Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-03
NEWSPAPERCASE
HAS BEEN SET SET
FOR MARCH Is
Governor Asks That Oral
!, Arguments Be Heard By
Court; Petition Granted.

Bismarck, N. D.. March s.
Through the intervention Of Cover
nof Frazier yesterday afternoon, the
newspaper trust appealed
in the Sixth judicial district holding
the Brinton official publication law
Unconstitutional. will be orally ar
gtJed before the supreme court, in
stead OF being submitted on briefs,
an both original parties to, the con-
tTcyersy had previously stipulated.
ernor Frazier, arguing that the
alyfon was n Of great public inter-
est. in which the rights Of all the
people OF North Dakota were In
volved, petitioned the court through
w. "A. Anderson. secretary of the
state industrial commission, for per-
rnission to intervene and present oral
I; lrEunet1ts, which request was grant
ed by the court, and March IS was
set as the date for argument.
The action originated through the
county commissioners to recognize
the Brihton act. which requires all
county proceedings Ink other official
ndtices and public printing to be be-
st9wed upon one. Official newspaper,
designated by the state printing and
publication commission. Instead of
doing this, as the SO other county
commissions Of the state did, the
Giant county board designated three
o1cial county newspapers, as provid-
cd for under the acts which Brinton
lafV, passed by the sixteenth assem-
BIZ. repealed.
Was Friendly Suit.
Timothy DAILY. a pioneer Grant
suit against the board as q means
Of testing the act. The action was
heard before Judge Crawford Of the
Sixth judicial district at Dickinson.
He Held that the Brinton act violated
thfee distinct sections OF the state
constitution, and that 1t was there
fora null and void. DAILY then ap-
Fed to the supreme court Attor.
nsYys e. r. Lantermann and John F.
Sullivan, representing Daily and the
Giant commission, respectively, by
ST pulation last week agreed that the
else should be submitted to the gu
p1eme court on briefs, and not orally
a4gued. As a result of Governor
81 azier's intervention, it is expected
N at each side to the triangle will
p% esent oral arguments. March Is.
gI Governs Much Patronage.
gI The patronage which ,the'state pub,
s1sf ntion and printing commission, two
III whose three members r leaguers
3SsNS4 ntrols through the Brinton news,
Bib per rust act. has been estimated
Hs9 all the way from $500, 900 to 81,
Z, 000.per annum, the endowment o.
sgSsM oh official county paper being, con
Msf4lered to be from $4,000 oS$15,.
sYS640 yearly. The Brinton law admit
3t4 dly drawn by Brinton. then heae
&ol the publishers national servic,
#sh1 treau, which had organized and
#s13 ynedt a controlling interest il
Euy lgue newspapers in practically ev
county in the state, caused on,
IHHO the bitterest fights of the last reg
Al ar assembly.
No effort was made in either hous,
Mt disguise the fact that It was tn,
ain intent of the law to provid,
lie league with the means Of build
& up a richly subsidized. newspa
If machine. 1t was charged then
d the charge has. frequently beer
ade since, that Brinton PERSONAL,
Gifted from the bill to the extern
Haa $63, 900. through his alleged in
N rest in newspapers which the stat,
hitting board designated as official
lie Brinton bill requires not .onl,
&c III state, COUNTY, township
tiool district and municipal print
and publications be given to tn,
agile Official newspaper In eacf
unity, but that all bank statement.
f.legal processes, corporation no
EE.Sand other semi-private publica'
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