The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-13
FIRST BILL ON
INDUSTRIES TO
COME UP SOON
Governor Will Delay Appoint.
ment of Board Till Meas
ure Is Decided
Ignite RATES ARE UP
Legislature Directs Railroad
Commission to Secure :,
Full Information 4

7 A bill to repeal the law enacted
in 1923 providing board of man.
ayers for the state-owned, state-op-
Grated mill and elevator at Grand
Forks, probably this week, will inau-
gurate the Nonpartsan League leg.
lsiatlve program in the state lepis-
lature.
The board of managers law, which
was fought by the Nonpartisans in
the 1923 legislature and criticized
during the last campaign, will be
brought before the Legislature soon,
according TO F. A. Vogel, League
leader in the House. He said today
that repeal measure probably will
be introduced this week.
Since designations of the board of
managers were accepted last week
by the Industrial Commission. no
new members of the board have been
named. 1t is understood that Gov
ernor Sorlie will delay efforts to
select men for the board pending a
decision by the Legislature on the
| repeal measure. If the board of
managers law were repealed, direct
management Of the state mill would
fall upon the industrial Commission
composed of Governor SorIie, Attor-
ney-General Shafer and Commits
sioner of Agriculture Kitchen.
Independents, when the law was
enacted, declared that it was of
value to the mill to have board
OF managers occupying positions
similar to a board of directors of
any other institution-to supervise
operations Of the mill and advise
with the active managers. They ul,o
asserted this removed the uin hpan
political contre..
Nonpartisans, on the other nand.
iTgue that the board of managers is
useless institution; that the in
dustrles can and should be managed
by the Industrial Commission and
delegated representatives.
Governor Sorlie is going to Grand
Forks tomorrow for few days, and
Upon his return from conferences
with .. l.. Spencer, manager of the
mlil' and department heads, it is
probable that other legislation re-
garding the mill will be framed.
Bills Held Up
The scarcity of bills for commit.
tees to work on was still evident to-
day in the legislature. Mr.. Vopel
asserted that many representatives
were holding up bills until the ap-
preparations had been disposed Of,
and he said an effort would be made
to carry out Governor Sorlie's rec
ommendation that appropriation bills
be disposed of in the first 20 DAYS
OF the session. The Governor dis
cussed the matter briefly with Mr..
Vogel and Senator Kretschmar:.
chairman of the Senate appropria-
tions committee, late yesterday.
Nogel called his appropriation COM
mittee in meeting this afternoon.
Want Ignite Information
full report within ten DAYS of
contemplated action by railroads in
the senate for change in the basis
OF Ignite coal rates in the state is
asked of the state railroad commits
sion. in a resolution presented to the
state senate yesterday afternoon by
senator Benson, chairman of the
committee on railroads, and adopted
without dissent. The measure pass
ed in the House and Chairman Mil
NOLAN will arrange conference in
st. Paul with railroad heads.
The resolution declares that sit
appears from the. attitude for the
past two years and at the present
time OF the railways operating in
North Dakota that an application
will be made for an increase in the
Ignite freight rates affecting North
Dakota An increase in rates. the
resolution says. would, in the opin-
ion of the legislature, result in
the closing of large number of
Ignite mines and seriously cripple
all Ignite mines operating in this
state, and as a consequence, cause
serious injury to the state"
Stating that ''it is desirable that
the Legislative Assembly may be
fully Informed as to any contempla-
ted action by said railways to se-
cure such increase, for its guidance
for legislation during the present
session." the resolution directs the
railroad board" to confer with said
railroads and secure full information
touching such contemplated action"
and report to the legislature in ten
days.
Senator Benson, making an ex-
rlanation to the Senate, said that an
increase in coal freight rates would
affect the price Of coal to state in
stitutions. and that the information
was needed to guide the legislature
IN making appropriations for the
state institutions.
The first of many communications
expected on the subject of the child
labor amendment to the federal con-
stitution was received by the Senate
from the w. G. 7. u. Of Wyndmere.
advocating ratification. Senator
Stevens suggested, Is matter Of
economy of time and money. al such
communications in the future bs
referred directly to : committees,
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