate bills
when the house had killed the emerg-
ency clauses, they were messaged
back to the senate as having passed
unchanged" -
Wants Reason For It. e
SO far as I can ,find," he said,
there is no record OF emergency tav.
ing been killed. Is somebody trying ,tc
put over something on the legislature
in saying that, the emergency clauses
were not killed? Somebody either haa
made a grievous mistake or is tryins
to slip something over. There is moth
Ing In the journal to show that the
want to find out what is happening. .
I Dell Patterson, of Renville, uncon.
sciously revealed the league cards
cards which have been the subject OF
considerable gossip Of late. *
He said that the governor had call.
cd the extra session to relieve "condi-
tions of great Importance this was
done he said. ''in order to relieve
masses of people to enact laws to take
Sa1CSs AA1A0O1ale1ys 'IW1CuelI LueG
said: E.s.-.ll, ia 7s ) E!
{ Il don't think the gentleman viii
admit admit that he can ma, a,msRd the consti:
matter OF fact that - the plan. There
has been bill drawn up making ef.
fective within ten days Of the Gloss
OF the session all bills .passed by thi.
iegislature. The committee over there
In the corner Ts now considering that
bill: Well take our chances with the
supreme court even, with Nonparti.
san supreme court. But this is, the
rawest thing I ever heard of and ]
want it explained"
Totten Admits "NIsstakc3'
{ Chief Clerk Totten then admitted
that some Of the bills. had been mes.
saged to the senate without reference
to emergency clauses being killed. He
said 1t was neglect on his .partsand he
was willing to get things straightened
out. :l'
On Twichell's motion. . committed
Of three was appointed to investigate
bills messaged to, the senate In order
to get the record straightsned out,