THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



on more than one occasion as the resourceful 

 fairy godmother of the League, now sprang 

 into the breach and got an order from a supe- 

 rior court ordering the judge at Mandan to 

 show cause why he should not be prohibited 

 from hearing the first action on the ground 

 that he was out of the district. When this 

 application came up the action was made 

 broad enough to cover all phases of the issue, 

 resulting naturally in an appeal and further 

 delay. Meantime the Bureau was unable to 

 pay any claims under the act, as the state 

 auditor refused to pass them, and to a great 

 extent consequently this beneficent law was 

 nullified. 



2. Injunction proceedings. An action of 

 which the origin was concealed, but seems 

 to have been surmised by the League press, 

 was begun against the constitutionality of 

 the Work-men's Compensation Act on the 

 ground of a defect in the title; also that the 

 act delegates legislative powers to the Com- 

 pensation Bureau because it leaves some rates 

 of compensation in some certain conditions 

 to be fixed by the Bureau. At the time of 

 writing this action is still winding its slow 

 length along. 



3. Against educational consolidation. This 

 was an action brought by the state superin- 

 tendent of education through the attorney- 

 general to restrain the Board of Administra- 



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