THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



the law creating a State Printing Commission, 

 Senate Bill No. 157, and the law creating the 

 Board of Administration, Senate Bill No. 134, 

 by which, as I have previously told, a popular 

 and capable woman was supposed to be legis- 

 lated out of office. 



The other measures submitted to the refer- 

 endum were, third, a bill creating a state tax 

 commissioner, in which no one, so far as I 

 could learn, seemed much interested; fourth, 

 a bill creating a commissioner of immigration, 

 which was in much the same category; fifth, 

 the industrial commission bill, on which, as 

 I have explained, hung the terminal elevator 

 and the state flour-mills; sixth, a bill re- 

 districting the state for judicial purposes; 

 seventh, the bill creating the Bank of North 

 Dakota. 



It will be seen that of these only the fifth 

 and seventh could be regarded as vital to the 

 League program or even connected therewith, 

 although it is no doubt true, as the League 

 newspapers asserted, that an adverse vote on 

 any of the proposals would have been taken 

 as the repudiation of that program by the 

 people of the state. 



The campaign closed with confident asser- 

 tions by the opposition and many predictions 

 from independent sources that the League 

 was beaten. The count of votes showed the 

 following results: 



288 



