The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-15
SOlons' Salary and
Charity Fund Bills
Start Bitter Talks
Continued from page one)


since 1t incorporated two different
subjects in the same bill, and Hyland
withdrew the amendment. Immedi-
ately. however, he asked suspension
Of the rules for the purpose OF In
Producing bill to appropriate money
for the orphanage. The senate pre-
viously had denied this right to Sem
ator Fine Of Benson county on an
other bill, and Hyland moved that
action on the House Of Mercy appro-
priation be deferred q day. At the
same time he announced that he in
tended to support the appropriation.
The matter appeared settled, at least
temporarily, when Forbes substituted
motion to kill the bill. He launched
into an grafton on the sacredness OF
the constitution and the manner In
which the senate had failed to comply
with its provisions All donations by
the state to privately operated char
liable institutions are unconstitutional,
he said, and asserted that II the state
gives to one it should give to all. He
branded the system whereby the state
aids certain institutions as unconsti-
tutional and wrong. Legislators. he
said, cannot demonstrate their gen.
erosity by being free and easy with
the taxpayers money. They can show
1t by putting their hands in their own
pockets and contributing their own
money. The ties and obligations Of
blood and religion have not vanished.
he said. and expressed confidence that
the state could depend on the various
churches and communities to care for
their own poor without help from the
state.
Merits state Support
Hyland took up the cudgels and
delivered an Grafton OF his own. For
years, he said, the state has contrib
uted to the North Dakota Childrens
Home and the Florence Crittenton
Home ct Fargo, and no question has
been raised as to constitutionality Of
the appropriations. These institutions
do good work and are q benefit to the
state, he said, and merit the support
Of the state. The House Of Mercy, he
said, does the same work as the Flor
ence Crittenton Home, with the ad-
dition that its service Is q trifle
broader.
Comparing the proposal to give SO
q month to support children In the
orphanage and SIS q month for In
mates Of the House Of Mercy, Hyland
said the state spends $3.50 month
each to reform children committed to
the state training school at Mandan.
and demanded to know whether It
weren't better to do something to give
children q better chance who had
been handicapped by circumstance
and thereby give them chance to
become useful citizens.
Duty to Kill Bill
Matthaei supported Forbes, saying
the senate was duty-bound to vote
down the. appropriation. The next
thing, he said, would be proposal to
donate state money to the league
against prohibitio1l or the board Of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals"
r. Q. sathre. sponsor Of the House
Of Mercy bill, insisted that II the
appropriation for one charitable In
stiution were to be killed oil should
be killed.
Forbesl motion was lost BY close
vote.
Tho senate made It clear that no
mbre bills Will be introduced Ia the
upper branch. Before discouragins
Hylaudx request It had refused 70
permit Senator Fine to introduce 4
bill permitting the state to take ad-
vantage Of . federal appropriation foz
agricultural extension work. He va
4 A. q.