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filufifiéofa e HISTORICAL SOGIETY. VOLUME 9. NO. 323. NEW MOVE MADE FOR REAPPORTIONMENT Certain Senators Are Working on Bill Which Has Been Promised Support of Influential Men. GOVERNOR WILL NOT ACT NOW “It Would Be Useless to Call Extra Session” Says Senator A. L. Han- son, of This District. (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Ploneer Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 18.—There is much speculation as to whether Governor Eberhart means to stand by his promise to call an extra ses- ment of the people for the people {and by the people,” and declared | that it was for the senators “now to say whether this shall be true in | Minnesota.” - | “We have heard ecriticism,” said | Senator Hackney, “that the senators !have not had an opportunity to aid !in the drafting of this bill. Now‘: !then I want to say that at a joint: ! meeting of the reapporfio‘nmenti | committees it was decided chat the| | bill was to be drawn by the house | committee and all the members of . both branches were asked to aid and | members of the senate had as much |to do with the bill as the house mem- ‘bers and if they didn’t it is their own fault.” | Senator Hackney then read the| jpledge adopted by the democrats at itheir state convention in Minnea-| ipolis on July 28 favoring reappor-| | tionment and a like pledge in the re-| ( publican, platform adopted the| ] :St. Paul convention, and, continu- {ing, he said. at “And yet, honored citizens of this | establishing of an automobile BEMIDJI HAS MANY NEW AUTOMOBILES Eight Machines Have Been Purchased This Spring Bringing Total Up To Twenty-Five. SEVERAL OTHERS T0O BUY SOON Will Be a Few Motor Boats Put on Lake During Coming .Summer Which Means 150 Launches. Considerable interest is being shown by several owners of auto- mobiles in Bemidji in the proposed as- !sociation in this city. cion of the legislature to pass a re-: apportionment bill. Some, mostly | floor are going back on these pledges. opponents of reapportionment | It is no wonder the people are ery- ment, assert that the governor’s|ing out for the initiative, for the political future will not per-| referendum, for the recall. It is no mit him to take such a step; as|Wonder, I say, that they are calling say it is his only|for primary What else can be expected if the people cannot de- many, or more, laws. salvation. i In the meantime a new move is on | Pend upon their public ~servants. foot to get a reapportionment bill| They pledge anything in the party through the present session. Cer-|Dlatforms and then come in with tain senators are working on a new | Subterfuges. Southern Minnesota draft and they have been promised!doesn’t want reapportionment of any support by influential senators who kind. 1 plead for a broad, liberal opposed the Congdon bill. { view, for the Killing off of the agita- Speaking of the defeat of the Cong- don bill, Senator A. L. Hanson, whose district Beltrami county is lo-' ed, said: in | tion of the cities against the country. IThe governor of the state has made| the statement that he would be com- | pelled to call an extra session and I It is suggested that the association | (be named tne Beltrami-Bemidji' Automobile Association, and in which | all owners of automobiles in Bemidji | may become members. ! At the present time there are 25 automobiles in the city, the owners | heing as follows: W. N. Bowser,| W. A. Gould, George Cochran, F. S. Lycan, Ed. Geralds, Edwin Geralds, | Dr. Tuomy, Dr. Sanborn, Dr. Mar-| jcum, Dr. Gilmore, J. A. Sullivan, A. | P. White, W. L. Brooks, E. A. Bark- ier, E. A. Schneider, A. E. Smith, 1 |T. J. Andrews (two machines) Ex- | Senator Swedback, John Moberg, Matt Phibbs, W. A. Cassler, C. W. Jewett (three machines) and George French. { | | | i | i i phis_Press. PUT OUT OVER 4,000 BASS [“Sypgay Sarmons i Bomiy | WILL BE MODERN BUILDING Episcopal. believe he will do so but I hope that he will not be compelled to do this. “I regret very much the defeat of the measure but hope that something! Should the legis- | Last night, the governor called a cau- lcus of republican members to con- apportionment measure it is my|sider a reapportionment bill. The judgment that it would be usgless|members would not even give him for the governor to call an extra|the courtesy of their presence. Why? { Because they don’t want any kind of of @ bill” may yet be done. lature adjourn without passing a re- ion.™ Representative D. P. O'Neill Thief River Falls authorized the fol-! i Senator J. E. Haycraft, republi can from Madelia, Watowan county, made a lengthy argument against the “There has grown up in this lowing comment: “No one regrets more than myself the failure of the bill in the senate.| bill. 1t seems to me that it is now up to!state quite a cry for reapportion- the governor to make good on his: ment. An association known promise to assemble the legislature in|the Northern and force|men association has come into exist- Minnesota Develop- extraordinary session through a fair measure. 1 do not|ance with reapportionment as its believe that a bill can be put through | paramount question. It has a pres- this session. A measure the senateident and a secretary but how they might pass. would not, I believe, pass are paid and by whom I know not.”” the house.” | Senator Hayeraft looked upon the bill Governor Eberhart merely reiter-|as a steel trust measure and redi- as| , the Congdon bill. ates that he can not properly an- nounce the call of a special session | Louis county as being not worthy of at this time, but everything he says| representation, emphasizing the vote indicates that he has not changed his mind on that point when the time comes when he thinks it prop- er to act. XK % Serret contereuces at the Paul hotel called by conniving foes has sealed the all Saint of reapportionment doom of that measure beyond hope but its last expiring moments on the floor of the senate Thursday afternoon were immortalized staunch champions who fought a losing fight for a square deal and who went down to defeat standing by their guns and with their colors fiving. Opponents of reapportionment fol- lowed the insult of refusing to grant Governor Eberhart the courtesy of their presence at the conference called by him by brazenly standing on the floor of the senate, trampling party pledges beneath their feet like so much saw dust and glorying in the knowledge that they weilded the power called upon the members to kill “this bill and kill it now.” The Congdon house bill had been made a special order for Thursday at 2 p. m. At that hour the com- plete bill was read by the reading clerk, after which a few unimportant amendments were offered and adopt- ed. Then the fight was on. Sena- tor J. M. Hackney, the St. Paul busi- ness man, was the one to open fray inasmuch as he is chairman of the senate reapportionment committee. For nearly an hour Senator Hackney hurled warnings at the senators, quoting party platforms and the state constitution and minutely explaining He quoted the vords of Lincoln, “this is a govern- byl culed the foreign population of St. casting strength of the south as against the north. He concluded: “1 doubt if a thousand out of a { million realize what this bill means. {1 don’t believe the governor will call }an extra session but if he does it This is |a vicious bill and the proudest mo- ment of the session to me will be |(-arries no terrors for me. when I vote no." . | Senator W. S. Dwinnell, republican of Minneapolis, followed in scathing | denunciation of the attitude of Sen-| ator Hayeraft, especially the infer-| ence that it was a corporation bill. | He made a deep impression when he said: | T congratulate our friends the }democrals for having placed the re- ' publicans in their present predica- You have divided the repub- !lican party and if the people also de- {cide upon a division the result may | |be serious to the party. Several | years ago it fell to my Iot to state| |the case of a contesting delegation at a state convention. I said at that! |time that the delegation, which had | been properly elected, could be thrown out. but that anarchy would| The delegation was thrown out and for six years the reigned. The same thing may happen again.” Senator C. J. Swanson of Anoka ment. reign in the republican ranks. democrats county attempted to amend the bill| by detaching from his district Mille| Lacs and attaching it to Senator J,! D. Sullivan’s district. Senator Sul- livan, democrat, from St. Cloud, jumped to his feet for the purpose of opposing the amendment but proved the opportunity to say some cutting thing in behalf of the bill. He declared that Senator Swanson im- Of the above list the following have purchased their machines this| spring: George French, Ex-Senator ! | Swedback, J. A. Geralds, George 1 Gould, and W. Sullivan, Edwin Cochran, W. A. N.Bowser. . Those who have announced their} !intentions of purchasing new ma-; ‘chines soon are: George Kreatz, C. M. Bacon (who has sold his old ma- chine) W. J. Markham and Dr. C. R. Sanborn. There is perhaps no city in the | state the size of Bemidji which has {as many automobiles. There are over 140 motor boats on Lake Bemidji, and already five Be- midji residents have announced their| attention of putting boats on _the lake. was not sincere in offering the amendment at the last minute and that his real object was to kill the bill. Senator Sullivan added: “Why if an angel from heaven | were to come down and draw a re- apportionment bill it would be erit- icized as unfair. And it is a funny It wasn't until after all the conven- tions were over, the elections held and the senators safely and snugly and comfortably located as members of this body that one word against reapportionment was heard.” Senator Boyle, republican from Eveleth talked loud and long for the bill and resented the insinuation “15,000 dagoes in St. Louis county” were not entitled to be considered in making up representation. “Yes,” thing about all this criticism. cried the young senator, “there are 15,000 dagoes in my district and” (pointing a finger at Senator Hay- craft) they come from just as good as your’s or any sena- ancesters tor’s on this , floor. “Why, sir, foreign blood courses through the veins of the men who till our farms, who reap our crops, who build our buildings—the state has been made big and great by foreigners.” It remained for A. O. Lende, re- publican semator from Marshall, Lyon county, to deliver the most eloquent and painstaking address of the day in opposition to the measure which he characterized as “one of the most vicious and outrageous bill ever before this senate.” He pre- sented voluminous figures in an ef- fort to show that more votes. are cast in southern Minmesota than ind - | the districts of the mnorth or in the cities. When corrected by- Senator Carl Wallace of Minneapolis as a| UBIVErsity has voted'a membership in| there” are 32 cows being milked, misstatement. as to. the registration of Wallace’s district, Lende sneered, T suppose you mean hotel registra- (Continued on Last- Page.) Crackerjack Factory of Methodist | | Church Establishing Record. The output of the crackerjack fact- ory, including today will be more | than- four_ theuskndkbess. This is a remarkable frecord as the plant is only operated on a Saturday‘ and all of the sales are made on the same Saturday. | The fact that each preceding week | more bags are sold is evidence that the confection is becoming more pop- ular. The output last Saturday reached 800 bags and it is the purpose to sell 1,000 today. Services inevening. Sunday school | at 10. 1‘ | German Lutheran. | Services at the Baptist chureh Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Sub- | jeet, A -struggle between God and 1‘Man. Matth. 15:21-28. l | Scandinavian Lutheran. There will be services in the morn- ing hour at the usual time. An ad- i dress in “Temperence” will be de- ilivered by C. Walden of Craokston. Sunday school at 12. No evening service. Methodist. Ifor bids for the building of the new Many people have as yet not had | their wants supplied as regularly as| Services in the Masonic Temple. | they would like. The manageme'nt';The riorning service will be an ad | | however wishes it understood that dress by Rev. C. W. Start in the| efforts are being make to cover the |interest of the anti-saloon league. | |and that.it will be a eredit to the \HELD SUGGESSFUL OPENING city systematically and also that everyone who is not receiving a suf- ficient supply should telephone the J. W. Naugle residence, 609 Bemidji and their wants will be The tele- avenue, promptly attended to. phone number is 455. Next Sunday this Sunday school class of girls will present to the church building fund the sum of $100, which is to be used toward the building of the new chureh, now un- der way. This is just a starter for this class, and a goodly sum already has been laid aside toward the second hundred dollars. Mrs. Naugle’s Sunday school class is composed of the most enthusiastic lot of workers to be found anywhere, and a large portion of the credit is due them for their services and en- thusiasm and success. I Father of Mrs. Vye Dead. Word was received today by Mrs. W. H. Vye that her father D. B. Stanley, 64 years old, of Maine Prairie, died at his home last eve- 'ning. | serious illnes of her father and his death came as a sad surprise to her; she had intended to visit him dur- |ing the next week. Mr. and Mrs. Vye left this after- S;noou over_the Soo to be present at i | | the funeral. | Ot sevetal children, Mrs. Vye was | the eldest daughter i Chinese Student Honored. New York, March 18.—Columbia the Sigma Xi society, & high scientific honor, to Chung Yu Wen, a Chinese student in metallurgy, . S{gma Xi cor- responds in a general way to the Phi Beta Kapps honors of the academic courses. Mrs. Vye had not. known of the! There will be no evening preaching on account of the big anti-saloon | league rally in the Armory. Sunday | school at 12 o’clock. The Christian | Endeavor of the Presbyterian cdurch and the Baptist Voung People's| Union will join in union services| with the Epworth League at 6:30.] Miss Graling will have charge. | Preshyterian. There will be the usual morving services. P. J. Youngclahl, will speak at the morning service in the interest of the anti-saloon league. There will be no evening service as a anti-saloon league rally will be held in the Armory. Baptist. There will be Sunday school ser- { vices at the usual hour. Ladies’ Aid| will meet on Wednesday in the basement of the church, picnic lunch.- Psayer meeting on Thurs- day evening in- the church parler led by Rev. Robert Kelly, of Chicago. ! i | 8. E. Thompson, the Tenstrike | merchant is in Bemidji today. | Roses, Carnations, Johnauills, Daffodills at the Green House. | More Cows for Alfalfa Farm. This morning W. G. Schroeder, (owner of the Alfalfa Dairy Farm, |a few miles west of Bemidji, left for Royalton, Minnesota, where it is his intention to purchase about 20 head ' of milch cows which are to be plaved ’on the farm. At the present time { daily, at the farm, but as the call for milk from the Alfalfa Dairy Farm has been so heavy, Mr. Schroeder has | deemed it best to enlarge his herd. 1 { noen and evening. | by the City Clerk of the City of Be- | midji, on or before 8 o’clock p. m., 1 for monthly salary for the caretaking Nangle Structure to Be Erected Soon Credit to Bemidji. " This morning the plans for the| new building, which Charles Nangle is to erect, were placed in his hands by Thomas Johnson the architect. Mr. Nangle is today advertising structure. From the plans of the building, the first floor of which is to be used by Mr. and the second floor for the new quarters of the Bemidji Commercial Club, it is evident that the building is to /be modern in every respect Nangle as a grocery store city of Bemidji. Henrionnet Millinery Parlors Seen of Much Activity Yesterday. Friday afternoon and evening, the Henrionnet Millinery Parlors were the scene of much activity, the oc-| casion being the 1911 Spring Opening| of Millinery. The large display window was tastily decorated with beautiful spring hats, streamers of the leading| colors. this spring, and a large but- terfly of coral and black reminded| one that summer is coming. Pink and white carnations com-| pleted the window decorations. i Despite the typical March weather | a large number of women called dur- ing the day to look over the many beautiful hats displayed the tables. Mrs. Henrionnet served chocolate and marshmallows during the after- on Sealed Proposals. , Bemidji, Minn., March 16, 1911. Sealed proposals will be received March 27, 1911, from man and wife, of paupers at the City Poor Farm and the maintainance of said poor farm to the best advantage, said city to furnish the necessary supplies, light and fuel. Further information can be had at the office of the City Clerk. The City reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids. o GEORGE STEIN, City Clerk. 2t Sat—Mar 18-25 | Boe against William Fisher for $24 |is now being taken. “|meet in the office of President Sy- FRANK VAN TASSEL FREED FROM JAIL {Judge Stanton Dismisses the Indict- : | ment and States His Reasons for E i o Doing. i DIVORCE DAY IN DISTRICT COURT Court C#ses Now Being Tried and Are Likely to Last for Another Week. | Frank Van Tassel, tried three times for assault upon John Lehner. ;walked from the- county jail last }evening a free man, after having Zbeen in custody for about a year. { Judge Stanton, in ordering the dis- §missal of the indictment, made sub- {stantially the following statement, 1which ‘was made a part of the record |in the somewhat interesting case: | “With reference to the case of the State of Minnesota vs. Frank Van | Tassel, the court, acting under the | | provisions of Section 5378, Revised Laws of 1903, deems it proper to dis- {miss the indictment, and the indict- ment against Frank VanTassel is at this time accordingly dismissed. “Tne court desires to state, in this | connection, that this action is taken iby the court expressly without refer- ence to the opinion of the court as 1; to the guilt or innocent of the de- }Iendmt, and that the dismissal is made because the court is of the opinion, in consideration of all the circumstances in connection with the | case and of the\lfistory of the case, | that the court should, in the exercise | of sound discretion, now enter an | order of dismissal for the reason that | the case has been tried three times to ia jury, each of which juries have dis- agreed, and that it is but fair to as- sume that a fourth jury would dis- agree unless some new evidence is offered, and the court is unable to ascertain at the present time that any evidence could be offered upon a fourth trial of the case, other than such evidence as has been offered at ‘Lhe previous trials. the court is actuated in this decision by the “Further, somewhat { knowledge that a fourth trial would be very expensive, approximating, in the opinion of the court, in view of the difficulty of securing a jury, the 1sum of $1,000.00; and the further reason that the defendant has been confined in jail about a year is not without influence upon the court in the matter.” At about 11 o’clock last night the last jury of the present term re- turned a verdict declaring Thomas Wold entitled to judgement against the Crookston Lumber company for the sum of $36.25. Earlier in the evening a jury re- turned a verdict in favor of Louis ! for the rental of premises in Nymore. 7This morning the divorce action of Martha Wilson against Fred Wilson Tenstrike parties, was tried and re- sulted in an order for judgment for the plaintiff. The evidence in the divorce cas> «f Juiia Burns against Joseph Bures Marriage Licenses Issued. During the past week clerk ot court Fred Rhoda has issued the fol- lowing marriage licenses: H. A. Bailey and Mrs. D. H. Full- erton. Morris Breyette and Maud Free- man. Clinton Sines and Mattie Sum- merfield. £ Gun Shoot Tomorrow. There will be a practice shoot of the Bemidji Rod and Gun Club to- morrow at 10 a. m. Members will D. D. MILLER, See. mons.