The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-01-28
PUT UP MONEY
T0GET REPORT
SPEAKER SAYS
TWitchell Tells of Collecting
Money Before Trip to St.
Paul
SOME LIVELY TILTS
Bill Appropriating $4,000 for
Bishop, Brissman Company
Is Advanced
SOME LIVELY TILTS

Speaker l.. l.. Twitchell, Of the
house of representatives, collected
$2,74O.73 before he left Bismarck for
st. Paul, Mimi, to get the audit re-
port of Bishop, Brissman and COM
pany. .y s...t
The speaker divulged this fact dur
ing debate on the floor of the house
yesterday afternoon, when the . hease
was considering the report of the ap-
preparations committee recommend
ing an appropriation of $4,000 to pay
the expenses of the audit as a COM
mittee OF the whole. The house, by
a vote of 81 to So, accepted the report.
The debate was vehement, as is
the way with debates in the house.
There were charges by Independents
Of attempts to block the audit report
and denials by Nonpartisans. Ex-
planning the situation the speaker
said:
when l left here for st. Paul to
get this audit report of Bishop, Briss
man and company, / had to collect
$2.74O73 from various persons to turn
over to the company before l could
get the report. The situation arose
from the fact that no state officials
in Bismarck would give money to
pay for the audit. I put It up as
guarantee that the bill of the COM
pany against the state would be paid,
and l have a receipt for the full
amount. l understand they have put
In vouchers to the state for their
BILL" o}...
Maddock's question
Just before the vote, Representa-
tive Maddox, Benson, arose and said:,
"lf anyone in this house is financially
interested in this he ought to say So"
Mr.. Twitchell: 81 presume the
gentleman is referring to me, and l
will tell him that | was just smart
enough not to put any money in this
myself" He added that he paid his
own railroad fare and expenses and
didn't expect to be reimbursed.
The audit company had been paid
about $4,000, it was stated, by the old
board Of auditors, and the amount
Mr.. Twitchell took was to pay for the
finishing work. Mr.. Twitchell said
lAoI CHC puDIS ouUoCl iptAOuo Ldhcu
by the old board of auditors were
placed with Bishop, Brissman and
company as guarantee and that
when the legislature appropriated
money to pay for the audit the money
would be returned to the individuals
The house appropriations commit
tee had amended the bill by striking
out provision that the money should
be disbursed by the Secretary of
State and made it read "by proper
:,'lcher," which would give the duty
of payment to the state auditing
board, of which the Governor is
member.
Move to kill
Representative Maddox, of Benson,
moved for an amendment striking out
the words Bishop, Brissman and
company, saying that the name of the
company had no place in the bill. In
dependents objected to this.
During the debate various Nonpar-
tjsans expressed their views, and
Representative Hempel said the audit
was not a legal audit because the in
itiated law provided that the audit
should be made without previous no.
ticc. and that previous notice was
given through the public press.
Representative Walter Maddox
said the Nonpartisans were not OBJ
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