The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-19
SORLIE THINKS
SESSION WILL
LAST 10 DAYS
Governor Says He Has Heard
Nothing But Favorable Com
ment ON Announcement
is AMUSED BY GOSSIP
Smiles When Told That OPP
p0nents May Try to Get Him
to Change His Mind

Expectation that the special
session which he expects to call
later in the year will last only 10
days was expressed today by Gov
ernor A. &. Sorlic.
The executive was in high spirits
today and said he had heard moth
ing regarding his announcement of
yesterday except comment favor
able to it and this despite the fact
that he had not specified the pur-
pose for which he proposes to call
the legislature to Bismarck.
When told that some of his po-
litical opponents at the capitol were
predicting that the public reaction
to the governors announcement
would be such as to bring pressure
to bear to change his mind, the cx-
ecutive smiled. When told that in1-
peachment proceedings directed
against him had been suggested in
at least one quarter he laughed out
loud.
Cost Depends on Length
Commenting on the probable cost
Of a special legislative session the
governor said: 1.-THE cost will de-
pend on the time spent and 10 days
should be sufficient for the legisla-
ture to take care Ct all the things
l will present to it. But one thing
is certain. It won't cost the state
as much as some Of the newspapers
are costing it by their efforts to
wreck the state"
The governor said he is leaving
for Minneapolis tonight in connec-
tion with the case of the Grand
Forks mill anL elevator which now
is before the interstate commerce
commission. The mill management
is asking the federal commission to
"make an equitable break" in grain
rates at Grand Forks to permit
milling in transit at the state mill
and to aid in building up at Grand
Forks a grain terminal for North
Dakota products.
Meanwhile figurec compiled by
State Auditor John Steer showed
that the special session of 1919, the
last in the states history, lasted Is
days and cost the state $35,814.98.
The per diem and mileage of legis-
lators cost $21 ,854.5O; salaries and
mileage of employees cost $3.50;
printing cost $5,768.O2 and miscel-
laneous expenses and supplies cost
$3,033.46. The 1919 special session
passed 72 new laws and one con-
current resolution.
Mill Situation Uppermost
It became apparent today that the
special session will be asked to con-
slider the situation existing at the
state mill and elevator as discussed
recently in the report of the senate
fact-finding committee and the audit
report Of @. B. Lund, accountant
for the state board of auditors. What
action the governor will ask the
legislature to take has not been dis
closed, even to his most intimate ad-
visers, the executive said, and re-
peated that this would be made clear
in due time.
That the mill and elevator situa-
ton is the principal thing which the
governor will present to the legisla-
ture is said to have been made clear
to Nonpartisan leaders yesterday at
a conference following the announce
ment that the governor expected to
call special session.
To Lay Cards on Table
During the conference, it was said
today, the governor indicated that
he wishes to call in the legislature,
lay all the cards on the table face
up and let the lawmakers offer
whatever solution Of the mill and
elevator problem they see fit. The
governor, it was said, feels that the
report of the special senate investi-
eating committee and the Lund
audit cast unfair reflections upon
him personally and, at least by i'm
ference, attacked his character and
honesty as well as his management
of the mill. It is expected by some
Of the men in his own party that he
will present these ideas to the legis-
lature and ask it to either prove the
alleged unfair statements or insin-
uations or find that they are unwar-
ranted.
Although the legislature will have
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