Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-23

A the opening Of the exercises,
the entire audience Joined in singing
America" Thomas Hall. secretary
of, state, who presided at the .cere-
nlony then spoke briefly. Introducing
Bishop Wehrle. The Invocation by
the bishop was followed Immediately
by the administering of the oath Of
Office by Justice Christensen, who al
SO spoke briefly. ID = -.
After the singing of the North Da-
kota hymn by the Gale Community
chorus. Governor Nestos gave his ad-
dress. and the exercises closed with
the singing of American the Beauti-
fur. by the entire audience.
Under the law the Independent Of
ioials succeeded to office as soon as
the state .canvassing board had comS
pleted it's work, and had announced
the official count Of the votes cast in
the recall election. "
The board convened at 10 o'clock:
this morning under the call issued by
the secretary of state and finished its
work in the ours of a few hours.
This completed the preliminaries
necessary to the taking of office by
the new officials.
Reception Held.
Following the Inauguration exer-
cises in the house chamber, a recep-
ton was held by the newly elected of
ficials in the Office of Governor Nestos,
x Leaguers Fail. 5 l..
The final effort Of the Nonpartisan
leaguers to prevent the government Of
the state from passing into the hands
Of the Independents came to a dis
astrous end late Tuesday afternoon,
when the state supreme court refused
to issue an order enjoining the can
wasting board from canvassing the
vote, and declaring the result Of the
election as had been asked in a petit
tion filed Monday by disgruntled
leaguers. who sought to contest the
election result. ~ .t.ss.
M: No Written Opinion. :
No written opinion on the contest
case has as yet been filed by the SUI
preme court and at this time 1t is un-
certain whether or not one will be
filed; neither was any announcement
made as to whether or not the five
members Of the court were unanimous
in their decision. Unofficially it. has
been reported that the decision was
unanimous.
The oral decision as announced by
the clerk of the court was simply that
q majority of the court had refused
the injunction asked by the leaguers.
Reported Grounds for Action.
Although no grounds for the action
of the court were given O. officially,
it is generally understood that the pc
tition for an Injunction was denied
on two grounds. First that 1t was
filed too late. and second, that it
thought 70 restrain the state canvass
ING board from performing a duty
III vas required by lawg to perform, in
fshort. that the action had no legal
standine whatever
In addition t0sthis Justice Robinson
stated yesterday that he had person
ally investigated the petitions to
which the Ieaguers took exception,
and found them to be all in order.
The contest was filed by a group OF
NOnpartisan leasuers on the ground
OF alleged irregularities IN the petit
tons asking that the recall election be
held. h petition was presented
Monday afternoon, and arguments for
the granting of the Injunction were
and 3. r.. Sinkler. attorneys for the
petitioners.
Supplementary briefs were filed by
the petitioners yesterday morning.
The court began consideration OF
the matter at A o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon, at h conclusion OF arguments
in the state bond sale a After an
hour and 20 minutes OF d~eIiberation
the decision was announced.
UNIVERSITY WEATHER.
Z a. m. Dissertations.
TemprFAturc. 10. 81
- Maxfnum, ~ hours 10.
Minimum, "a hours, |. -
Wind ast 10 miles.
J barometer, reduced, 3O.12.