THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



its banks dominated by the 

 milling interests, 19. 



Minneapolis Chamber of Com- 

 merce: foundation of, 15; ab- 

 normal legal power of, 15, 17; 

 control of, 16; its star-chamber 

 courts, 16; interwoven with rail- 

 road interests, 21; typical day's 

 trading on, 39-40; operations 

 with "velvet chaff" wheat, 78; 

 operations with durum wheat, 

 78; classification of member- 

 ships, 69; distribution of mem- 

 berships, 70; as co-equal with 

 the government, 70; as immune 

 from investigation, 71; power of, 

 71; reports of typical day's 

 trading on, 112-113; rules for 

 the buying prices of grain, 155; 

 annual dealings hi futures, 158; 

 power and operations of, in con- 

 nection with the Duluth and 

 Chicago Boards of Trade, find- 

 ings of committee of national 

 House of Representatives, 161- 

 163; investigation of, by com- 

 mittee of Minnesota House of 

 Representatives, 174; counter- 

 acted by investigation of Senate 

 committee, 174. 



Minnesota, attempt of politicians 

 to strangle Nonpartisan League 

 by repealing primary laws, 307. 



Minnesota Farmers' Exchange, 

 the: origin of, 111; buys seat 

 on Mianeapolis Chamber of 

 Commerce, 114; membership 

 arbitrarily rescinded, 116-117; 

 loses twelve cars of grain shipped 

 to Chamber of Commerce firm, 

 118; manner of its ruin, 119-121. 



"Mixing-houses" and terminal 

 elevators: record of two years 

 at Minneapolis, 47; record of 

 twelve months at Minneapolis, 

 48; record of three months at 

 -Duluth, 49; record of one year 

 at Duluth, 52; record of a sec- 

 ond year at Duluth, 53; record 

 of all Aliniicupolis terminal ele- 



vators for 1911, 54-55; profits 

 of, 53, 54; secrets of, 55-56. 



Money and interest rates in North 

 Dakota: legal interest rates re- 

 duced from 12 to 10 per cent., 

 34-35; typical illustration of 

 method of making farm loans, 

 24-26; chattel-mortgage meth- 

 ods, 25, 26; report on, by John 

 Skelton Williams, Comptroller 

 of the Currency, 35; experiences 

 with, by Adolph Sundahl, 35; 

 experiences with, by Olaf Knut- 

 son, 36; Supreme Court upholds 

 excessive interest rates in North 

 Dakota, 36; statistics of, in 

 North Dakota, 36. 



Money rates reformed by legis- 

 lature of North Dakota in ses- 

 sion of 1919, 256-257. 



Montana, attempts of politicians 

 of, to strangle Nonpartisan 

 League by repealing primary 

 law, 303-305. 



Nebraska, attempt of the politi- 

 cians to strangle the Nonpartisan 

 League by repealing the primary 

 laws, 305-306. 



Nonpartisan Leader, The, first issue 

 with twenty-two thousand sub- 

 scribers, 203. 



Nonpartisan League, the: first sug- 

 gestion of, 198; first members of, 

 199; difficulties to secure funds, 

 200; relations to "postdated" 

 checks, 200; first known as Farm- 

 ers' Nonpartisan League, 200; 

 name chosen by A. C. Townley, 

 200; members of, solicited on 

 commission basis, 202; criticisms 

 and defense of this plan, 202- 

 203; attacked as not democrat- 

 ically managed, 207; selects L. 

 J. Frazier as candidate for gov- 

 ernor, 210; mass state conven- 

 tion, April 1, 1916, 211, 217-218; 

 rapid growth of, 212; program 

 of, 213-214; pledge signed by 

 members upon joining, 214; 



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