The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-06
Governors Banking Bill Wins AS His Mill Commission Loses
ating to reduce the price of wheat at
market time.


market time.
independents who had hoped to
obtain enough Nonpartisan votes to
carry the mill management bill we're
disappointed when only one Lacquer
joined forces with them. He was
william Martin, Morton county. Sew
eral others who had been believed
prepared to break away from the
Nonpartisan majority stood firm,
however.
Shafer to BE Greatest Dakotan
In his talk on the bill, Hyland said
that the senate had done wrong to
the state by not accepting the gov
ernor's suggestion. Governor Shafer
had nothing but the best interests Of
the state and the mill in mind when
he suggested the management conf
mission, he said, and declared it ridic-
ulous that the governor should man
age big enterprise such as the mill
from a distance Of nearly 800 miles.
Defeat of the bill, he charged, was due
to politics as played by the Nonpar-
tisans. who sought to make political
capital OF It.
Instead, Hyland said, defeat Of the
bill would make Governor Shafer the
biggest man North Dakota has ever
had or ever will have" and predicted
that the scnate's action would insure
his future political success. He said
he had so advised the governor in
conferences with him, but that the
executive had insisted that his own
political fortunes were of no import
ance beside the welfare of the state
and its institutions.
A protest by D. H. Hamilton, Nc
Henry county, senate majority lead
or, that Hyland had no right to make
his talk after the bill was passed or
to have his remarks printed In the
journal, was overruled by the presid-
ing officer but Hyland later withdrew
his request that his statement be
made matter Of record.
Debate Livestock and Futures
The resolution to ask congress to
investigate the livestock markets
brought the only debate of Tuesdays
session.
j. f. Eastgate, Grand Forks, said
he is sick and tired of asking for farm
relief and asserted that II the average
farmer we're big enough to go to his
successful farmer neighbors and fol-
low their example III conducting his
business there would be less pleading
for help from the state and federal
governments. One day, he said,
North Dakota Is being advertised as
great state with wonderful pros
poets and opportunities for everyone
and the next day the howl Is made
about hard times.
Fine said investigation of prices at
South st. Paul showed decreases in
price of from Is to IS per cent in a
weeks time and said these decreases
always come just when the hog move
ment is the heaviest. He asserted
that there was mo good reason" for
these sharp drops.
Hyland said that North Dakota has
obtained bad reputation in Wash
ington as the birthplace of funny
ideas and that every time such reso-
luton is read in the United States
senate it is labeled as having come
from North Dakota, whether it came
from this state or not.
V6tt 0CCC Conspiracy
William Watt, Cass county, said
that market prices of farm products
vitality concern the farmer and that
there was no reason why hogs should
sell for II cents in August and 7ls
cents short time later. He charged
that packers are buying hogs at their
own price and that the farmer is be-
ing victimized. He said he wasn't
sure that passage of resolution is
the best way to obtain action, but
that the condition is bad. He said he
would favor anything directed at it.
Because of climatic conditions it is
not possible to market the pig crop
except at certain seasons. he said. and
it is at those seasons that the price
is dropped.
The entire marketing situation
operates against the farmer, he said,
and charged that publication by the
government of its crop estimates has
the effect Of reducing prices. He
charged that the farmers lost mill
lions Of dollars as the result Of pub
lication last June of the government
report showing huge wheat acreage
and predicting a big crop.
All the farmer needs in the way of
relief. Watt said, is a square deal so
that he can get fair price for what
he raises.