Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-28
HOUSE BILL, s.
R|EC0DaMEMlE|'D'
!. FOR PASSAGE
Lcaguers Try to Leave Out
Name Of Fir1m.to Receive
Pay For Audit.
(By stain Corrsnondent.

olslIlaTCk, N. Do jan S.A-EOllOW-
ing a long wra angle yesterday after
noon the Nor1::lz Dakosa house of reps.
resentatipes sitting as a committee Of
the whole recommended for passage
House Bill 33. which provides for the
appropriation OF $4,000 10 pay the
expenses Of the audit Of the Bank of
North Dakota and the state industries
made by Bishop B%rissrnan and Com
panH. .Tha usual .obstructionist tao
tics. of the 4Sonpartisan1 Eeague mis-
Moray failed utterly. .4st ~
The bill lin heaforlnf RI recommended
flor final passage has been amended
by Striking out ~ provision that the
money shall be paid out by the secre-
ltary OF state. and the Insertion of the
name OF Bishop Brissman and Com
pany as the party to whom it shall be
In this form it vas presented to
the committee Of the whole by the
appropriations committee.
Flow Starts.
immediately Representative John
county. moved another amendment,
FstrikinE out the provision. that the
tf1oEeN should be spaid tt, Bishop-
Brissman and, ,Company,,A and the row
was on. Mr.. Maddox. declared that
the insertion Of the name was simply
advertising for the company. j.. T.
Twichell, speaker, who had called
Representative Shipley to the chair,
REPLIED to Mr.. Maddox. I'VE all
know another audit is being made I'M
der the orders OF the industrial com
mission" he said. "and we don't want
any question. as to what this appro-
priation is for.
Some people have raised a fund to
guarantee that the sta:e VIII pay for
tthis audit,5it is due to them that we
II ReSseseM atiSg III 81 selss Nen1pastl:
Ssan. made a somewhat rambling fe-
ply in Which he claimed that the au-
dit made by Bishop-Brissmnn and
Company did not comply with the in
itiated law because. he claimed, no
Itice of the audit had been given.
I'VE have sent for that report. we
have got it. and now it is up to us to
pay for It," declared Representative
Kitchen, Independent. ~
do we want to put the state of
North Dakota in the position of re-
fusins to pay for this audit that 1t
has ordered, and received?" Repre-
sentative, Paul Johnson of Pembina
county, wanted to know.
Let tlhe saudit companyrput ina
see about paying it," was he reply
of Representative Vogel, Nonparti-
san Of Mclean county.
The argument continued with
charges Of bad faith flying thick and
fast on both sides. Finally on q ris-
ing vote Representative Maddock's
amendment was lost by a vote Of Sc
the bill be recommended for passage
carried, 81 to "a.
Answer Lcmkc Charges.
Independent majority members Of
the house appropriations committee
came back yesterday, .afteEnoo.n at At,
torney General Vim. Lemke, wher
they had read into the house journa
a, communication replying to thu
charges that Mr.. Lemke made in 2 let
ter received by the house Wednesday
as a result of delay i'll acting on a bill
carrying an emergency appropriation
hof $4,000 for his department,
Mr.. Lemke had CHARMED that sthi;
was being held up through Ignorance
Indifference or political vindictive
mess. and that this condition mad i
impossible on accoun of lack o
funds, for him to properly carry OF
legal actions involving millions of dol
lars to the people of the state.
In. the statement made yestrday aft
ernoon attention is called to sever
sources of funds which Mr.. Lcmk'
failed to mention in his letter.
These are: Two appropriations o
SIS. 900 and $4,000 respectively mad
by the special session of the legisla
lture last year of which a balance o
ll$9,051.05 remains. y =
a sTtn per centsofs the appropriate,
FforshisaofA for the biennial period
. amounting to ~s3.36S.55 which he i
entitled to on application to the stat
, emergency commission.
= The sum of &15, b20.67 in the hand
of the state railway commission TO
use in Mitigation between the state .
North Dakota and public utilize
companies.
A balance in the contingency fun
of the state tax commissions
amounting, to $~S.S45.92 which may b
used IN fighting tax cases.
t Straighten Out Facts.
I Attention is also called to the fac
: that there were bus introduced
both the houses and senate calm
for this appropriation of s12,o0l
: which were originally Identical. Th
: senate, however, passed its bin ate
cutting the appropriation to $1,000
s and removing the emergency. Thi
e therefore superseded Sthe house hi
d and is the bill now being considere
q by the committee. 1t is also pointe
out that Senate Bill rs, the budg,
: bill. has in its.itenI, an appropriate
y of $4,000 to w expenses OF til
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