The Ward County independent., 1921-02-10
BRINT0N TELLS OF DEAL
NCS WITH N. P. LEADERS
Facts About the Bank of North Dakota
Bared---Nearly $5,O0O,00O of
State Funds Frozen

other league leader to run down and
care for a shortage of nearly $l0,-
600 caused by some former employe
Of the Fargo bank. Brinton will con-
tinue his testimony tomorrow morn
ing.
Nearly $4,000, 100000 Frozen
Bismarck, Feb. with more than
half of the session gone the seventeeth
legislative assembly has passed onlv
eight Of 285 proposed measures. In
the senate 12l bills have been intro
duced; 25 of these have been passed by
the upper house, II have been indefin-
itely postponed, and two withdrawn;
the balance, n, are still pending in
committees for further consideration
Besides it's own bills the senate has
In the house there had at the be-
ginning of the wee been introduced
164 bills; Of these % have been passed
and sent over to the senate; an equal
number has been indefinitely post
poned, three withdrawn and the bal
ance are in the various committees.
The house has also passed four SEN
ate bills and killed one. No bills have
been sent to the governor for sigma
ture
| Senator H. H. McNair, or Trail,
who is chairman of the senate educa-
tional committe, caused considerable
merriment among his colleagues last
Saturday afternoon when the upper
house had before it for consideration
H. B. 27 which the committee had
recommended to pass. This measure,
introduced in the house of represen-
tatives by Mr.. Kitchin, proposed that
thrift should be part of the curric-
ulum in the grade schools.
Senator McNair promised that by
thrift it should be understood that
the teachers should attempt to prove
to the pupils the advantages of in
vesting their money in state bonds
such as Mill and Elevator bonds, Bank
Of North Dakota bonds and Home
Builders Association bonds. The SEN
ator from Trail was not joking, at
least not so much that anybody could
notice it. Still, even the league SEN
ators laughed House Bill 27 was
indefinitely postponed.
This week will be Program Week
for the l. V. A. contingent in the leg
islature. In accordance with pledges
made in the platform Of the Indepen-
dent Voters Association, under which
the members opposed to the tactics
and policies of the state administra-
ton were elected to the legislature,
several bills will be introduced in the
house this week in an attempt to pre-
vent further waste of public moneys
and save the pieces Of the so-called
farmers program.
The administration forces seem to
have lost all initiative; with every de-
partment under the control and su-
pervision of the industrial commission
practically bankrupt, and with work
at standstill except at the Drake
mill, where money is being lost every
day, no attempt has been made to
find way out of the chaos. The only
evidence of life on the part of the
administration is it's continued en-
deavors to lock the legislative inyes-
tigation Of the state institutions.
With the time limit for introduc-
ton of bills rapidly approaching the
Independents have decided not to wait
any longer for the administration for
| CCS w tlCt dllU tIIc Tc6ulL O1 SEVERAL
conferences on program measures will
be introduced by the middle Of the
week. These measures will propose
to bring about
Amendment of the industrial com
mission law, either to three members
appointed by the governor, or to six
members appointed and with the COM
missioner Of agriculture and labor as
ex-officio member.
Amendment of the law creating the
Bank of North Dakota to the effect
that this institution will be a real
rural credits bank.
Amendment Of the present law gov
erning public depositaries and to make
every state and national bank in
North Dakota an authorized public
depositary.
Amendment Of the present election
laws so as to make all state o--cers
elected on nonpartisan ballot, with
special provisions for national elec-
tion requirements, and also to protect
party interests as formerly outlined
in these columns.
Amendment Of the tax laws SO as