Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 23, 1911, Page 1

VOLUME 9. NUMBER 150. EXTRASESSIONCOST LESS THAN $25,000 Chief Clerk Armeson Furnishes Du- luth Herald Detailed Figures on Needed Expense. UNNECESSARY EMPLOYES OUT Ten Days Work Estimated at $2,480 and Desired Legislation Conld Be | Passed in Month. ! i | | SAVING OF §$2,000,000 ON 1 ISSUE - i Duluth Paper, Which Gives Pioneer Data, Sees 79 Per Cent From Railway Law In its campaign to bring about an | extra session of the Minnesota legis-| lature the coming winter for the pur-| pose of passing a reapportianmeutg bill, suggestions form one or two that the| taxpayers would be put to heavy ex-i' the Daily Pioneer has received | pense if such a move were to be made. That this fear is builded upon the | sand is shown by figures obtained by the Duluth Evening Herald, which by permission of that paper the Pio- neer is permitted to present to its| readers. The Herald tonight will say: “An extra session of the Minneso- 1a legislature lasting days, | which is long enough for all of the thirty purposes for which an extra session is demanded, could be held for not to exceed $25,000. “If the legislature wishes to do so it can sit that long for a much smal- ler sum. “It would have to be pretty extra- vagant to spend much more in that length of time. Peachey Says $27,000. ~According to George W. Peachey, secretary of the senate, it would cost $27 or at the rate of $900 per; 100 “According to Oscar Arneson, chief clerk of the house of representatives, it would cost $16,565; and he pre- sented detailed figures, which Mr. Peachey neglects to do. “The Herald wrote both of those officials to get their views on the subject, because the cost of an extra| session should be counted before one is called. 1t has roughly estimated the probable cost at $50.000, which is well above the maximum estimate given here; and it has shown that the gain by ar increase in railroad: taxes for the two years that would be saved by an extra session would be twenty times the cost of the ses- sion if it ran up to the impossible figure of $100,000. Length to Be Limted. “As to the length cf the session, that of course would depend on the latitude | day session. |beld within figures stated if ures to be considered. The- longer they sit, the greater their personal expenses. Peachey Says $900 A Day. “Mr. Peachey’s statement is as follows: “To The Editor of The Herald:- Your favor of the 11th inst. is at hand and contents mnoted. In reply to your question as to what would be my estimate of the cost of an extra session of the legislature, will say that in my opinion nothing li%c an ap- proxmate cost could be made un- less one knew how long the ses- sion would last. In reply to your second question will say that in my opinion iL would cost about $900 per day; and this estimate is based Ilargely on my experience of the past two sessions, and does not in- clude any pay for members of either body, and ouly a reason- able amount for supplies, such as has been the custom practiced in the senate during the last two sessions at least. The print- ing of the journals of both houses and also the bills are let by contract, I understand and | 1 have no means of knowing what they cost; but have in- cluded in this estimate about $100 per day for that purpose. | Sincerely yours, GEORGE W. PEACHEY, | Secretary of the Senate. Arneson Makes It Cheaper. | Mr. Arlleson’s statement is as fol-| lows: “To the Editor of the Herald:- 1 am basing my estimate on a ten-| Estimates for a longer session can be figured from it. The; item of members’ mileage, included in this estimate, should be deduct- ed before figuring on a longer ses- sion as that would be the same no matter what the length of the ses-| sion. The main items are as fol- lows: i Members’ mileage ... ...... $5,600 Miscellaneous supplies for both DEANEHBE <o a4 s 100 Printing bills, general orders and calendars, not to exceed 500 Printing Journal daily and permanent... .... ........ 500 Rental of typewriters, ete.,. . . 75 Expenses of both houses, em- ployes, ete....... . ees. 2,480 Total for 10-day session.... . $9,255 “For a longer period, the expense would be about $365.50 per day. For thirty days the cost would be $16,- 565. Cut Out Unnecessary Employes. “All furniture is provided for in the house through purchase last ses- sion. “The figures for employes, etc., for both houses, are based on what is actually needed, in my judgment, for an extra session, with the salaries provided by law, and no provision is made for extraordinary expenses such as investigations, which cost a good deal of money at the regular session. 1 believe the cost can be the members do not go above the legal limit in salaries and do not take on unnecessary employes. “The daily expense of the two houses, with only necessary em- ployes, would be as follows: i What the Senate Would Cost. “Lieutenant-governor’s extra give itself as to the number and variety of the measures to be consid-i ered. “About the first thing the legisla- | “Two janitors at $5. . ture would do after it was called Lo—| gether would be to appoint commit- tees to select the measures to be act- ed upon. Both Lieutenant Governor Gordon and Speaker Dunn could be depended upon to appoint committees likely not to make the list of meas- ures too small to evade the legisla- ture's duty to importance. Only One Precedent. “There is but one precedent to-go by, which is the special session of 1902, called to consider & new tax coge. That was about as hard a wrangle as the Minnesota legislature ever had, but it disposed of its work easily in six weeks, and could heve done better if it had tried. ~In those days members served on the per diem basis, and were paid for cvery day they were together, whether at a regular session or an extra session. To Serve Without Pay. “Now the members are paid an annual salary, and they have drawn all their pay for the fuil two years of the house member’s term, and for the first two vears of the senatorial term. So they will have to serve without pay. “This fact is going 1o make it easy to bring about an early agree- ment to limit the session both as to time and as to the number of meas- the legislature decided to |« pay ..... . $5 “Secretary . " 10 “First assistant - 7 “Second assistant. .. . 7 “Engrossing and enrolling eIerK. o Lniuss e EEewEn ssa 5 “Sergeant-at-arms. . .. . . 5 ...... 5 “Four doorkeepers at$5. .. 20 | “Two gallery keepers at $5 10 . 10 “One cloakroom keeper.... . 5 “Five pages at $3 15 Three stenographers at $5 aday ... ... . “Chaplain Total per day. . | Expenses in House. “Speaker’s extra pay..... .. |*Chief Clerk..... . “First assistant... “Second assistant. “Engrossing and clerk enrolling “Four doorkeepers at h - “Two gallery-keeps at $5 “Two janitors at $5..... 5 “One cloakroom keeper “Five pages at $3 “Chaplain. . “Three stenographers at S' Total per day. $124 “For a ten-day session these items would amount to $1240 for = each house, or $2480 in all. Omits Full Force. “It will be noted that 1 have not figured on. the usual full force of employes. 1 have combined the tfunctions of engrossing and enroll- ing clerk in each house. 1 have allowed only the salaries fixed by statute, though the senate allowed (Continued on last pag=) | Stiepherd of Salt Lake City. 900‘00670000@0000 ® Dutside News @@@0000099009000 E. G. Barnaby, 73, for 20 years a prominent clothing ‘merchant inj Minneapolis, is dead. The Mississippi state fair opens at| Jackson tomorrow. Specially notable] will be the display of live stock and horticultural and agricultural pro- duets. Mrs. Booth Tarkington, wife of the novelist and piaywngnt, filed suit for divorse at Indianapolis. She charges the defendant with cruelty and asks for the custody of their 5- year-old child. Mrs. Warren Fairbanks of Chicago, social leader and wife of the son of Former Vice President Fairbanks, has reported to the police that a bag| been taken from her on a Pullmnn‘ train en route from Boston to Chi-| cago. H. C. Akeley, 75 years old, million- aire lumberman and eapitalist, for a guarter of a century identified with the development of the northwest, left Minensota last might not to Te-| turn again. Mr. Akeley will be mar-| ried in the near future to Mrs. Clara Rood Royce, and will become a per- manent California resident. Edinburgh, Scotland, was the! scene today of an international wed- ding in which the wusual order of American bride and British bride- groom was reversed. Dr. Ernest P.| Magruder, 2 well known physician | of Washington, D. C., was the bride- groom at today's ceremony and the bride was Miss MacGregor, daughter of Lady Helen and the late Sir Mal- colm MacGregor, who was a rear ad- miral of the British navy. Dr. Ma- gruder will take his bride to Wash- ington. where he is suverintendent of one of the hospitals. More than 1,500 leaders of the Unitarian church, including scores of prominent divines, gathered in Washington today for the twenty- fourth national conference of Uni- tarian and other christian churches. The conference was formally opened in Afl-Souls’ Church this morning with a sermon by Rev. James De Normandie. The subject of Interna- tional Peace” will be discussed Tues- day evening by Rev. Edward Cum- mings of Boston Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago and Rev. William C. Gannett of Rochester. Several hundred delegates are in Washington attending the 37th an- nual convention of the Catholic Young Men’s National Union. After attending mass at St Patrick’s church this morning the delegates marched to Carroll Institute for the initial business session. The after- noon was given over largely to see- ing the sights of the city and tomor- row the delegates will make a trip to Mt. Vernon after completing the business of the convention. The Catholic Young Men’s National Union was organized in 1875, and has branches in all the eastern and middle west states. Its purpose is to establish a club for the young men of each parish under the direction of the pastor. - The Statehood machinery of Ari- zona will be set in motion for the first time tomorrow, when a generai primary will be held for the election of candidates to be voted for at the first state election, which is to be held early in December. The nomi- nations will include candidates for governor and all other state officers, members of the legislature, three judges of the supreme court and judges of the district courts, repre- sentatives in congress and county and precinct officers. Additional in- terest is given the primary by the fact that the voters will express their choice of two United States senators. According to the constitution the choice of senators in the primary will be binding upon the legislature. The sixth international purity con- ican Purity Federation, was inform- ally opened at Columbus, Ohio, day with the arrival of numerous del- preliminary to the beginning of the general sessions. The congress will continue in sesion through the great- er part of the week. Every phase of moral and social guestions will be presented and discussed, including the white slave traffic, law enforce- ment, needed legislation, sex hygiene Droblems, suppression of vice, and rescue homes and methods. Among those who are to speak are Anthony Comstock of New York, Arthur B. Farwell of Chicago, Rev. Wilbur F. Crafis of Washington, Harry E. Moore of Seattle Rev. Dr. Gordon of rontoWinnipeg, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett of Washington, Bishop John 'W. Hamilton of Boston, Rey. T. Al- bert Moore of Toronto, Rev. Madison C. Peters of Brooklyn, George L. Sehon of Louisville, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis of New York, Dr. Emma F. A Dflkenf eDnver, and Mrs. Lulu containing jewels worth $10,000 had | gress, under the auspices of the Amer-| egates and the meeting of committees | Copyright. WIL) GEARLDS DENY GUILT DEMAND QUICK TRIAL Edward and Edwin Gearlds, ar- raigned before Judge Stanton in dis- frict court here this. morning, entered pleas of not guilty and de- George Spear of the Grsnd Rapids law firm of Spear & Stene, has been ‘retained to defend the Gearlds. The defendants were"mflmgl that the charges against them be -presented at the present term of court. As- sistant Attorney General Janes will return this afternoon from a hunt- ing trip and arrangements will be made for the taking up of the case. Attorney E. E. McDonald represented the state when the cases were called today. BEMIDJI DEFEATS AKELY, 20 T0 0 Grand Rapids Comes Next; High School Girls to Serve eFast. (By Hiram Simons, Jr.) By a score of 23 to 0 the Bemidji High School football team defeated Akeley last Saturday, and by doing so sustained their record of mnot be- ing scored on this season. The team left Bemidji at 6:30 Saturday morning acompanied by Professor Bailey of the manual train- ing department, and arrived at| Akeley at nine o’clock, where they were greeted by a large crowd of football enthusiasts, who escorted them to the hotel. The boys received the best of entertainment and were treated well during their entire stay in the ecity. The game was called at 3 p. m. McDonald of Bemidji won the toss and chose the south goal. - McNevers, Akeley’s full back, kicked off to Hen- drickson on the 25 yard line. He re- turned it to Akeley’s 40 yard lime. Bemidji made several line plunges and passes. McDonsld received the ball on a forward pass and made a touch-down. He kicked an easy goal, and the score stood 6 to 0 in Bemidji’s favor. Hendrickson, Bemidji's full back, after kicking the pigskin over the fence twice, retired ten yards and then kicked to MeNevers on the 5 yard line. He returned it by a punt, and Akeley recovered it on the 45 yard line. Akeley held for downs; to- | Bailey, for Bemidji, tried a droy kick on the third down, but failed. End of the first guarter. Akeley’s ball on their 25 yard line. | Bemidji secured the ball on 2 fumble, |and by a series of short end runs and forward passes, brought the ball to the 2 yard line. Peck went through right tackle for a touch-down. Me Donald kicked goal, making the score their 5 yard line; Akeley attempted a forward pass, but Moritz, Bemidji's left end, intercepted it and went through for a touch-down. Me Donald again kicked goal. End of the second guarter, score 18 to 0. Bemidji again kicked to Akeley on the two yard line. They failed on a midji brought it to the 2 yard line by a series of end runs and passes. McDonald went through for another mueh-dmmshnr(sd&m No mmmmzamc. = k m‘m manded separate and speedy tirials.| 12 to 0. Bemidji kicked to Akeley on | fake punt, and mtannw _Be-| braced up and no scores were made. The final score was 23 to 0% The boys returned om the 7:40 Great Northern and were greeted by a crowd of high school students. Coach Robinson is well pleased with looking forward to success in the few remaining games on the schedule. The football players requested that special mention be made of the con- duct of their full-back, Leigh Hen- {drickson. Although his popularity made modesty an impossibility, yet he behaved himself very creditably in the guise of a hero. The position of Bemidji’s players in Saturday’s game were as follows: ¢, Sullivan; guards, Olson and Ryan; tackles, Lycan and Ripple; gb, Bailey; fb, Hendrickson; half backs, McDonald, (Capt.) and Peck; ends, Maritz and Hayner. Carrigan of Akeley refersed; Hugh Logan of Grand Rapids umpired and Achenbach of Bemidji acted as time- keeper. There are only two more games on Bemidji’s schedule for this fall. Next Saturday the team will play Grand Rapids here. This is the big game of the season, and is regarded as the hardest battle our men will be re- quired to fight. After the game the high school girls will give a public supepr, the proceeds of which will g0 to pay all outstanding debts, and set the Athletic association on a firm foundation. A .week from mnext Sat- urday the team will go to Crookston to play the high school team of that city. Her Deadly Weapon. The teacher (reading)—*“Then the girl warrior faced the mocking foe and unsheathed her deadly weap- on.” What does that mean. childern? ‘Well, Elsie? Elsie—Please, ma’am, 1 think it means she stuck out her tongue. That’s the Question. Sillicus—I wonder if the average “|woman will be happy in heaven?|them yon reach destiny.—Carl Cynicus—Certainly mnot. Judging|Schurz. from her passion for hats, how is she going to make one halo last her 9 through eternity? — Philadelphia| o Ousaig b | Record. “There is one thing you can’t do.’ Olive Trees Centuries Old. Olive trees of Syria live to 2 great age. Some, known to be over 4,000 years old, are still in a flourishing condition and likely to bear fruit for many years to come. One Sacred Spot. 1 have a room Wherein no one en- ters save myself alone. There sits 2 blessed memory on a throne; there my life centers.—Christian C. Ros- setti. Efforts That is foolish " Many splendid natures have been made absolute cyphers by their ef- never intended to be. Small Potatoes. Every man who has gone through the bridgercom -stage has a keen ap- preciation of the insignificance of his sex. Some people dispense advice in |the same style that a waiter at a {twenty-five cent restaurant slings the showing made by the team and is| with the young women of Akeley| foris to become something they were i OUT OF PRISON, DIES Chicago, October 23—(Daily Pio- neer Special Wire Service.)—John R. Walsh, who arrived here a week ago, having been paroled from the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth died of heart disease at his home here this morning. He was 73 years old. Since his return from prison he bas been confined to his bed, but his end came a surprise. He had announced his intention of actively efitering into business agaim. Baseball Game Postponed. Philadelphia, Pa., October 23— (D. P. S. W. 8.)—Once more the world’s baseball series had to e postponed on account of rain. The ‘grounds were soaked again yesterday. making the game today impossible. Lightning’s Strange Freaks. Lightning bas imprinted pmlum on tree trunks and dried leaves, and it is asserted that the silhouette of 2 man killed by lightning was fixed on a whitewashed wall near the spot where he was killed. What are the secrets of lightning by which it is able to do these things? Man’s Independence. No iron chain nor outward force of any kind could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbe- lieve; it is his own indefeasible right, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe thereby the grace of God alone!—Thomas Carlyle. Daily Thought. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your| ‘hands; but, like the seafaring man | on the desert of waters, you chase them as your guides, and, following “Is-there? What is it now?” “You can't tell anything about the size of a man’s brain by the measure- ment of his head.” Homelike. A British baronet is working as a janitor in New York. Just could not get away from his autocratic tendencies.—Dayton Journal. “She is so very fond of herself that she is unbearable.” “That is only inberiting her. fath- | er’s penchant for the antique.” “Going to the circus, Pete?” “Don’t know. Are you?” “] suppose 1 will have to take grandpa.” Evidence "Iminkflntfe!bvwiumnh!fla way in the world.” NEW MOVE MADE TO GET HOME BUILDERS Mackenzie Named by Immigration Men of Development Association toOpen Minneapolis Offiee. $12,000 TO BE USED FIRST YEAR 2l Wedge Elected Treasurer at Meeting Held in Commercial Club Rooms at St. Paul on Saturday. TO WORK WITH STATE DEPT. |City Eocation 10 be Near Depot in i~ Order to Display Permanent Ex- i hibits of thus Part of State, 1 { W. R. Mackenzie of this city has | been mamed to have charge of a new |office to be maintained at Minnea- ipolis by the Immigration committee ‘of the Northern Minnesota Develop- {ment association. The official notice of the committee’s meeting in St. Paul follows: “At the June convention of the JMN WALSH WEEK | Northern Minnesota Development as- i ) Isociau'on. held in Duluth, a commis- sion known as the Immigration Com~ mission was named to carry on the work of publicity for the counties which comprised the association. The commission named was as fol- lows: “W. A. McGouagle, Duluth, Minn., St. Louis county, chairman. “P. H. Konzen, Hallock, Kittson county. “J. P. Foote. Crookston, Polk coun- ty. “Daniel Shaw, Thief River Falls, Pennington county. “A. G. Wedge, Jr., Bemidji, Bel- trami county. “John Runguist, ‘Grasston, Kana- bec county. “A. C. M. Sprague Sauk Centre, Stearns county. “A meeting to organize was held at 2 o'clock Friday. October 20, at the Commercial club rooms in St. Paul. MT. McGonagle was unable. to act as chairman or as a member of the committee and L. B. Arnold, of Du- luth, was added to the committee. “The election of officers resulted as follows: “Daniel Shay. chairman. “John Runquist, vice-chairman. “A. G. Wedge, Jr., treasurer. “D. Tenny, of the Shevlin-Carpen- ter Co. Minneapolis and L. B. Ar- nold, land commissioner of the Rock Island Railway, audit committee. “W. R. Mackenzie, of Bemidji, sec- retary and commissioner “It was decided to raise a fund of $12,000 to carry on the work the first year; also to open an office in Minneapolis to carry on the work— this office to s erve as a permanent exhibit to show the agricultural pro- ducts of the northern counties. “The 33 counties, which constitute the Northern Minnesota Development association will be asked to join in the movement and a special request will be sent out to all land owners, ‘bankers, railroads, and others inter- ested in the development of that re- gion known as northern Minnesota and which constitutes about 70 per cent of the land area of the state of Minnesota. “It is the intention of the commis- sion to co-operate as far as possible with the state immigration burean in the work of developing the entire state of Minnesota. A soil survey will be made of the northern coun- ties and every possible aid given to those contemplating making t.heir homes in the north. “The office to be established in Minneapolis will in all probability, be a store building in the vicinity of the depots and will be the head- quarters of the commission as well as that of the Northern Minnesota Development association, and the permanent Good Roads Committee, of that organization.” The decline of the price of cotton and the adoption of some concerted action that will cause a betterment of market conditions are being eon- sidered at an important conference that assembled in New Orleans to- day in response to an invitation sent ‘out by Governor Colquitt. All of the “Why?” “He always encores himself.” ‘Whatever it is 2 tragedy or a wmmmmmmnn wvocal itfiev 5 = |ecotton-growing states are repre- ‘sented. “Where are you going.” “I don’t know. I'm just going.” I that’s the case why go?” “It’s time for the girl next door to lesson.” 7 Birming-