The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-01-15

former publisher of the Palladium,
which upon the passage of the Brin- |
ton Newspaper Grab law became one
of the leagues kept papers under the
new title, the Burleigh County Farm
ers Press, is now out of control and
Job Wells Brinton himself, is person
ally in command. And fight is on.
Then up in Hillsboro, the League
editor who dared say that the men
who put the Bolshevik, Free Love
and similar literature in the public
library must be deposed, has him
self been put wher he can do no harm
in the future. While not entirely
canned he has been relieved of the
editorial management of the Hills
boro paper and placed in charge of
the mcdaniel department.
Too, that O.. T. Rishoff who quit
the National Service Bureau because
F. B. Wood and William Lemke
wouldn't fire Brinton, that Rishoff
knew exactly whereof he spoke re-
garding the financial difficulties of
the League newspapers is evident by
letters which have been snt out by
one of the So official Brinton sheets.
Two Mandan attorneys recently
sent legal notices for publication to
the Grant County Leader published
at Carson. Following the first publi-
cation the two attorneys received
publication notices and the bills for
1924 and SIS respectively. With the
bills came letter from the editor of
the Grant County Leader imploring
taht the checks be sent forthwith, be-
cause if the money was not forth
coming it was possible that the paper
, would be forced to suspend publica-
ton because of inability to meet ex-
penses and the subsequent publica-
tions of the legal notices would mot
be made. Never has a newspaper in
the state attempted to collect pay
ment for legal notices until after the
final publication.
Bishop William Lemke arguing for
the administration the constitution
ality OF House Bill 60 which declares
all acts of the special assembly to
have been emergency measures and
effective December 21, uncovered fig
ures that are sensational and the ma
terial far reaching, according to As
sistant Attorney General Edward b.
Cox, who with Assistant Attorney "a
bert E. Sheets, Jr., appeared for the
officials punished by the league.
According to Cox the state by de-
creasing the state taxes 25 percent
has rung up on the register a new
deficiency of over $7OO,O0O.O0.
Lemke in his argument before the
supreme court praying for the sus-
tanning of House Bill so called at
tention to the fact that the statute
providing for a decrease in state tax
es for general purposes, except the
soldiers bonus and state skiing fund,
passed with the emergency clause
attached and was not disputed.
He declared then that House Bill
"A which decreases the appropriation
for the expenses of the attorney gen
erals, secretary of states and state
auditors, and other departments was
offset by the Is percent decrease in
state taxes. Lemke argued that mas
much as the 25 percent decrease was
in effect, it was absolutely vital that
House Bill A be in effect through
the declaration of House Bill 80 that
all measures were emergency acts.
Cox in his brief states: 81 have
before me statement issued by the
State Tax Commission which deals
with the reduction in appropriations
made by H. B. A. The records OF
the State Board of Equalization show
that the total tax raised by the state
levy excluding that raised for the
soldiers bonus and the interest and
sinking funds for state bonds a
mounted to $3,453,907.00. The 25
percent reduction in taxes did not
affect those taxes levied for the SOL
dier bonus nor for interest and sink
ing fund. Therefore divide the total
tax raised by four, we find that House
Bill59 reduced the state taxes 1884,
10000.
'In other words the assets of the
state, the money with which the ap-
preparations made by the last regu-
lar session of the legislature were to
be paid is reduced over s850,000.
Cox shows that the net decrease
in expense account appropriations
made by House Bill A totals $123,-
$4,000 and adds "The ia l4es were