Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1911, Page 1

THE VOLUME 8. NO. 331 KLEMER IS CENSURED BY REPRESENTATIVES After Heated Debate, Lasting More Than Six Hours, Vote Was Tak- en Resulting 66 to 42. | | | STONE UPHELD FARIBAULT MAN Was Brought Before House and Call- ed Upon to Make Specific Charges as to “Packed” Committees. (By P. A. Wilson) Bemidjl Pioneer Legislative Burean St. Paul, March 28.—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service.)—All day Monday, amid scenes at times closely bordering on anarchy and de—: clared by ome representative to be “mob rule,” the Minnesota House of | | Representatives listened to an apol-| ogy from F. L. Klemer, the member from Faribault, who last Wednesday charged that the committees of the House were packed, but the House refused to accept his apology and censured Klemer by a vote of 66 to 42, . This vote came after a heated de- bate lasting from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m., during which time “Bob” Dunn of Princeton had called Representative Clinton Robinson of St. Charles a “whiffit;” W. 1. Nolan of Minneap- olis had defiantly asserted that “bull- tacties” were continually being employed by the| 1 | | dozing and unfair controling portion of the House; Dr.| W. T. Stone of Park Rapids had| hurled a bomb by saying “I believe that the gentleman from Rice (Klemer) inadvertently spoke the truth and that-is-so rare-on the| floor of the House that I am going to | stand by him;” Campbell of Minne- apolis, speaking on the vote of cen- sure, had said “outside of the legis- lature they would call this proceed- ing ‘mob rule.” ” This by no means recites all the thrills which were to make memor- able the proceedings yesterday for an addition. There were times when members threatened to appeal to the sergeant- order. There| had been much loud talking, some at-arms to preserve disorder and plain charges and coun- tercharges which generated a feeling of bitterness and worked the mem- bers up to a high tension before the vote of censure was taken. But the end was not yet. As soon as the vote censuring Klemer had been announced, Klemer | insisted that his resolution calling for an investigating committee of seven be taken up. Speaker H. H. Dunn, who for the day had turned over his gavel to Representative Charles Fowler of Minneapolis, and who occupied a seat on the floor not far from Klemer jumped to his feet, every fibre of his| tall, lank frame fairly snapping with | anger, thundered: “Mr. Speaker, I move, sir, to amend | the Klemer resolution so that this| House shall compell the gentlemen | from Rice (Klemer) and the gentle- man from Hubbard (Dr. Stome) to be brought to the bar of this House | and that they be compelled to state | specifically, here and now, what committees are packed and who the| men on the packed committees are.” Applause greeted the speaker’s motion and to cut the story short, the chair ruled that Speaker Dunn was out of order by attempting to amend the resolution, whereupon, Speaker Dunn made a distinct motion cover- ing the same ground as the proposed amendment. Representative J. N. Johnson then gaye notiee of debate on the Klemer regplution which carried it over for the dny. Speaker Dunn then renewed the motion, calling for Klemer and Stone to make specific charges at once. It carried €9 to 36. Representatives Klemer and Stone were then escorted to the front of the chamber to a point directly in | portant committee of the House, that ! of Appropriations.” 'whether the Appropriations commit- | gusted and moved that Klemer be | had to say he said from the shoulder. | he was not aware that he had done fBemidji, and two sons, W. H. and | Ray they stood like a couple of school boys being disciplined. “I can’t present any charges for I need more time in which to prepare them,” said Klemer. There he stood with apparently no ‘more fighting blood left in his veins than a jelly- fish. The quietness of the House was broken by Speaker Dunn, who said: “May- I ask a question?” “Oh, no, no.” replied Klemer. “May I ask a question?” said Re- presentative Spooner. “Yes,” replied Klemer. “Was my committee said Spoomer. Klemer dug down into his pocket after a book containing a list of the House committees and after three or| four minutes said to Spooner: : “What is your committee?”” i “Just about every man, woman and child in Minnesota who can read,| knows that Mr. Spooner is chairman of the most powerful and most im- packed?” Klemer, however, refused to say tee was packed. Representative Lennon was dis- excused with the understanding that he would not reiterate his charges. There was some objection to this motion and Lennon said, “Well, what are you going to do with a man like| this? You can’t keep him standing on the floor all the rest of the ses- sion. Of course, you rfay take him | down to Red Wing."” Speaker Dunn then moved that Klemer be excused and this motion prevailed. Dr. Stone was then called upon to make specific charges. He was in no way embarrassed and what he He felt that he was not on.trial and he refused to yield to Speaker Dunn to ask a question. He merely flhJ a that if he had used unparlimentary languagehe wasready to retract; that anything which would bring him be- fore the House and lay him open to such ridicule. MRS. REYNOLDSFATHER DEAD Merritt S. Cook Died in Duluth Sun- day Afternoon. Last Sunday afternoon about 3 o’clock occurred the death of Merritt S. Cook, father of Mrs. Harry Rey- nolds and Ray M. Cook of Bemidji. Last evening’s Duluth Herald says: “Merritt S. Cook, 76 years old, one of the best known civil engineers in. the city, died about 3 o’clock yes- terday afternoon at his residence, 3302 Minnesota avenue, Park Point, of peritonitis, been suffering for the last three He came to Duluth in 1892 from which he had weeks. from Grand Rapids, Mich., aqd was actively engaged in his profession | until his recent illness. “He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Alice Ashley of Win- nipeg and Mrs. Harry Reynolds of M. Cook of this The funeral will take place tomorrow af- ternoon at 2 o'clock from the resi- city. | Fourth avenue east. be at Forest Hill cemetery.” TOM L. JOHNSON IS WORSE Physicians Admit There Is Not Much Chance. Cleveland, March 28.—The condi- tion of former Mayor Tom L. John- son, who suffered a ‘serious relapse ten days ago, but later rallied, is con- siderably worse. His family waited all day at his bed- gide and while the atfending physi- cians refuse to give up hope, they ad- mit that he is slowly sinking. Octogenarian Recluse Dead. Couderay, Wis., March 28—Elijah Haynes, aged eighty-two, who has been | living the life of a.hermit for a num- ber of years, was found dead in a chair in his shanty near Crooked Rapids, on the Chippewa river, nine miles from here. A number of years ago, it is said, he had a disagreement with, his fromt of the speaker’s desk and there GRAND TRUNK MAY ENTER BELTRAMI Rumors to This Effect Are Heard Among Railroad Circles and’ From Newspapers. S00 HAS DULUTH SHORT LINE City Publications Also Tell of Cana- dian Patifie Contemplating To- routo-Winnipeg Train. Articles which have .appeared in the twin city and other papers of late relative to the plans of the railroads of the west and northwest wherein i much building of lines through Min« nesota from north of the Canadian boundary have revived talk which, Was rife late last fall connecting the 'Grand Tvrunkrl’lciflc and the Canad- ian Pacific. and the Soo with strife for the contro] of patronage in north- central Minaesota: The Soo, by the construction of its new line from Plummer ‘to Moose Lake and passing through Bemidji, secured a line from Winnipeg to Du- ! luth much shorter than that of any other system; and incidently tapped a country rich is agricultural and dairying possibilities; also offering a splendid line on which to haul grain from the fields of northwestern Min- nesota and North Dakota to the twin - | ports. It is admitted that the construc- tlen of the Moose Lake-Plummer line | of the Soo has not been received with hearty cordiality- by other competing lines; and there have for. gome months past been rumors of the con-, struction of a line of railway reach- ing directly south from a point on the Grand Trunk Pacific, in Mani- toba, and extending southward so as to tap practically the same country for which the:new line of the Soo is contemplated as a feeder; and rumor has it that this new Grand Trunk Pacific line was intended to form a chain in a system that con- templated building on southward to connections with leased lines in south ern Minnesota that would give an al- most air line to Chicago—this latest proposition hinging on the passage by congress of the Canadian recipro- city law. A more gemeral statement of the Grand Trunk Pacific-scheme credited ‘that system With being back of a survey of & line which commenced at Rennie, Manitoba, on' the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and extending southward to Sprague, on the Canadian Northern, on south to west of Roseau, through Beltrami county west of Red ‘Lake and to the northern boundary of Clearwater county. The line” in Clearwater county is said to have been surveyed southward to Sprague, on the Cana- dian Northern, on south to the west of Roseau, through Beltrami county west of Red lake and to the north- ern boundary of Clearwater county. The line in Clearwater county is said to have been surveyed southward from the mnorthern boundary of the county and crossing the new Soo ‘dence of his son, W. H. Cook, 317 | line near Leonard, and on south, one Imerment wm! proposed survey crossing the Grand Forks-Duluth line of the G. N. rail- way at Ebro and another crossing the G. N. at Bagley, the latter being the survey most acceptable to those .interested in the alleged surVvey. The same authority extends the survey southward, west of the Itasca state park and on generally south and eastward to New Ulm, there to con- { nect with lines, which would prob< ably be leased, to Chicago; the whole giving a Chicago-Winnipeg line claimed to be shorter than any ow | ready constructed. Late newspaper talk credits the 'Canadian Pacific with contemplat- ing putting on a through Toronto to Winnipeg train, by way of Chicago and the twin citles, by using the hmbudmkupmuhnlsuflm that could be devised over lines al- Wabash from Toronto to Chicago and |: the W!lwfln “h!di il owned by the MM. !n'nn Chicago to St. Plnl.gl’:mfiu from St. Paul to o s i A much shorter and more direct line is also connected Witir tirese Iate. statements, but b his been published u)neaflnu" m- plan, which would insure pamsing through Bemidji a Canadian Pactfic rai train which would include all mod- ern accommodations of 'tliat great system. This wnfidllll-ud train would run from Toronito to Chicago over the ~Canadian Pacific and the Wabash, from ChicAgs to Duluth over the Wisconsin: Mtrll, using the Soo from Duluth.lvil Moase I-lh and Bemidji to Plu-lmr and nonh— ward to Winnipeg. | Still apother piag, and nne that it is l‘ld will in all’ probability be Dut intg force some’ fime- in the very nser future, is the rusaing through Bemidjt of the Canadian Pacific com- pany’s transcontinental trains, which: have heretofore went westward from Montral through Manitoba to' the Pacific coast. The new plan would be to use the. fan Pacific_west- ward from: mmmql to Sudbury, thence rumning mr the tracks of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlan- tic. to Duluth, an# from the Zenith City, via Moose Iake, use the new Plummer-Moose Lake ‘Soo line, pass- ing through Bemidji, from Plummer or Thief River Fally going westward through North Dakits to Kenmare, thence northwestward to the con- nection of the mair line of the Cana- dian Pacific at Moou Jaw, Manitoba, where the train could go westward to any of the C. P. R. coast points. There is little doubt but that the Plummer Moose Lake line of the Soo i8 destined to form a very important link in the chain of competition be- tween the Canadign Pacific and the Soo and its competitors in the mat- ter of traffic. fromthe head of the TENGONS ADDED AT ALFALEA Forty-Six Head. W. G. Schroeder, the owner of the Alfalfa Dairy Farm a few. miles west of Bemidji, and which is becoming known as one of the ‘mest modern and successful dairy farms in Min- where he had gone to purchase sev- eral head of milch cows, which he |found were necessary to fuifill the demand he was receiving -for ‘milk lsand cream. “The cows, which are of the Dur- ham breed, and ten in number have also reached Bemidji and have been taken to the farm. This gives Mr. Schroeder over 46 head of cattle on his farm, of which 42 are used in conection with -his dairying business. . CARRYING ARNS T0 HAYTY Authorities Seize Yacht as'She Leaves New York Harbor. New York, March 28.—The seventy- foot schooner yacht Loyal, as trim a boat as is to be seen-in. New York harbor, lies a prisoner alongside the destroyer Seneca, off Tompkinsville warship station. She was seized by Captain Carmine: of the revenue cutter service: on orders from the -treasury department in Washington as she was stealing out past Sandy Hook just be- fore daylight. All night the Seneca had. cruised below the Hook, with her searchlight playing on all sailing craft. - Her search was finally rewarded when the spotlight revesled: the white canvas of the Loysl, drifting out with all sail,| set. The Loyal was taken in.-tow with a revenue officer on hoard. * A * to-unofficial information the Loyal was seized because of’ the of the Haytian minis- ter to. theUnited States, who said that he undersicod that arms and’ ammuni- tion were being put on:-board: the boat; which 'nmcluumfllm nesota has- returned from ‘Verndale | SGHOOL FOR BEHIN! At a Meeting of Board of Directors deomd.luhbmlody Set Ball Rolling. 18 OF INESTIMABLE VALUE All That is Needed to Obtain Depart- ment isa United Effort Upon the Part of Citizens. At a meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Commercial club, held yesterday, the proposition of secur- ing an Agricultural Department for t.he Bemidji schools was discussed at considerable length. Graham M. Torrance, at the re- quest of some of the members of the ‘Commercial club, presented the mat- ter, and a resolution-wag'Introduced and unanimously adopted request- ing the school board to wse their best endeavors to secure such a de- partment for our schools. The Commercial club will “bend its energies along the same Tines, and it is now confidently expected that Bemidji will be one of the favored few to secure for itself the benefits of what is know as the “Putnam Act,” establishing Agricultural de- partments in the public schools of the state. Some time ago the school board took under consideration the advis- ability of adding such a department to the schools, but dropped it for thg time being, because there appeared’ to be opposition on the ground that not-cost the district of Bemidli any- thing, but would be an actual sav- ing to the tax-payer. The Bemidji schools now have a manual 'training department snd a domestic science course -in actual operation, and the estimated cost of maintaining these two courses for the next year is......... $2070.00 The estimated cost of main- taining an agricultural department for a year 18 1700.00 Making a total yearly ex- penditure for the three departments . of.......:.$3777.00 If - Bemidji- -spends - this: amount-on these- - thege- departments, under: the- Putnaor Act: the - stafs -$2500.00 ‘Which would' decrease-— the cost of maintaining the agricultural depart- ment, manual" training and domestic science courses to.......I.... $1277.00 Or an actual saving to the district, per year, of....§ 793.00 It is seldom that an individual or a community gets something for nothing, tut the above figures clear- ly show: that if' Bemidjh secures an Agricultural = department " for its schools it will be not only ‘without expense to the district, but that an actual cash premium will accom- pany it. 3 Aside from the direct benefit to our schools, a course of tnis kind ‘would be of inestimable value to the community generally. The advan- tage of having a trained agricultur- ist 'in charge ‘of the experimental farm at Bemidji, where prospective settlers could learn, by sctual ob- servation, of ‘the fertility of our soil and the most approved methods of farming, would forever set at rest any. question- of the desirability of locating ‘in the yicinity of Bemidji to ‘engage in - farming. It would tend more to develope the county than anything else’ could: do: This® year fifteen agricultural de- partments: are to: be added to the and'are anxious and willing to main- tain one, can hope to secure such a prize. The Commercial club will do its share; the school board will gladly obey the will of the people of Be- midji, and the people of Bemidji are short-sighted, to say the- least, it they do not exert themselves at this time to better their schools and to better the community at large, when it requires no expenditure:of money on their part, but merely a united effort to show the state high school board that such a school is needed at Bemidji, and that the people here are anxious and willing to maintain it. It seems to us that every man, woman and child in this community should be of one mind on this ques- tion, and that they should give the Commercial club and the school board their heartiest support in every effort they may make to se- cure an Agricultural department for the schools of Bemidji. The state of Minnesota pays noth- ing toward the support of the manual training and domestic science courses, except where an -agricultural department is instailed, but in determining the cost of main- taining an agricultural department the total expenditures for domestic sclence, manual training and agri- cuitural development are combined, and the state pays two-thirds of the total cost. of all such departments, but not exceeding $2500 in any one year. In arriving at the “cost” of main- taining these courses, all disburse- ments, except for permanent im- Dprovements, are taken into consider- ation. It would be necessary. for this.district to secure a tract of land, by lease or purchase, and not less than five acres, for an experimental farm. It is fair to assume thdt the cost of such a tract of land, if actual- 1y ] mu'elnndf uld not exceed $800, lm s‘h‘to the dis- this expense, luvin;,‘me district an actual profit after the first year. GOMMISSIONERS MET TODAY With Exception of Myhre All Mem- bets of Board Were Present. Today the Beltrami county com- missioners were in session for con sidering the applications from the settlers of the northern part of the county relative to the securing of free seed from the state. ‘With the exception of Commission- er:Mjhre, all the members of the bostd ' were in attendance at the meeting, Chairman Peterson, Clem- entson, Fellows and Rako being present. Nothing was done whatever aside fmn'n the fixing of the applications, many of them being cut in half, while others were simply reduced in num- ber of bushels or pounds. The regular meeting of the com- missioners will be held on April 4. French Receives Automobile. George French, county treasurer of Beltrami county, has received his 30 H. P. Velie Roadster from Minne- apolis, it having arrived in Bemidji last evening. Mr. French recently purchased the machine from E. A. Barker of this city. Peterson Taken to Fergus. This morning David Peterson, the young man who was found to be of unsound mind by Judge of Pro- bate M. A. Clark last Saturday after noon was taken to the Fergus Falls insane asylum by Deputy Sheriff Helmer. : CARGO OF SCOTCH BRIDES Lassies: Met at New York Docks schools ‘of this state, and applica- | ship mfi'fllhm“mm »mm-ndmhwumhy i m “ at NO AMENDMENTS T0 NEW ORDINANGE Sosiad Toasing’ Gives §I0N0' T2 License Measure Will . be Voted on Next Monday. SEVERAL ARGUMENTS HEARD No Clause Adopted Whereby Number of Saloons in Bemidji be Limit- ed to Any Set Number. No little amount of excitement was caused last evening at the reg- ular meeting of the city council when the ordinance, which in effect s, to raise the liquor license fee from $500 to $1000 was given its second hearing. As the second hearing is, by law, the time for amendments, if there are any, to be made, strenuous efforts were made by several speakers to amend the ordinance somewhat. N E. E. McDonald, a member of the Bemidji bar, spoke at length in fa- vor of the present license fee, put- ting much strength on the fact that in his opinion there was no justifi- cation whatever in the advancing of the fee to $1000. He also said that the aldermen in deciding that which would be the proper " manner in which to handle the matter should not fail to remember the large amount of money which the saloon men pay into the city treasury, and without the saloons Bemidji wounld be worse off, than- it is todsy. To this Reverend Flesher, of the Methodist church, with’ the consent of the chair, said that while some of the remarks of Mr. McDonald Wwere, without doubt, true, they must be considered as being simply opinions, and that if opinions were to be con- sidered he wished to say-that he be- lieved that if every saloon in Be- midji was voted out, the city would still go on, and that it would be bet- ter off, by far. The remarks of Reverend Flesher brought unlimited applause from the citizens who were jn attendance -at the meeting. After a short reply by Mr. Mc Donald, after which S. E. P. White, . pastor of the Presbyterian’ church, spoke, the president of the council, L. F. Johnson, called for any amend- ments, and receiving no reply asked what should be done with the ordin- ance. Alderman Bailey moved that the second reading be postponed one week, but as this could be done only in the case that an adjourned meet- ing be called, it was decided that the matter should be given its third and last hearing next Monday evening at which time it will be voted upon. Several remarks were made by Mayor Parker, during which it be- came known that for two weeks the city has had two private detectives at work in the city, in order to as- ‘certain, whether or not the situation among the saloons of Bemidji is as - has been pictured on several occa- gions. The mayor said that the de- { tectives reported to him that the city was in the best of condition, and that they had told him there was no better police force, of the size.of the Bemidji force, in the state which is as efficient. 5 | Ordinance number 51, which ef- - fects the discontinuing of eating houses which are in the rear of sa- loons and which have no street en- trance was given its second hearing, and received no amendments. ‘The only other matter of public interest was the sel taker for the poor f mmmonmmm W. E. Hagen. Thebtnn!mhm i