SCHISMS AND INJUNCTIONS 



these and added others until the League found 

 itself confronting the following formidable ar- 

 ray of legal entanglements: 



1. Against the Workmen's Compensation 

 Act. The state treasurer was notified to re- 

 fuse payment of the warrants of the Bureau 

 on the ground that these warrants should 

 first go through the hands of the state auditor, 

 who, being hostile, would then be able to hold 

 up every item for investigation with a result- 

 ing delay that would paralyze the operation 

 of the act. The Bureau was obliged to begin 

 mandamus proceedings to compel the state 

 treasurer to pay the warrants as provided by 

 law, but while the fight over these proceed- 

 ings went on from court to court, the opera- 

 tion of the law was practically suspended. 



Meantime mandamus proceedings had been 

 begun on the other side by the state auditor, 

 the attorney-general acting as his counsel, to 

 compel the Workmen's Compensation Bureau 

 to allow the state auditor and private account- 

 ants of his choosing to examine the Bureau's 

 books, although it had been in existence only 

 two months. The plaintiffs in this action 

 went across the Missouri River to Mandan, 

 made their applications to an obscure district 

 court, and got an order compelling the Bureau 

 to appear in Mandan and show cause within 

 fewer than twenty -four hours. Attorney 

 William Lemke of Fargo, who had appeared 



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