Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 22, 1911, Page 1

THE B VOLUME 9. NO. 326. SENATE PASSES JUDICIAL MEASURE! Bill Providing for Non-Partisan Nomination of Supreme and Dis- trict Court Judges Favored. GOV. AND PENDERGAST CLASH Eberhart and Bemidji Man Have Spat Which Causes Resignation, to Take Effect April 1. (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pion Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 22.—The power of one vote was dramatically illus- trated in the senate, yesterday after- noon, wnen the Putnam bill provid- ing a non-partisan nomination for supreme court justices and district court judges, was passed after a dramatic ten minutes during which the fate of the bill was in the bal- ance. It takes 32 votes to pass a bill in the senate. The roll was called on the Putnam bill and the vote stood 29 to During the call the ser- 31 in favor of its passage. geant at arms and pages were scour- ing the capital for Senator Schaller of Hastings. He could not be found and all the senators present were re- corded, with Schaller and one vote still missing. Lieutenant Governor Gordon refused, however, to close, the vote until every effort to locate the Hastings senator had been made and just as he poised his gavel, the bang of which would mean the death knell of the measure, the figure of Senator Schaller slid through the side door of the senate chamber. “Schaller,” shouted the reading clerk. “Here,” responded the senator, and a wave of laughter ensued. “How do you vote on Senate File 1777 queried the clerk. “Aye,”” velled Schaller as the friends of the bill broke into ap- plause which quickly subsided when | Senator Glotzbach change my vote from aye to no.” This again left the bill need of one more vote. shouted: “I in dire Its author and its friends had accepted the ver- dict as final and the reading clerk was when Windom, verifying the roll call Senator A. C. Olson of Jackson county, arose in his seat and saved the bill by quietly remark- | ing: 1 change my vote from no to aye.” The Putnam bill. to the house for its sanction, presented at the board of goyernors of the state bar that on Tuesday. five weeks before any gener- al election at which a justice or judge is to be elected, there shall be held in each judicial district a judicial provided that if no su- preme court justice is to be elected, district judicial conventions shall be which now goes was instance of the association and provides convention, held only in the judicial districts in which a district judeg is to be elect- ed for the purpose of nominating can- didates for such district judges. The Putnam bill came up as a special order of business at 1:30 vesterday afternoon together with to the memory of the dead member. Mr. Fisher was stricken with pa- ralysis early in the winter and was | unable to attend any of the sessions | of the legislature. From time to jthe house and when the county ‘aption bill was up he sent a request that the journal of the house show | that he favored the bill. Mr. Fisher | was a republican. The vacancy zaused by his death will not be filled. * & Waiters may come and porters nay go but tips go ou forever, in dinnesota. The Lee bill making it nlawful to receive or offer tips has :een killed by the house. * K x Representative I. J. Lee, republi- can from Glenwood, Pope county opines that it would be a good idea to know who is the power behind the type and has therefore { duced a bill compelling every news- intro- ;aper having a circulation of more a year the real name of the owner or in than 5,000 to print twice 5 i :use of a corporation the names of ‘he officers and list of stockholders. x x % Sundberg of the railroads, to Senator com- mittee on referred the Rockne wdjacent to railroad tracts than is at present the case. has reported out fied form and so that it refers only ture. The bill now provides: “That after the passage of this act Istruct or maintain any warehouse, | coal schutes, stock pens, pole, mail | trains, standpipe hog drencher or excavating allow any embankment of earth or natural rock to remain upon its line of raiiroad or on any side feet measured from the centre line of the track. tracks shall be at a height less than | top of the track rail. | “It shall be unlawful for any com- mon carrier to construct any track where the centre line is at a distance | less than fourteen feet from the cen- tre line of any other parallel track which it adjoins.” { A penal clause providing fines of |$500 a day is included in the bill, and each day that any structure or ‘obstructiun that is violation of this act shall constitute a seperate offense. * X X | Captain Adam E. Otto and First Lieutenant John Hillaby, Company K, M. N. G.. may be called upon by | Adjutant General Wood to proceed neuvers now being carried on by the be in a position to view actual war- fare across the Mexican boundary and possibly participate, should this country decide to intervene. two Bemidji officers are included in the list made up by the adjutant ton as members of the militia will- this | Both have signified their willingness ing to go south from state. ito go to the front. x ¥ X | Judge L. G. Pendergast, the Be- ! midji democrat, who kad the honor | time he has sent communications to| which was | bill providing! for a greater clearance of structures; o structure to be erected in the fu-| it shall be unlawfut to erect, recon-| fixed struction or obstruction or in track, at a distance less than eight| i “No overhead wires, bridges, via-| ducts or other obstruction over the! twenty-one feet measured from the maintained in| to Texas to view the military ma- | United States regular army and thus| The | general and forwarded to Washing-| primary election bills presented by |of being nominated by the democrats the committee on elections, SenatDT! for the office of lieutenant governor Nelson and Senator Moonan. | with Gov. Johnson at the head of the “ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME A SUGGESS Home Talent Play Produced at the Armory Theatre Last Evening Was Largely Attended. i Every Member of the Cast Filled the | Different Parts in Worthy Man- ! ner—Several Feature Acts. “All the Comforts of Home™” was jgiven last evening in the Armory i{theatre by a company of all home {talent, and as had been stated in the .Daily Pioneer, an all star cast. | The Armory was filled to its ut- of Bemidji present. | To say the very least, the play was | a success and a hugh one, both frem the staging of the production and from a financial standpoint. Every member of the cast is de- iserviug of special comment, and for | this reason the Pioneer will .not at-| i the bill for passage, but in a modi- tempt to point out those of char- {acters which were best. Sherman Berge, as Alfred Hastings i carried his heavy role in a very cap-| ! able manner, while T. A. McCann, as [ drew much applause. As Theodore Bender, a retired pro- duce dealer, T. J. Burke proved him- self an actor of the highest type. f W. A. Gould, handled his difficult | mendable manner. As has been said every character | of-the cast was taken care of in a | very worthy manner. Director Masten and his eighteen piece orchestra, furnished the music, iand it was much appreciated by all. Between the first and second aocts |a character sketch was given by A. { H. Jester and John Morrison, which | caused much amusement. | Andrew Rood, sang, and that his {evident by his being forced to re- i‘Dond to encore. The play was given for the bene-| fit of the Bemidji publie library for the securing of more books and read- ing matter and in improving the present standing of the library in different respects. It is the opinion ment that over $500 was raised. | is considerably excited over reports | received from the vicinity of Brain-| erd to the effect that long smolder- ing fires had broken out. He be-| lieves this is a warning to the state |and recommends that the | In the still ranger service begin at once. meantime, the legislature is how the forests can be best guarded. x ¥ X The southern senators, who made such a brave start at drawing a new measure, have already encountered serious complications and the farther they go the more discouraged they become. * X x investigations of the | natural resources of Minnesota by a Exhaustive FOR BENEFIT OF mmY of the members of the elub this ev most, there being over 500 residents| Tom McDow, a protege of Hasting’s, | part of Egbert Pettibone. in a com-|; efforts were appreciated was made i i of those in charge of the entertain- forest | pondering over the proposition of | Efforts at a new reapportionment| bill are already pretty well frazzled. | BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1911. SPECIAL MEETING Tunlsflmmfn CRITIGISES SPEAKER DUNN .——L | Commereial Club lfie#;ben Reque: lt- ed to Meet Thl* Evening. i3 i Announcement has béen made by Secretary Harry Reynolds of the’Be- midji. commercial club jto tie effect! that there will be a spgcml meetmg ning. i ance will be brought up at the meet- .mg and it very important that as | jraised from nine to fifteen will be discussed. directors the annual election of of- ficers will be held. AT ASIDE" { = o Friday Evening. ‘thelr plays, is amply demonstrated by the success of such dramas as “Paid in Full,” “The Easiest Way,” | “The Third Degree,” The Wolf"" and numerous others of the same type. | The latest play to attain success |and belonging in thisiclass is “Cast i Aside,” a drama by L. B. Parker, {and founded upon the theme su gested in the ballad of the s | title by Chas. K. Harris, which has for many years continued to be pop- ular with the singing public. ,\I‘r Parker is probably the first dramatist to select his theme from a song. Although Mr. Parker's play has a | serious motive for its theme, the au-| !thor has managed to inject into | plenty of comedy of the really hu- morous sort. The play is said to be | lavishly mounted and the cast abme | the ordinary, careful attention hav- ling been given to the smallest de- | tails in order to make the perform- ance as nearly perfect as possible. “Cast Aside” will be the offering at the Armory Theatre on Friday eve-! | ning, March 24. | |do nothing to interfere with the de- | | “Hack” and Zbyszko Win. New London, Conn., March 21.— Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler, | night. the first in 29 minutes and the | second in 12 minutes. Knoxville, Tenn., March’ 21.— F. Roller of Seattle in straight falls |of a finish wrestling match here to- | Several matters of much import- ;many members as pnsszble be present. | The question as whether or mnot: | the board of diregtors.. should be. At the next meeting of the boar? of | GCOMING: {and participated the wildest and most | 5 Will Be the Attraction at the Armory| That the American public is now | | demanding plenty of “hackbone™ to | George Hackenschmidt defeated B.| | Makes Remarks Which are Consider- ed as Insults to the Presiding i Officer. v |HAS 24 HOURS TO APOLOGIZE ol “If This Is Not Done the Representa- tive Will Be Expelled From the Legislature. St. Paul, March [rneer Special Wire jmarks taken as an insult to Speaker | tatives were made by Representative | sensational scene at a session of the Minnesota legislature for years. As a result, Representative Klemer iwas given twenty-four hours in| | which to apologize and if he does not |do this, will be expelled as a mem- ber of the House. Representative Klemer's charges Were to the effect that Speaker Dunn | had “packed” the committees for the | benefit of the special interests and his own personal ambitions. | Representative R. C. Dunh of | Princeton jumped to his feet and de- iclared that such an insult to the eaker and to the House demanded a prompt apology from Representative | Klemer. Klemer replied: | ii'link that all will agree with me| ithat I simply say what has geuerally been understood and that is that these committees have been appoint- “ed for‘a defihife purpose.” | The House was in an uproar, the | members striving to be recognized for the purpose of upholding the speaker as one of the best and fair- lest presiding officers the state leg- | clature has ever had. | Representative R. C. Dunm moved hat a committee of three be ap- | pointed to wait upon Representative -four hours. e | At this afternoon session Speaker Dunn announced that this committee | would be made up of R. C. Dunn, chairman, Louis C. Spooner of Mor-| iris and Representative Pfaender of| New Ulm. After many members had endorsed Speaker Dunn in fervent language, the speaker addresed the house as follows: “Gentlemen of the House:—If I had been merely a member seated on | the floor this insult would have been ! | resented with vigor and promptness! |and 1 assure you that it would have| been something of ~a sensation. However, as I am the presiding offi- | ‘cer I must control my feelings and icorum of this body, but I tell you inow, that I am not the man to re- ceive an insult and not resent it and took I tell the gentleman from Rice that | two falls from Jack McGrath here ‘to- his insult shall be resented, perhaps not at the present session, but when it is over, for no man can insult me while I have the mental and physx- cal vigor to resent it. Representative Klemer is one of —¢Daily Pio- | Service.)—Re- | | Dunn and to the House of Represen-| Klemer: of Rice county this motningi “1 have no apology to offer and I. emer and report back within twen- | the mildest and meekest of members | TMUNIGIPAL GOURT_ DDINGSICOUNTY FAIR BOARD e ™= T0 HOLD MEETING Many are Given Lodging. Only one man was arraigned be-|{Men in Charge of Beltrami Agricul- fore Judge Pendergast in municipal tural Association Will Meet Sat- court this morning, this being Chas. Smith. - He was allowed his freedom urdsy to Disouss Plans. with the understanding that he was| ito leave Bemidji as soon as possible. Every day. from three to six names are Tound on Chief Harrington’s jail | 3 book, which are the names of men Wbo.have had the police give them lodging. PREMIUM LIST T0 BE MADE OUT Matter of Obtaining New Grounds Will Be Looked Into—Numereus Applications Received. | Last night. four men were given { beds for the night. NEW CHURCH FOR PUPDSKY. It has been announced by A. P. ‘Ritchie secretary of the Beltrami 'Ccunty Agricultural association that Roman Catholics Will Erect New!a meeting of the fair board will be House of Worship at Once. jheld in the commercial club rooms next Saturday atiernoon, at 2 | o’clock. H Work has been commenced on the! 1t is als0 requested that all those new Roman Catholic church at Pu-. who are interested in the plams for posky, one of the towns on the Refl the coming fair will attend this meet- i Lake railroac. | The building committee comprises Alex Ducette, whxchI John Pe‘—"‘e‘ ceived several suggestions as to the and Peter Welter have completed all | arrangm-' of a premium list for the arrangements and the structure S| 191] rair and that it is his intention expected to be completed before fall. | to start on the list after the meeting | which has been called for next Sat- 'FEATURE FILM AT MAJESTIfli“";fe mattes of the fair grounds wil | be discussed. Nothing of import- nece has been done along the line “His Master’s Son"” To Be Show this Of securing the new fair grounds ex- | 5 | cept that bids have been asked for Evening. A | = |and that several have been received, | s | but nothing will be done with them | | until the frost is entirely out of the | “His Master’s Son,” is a masterly | ground. xpmduction of a dramatic PhOtOD@Y | plane for the fair for this year lv&hmh opens in the south at thel, .. giready in progress and Mr. close of the Civil War and ends With | Rifchie feels that if they are car- ian-intensely dramatie climax in th(—; ied ont, the Beltrami county fair board of trade eircles in Chicago. | of 1917 will one that will attract no | THe story is supplied with that ever|jiie amount of attention |appealing element, “heart interest,” which shows the love and devotion of an old negro to his “young massa.” | “Captain Barnacle’s Chaperone,” 2/ troducing of | comedy full of life sparkle, | showing how lovers outwit such ad- ing will be done with these applica- verse influences as sour visaged‘rfions_ chaperones and succeed in their pur-| It is urged that as many of the poses. regardless of the complicated| poarg a5 possible be present at the Teet. | eeting Saturday afternoon. | The 1911 fair will be held on Wed- 1 nesday, Thursday and Friday, Sep- in nor- thern Minnesota. Numerous applications have been received by the secretary for the in- special attractions at nd the fair, but for the time being noth- snares set for their unwary | Come and have a good laugh. tember 13, 14 and 15. 'UNDEGIDED ON REGIPROCGITY THE BOSTONIANS TONIGHT | Senator Clapp May Be Insurgent Re- | publican. | Troupe of Clever Juvenile Actors _ ‘Will Appear at Armory Tonight. United States Senator Clapp in a . letter on the Canadian reciprocity treaty refrains from stating directly | attraction of { whether he will support the measure | the season will be the appearance of In its course through the senate or|ine reorganized Juvenile Bostonians a company of twenty of the cleverest tots before the public in a new and The chief musical Ihe flatfooted in opposition. He says| ;he is for reciprocity as a principle | i but his advocacy is not for recipro- elaborate production of “The Ran- city in the concrete as embodied in gy which has been a recognized the McCall bill. | 1 - imetropo]i!au success in every eity I‘ The letter is sent to the public af- of note on the continent. befe < \rfa’rs committee of the St. Paul com-| pig season the kiddies are trained mercial club, in reply to a telegraph | to a minute and give a performance query from the committee. ‘Lhat would do credit to the best of The Minneapolis commercial club|po voteran grown ups. | recently sent letters to Senator Clnpp‘ Among the feature players we fini jand Nelson urging them to suppOTt|guep artists as Rose (Patsie) Henry, the proposed pact. It has received Mr Ritchie says that be haa re- | Thom Hellen, Lois Mason, Doris committee of two members of thenight. {and has little to_say in the doings of | no reply from either. | 3 = = | Canfield and a host of others who todian of the old capitol by Governor | house of representatives and one sen- Liive been tn iraining v elnesr vl The committee bill was taken up. ticket and who was later named cus- It provides for an extension of the| the house. It is understood this The committee at a meeting yes- primary system to include state of- Senator Moonan proposed which were adopted and the measure was still ficers. several amendments under consideration when the sen- ate adjourned at 5 o’clock. * x % Subscription, voting, guessing and riddle contests may be continued by the newspapers of Minnesota so| far as the legislature is concerned, the house having voted to kill the bill seeking to unlawful. make such contests xKx News of the death of Representa- tive W. A. Fisher of Minneapolis ‘was announced when the house con- vened yesterday and that body im- mediately adjourned out of respect Johnson, is having a spat with Gov- ernor Eberhart. Pendergast will vacate his office as custodian of the old capitol on April 1, two months earlier than he had hoped. He sent in his resignation to the governor, to take effect May 31 and the governor appointed Charles Chappell, former sheriff of Ramsey county, as his The governor indicated that he would prefer to have Judge Pender-| gast vacate on May-1 and Judge Pen- dergast said some pretty plain things in the St. Paul papers about the governor whereupon the governor decided that he could get along with- out the judge as early as April 1. * % % T Forestry Commissioner Andrews As a result, Judge| successor. ; lands. In part the bill “Whereas, the state owns about | 3,000,000 acres of state school and {other lands of which about 2,000,- 000 acres are established to be forebt lands and' to require expert forestry i supervision, while the mineral wealth of said lands says: is evidenced by the iron ore is known to be contained in 83 forties and, whereas, approx- imately $24,500,000 have been realized and invested in per- manent trust funds for publi. school, {the university and other state in- | stitutions, and it is confidently be- lieved that after due and competent investigation it will be-made man'ifest | lator is provided for in a-bill put in| by the house committee on public| fact that around 150,000,000 ton of | hitherto | that there is a possible future total ‘from the agricultural, .mineral and | additional $150,000,000 . And,| | whereas, it is the general sentiment | |and demand of the people that the \legislature provides for the inquiry into all of said matters in order that la future legislature may have the | BeneBt o Finformation necessary. to insure to .this state and its people | Drogressive, systematic, scientific, | honest and practical administration thereof.” Members of the proposed investigating commission are to be paid $10 a day sud actual: nxpenses for time devoted - to this work. i be reasonably estimated as likely toi | aggregate something more than an| afternoon that he will -apologize but of an inconceivable amout availnblelthat there is something behind his statement and that in a way it ef- forestry resources thereof, which mfl.y‘fec[s Lynn Haines. fce Fioats Away With Them. Marinette, Wis, March 22.—Bert Benson and Henry Topfel, fishermen of Peshtigo Point, were carried out in the bay on a small piece of floating ‘ee and narrowly escaped death. They ‘were rescued by friends in boats. The ice went out unexpectedly and many valuable nets were lost. Minnesota Legislator Dead. Minneapolis, March 22.—W. A. Fish- er, member of the house of representa- tives from' this city, is dead. Mr. Fish- er had been sick since early in the ses- sion and his de.th Was not entirely un- recently it was sald | G‘M ¥ 4 ‘that he Had a' chance of movery. ‘| Ing the boat nto the'laké. * terday considered the advisability of sending telegrams to the tardy sen- ators. The Washington correspond- lent in dispatch today classes Senator Clapp with Senators La Follette and Cummings as among the insurgent republicans who “are antagonizing| the Canadian agreement at every point.” | Rescued by Lifesavers. - Chicago, March 22.—Students of Northwestern university placed George Buckshaw in a frail rowboat without oars and cast him adrift in Lake Mich- igan while putting him through an initiating degree. A strong wind car- fledhlmtwomflqolltlnthehkem Hfesavers rescued him ‘when his craft was in imminent _danger of capsizing. Buckshaw’s initlators fled after shov- hood and can render the most diffi- cult musical and dance numbers with the greatest ease. The tour is under the direction of Mr. J. Cosgrove at the Armory tonight. Faucault Returns From Seattle. Clarence Faucault, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Paul Faucault of this city, re- turned this morning from Seattle where he has been in the artillery service of the United States army during the past three years." He re- ceived an honorary discharge on March 18, the expiration of his en- listment. While in the service he received n.promotlon to the non- commissioned staff, now being a cor-