The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-01-25
HOUSE JOINS
SENATE TO ASK
PAY INCREASE
Appropriation Of $4,000 For
Corn Show Approved.
Vote Will Come Today

With only minor amendments, the
house concurred in resolution pass
ed by the senate which provides that
the matter of changing the constitu-
tfon to make the pay boost legal be
submitted to the people at the next
general election. Action was taken
IN the committee Of the whole ana
formal action on the resolution,
sponsored by Senator C. J. Olson,
Rarnes county, is expected today.
Nm amendment specified that no
legislator should draw more that $500
in salary for any biennial period, re-
gardless of whether or not special
sessions are called.
Corn Show Bill Approved
Other actions of the committee
we're: Approved $4,000 appropriation
for the Bismarck state corn show and
reduced health department appropria-
ton from $4,000 to $40,5O0. These
bills also will be up for final action
today.
The third piece Of legislation was
almost out of the law-making mill
and on it's way to the governor when
the house added a few commas to a
senate bin governing the right of
township supervisors in defending
suits against the township and passed
it by 90 to 8 vote. The senate is
expected to accedc to the changes.
Unanimous consent to the addition of
the commas was given at the request
Of Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, Benson
county.
Despite the fact that the appropria-
ton for the hospital for the insane
at jamestown was passed Saturday on
its recommendation, the house appro-
priations committee Monday asked
that the measure be reconsidered
and re-referred to the committee. The
motion was granted without oppo-
sition.
Appropriation bills passed Monday
carried $1O1,7O0 for the state normal
and industrial school at Glendale,
and $173,85O for the school Of
science at Wahpeton. The first was
approved 80 to 20 and the second lot
to O.
Debate Over Science School
Rep. Fred Ferris, Nelson county, at
tackled the science school appropria-
tion and opened up general discus
sion of the tax question. Later he
said it was one educational institu
ton which taught students to work
with their hands as well as their
heads and had tendency to keep
boys and girls on the farm. He voted
for it.
In opening the discussion, however,
he pointed out that there were $4,000
fewer people on farms in 1925 than
in 1915 and declared that the people
are burdened with taxes. The school of
science appropriation was $4,000 two
years ago, he said, and asked where
the continual increasing of appropria-
tions was going to stop. He warned
the legislature that it was getting
too extravagant in its appropriations
for educational institutions and that
the people would appreciate tax cut
rather than bigger appropriations for
educational institutions. The appro-
priations committee, he charged, is
Overlooking the poor people who
have lost their crops"
William Watt, Cass county, appro-
priations committee chairman. re-
piled that the legislature has control
Of only six per cent of the money
raised by taxation in the state and
that the people voted a gasoline tax
which will raise 100000 for the
state highway commission without
question.
The science school, he said, is the
only place in the state where stu
dents are taught to work with their
hands and is doing good work.
NJ. H. Lynch, Richland county, also
defended the institution and pointed
out that the new building provided
flor by the appropriation would be
built largely by the students them
selves.
Rep. J. H. McCay, Sioux county,
said he favors the appropriation be-
cause the science school gives practi-
cSl training. Another factor, he said,
Isl that the head Of the institution is
mot hog" and the only educational
institution head who admitted, two
years ago, that he could get along on
Tess money.
Ferris made it plain that he was
not attacking the school of science in
particular and declared that the state
could dispense with three of the five
normal schools in the state since they
are training teachers to work in
states other than North Dakota. In
his home town, he said, there are 20
applicants for every teaching job.
Wehe Appropriation Killed
\ The house definitely killed bill
appropriating $500 to pay L. J. Wehe,
Bismarck lawyer, for services in con-
nection with an investigation Of the |
state library in 1919. A minority re-
port recommended payment of the
bill but the majority report was
adopted after party division and the |
sclincher provision added. Wehe 1has
been presenting his bill at every scs-
sim since 1921. Several Nonparti- |
sans contended that Wche had done
the work and should be paid. Ofpo-
stion to the appropriation was based
largely ON the fact that Wche was
holding another state Job when the
work for the investigating committee
was done. The majority refused TO
pay him for alleged might work" in
CONNECTION with the almost forgotten
probe.
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