Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 19, 1912, Page 1

T—_‘“ Historial Soclety THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEE VOLUME 10. NUMBER 96. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1912. B3 MINNESOTA | i HISTORICAL ! SOCIETY, ! TEN CENTS PER WEEK. BUSY WEEK AHEAD | OF CONGRESSMEN Many Important Measures Must Be Rushed Through if Adjournment Comes Thursday. TROUBLE OVER PANAMA BILL President Does Not Wish to Sign Any- thing Which Would Abrogate Hay-Pauncefoot Treaty. NOTHING PASSED OVER VETO Senate and House Members Fail to Agree on Any Matter Needing Two-thirds Vote. Washington, Aug. 19.—Important legislation must be acted upon before congress adjourns. It stands today as follows: Panama canal bill, before the pres- ident; legislative, executive and judi- cial appropriation bill, approved by the house and now before the senate with the provision abolishing the commerce court; naval, sundry civil and army appropriation bills in con- ference between the two houses; the general deficiency appropriation bill, before the senate committee on ap- propriations; the Indian appropria- tion bill, conference report pending in the senate. . Depends on Taft. ‘While adjournment is expected this week, the date is generally conceded to depend upon the president’s atti- tude toward the Panama canal bill and the legislative, executive and ju- dicial appropriation bills. His veto of the latter measure last week was based upon its provisions for the abolishment of the commerce court and the establishment of a sev- en year tenure in the civil service and the house has again risked the veto by passing the measure with the commerce court provision in it. The senate will determine early in the week whether it will endorse the measure in this form. Action is Doubtful. Leaders of both houses are confi- dent that the remaining work on the overdue appropriation bill could be disposed of in three days were the contingencies of the presidential ve- to removed. The president has made it clear to members of both houses that he does not favor the free toll provision of the Panama canal bill, but he has not as yet asserted a pur- pose to veto the measure. Thus far congress has not succed- ed in overriding any of the presi- dent’s vetos and it is not likely that either the legislative appropriation bill or the Panama bill could be re- passed by a two-thirds vote if vetoed this week. Those tariff and appropri- ation measures which the house has repassed over the veto have failed in the senate, and the single bill which the senate repassed, that affecting the claims on the Corbett irrigation tunnel, failed by six votes of repass- ing in the house. Agreement to Follow. BOARD 10 MEET AT 130 Owing to the inability of some of the members to be present at 10 a. m., the county board of equalization met and adjourned until 1:30 this afternoon. At the session this afternoon, the board expects to hear a committee of Bemidji business men present a petition signed by practically every businesg interest in the city asking that the assessment of the Crookston Lumber company be lowered. This committee was ready to go before the commissioners at the morning ses- sion but as Mr. Peterson had not yet arrived in the city, the meeting was adjourned until 1:30. Judge Spooner and M. S. Mills- paugh, of Little Falls, were also on| hand this morning ready to appear for the Pine Tree Lumber company. | The company is a Weyerhauser inter- est and is protesting on some tax estimates. The board sent out a cruiser to look over the timber with orders to report today. A message was received from him by County Au- ditor George this morning to the ef- fect that he would be unable to ap- pear before the board until tomor- TOW. IS COMING ROOSEVELT TO BE ATTHE STATE FAIR Expected to Deliver Key Address of His Campaign on Thursday September 5. Hamline, August 18.—Special tele- | gram from state fair management.— Colonel Roosevelt will be the guest of the state fair management all day Thursday, September 5. The fol- lowing telegram has just been re- ceived by Secretary J. C. Simpson. “New York, August 18.—The Roosevelt schedule for his western trip has just been completed. He| will arrive in St. Paul at 7:30 a. m. Thursday, September 5, and will leave there at 10:30 that evening. You can make this public. | (Signed) “Joseph W. Dixon.” Plans for the entertainment of the distinguished guest will be made by the fair management as soon as pos- sible. The state fair reception com- mittee, consisting of C. P. Craig, Eli Warner, of St. Paul, W. W. Sivright, of Hutchinson, and E. J. Stillwell, of Minneapolis, will confer with Judge Purdy and other prominent men in| the Roosevelt movement in Minne- sota and will settle the details. It is understood that Colonel Roosevelt will make the key speech of the campaign while at the fair grounds Thursday and will either The sundry civil appropriation bill, (Continued on last page.) THE CUB REPORTER N AWEEK wiTH HiM ON WS FarMm— speak before the grand stand or in the live stock pavilion. T (Copyright.). CONVENE SEPTEMBER 5 Annual Meetings of Minnesota Wom- an Suffrage Association to Be Held in Minneapolis. DELEGATES TO VISIT STATE FAIR Minneapolis, Aug. 19.—The annu- al state convention of the Minneso- ta Woman Suffrage association will be held in Minneapolis in convention hall at the court house Thursday and Friday, Sept. 5 and 6. The business sessions, including the reports of officers, standing com- mittees and state clubs, will occupy the two forenoons, adjourning at one o'clock. Thursday at two o’clock the dele- gates and friends will be taken in au- tomobiles from the court house to the suffrage headquarters at the grounds where addresses will be giv- en by a number of brilliant speakers. At suffrage headquarters, which will be maintained at the fair grounds through the week, literature will be distributed and opportunities for en- rollment offered. There will be speaking there each day at frequent intervals. The Minneapolis Political Equality club will be hostess for the conven- tion and will furnish entertainment for all delegates. Those desiring en- tertainment must communicate with the chairman of the local arrange- ments committee, Mrs. G. S. Hunter, 2439 Blaisdell avenue, Minneapolis. There is to be a general observance this year of suffrage Sunday, Sept. 1, by the ministers of the state. BT fair White Car Sold. A. P. White has sold his Cadillac car to W. T. Blakely, of Farley. The car has not yet been delivered as Mr. Blakely is not yet thoroughly familiar with its operation. A WEEK OF QUET | RURAL LIFE. FOR MINE -} | | N \%fiegfi?fif# BE LOVELY JUST_TO GO ON LIKE THIS FOREVER ! i 1 Takes a Rest at Uncle John's Farm VACATION JOYS ABOLISH THE U. S. COMMERCE COURT Senate Passes Budget Bill Cutting Off All Appropriation in Spite of Taft’s Veto. By#United Press. Washington, President Aug. 19.—Despite Taft’s veto message an- |nouncing his disapproval of the bud- get bill because it abolished the Unit- ed States commerce court, the senate this afternoon passed a reframed budget bill with the abolition of the commerce court included in an a- mendment offered by Senator Over- man, of North Carolina, cuttinff off all appropriations from the court. The measure was adopted by a vote of 35 to 23. $ Battleship Provided. Senate and house committee mem- bers today agreed on the battleship provision. The two bodies will prob- ably pass a compromise measure call- ing for an appropriation of $15,000,- 000 in the naval appropriations bill. This conference is expected to pave the way for a settlement of the long deadlock over the battleship provis- ion. The senate members have long stood for a program of two battle- ships of the dreadnaught type while| the house wanted one super-dread-; naught. The new program calls for one ship but it will not be a super- dreadnaught. READ IT! IMPORTANT! On page 2 will be found the pro- ceedings of the county board of equal- ization, Read them. They are of importance to every voter. Not giv-/ en the county printing this year, the Pioneer prints these proceedings gratis. —_— i | | | WANT ROAD REPAIRED Commercial Club to Join Farmers in Asking Council to Put Highway in First Class Condition. BUSINESS NOW GOES ELSLWHERE Saying that they were able to haul to Bemidji only under the greatest difficulty and that they now took most of their produce to Wilton and Solway, when they preferred to bring it to Bemidji, several farmers from the country northwest of this city conferred with the directors of the Commercial club Saturday as to the best method of procedure to get the road put in good condition. As a re- sult of the meeting, F. S. Arnold, F. S. Lycan, A. G. Wedge, Jr., and G. E. Carson were appointed a committee to lay the matter before the council tonight. It appears that many of the farm- ers in the towns of Northern, Maple Ridge, and Liberty are unable to get good loads to Bemidji because of a bad fill just after the road turns west off Irvine avenue above Fairview ad- dition, and because of a bad stretch along the west side of the Red Lake tracks. County Surveyor Bliler made a plat of the road showing the varioug |elevations. At the meeting Saturday, it was proposed that the city of Bemidji and the town board of Northern co-op- ierate in opening a quarter mile of road due west from where the pres- ent road turns north at the Red Lake tracks. This quarter mile would con- nect with a north and south road which goes into a country now con- tributary to Wilton and Solway and would give those farmers a good di- irect road to Bemidji. At present the road follows the tracks north and is badiy graded. With the proposed quarter mile built, the swale near the corner of Irvine avenue would be the only bad 1 (Continued on last page.) BY “HOP" iLONG BALLOT AT PRIMARY ELECTION Voters Will Be Asked to Decide om Extraordinary Number of Candi- dates This Year. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Seven Have Been Proposed By Legis- lature and Will Be Submitted For Decisions. WOMEN HAVE ONE VOTE Can Express Choice for County Super- intendent of Schools—Registra- tion is Necessary. Citizens who exercise their voting franchise at the primarfes and elec- tion this fall will be confronted by a long ballot. Besides voting on the extra offices that come with a presi- dential election, the voters of the state will be asked to pass on seven proposed amendments to the consti- tution. Women may vote for the county superintendent of schools. The following summary, adapted from an article in the Duluth Her- ald, shows the offices to be filled and questions to pe voted on this year: Non-Partisan Ballot. Chief justice, supreme court. Two associate justices, supreme court. 3 District judge. Probate judge. County superintendent of schools. Partisan Ballot. L President of the United States. Vice-president of the United States. United States senator. Congressman-at-large. Congressman, Ninth district. Governor. Lieutenant governor. Secretary of state. State treasurer. Attorney general. Railroad and warehouse commis- sioner, six-year term, Railroad and warehouse commis- sioner, four-year term. County auditor. County attorney. County treasurer. Register of deeds. Sheriff. -, County surveyor. Coroner. i County commissioners, Second, Fourth and Fifth districts. ) One member of house, Sixty-first district. Constitutional Amendments. To increase gross earnings tax om lrailroads from four to five per cent tand to provide for semi-annual pay- ments. To provide for a one-mill road tax. To provide for a hail insurance fund. To provide for school money on lands. To allow cities and make home-rule charters. Providing an educational test for county superintendents of schools. To limit the number of senators from any one county to seven. loaning of improved state farm villages to Women'’s Ballot. ‘Women may vote on county supers intendene of schools. Bemidji Voters Should Know. The primaries will be held Sept. 17. The general election will be held Nov. 5. The days of registration are Sept. 3, Sept. 10 and Sept. 17. Voters should register on one of the first two days of registration in order to be entitled to vote at the primaries. Voters who do not register on one of the first two days may vote at the primaries only by registering and fil- ing an affidavit of residence, corro- borated by two freeholders of the dis~ trict in which the voter’s residence is located. Voters who do not register on one (Continued on last page.)