The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-23
ATTORNEY GENERALS
OPINION PUTS new
FIRE IN SITUATION
Senate Attendance Drops to 70;
Quorum Definitely Out
Of Question
LOWER HOUSE HAS ONLY So
Flanagan Orders Ssrgsant-At-
Arms to Bring in Ab.
sentee Members

Numerous house and senate menu
bers having left the city, attendance
at the pretended session Of the state
legislature dropped Monday but new
fire was added to the session by At
torney p. o. sathre's opinion that the
house could legally convene for the
purposes Of considering impeach-
ment, even though the senate failed
to muster q quorum.
Mondays session OF the house
opened without q quorum, but SER
geants-at-arms were sent out to call
In absent members, and In view Of
the attorney generals opinion that
the assembly was legally convened,
sufficient members were expected to
be brought in to make up quorum.
Only So Of the needed 81 answer
ed roll call In the house. Seventy
three were present Saturday, 81 Fri
day and 81 Thursday when the ses-
sion convened pursuant to call Of
William LANCER, deposed governor,
whose trial and conviction Of federal
conspiracy charges the house. friend
" to him, plans to investigate.
Session Legal, Says Satire
Satire held the house Is legally
in session for purposes Of impeach-
ment.
After the opinion was ready, w. ].
Flanagan. LANCER house leader, call
ed on sergeants-at arms to bring In
absentees. - s.e ..-....
Only Is appeared In the senate
Monday, four less than the maximum
of "a registered Saturday, and It ap-
peared that the effort to get the up
per branch Of the legislature into
even pretended session would be
dropped.
Meanwhile. Acting Governor Ole H.
Olson proceeded with the Job Of in
Sailing in office men he has appoint
ed to places formerly held by LANCER
ties, the one sticking point being lack
of sufficient help for Ole B. Lund,
auditor for the state board Of audi
tors, to check them all out-and in
Vuickly.
Examination Of the records OF each
office Is one Of the necessary incl
dents to change, In order that re-
sponsibility for anything found wrong
III anything Is wrong-may be
placed at the proper door.
Lund, who has been working ct
the state mill and elevator ct Grand
Forks, came here Sunday, leaving
most Of his helpers there. TO meet
the present emergency he appointed
Lester s. Diehl and John Graham
as special assistants and these men
were working with him Monday in
checking out Owen 7. Owen, Laneer,S
beer commissioner.
Owen, In conferences with Sidney
A. Papke, appointed to succeed him,
had insisted that the hank examiner
make the check-out. but Papke Ia.
sisted on Lund, upon whom the duty
OF auditing the beer commission nor.
mally falls. Lund got the Job. al-
though members Of the examiners
office may assist him. He said he Is
willing to cooperate with the bank
examiners department In any Of this
work.
Have Too Much Woek
How soon the auditors would get
around to the highway commission.
where Frank Vogel = insisting upon
observance Of the fiscal proprieties
before leaving office was uncertain.
but Llnd Indicated It would b ! day
or two.
In . formal statement vogel as-
serted that he Is more than anxious
to be relieved" but that III Olson
hasn't got the legal talent to know
how to proceed. that cannot Be blamed
on me-"
o. Leonard Orvedal, new secretary
Of the state industrial commission,
had asked . check by Lund but later
found that the bank examiner i the
proper auditor for that office,
Indications that the state soon will
have either new beer inspectors or
none at al were seen In IN order BY
Papke to the n men employed GA
that Job BY Owen, 70 report In Bis
snarck Tuesday. bringing With them
any state automobiles In their pos.
session. There are a Of these men,
each driving . state-owned car.
The men are expected to b ~.
moved from the payroll and the cars
placed In local garage. at least tenn
porarily.
New orders went out to the state
mill Saturday from Orvedal, acting
% executive agent Of the state in.|
dtstrial commission. They stated
that, at . regular meeting Of the
state industrial coenmission, . unani.
NOUS decision Was reached 70 In
str,lct you 70 refrain from any nd