Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 6, 1911, Page 1

THE BEMIDJI VOLUME 9. NUMBER 178. : BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1911/ TEN CENTS PER WEEK. POLITICAL PRIZE TO PROLONG CONGRESS Effort to Assure Victory in Presi- dential Election Causes Both Sides To Scheme. —_—— LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM OUTLINE Eleven Appropriation Bills and Tariff Jangle Makes Definite Resuiis Doubtful. BY WINFIELD JONES. ‘Washington, Dec. 6,—(Special)— The first regular sesion of the Sixty- Second Congress finds itself con- fronted with the most important work that has faced a sesion in many years. A big game of politics is on, for both parties are playing politics from the start. A serious legislative program has been mapped out, but with eleven mppropriation bills in the way, and the tariff the overshadowing issue, according to the Democratic leaders of the House, it is doubtful that much general legislation will go on the statute books. Bird’s Eye View of Situation. A bird’s eye view of the situation indicates that the following legisla- tion will take precedence: First. Bills originating in the House providing for a substantial re- duction of the tariff, especially of the wool, cotton, iron, steel and chemical schedules of the Payne-Al- drich tariff law. To put any of these bills through the Senate, the Democrats must have the aid of the insurgents who helped last session to pass the bills afterward vetoed by the president. The House Democrats will pay little attention to the re- port of the tariff board, unless it co~ incides with Democratic views. Second. Appropriation bills, also originating in the House, which will be modeled along Democratic lines of economy. The Democrats propose to make substantial cuts in appropria- tion and to do away with billion-dol- lar Congresses. Third. The arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France. The Senate will be considering these treaties while the House is wrestling with the tariff and appropriation. Fourth. Amendments to the Sher- man Anti-trust law. There is the greatest diversity of opinion in the House and Senate as to whether the Sherman law should be amended or left alone. Fifth. A Federal incorporation act, which the president will sug- gest as one of the remedies for pres- ent business troubles. May Last to October. Sixth. A bill providing for cur- rency reform, drawn probably after the Aldrich plan. operation, government and mainten- Seventh. A law governing the ance of the Panama Canal. Trailing along, without such chance for passage at this crowded session, will be bills for a ship sub- sidy, a parcels post, a measure creat- ing a national department of public health, and a bill inaugurating a pension system for aged government employes. There is little prospect that the session will end before the latter part of next June. Representative Mann, the minority leader, in a pes- simistic and caustic interview direct- ed at the Democrats, predicts that the session “will dawdle along like a derelict at sea until October.” Rep- resentative Underwood, the Demo- cratic floor leader in the House, de- clares that eh hopes to get away in June. The eighth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress began its sessions at the New Willard Hotel in Washington today. Representative Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, president of the congress, called the gathering to order. He reviewed the work already accomplished and said it spoke well for the future and ought to impress both the President and Congress re- specting a large annual river and harbor appropriation bill. TALK FOR OPEN SCHOOLS Dr. Smith, President, and Knute Roe, Member, Optimistic Regarding Ev- ening Gatherings. BOY SALVATION POINT MADE It looks as if the school houses, or at least one of them, would be opened evenings to be used for the benefit of the public for such entertainment as may, and can be, provided. Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the Board of Education, and Knute K. Roe, a member, today publicly went on record in favor of such a move. “We should give the public every benefit possible from their property,” said Mr. Roe, “and I am frankly in favor of opening the school buildings if there is interest enough manifest. More than that I think we should create interest for I feel that once the advantages of proper entertain- ments, ete., become known, there will be no question about the wisdom of continuing euch a plan.” Dr. Smith was convincing and op- timistic. He said: “I think the idea of making the school buildings public in the even- ings is a good one if by so doing the community at large will be bene- fitted by it, the minds of the people elevated to a large degree on a broad- er plane, and the children who spend their evenings on the streets, smok- ing cigarettes, discussing subjects that they should not be allowed to indulge in, or wandering into mis- chievous ways, induced to spend their {time in a more elevating environ- ment. “If the school buildings are to be used publicly evenings, I should like to see the opportunity for study open en who have unfortunately been de- prived from schooling such as they would like to obtain, and if the de- mand for such courses of study would warrant it, the expense of instruc- tion would be small indeed, provid- ing the present equipment of the schools is sufficient. Such use of the buildings would also bring the par- ents into a closer touch with the schools ~although it is doubtful whether sufficient attraction of prop- er character can be provided, which will hold the attention of the matur- er class of people. However, I think the proposition is well worthy of trial, and the expense entailed would be of minor consequence if the de- sired results are obtained.” Most people try to be good on the installment plan. The new coffee crop in Java is es- timated at thore than $4,000,000. 1t is said that there are over 25,- 000 acres of prune orchards in Ore- gon. to that class of young men and wom- | REAPPORTIONMENT BOOST FROM ROCKN Southern Senator Admits He Drew Hanson Bill and That He Will Stand By New Measure. ’ N. M. D. A. ON RECORD FOR EXTRA Resolution Passed at Brainerd Year Ago Demanding Special Session if Regular Failed to Act. Two important features today in the proposition to pass a resolution at St. Cloud calling for an extra ses- sion of the legislature are: Public letter from Senator A. J. Rockne promising to support a reap- portionment bill at an extra session and admitting that he was the author of the so-called Hanson bill. Attention is called to the fact that the Northern Minnesota Development association is on record by resolution in favor of an extra session, a resolu- tion to this effect having been passed at the Brainerd convention a year. Senator Rockne’s letter to the Daily Pioneer in full follows: | Senator Rockne’s Letter. “Editor Bemidji Pioneer: I am in favor of an extra session and believe that mueh good would result there- from. I view, however, with some alarm as to what might be the real outcome of such a session at this time. If we could limit the work to certain things, such as reapportion- ment and a few other matters that need attention it would be all right, but we are sure to be met with a large number of other matters which up at this time. We would for ex- ample be sure to be met with the re- call propaganda over which some peo- ple in these days seem to have gone mad. This new doctrine of govern- ment may be a good thing, but I would much rather see it tried out |in other states before we experiment | with it. Should that come up at an | extra session it would no doubt pass, |not because the members would be-| lieve in it, but because they would be |afraid to be termed "reactionaries”} {or ‘stand-patters.’ ! ‘;Wams Against Frenzied Legislation.} | “All legislation brought about by | a frenzy is generally bad. This may be an exception, but in any event no particular harm could follow if| }some of these new doctrines were i tried out by degrees. It seems to me |at this time that the recall could be| used to drive every poor man out of . public office as powerful interest | =oCIETs him running for office all the: time; | or until such time as his means was gone. Assume for the sake of the argument that the recall existed im the;state of Wisconsin today as to the election of United States senator. Is there any doubt that powerful in- terests would not institute: a reeall on one of the senators from that state? One might fail, but would there not be an opporunity to start ‘another one? And again another un- til finally that person’s means would fail him? There are other objections that might be urged but time does not permit me to state them at this time. About Railway Taxes. “Again we might pass an act rais- ing the taxes-on railway property of this state. Many good men are urg- ing this. No one could afford to vote against it yet there is a question whether this would be a good thing. It would not take much of a reduc- tion in either freight or passenger rates to more than compensate the people in the way of increased taxes. Only one-half ecent a mile reduction in passenger rates in Minnesota would save the people many many times more money than would the increased tax rate proposed by the Duluth Herald and a reduction in freight rates would mean many mil- lions saved to people over and above the proposed method. Candidly would we not be better off if we would wait until we see what the Supreme Court will do with the so-called Sandborn decision? I have no fear that that Court will take away from the states the right to regulate the creatures they themselves have called into ex- istence. No corporation exists ex- cept as a creature of state law, ex-| cept the National banks, and no Court can or will say, in the final analysis, that a state cannot regulate that which it has created. In this matter I believe we would gain time (Continued on last page) PARENTS SHOULD DEMAND ’EM in my. opinion should not be broughtiMany. €hildren Have Barker Buttons That Are Valuable to Parents. “Children, give your buttons to your parents. Parents secure the buttons from the children. We are not giving away as many gifts and souvenirs as we would like and it is because we cannot recognize those buttons turned in by the children and they surely have some of the gift winning buttons. i “It is our aim to please as many as possible during our great daily rushes. We cannot take all the time we sometimes wish with this button proposition and we wish to have the general public feel right at home when they come into this store. Barker Drug and Jewelry Store. The following persons brought in duplicate button numbers and re-i ceived gifts for them: Miss O. Warner, Puposky; Miss Violet Voltz, Mill Park; E. L. Ban- ner, Mrs. A. B. Palmer and Miss |could so manage matters as to have Dora Hazen. k. . Socialist Speaker in Bemidji. ¢ | to represent Ohio in the United States | ago. .| tained at dinner at the White House @@@@@@@@@@@é@@@@l ® Denounces Clarence Darrow ¢ L O R R O R O R R R R IO OR S W. F. RIES. “Self confessed murderers, such as they, should be hanged so high you couldn’t see them,” declared W. F. Ries, the Socialistic lecturer who last night addressed more than 300 per- sons on the subject “How We are Gouged.” Mr. Ries made his blunt declara- tion while referring to the confes- sion of the McNamara brothers at Los Angeles. He told the audience he had inside information and was unsparing in his denunciation of the discredited labor leaders as well as Clarence Darrow, one of the attor- neys employed to defend the McNam- aras. Mr. Ries was much pleased with the Bemidji gathering which, he said was one of the largest and ‘most in- terested audiences, he has spoken to on his present trip. He predicted So- cialist success in 1912, POOPPORPPIOOOO®O® © .OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. ¢ POLPOOOPOOOCP®OE O« The weather: fair with continued moderate temperature Thursday, with variable winds. * " Aviator Hubert Oxley and a pas- senger, Robert Weis, fell 300 feet to their death today at Filly, England. * Prince Ghu, Chinese regent, father of Infant Emperor, abdicates. He is succeeded by Shih Hsu and Hsu Shi Jjointly. * At the city of Los Angeles yester- day, George Alexander, the ‘“good government’”’ candidate for mayor, was elected by an overwhelming ma- jority over Job Harriman, socialist. * The permanent successor of Hoke Smith as governor of Georgia will be selected by the Democrats in a State- wide primary tomorrow. The cam- paign which closed today has been spirited. = Atlee Pomerene, the first Democrat senate since the days of Calvin S. day anniversary that he has observed Brice, celebrated today the first birth-l 2 DUMAS JURORS; CASE TO CONTINUE Attorney General Simpson Announces in St. Paul That Prosecution Will Continue. THREATS MADE AT BELTRAMI Intimated at State Capitol that Re- quests for Ditch Loans May Now Become Affected. Brainerd, Minn., December 5.— (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service) —Promptly at the opening of court this merning the case against Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake, charg- ed with an attempt to burn a build- ing in Blackduck last March, was tak- en up and the state announced its readiness to proceed. At 2 p. m. two jurors out of the regular panel of 23 men had been accepted. M. L. Shannon, a farmer of St. Mathias township, was the first jur- or examined and was accepted for service. Jesse Briton, farmer of Oak Lawn township, is the other man chosen for jury service. Jacob Strickler, a laborer here was the subject of a peremptory challenge by the defense. W. J. Storm was challenged for actual bias. Long and Daly for Dumas. Jay Henry Long and Michael Daly, former state senator of Perham, ap- pear for the defendant. Mr. Long examines the jurors for the defend- ant. Assistant Attorney General Janes, and E. E. McDonald and Thayer Bai- ley of Bemidji, represent the state. Attorney General Simpson, contrary to expectations, did not come to Brainerd this morning. Questions put to the jurors in- volved in the Gearlds arson cases; their dismissal after having been in- dicted by the Brainerd grand jury and the recent arrest of A. H. Brandt, a witness against Edward Gearlds and who now faces arrest on a charge of perjury. This line of questioning, however, was objected to by the state and Judge McClenahan sustained the ob- jection. Prosecution to Continue. St. Paul, Minn., December 5.1t was announced at the capitol today by Attorney General Simpson that the refusal of Beltrami county to pay incidental expenses would in no way affect the Dumas prosecution and that the charges would be pushed. It also was said at the capitol that Beltrami county now might meet with disap- pointment in her pending requests for ditch bond loans amounting to 270,000, No Definite Action. As a result of Assistant Attorney in Washington. Senator Pomerene was born in Ohjo forty-eight years .w f R Two men and a woman, all colored, were burned to death today by white men near Cliffton, Tennessee. The negroes were on their way to the cot- ton gin on a load of cotton, the white men tied them to the wagon and set the vehicle on fire. The negroes oc- cupied land in a white settlement in opposition to the whites. * An exceedingly busy day is in pros- pect for the Western States’ gover- nors who are due to arrive in Wash- ington tomorrow in the course of their “get-together” tour of the East- ern cities. A reception feature of the program calls for their attendance at the forenoon session of the Na- tional Rivers and Harbors Congress. At luncheon they will be the guests of their State delegations at the capi- tol, and afterwards they will be guests of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and will be given an automobile jaunt about the city. In the evening they are to be enter- and immediately after taking leave of the President and Mrs. Taft the " | governors will depart for Baltimore. General Janes appearance before the three members of the board of coun- ty commissioners here yesterday, the feeling prevails that all proper bills in connection with the arson prose- cution will be paid. Efforts on the part of Mr. Janes to have County Attorney Torrance guarantee his O. K. on such items as indicated failed, however, the county attorney assum- ing the attitude that there is no stat- ute authorizing such expenditure and the assistant attorney general con- ceded this to be true. Chairman Vig- go Peterson also was guarded in his Ipromises and sought refuge behind “We can’t say what we would do with a bill until the bill is presented, but we will pay all legal bills.” Brandt Not Yet Arrested. Although a warrant was sworn out last Saturday, charging A. H. Brandt, witness at the preliminary hearing of Edward Gearlds, with perjury, he has not yet been arrested. It is under- stood that other charges of criminal nature have been preferred against Brandt and that the officers of the law in at least one other city, have been looking for him. It becomes known that following Brandt’s con- viction at Winona last September, he was granted a parole, presumably to aid the state in its arson cases.