The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-07
destinations Followed Three.
Week Legislative lnquisi.
ton IN 1893
FRASER RESIGNED EARLIER
Members Of Board Of Admins.
tration Took Up Duties
When They Left

Exonerated By Governor william
LANCER Of dishonesty Or vrongdoing.
George A. Bangs Of Grand Forks and
Fred L. Conklin Of Bismarck, menu
bers Of the original capitol building
commission, resigned from their posts
March 30, 1883.
Their designations followed . three
week legislative inquisitaon into the
affairs Of the commission, extending
from Jan. 26 to Feb. is, during which
the third original member Of the
commission, q. Angus Fraser OF
Fargo, resigned Feb. 2 when testimony
and records indicated . duplication
IN his expense accounts.
Serving Is capitol commissioners IN
their stead until July l, 1888, we're the
three appointive members Of the state
board Of administration, r. NJ. Rtsh-
worth, Nelson A. Sauvain and Laura
Sanderson.
On July I tho three appointive
members Of the board Of administra-
ticn. Rishworth, Sauvain ana Mrs.
Jennie Ulsrud, and the two ex-officio
members, Commissioner Of Agricul.
ture and Labor John HUSKY and su-
perintendent Of Instruction Arthur =
Thompson, became members Of the
capitol commission which Jaw com.
pletiou OF the building.
The resignation Of Bangs and Conk-
lin saved them the time and expense
81 : long and perhaps bitter hearing
which could have only ono outcome.
Expected Adverse Decision
They and their friends agreed that.
AZ the case went to the bitter end
the governors formal finding would
be against them, no matter what the
evidence showed. With them the
question was one Of accepting exon
Grafton at the hands Of the governor
or attempting to vindicate themselves
by giving the facts to tho public, With
the prospect that the effect On tho
public mind might b weakened BY
the governors adverse findings
On this basis observers agreed that
the settlement represented weaken-
ing by the governor on the attitude
which he previously had expressed
End q victory for Bangs and Conklin.
The legislative he&ing ended
abruptly Feb. 10 without Bangs and
Conklin having. had an opportunity
TO testify.
A few hours later. Senator w. E.
Matthaei, author Of the resolution
which inspired the investigation and
chairman Of the probe committee, -
sued . statement In which he said he
had ~sigorously opposed" the action
lof other members Of the committee
Ii not permitting Bangs and Conklin
to take the stand.
In . spirit Of fair play and de-
cency," he said. they should have
been given the privilege to explain or
rebut any testimony In the procedure.
and the action BY the committee IN
denying them the right was not In
accordance with my position"
Matthaei said Senator G. Norman
Brunsdale. J. D. Holthusen and him.
self, Is members Of the committee.
ware "over-ridden By the other menu
hers
The investigation closed with q brief
announcement by e. r. Sinkler, coun-
ri for the legislators, that Bangs,
Oonklin ana their attorney, George
Thorp Of Fargo. had failed to comply
With the rules Of the committee that
would have placed them on tho stand.
Questions IN Writing
0inkler said that the rules q the
committee demanded that Ill ques-