Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 11, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 8. NUMBER 343. POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS BILLKILLED Senate Having Passed Measure Last Friday House Defeats it by Vote of 71 to 32. TO CONSIDER TARIFF BILL Is Made a Special Order for Con- sideration at Four O’clock To- morrow Afternoon. (By F. A. Wilson) Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Burean A . . | St. Paul, April 10—While the|mittees were exerting undue influence ! yop decorous senate continued in the ladylike tenor of its ways, the House, suftering from perpetual peevishness, 11y smiled at the violence of the| | Hennepin manbut quietly ins!sted‘ upon his point of order. Speaker | Dunn finally quieted Mr. Lennon 200 pound body fairly shook | anger as he turned viciously on Mr. | Mattson and in a voice which threa- break the skylights, “You mind your own fuwn business, I'm not talking to you, I'm t:\lkiné to the speaker and you can’t bulldoze Mr. Mattson | maintained his composure and mere- tened to | thundered: me”’. { who subsided with, “All 1 want is a :sq\mre deal.” This storm raged | around the question, which has been hanging fire for several days, as to whether it takes a majority or a | two thirds vote to consider any bill | as a special order. { In settling the quesetion, Speaker| Dunn’s decision came as an echo to| Ilhe Klemer charge that packed com- !in the House. Speaker Duan said ;“While itis probably true that a | | strict interpretation of our rules| BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1911. 5 EDITORS’ OUTING T0 BE HELD IN JUNE Northern Minnesota Association to Meet at Itasca State Park This Summer. STATE OFFICIALS TO BE PRESENT Big Program ' Being Arrnngedf Championship Base Ball Con- test to be Played. | | The annual summer outing of the | thern Minnesota Editorial assoc- ation will be held at Itasca State | Park, the headwaters of the Mississ- | took time, between its jangles yes-| WOuld mean that a two thirds vote | ippi river, Thursday, Friday and terday afternoon, to unceremonious-| 1s required I contend now, as [ have | always contended, that u majority | | Saturday, June 8-9-10 '1f, next,; 1y Kill the Murray bill providing for | of the House should control all leg-| these dates having been selected by | a popular vote on candidates for Un-| This measure, after having been badly mangled, | | passed the senate last Friday. i ited States senators. The House earlier in the session| pafsed the Keefe bill which provides| for the Oregon system of choosing | federal senators. This bill is still | pending in the senate. The house| looked upon the Murray bill as ui subterfuge intended to sidetrack | real legislation along this line and | for that reason forgot factional dif-|as his roadhouse bill and the Hanson| Who desired the dates mentioned as time being and| voth | 18d- | '.0! ferences for the Jjumped on the measure with feet. Representative Moyle wards of Breckenridge sought show it some consderation by placing | it on General Orders, but this was voted down 38 to 54 and a motion by Henry Rines of Mora to indefinitely carried, postpone the measure was T to 22, * KK | Another evidence that the House|that brewers must have can good demonstration of it came when that body decided to take give a real lawmakers when wants to up, and apparently pass the famous| distan tarviff bill. This introduced in the Senate by T. E. ‘order that onroll call it carried 70| islation. The committees should not and cannot control legislation | and for that very reason I shall hold that a majority vote is sufficient to make any bill a special order. | * X X i Another merry squabble surged | about the House when Representa- | tive R C. Dunn attempted to make| four temperance bills a special order | for Tuesday. There was stre nuous objection to two of the bills and| these were dropped but Mr. Dunn| succeeded in getting what is known | bill, prohibiting the sale of malt, which was passed in the senate,| several days agoe, made a special! order for today, One of the meas- ures originally in the Dunn list was H. F. 745, a bill seeking to abohsb! the sale of liquor in disorderly | houses and blind pigs. Representa- | tive Robinson, author of the bill, put| up such a hard fight to have the| measure included in the - special to 23. The Hoffman bill, providingE a state| license, was also finally added to the special order. * * K To cut the cost of expenses of the | state in two Is the object, according measure, | to its authors of a bill considered|don and Page of Park Rapids, to- |as a special order for a short time | agreement of Harold Knutson, pres-| ‘dent, and A. G. Rutledge, secretary, | of the editorial association, M. Hein- zelman, park superintendent, and | Mrs. Heinzelman, and Editors Hara- don and Page of Park Rapids. In selecting dates, President Knutson and Rutledge Secretary were guided largely by the sugges- tion of Mr. and Mrs. Heinzelman, being just prior to the time when large numbers of summer visitors will desire to go to the park for ou.- ings of several weeks, crowding ac- | commodations at the Douglas and other lodges and creating conditions that would make it impossible for the superintendent and his most es- timable wife to give to the editors, their wives and invited guests the splendid good time which has been promised for the outing. President Knutson has delegated to Secretary Rutledge the working out of the program and other de- tails for the outing. Editors Hara- gether with Representative L. H. “PEACE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN— WAR. —Berryman in Washington Star. vanced as to what will be done. The| members of the commercial elub and other citizens of Park Rapids will assist in caring for the editorial “outers” when they arrive at Park| Rapids, and it is likely that a pub- lic reception will be held there the| evening of the first.day, and the guests. will be-taken- to<the park in| automobiles furnished by the Park| Rapids folks, with Superintendent | Heinzelman on hand to assist in get- ting the party to the park and wel-| coming the “boys and girls” to Doug- | las Lodge.” The balance of the program undecided. But every person who is! RATE DEGISION T0 BE APPEALED State of Minnesota to Fight Sanborn ‘GLUB TO BE ORGANIZED | 1 Bemidji Automobile Owners Will Get | Together and Join State Association. Ruling—Attorney Propose to ‘ During the past month C. W. Jew- File Notice. | ett, better known as the Automobile i;Man, has been forming plans for es- tablishing an outomobile club in this PROMPT ACTION DESIRED cit. | By-laws and resorutions from out | | of town clubs have been received and TEN CENTS PER WEEK PROPOSED ORDINANGE LAID ON TABLE Council Votes that Measures in Re- gard to Raising Liquor Licenses Be Further Investigated. MALOY APPLICATION GRANTED William Everett is Appointed City Engineer—Committee Named to Modify City Charter. | Two proposed ordinances and one resolution were read to the members {of the Bemidji city council at their regular weekly meeting last evening. The proposed resolution in effect was as follows: That on and after April 14, 1911, all saloon licenses be placed at $1,~ 000. The proposed ordinance number 1 in effect, was as follows: That on and after May 1, 1911, all saloon licenses be placed at $1,- 000, and that for every license in any way cancelled, there shall not be another license granted until the number of saloons in operation in Bemidji be cut down to less than 16, and that then, no licenses may be granted until the city has 8,000 in- habitants. : % The proposed ordinance number 2, in effect, was as follows: That when the number of saloons | in operation in the city of Bemidji | be reduced to 29, because of cancel- lation or otherwise, the license be raised to $750, thet when reduced to 24, the fee be placed at $900, that ! when reduced to 19 the fee be piced at §1000, and that when reduced to 16 the fee be placed at $2,00, and - that-after the saloons be reduced Lo less than 16 no licenses should be issued until the city has 8,000 in- i habitants. No sooner had the clerk completed reading the ordinance number 2 | National Interest Aroused by the| will be used in the arawing up of | When Alderman Smart made a motion Cashman of Owatonna, was the tar- that the “bunch” be laid on the yesterday afternoon by the House | Rice and a committee from the Park | attends is assured that formality will | Sweeping Nature of the Court’s | the by-laws for the Bemidji club. get of broadsides from commercml‘il‘he me?sure :3‘;“5 in early in th: Rapids Commercial club, will work|to a large extent be dropped entire- ) | A meeting will be called for in the | table, for further investigation. organizations of the larger cltnes‘;::fi;'n'gi':; Cl'mee'?r"o‘m fi:m‘fim:fig in conjunction with the ‘secretary|ly as it is the desire of those in Ruling. | near future, for owners of automo-| Mr. Smart’s motion was promptly and was further attacked on the tee with Representalive Spooner |2nd Mr. and Mrs. Heinzelman in|charge that thorough enjoyment of | el | biles in Bemidji, and at that time all sec?l‘ded, and carried without op- ground that its passage would and Nolan asits authors providing | arranging splendid accommodations | the outing be had by all, unhamper- | | arrangements will have been made | POsition. jeopardize the rate cases which \vereithft a committee of three be ap’|and entertainment for the visitors|ed by those conventionalities that| st paul, April 11.—An appeal will |and all that will be left to be done| No intimation was given by the decided last Saturday against nm‘:mnled to dmvesuz_atq the .5;“‘ who go to Park Rapids and the|require care and try the nerves. | be taken immediately by the state|will be the organizing and the elec-| council as to at what time the mat- state. Nevertheloss the Cashman | o882 mof:m:’“‘:;:‘;:;ik:”‘"; park for the outing. It is certain that the annual|from the decision of Judge Walter H. | tion of officers. ter will be brought up for further bill all but passed the Senate. Dur-!gconomical syscem of conducting.| Among those who will attend the|championship baseball game of the| Sanborn in the Minnesota rate cases. ing all the time the upper branch juggling with the measure shmilar bill, introduced by Ralph E. « a shim- ane of Graud Meadow, was Lering in the railroads committee o1 the Hous As a result of th> rate cases dec; ion and the growing feel- | | the business of the state. When the ibill came up yesterday afternoon, { Representative Campbell of Minnea- polis opined that Mr. Spooner was/| getting too mnch glory by having his name first and moved that the twonames be transfeired and as the motion carried the bill now is |known as the Nolan and Spooner outing are Governor Eberhart, Lieu- | tenant Governor Gordon, and possi- bly Speaker Dunn of the house of representatives. Governor Eber- hart attended the outing of the edi- { tors which was held at Walker last | summer; and the “boys and girls” association will be again on the pro- gram, probably to be played on the diamond at Park Rapids afternoon. Saturday Governor Eberhart um-| pired last year and he is the unani- ous choice for judge of plays this year. Tkis announcen.ent was made by E. T. Young, former attorney general. Mr. Young received a telegram from Attorney General George T. Simpson, who is in Washington, asking him to take the necessary steps to file notice | of an appeal. “It will take two or three days to get ready to make the motion,” said The Bemidji clubaccordingto pres- ent expectations wil enter the Min- nesota Automobile association, whose main purpose is to unite all clubs and motorists, concentrating an in- terest in the furtherance and promo- tion of legislation for the construc- tion and maintenance of good roads. consideration. | The street and sidewalk commit- | tee was instructed to investigate the situation as to the amount of new sidewalk needed on Bemidji, Bel- %Lraml and Minnesota avenues to- | wards the city limits, and report same at the next meeting. ing that perhaps the Cashman mea- | ‘" had so much fun with him, in his There will be program of small Mr. Young. “The representatives of The city attorney was instructed . . bill. An amendment presented by s N to investigate the city charter and sure had more merit than at first Representative Fowler and adopted capacity as a private citizen that|sports and games, for suitable | the state have been discussing ways 0 investigate city cl n supposed, Representative Crane yes-|py the House enlarges the commit-| there is a universal demand that the | prizes. nqldl peprs, It is u{lzelér the motion JU“GE PuWERS 'm SPEAK-"“E"’"“ whether or not there was o " wil 1ade on a w! Tror. N i terday afternoon moved that his|tee to five. The speaker of the|chief executive lay aside the cares| Itasca Park is among the pines; pe s MELos S {an ordinance in regard to all bill bill be made a special order for con- sideration on Wednesday at 4 p. m. and this carried, 77 to 24, which indication the final passage of the bill and there is a general belief House is to appoint two members, | the president of the Senate and the governor, two mes who may or may not be members of the Legislature. | The bill provides that this commit- | tee shall draw upa report of the | of state and again be present. The | governor umpired the ball game,| rowed a boat and fished, played the | violin and piano, and joined in the there is good fishing, boating and bathing; a saddle trail (known as the “Lind Trail”) for thirteen miles to all points of interest about the Mr. Simpson is expected to return from the East shortly and it is prob- able that Mr. Young and his associate in the cases, former Senator E. S. Durment, will await his return before making the formal motion for an ap- Prominent Jurist to Address G. A. R. Memorial Day. posters and card tackers being re- quired to secure licenses, and that | if there was no such ordinance, to {so draw one. singing with a rich voice that “just|park, with splendid saddle horses.|Deal. It is the intention to have ev- A motion was made and carried that the Senate mow will also acz;gmposedriconnn}ies and the _mgft ft.” Lieutenant Governor Gordon,|Douglas lodge is one of the very fin-| §orin8 h’ye:;‘z ;;es‘f\’,’;“‘;h;‘;wg:"i? - whereby the city attorney, mayor P . . i11 | busiress-like civi]l service practicable N " “ o o~ | . N thy cil favorably. Opponents of the bill |05 setid & report. o .up members | 2ecides being president of the Minne-| est “log cabins” in the United States. | trrns. It was announced this afternoon |20d President of the coun meet ite legal authorities in an effort to show that to pass the distance tariff bill would be suicidal to the state’s chances in the apeal of the rate cases It is shown that one of the reasons why the Senate voted against the the Cashman wished a way left open for an ap- it was bill was because it The supreme court, will not concern itself controversy when the rates in litigation are no longer an peal. pointed out, with a rate |elect of the next legislature. The ioriz‘nal bill carrie 1 an appropriation {of $15,000 for the actual expenses. | No member of the commission is to |receive a salary. An amendment ipresentfd yesterday cuts the appro- !priation to $7,500. This feature apt to cause more debate when the bill again comes up for consider- ation on Wednesday morning, * XK As a result of the Mattson free is| seed bill, the state has now sent| |sota State Editorial association, is an active member of the Northern Minnesota association and is count- ed upon to do his share in fishing, swimming, boating and generally making himself useful. The pencil pushers are anxious to have. Speaker Dunn present. He is a product of | southern Minesota, but his eminent | fairness and justice to this section jduring the session that is now coming | to a close has created a desire to get| There are plenty of boats, etc., with telephone and daily mail. Mr. and Mrs. Heinzelman will be | personally in charge of the outing crowd. They have enviable reputa- tions as entertainers and caterers. All members of the editorial association are looking forward to the outing at Itasca State Park as promising the very best event of the year. The invitation is general for all northern Minnesota editors tackle, | ‘Washington, April 11.—Much inter- est has been excited in Washington in | the opinion of Judge Sanborn. ! sus- tained, it is pointed out here, the opin- ion, in practice, will have the effect of removing any governmental regu- lation over purely state ratss. "The interstate act does not apply to trans- portation wholly within a state. Law- yers in congress say that if the San- born decision is upheld the state leg- | islatures will be shorn of much of | anl ihat state lines will be wiped out {80 far as they have any effect on | their powe in enacting raflrcad laws | by T. H. Pendergast, that Judge Gorham Powers of the Fergus Falls judicial district, Wil address the Carr Post, number 174, department of Minnesota G. A. R. on next Memor- ial Day. The Judge has given his consent to be here on that day and says that it will be with much pleasure that he will talk to the members and ! friends of the Carr Post. with a district judge forthe purpose of goin‘g over the city charter, and modify it to the best advantage. The liquor license application of J. E. Maloy was granted and his bond { for $1,000 accepted. i William Everett was appointed city. engineer, he having no opposi- tion. The report of the municipal court as having turned over $166.50 to and the city treasurer was accepted. 22,000 worth of seed into the < transportation uestions. Further 7 ch as w. the case if $22, e a e- i = i P q . 7 fssue, such as would be atoa| DUTDEd OVEr areas of Beltrami, | bOlIer scauainted with the gentle-| their wives or swesthearts to attend | (i NCHTIN TREION | o r|AS A CHECK TO SOCIALISM ; | they were superseded by the rates Koochiching, Roseav, Itasca apd|™an» from Freeborn and to demon-; the outing. ;smcted to purely local disputes. j Municipal Court Doings. proposed in thi (‘i\shmfln bill. nllh:r clqumnt;:s. "I;I:eeshlpm;ntlm- Sml:: to ];brahaxtn I];mcotlln tlm:(, } | Roosevelt and Organized Labor to| Only one drunk was arraigned be- * cludes timothy, ver, re oD, | northern innesota has the most/ | Deny Shop Strike Is Lil Form N P. J; B < . y Shop Strike Is Likely. | 'm New Party. fore Judge Pendergast in municipal The House yesterday sustained its|alsike clover, oats and millet seed. hospitable people on earth. & reputation of being in openrebellion. The most dramatic incident of the day came during the morning session when Representative John Lennon of Minneapolis, who acted as speaker maner in which Mr. Lennon sought The original appropriation was for $25,000 but Prof. Andrew Boss of the State Agricultural School re- tained $3,000 to pay for the cost of a second and smyller shipment. The seed has been alloted as follows; pounds; Pine, 13,300 pounds; Pen- In connection with the presence of jovernor Eberhart, Lieutenant Gn\'-‘ ernor Gordon and Speaker Dunn, it is given out positively that politics must'be eschewed by the editors and NAVARRO REPORTS BATTLE Mexican General Says Federals Were . Driven Back by Rebels. El Paso, Tex., April 11.—A fierce battle was fought Sunday on the out- skirts of Zacatecas between the fed- tion regarding the outcome, but it is ‘Winnipeg, April 11.—Canadian Pa. cific railway officials ridicule the re- port that its mechanics west of the | lakes are on the verge of a strike. While the agreement expired on April 1 the old agreement is in force and negotiatidbns for a new-agreement are ! Philadelphia, April 11.—“Within ths next twelve months a new political party will be organized by the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and Theodore Roosevelt. Its purpose primarily will be self-protection against the steadily increasing strength of the Socialists.” we hope to develop In the capture of court this morning, that being Carl Hanson who was fined $5 and costs. He paid the fine. Wealthy Lumberman Dead. Beltrami, 46,900 pounds; Ar'kin, ; I f eral garrison of the town and a large | making progress, it is said, This statement was made by a man La Crosse, Wis.,, April 11.—James last week during the llness of H.| 5 500"" o a0, Carleton, ~ 5.800| theirstriends during the outing. Al torce.of tnsurgents, according to stare | 5 high {n authority in the labor move | Vinent, aged | eightysoven, wosliny | H. Dunn, lost complete control of | poundc; Konchiching, 15,900 pcunds; | breach of this rule will place the|ments by General Navarro, command- | Leading New York Banker Dead. | ment and who has had cause 1o test| pioneer lumberman, died at his homy | himself ~ because Representative| Roseau, 35,500 pounds; Kanabec,|offender in line for a ducking in the ing the federal troops at Juarez. New York, April 11.—Gustav E. Kis. | fhfi:";‘“ of the Soclalist movement. | phere following two weeks’ illness with R Mattson of Roseau objected to the|9.600 pounds. Mille Lacs, *2,700] lake tear Douglas lodge, - Navairo says he has no informa- |ge] a prominent New York banker and t is not so much for tHe strength | pneumonia. Vincent was ome of the | RS i . to interpret the House rules. Mr. Lennon was red with rage and his nington, 4,400 pouads; Itasca, 3,500 pounds; which makes a total ship Althoirgh the details of the outing i have not as yet been definitely work- ed out, a general idea has been ad- ment of 160,000 pounds. e N reported in-Juarez that the federals were defeated and are now being be- sieged in their barracks by the -in- surgents, E financier, died at his honie here after an illness of a few days. He was the ‘senior partner in the firm of Kissel, Kinnecutt & Co., and a director of nu- merous trust companies. public offices or influence upon the conduct of the national government,” he explained, “as it is for a check to Socialism that we will organize.” “forty-niners” and during the gold fe- ver went to California. He returned to the Middle West in 1854, entered the lumber business here and has been constantly engaged in it ever since,