SCHISMS AND INJUNCTIONS 



lion from performing its functions under the 

 act that created it. By this act the board was 

 authorized to establish a subsidiary Board of 

 Commissioners of Education, which was to re- 

 vise the courses of instruction for the several 

 classes in the public schools. The action of 

 the superintendent was directed especially 

 against this subsidiary commission, notwith- 

 standing the fact that she was not only a 

 member, but its president, while the other 

 members were noted educators and one a fore- 

 most and selected representative of the county 

 schools. 



4. Against any change. An action was 

 brought in the name of forty -two taxpayers 

 against the entire industrial program of the 

 League, terminal elevator, flour-mills, bank, 

 and the rest, on the ground that all was un- 

 constitutional, being private business and not 

 public. Very distinguished counsel appeared 

 in support of this motion. There was the firm 

 of Young, Watson & Connay, attorneys for 

 the Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railroads; Tracy Bangs of Grand 

 Forks, attorney for the Northwestern Tele- 

 phone and Western Union Telegraph Com- 

 panies; and the firm of Murphy & Toner, 

 attorneys for the Great Northern Railroad 

 Company. This action was brought in the 

 United States District Court, where, upon 

 being argued, the forty-two taxpayers were 



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