The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-11
MORATORIUM SCHEME.
AGAIN IS PROPOSED
BY FARMERS union
Petition For Change in Newspa.
per Law Appears to Lack
Signers
CROP MORTGAGE UP AGAIN
Committee Would Have People
' Reverse Action Taken at
June Primary.

Petitions for nine initiated meas
ures requiring the signatures Of at
least 10000 electors and covering a
variety of purposes were on file with
Secretary of State Robert Byrns
Thursday. The work of checking
their sufficiency has not been com.
pleted.
Among three proposed measures
for which petitions were filed We'd
nesday was one sponsored by the
North Dakota Farmers Union, pro.
viding for three-year partial mora
forum on existing indebtedness. in
Guiding taxes and debts.
Another was for initiation of a Law
permitting mortgaging crops and pro-
viding certain restrictions. Petitions
for this measure were circulated by a
committee Of five northwestern North
Dakota farmers.
The petition for the third measure
came In by mail. It proposed a law
designating practically all newspapers
as official newspapers for legal no.
tees, proceedings and other matter.
An estimate as to the number Of
signers was not available but the Sec
rotary of state did not believe the
newspaper proposal carried enough
signatures.
Taxpayers Initiate Six
Petitions to initiate six measures
intended to reduce taxes were filed
Tuesday by G. F. Lamb, Michigan,
and Harold B. Wilson, president and
secretary respectively. of the North
Dakota Taxpayers association.
The SIX measures are supplement
tary to the four sponsored by the
taxpayers organization and adopted
at the June primary election. They
provide for a 20 per cent reduction OF
salaries Of state officials and EN-.
ployes; reduction of salaries of dis
trict judges: reduction of salaries OF
judges Of the supreme court: reduce
ton Of fees paid newspapers for pub
lication of legal notices and proceed
ings: elimination of district tax su-
pervisors; shortening notices of sales
Of real estate for delinquent taxes and
for filing and posting lists Of such
taxes with the names of owners and
descriptions of land upon which taxes
are delinquent.
Have $4,000 Signatures
It was estimated approximately
10000 signatures had been affixed to
the petitions filed by the taxpayers
association measure permitting crop
mortgages. The latter would super
sede the initiated law adopted last
June outlawing crop mortgages.
In filing the Farmers Union pro-
posed three-year moratorium meas.
ure, E. E. Green. OF jamestown.
chairman Of the committee Of petit
TONERS, estimated about 1900 had
signed the petitions. The moratorium
measure, he said. Is similar to that
fostered by the Farmers Union last
June. Outstanding changes are
those making it three years instead
of five and deleting reference to the
Frazier farm relief BILL
"A partial moratorium for three
years" the measure reads, lis de-
clared on all existing indebtedness at
the time this act takes effect. includ-
ing taxes and debts due by individuals
to the state. county. or other political
subdivisions except that benefits OF
this act shall not extend to corpora
tons. Nor to any person who. upon
an order to show cause before the dis.
trict. court, Is found able to pay such
Indebtedness without sacrificing his
home. lands. or farm chattels or sac
rificing his goods or chattels with
which he creates wealth for living OF
to maintain his family"
Circulated BY Pair
The measure In regard to official
newspapers was circulated by COM
mittee consisting Of E. -Eriksen, Gwin-
ner, chairman; and E. w. Bowen
Wyndmere. It provided for the des-
ignation of certain newspapers to be
official newspapers in the equity
where they are published and requir-
ing that all legal notices, proceedings
and other matter. which any public
officer or board Of such county 4
required to publish. be published un-
der certain conditions in all newspa-
pers OF the county In and for which
the matter must be published. and
fixing and determining compensation
for such publications. The provision
is made that the county shall not be
required to pay for such publication
in any greater amount than provided
by law for legal publication regard
less of the number Of newspapers u
which such publication Is made.
4sa&k $na ssSse
for q constitutional amendment K
repeal the state prohibition law were
accepted in July and already have
earned q place on the November bal.
lot. The petitions and measures filed
Tuesday and Wednesday, i found
sufficient. also will be listed on the
November ballot.
SCHAAF-BAER SIGNED
rytirarn Aug. IL. up - Ernie