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


and that the voters will he allowed. to
select these newspa pers. II would like
to have Mr.. Ligget or anybody show
me where this bill provides that the
papers are to be selected by. the peO-
pl0 in the counties. They also had
an editorial in the Courier News iust
prior. to that that the nonpartisan
leaBue paid all my travelling expenses.
| Wfote them a letter.
Mr.. K0sitzky: Probably there is
other money charged I'd people that
they never got. Now then, shortly aft
erwartfs there was a statement given
out to the press to the effect that on
certain dates there were certain
amounts in the state general fund. Mr..
Liggett told you there were two mil
lion dollars balances in the state gem
eral fund. That is absolutely a false
hood. There is scnoo! money. teach
ers' retirement, money, elevator money
and funds OF that kind and. we cannot
pay one dollar out Of those funds
for general state purposes, and when
fever l give a statement to the press
my name is generally signed to il;
would like/to have Mr.. Liggett show
me where | ever gave out the state
ments he has just read to you.
would like to see a single statement
to that effect, dare him to show it.
! On April 10 the COurier-News, the
kept press, came out again with a
statement to tn eeffect that on certain
dates! the state general fund was over
draM.i. l wrote the editor a letter
" ,ll~l is the last one am going. to
j,Writc;I mean the last one am going
to write to the Courier-News' editor. -
The most of that this printing bill
will save is $4,000 a year. They tell
YOU that 'BuFleigh county will save
$4,964.S1.' That is the total cost of all
the printing. All the printing is not
done. in one paper, but in three papers
All the printing that is done in three
papers is the county commissioner
proceedings and notices OF the. county.
and that only amounted to $1,000 in
this county, according to, Mr. NFlaher-
TVS figures. Now, il Burleigh county
is going to save $4,964.S1 and it costs
$1,000 to publish the county commits,
sioners proceedings in three papers
each paper gets $3.50, so we are going
to- save twice that amount. we will
say that each county saves 81 900.
There are So counties in the state;
which will amount to about $4,000.
But there are some counties where
the county printing is only 1856, so
it is going to reduce that amount to
$4,000. l say it, is going to reduce
that amount of $4,000 instead of ina
creasing it. Now they have told
or hot I fvsn nE
| Tribune. Last fall when we. let tho
contract to The Tribune for the state
printing, we advertised for bids and
we let it out on competitive bids. The
Tribune was the lowest and the Globe
Gazette was the highest and the knight
Printing Co. was the next. The naxt
paper was the Public Opinion. The
Bismarck Tribune will do all the print
ing that will be done by the state for
two years. We save the taxpayers OF
North Dakota $l0, 900 by giving IT to
the Lowest bidder. We did not propose
to. hand 1t out to the fellow who favors
us. we were doing justice to the tax
payers OF North Dakota by giving it
to the lowest bidder, and we saved
you $4,000. Mr.. .BrintOn sent repre-
sentative up there and told us to give
it to anybody else but The Bismarck
Tribune. You remember he had some
trouble with the editor Of The Tribune,
and he wanted us to give it to anybody
else but The Tribune. Is that fair,
is that right, is that doing justice to
the taxpayers of the state? Last win
ter on Legislative printing we saved
81, 524.73 just on~legislative printing,
and we saved on the report-s0f the
, commissioner OF agriculture and labor
on his printed report 3126.5O, so you
can imagine how much money we
| saved the taxpayers by giving 1t to
the lowest bidder. You have read
lot about the immigration bill. That
bin appropriates 100000 for the pur-
pose of inducing Immigration into the
state! got hold Of this supplement to
the North Dakota Leader. don't know
whether it was intended that should
have one of these or not but anyhow
got hold Of this, and on page 16
it says. TIL chill creating the imuii-
grafton department and appropriating
100000 is intended to attract settlers
and enterprises to the state. It Is III
tended to attract settlers and business
| enterprises to the state. That is what
it says. 1t says right over here SLAM
ders will be refuted. Part OF this
money will probably be spent in corr
recting false impressions OF the people
of North Dakota circulated by the Min
neapolis chamber Of commerce.
HOW ABOUT CONSUMERS STORE
What is he going to say about the
Consumers Store company, the Pub
fishers National Service bupeau, the
League exchange, the Federal Develop.
ment company, and hank companies,
and all other companies working under
the auspices Of the league? What il
he going to say to the farmers down
there when they ask him about the
stories printed about these concerns.
! What is he going to tell them? II he
tells them the truth he is going to tell
] them that these men who make M
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