Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 22, 1911, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. GRAND RAPIDS 4ERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1911 IMPORTED THRIFT. In the past three years Italian im- sent home to their Brand Rapids MeraidsMReview Published Every Wednesday migrants have By E. C. KILEY. own country from the United Sag Sees aN Ti States $214,000,000. Th's statement TWO DOLLARS AYEARIN ADVANCE | a. last Friday, during the Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, | OU =< of a debate in the Italian par- Minnesota, as Second Class Matter. liment, by Premier Luzeratti. \ ; sh The postdftice. records of this| edun- try show that $26,000,000 were sent to! Italy last year through) that med- They, also, show that Austrian immigrants.cent to that coun try in the same time $37,000,000. Official Paper of Itasca County ium alone. TONNAGE TAX DEFEAT. indeed the state, to the house of representatives at St. Paul thanks and appreciation Northern Minnesota, and entire owes a vote of for the prompt and effective squelch- administered to the tonnage The thoroughness of the de- ing it tax bill. feat was more than a repudiation of | the theory on which it was founded: it was a rebuke to the men who have sought to foist an unwise and unjust | measure upon the state. The vote shows in striking man- ner the growing understanding among the legislators of the subject of tax at on and its application to state afiaiis In 1907 there were fifty-eight votes in favor of tonnage tax. In 1909 there were sixty votes for it, and the measure would have become law had it not been for Governor John- som’s veto. In the present legisla-- ture the vote stood seventy against the tonnage tax and only forty-eight in favor of it. All the leading mem- bers of the house and all sections of the state are represented in the vote against the bill. Nothing could demonstrate more clearly the fact that the members cf tie lezislatuie are com- ing to understand the real nature of The Italian records would indicate that the amount. sent through the postoffices was considerably less than’ half, though more than a third of the total. Probably, howeyer, it. is fully a half of that sént by Austrians and the Slavonic immigrants. These are impressive figures. It would be interesting if it could be known what proportion of these rath- er magnificent sums went to for- eign panks.for.deposits,.and how mucl directly to the home folks for their support. This would indicate how large a fund from this source would a farmer's organization, will provide a market so farmers can ship their products that they have not aad her tofore. j Feed for Live Stock. | Ten dairy cows, one hundred hens and two bnaod sows; make the’ best foundation for successful farming in Northeast Minnesota. Crops that will préduct feed for these animals ere the most’ important crops that can be grown. Clover, fodder, corn and roots are the best feed producing crops. Clover yields from two to four tons per acre, and can be produced at a.co of $3.59’ per ton Fodder corn yields from three to six tons of cured fod- der per ‘acre and can be produced at $3.42 per ton. Roots, either mangles, stock carrots, or rutabagas yield from:ten ‘to twenty tons per acre, and cam be produced at a cost of $2.00. per ton.) When the acreage under cultivation is aot, sufficient to grow both grain and rough feed it will pay best to grow the crops above mentioned in preference to grain crops. Clover may be’seeded with grain and in connection with timothy, using eight pounds of medium red clover and six pounds of ‘timothy per acre. Clover gives its best yield the first crop and should not be depended upon after the second year. Clover enriches the be subject to conversion to postal savings banks. At the very least, however, it can reasonably be hoped that not less than $100,000,000 which now finds its way to foreign banks can be re- ‘tained in this country each year through this means. This of itself would justify this system’ of savings banks. But these figures are another reason, as illustrating im- impressive for the remarkable thrift of these | migrants, who furnish the bulk of the common labor of this country. From the luwest scale of wages they make this enormous saving, though they such a measure and to see its great faults, its great injustice. It gives reasonable ground for a hope that the idea has been killed for all time. | —Duluth Herald. a SENATORIAL SCOUNDRELS. | There are thirty-six men in Minne- tative gove ent, do not recognize the binding power of the state Con- | stitution, do not recognize any al- legiance to party, do not care what common honesty in state matters de- mands, and do not regard anything as necessary of recognition that does not work for their own personal ad- vantage At least, that is the conclusion one is forced to reach when one consid- ers the action in the senate on the They all it, and their number bill for reapportionment. yoted against was enough to defeat the measure. Perhaps they are proud of their victory. If they were not capable of feeling pride in it they would hardly have gone to the trouble t win it. But it is pride such as one would expect a grown man to feel over having succeeded in throttling and robbing a child. The comparison is applicable, since these senators mereiy used an advantage that was theirs as a result of natural growth, to override unscrupulously the rights of others who were unable todefend themselves by an equal physical force. There is little that can be said of the aff air beyond the mere statement that the result is disappointing to a large portion of the state whose peo- hopec for justice at the hands of the senate, and that the districts that sent these men to the ple legisla-- lature have ample ground for being ashamed of the way their trust has Every one of these was pledged before elec- tion to vote for reapportionment; every one of them swore,on taking office, to uphold the Consttiution of the state; been carried out. senators and every one of them violated both his pledge and his oath when he vot- ed against a reapportionment of re- presentation that would make the leg- islature conform to the changes in population that have occurred in the last dozen years. It is a matter of record that Gov- ernor Eberhart promised to mon the legislature in an extraordi- sum- nary session should reapportionment fail of enaction at the regular ses- was expected, gave a generous majority in favor of sion. The house as reapportionment; the senate, as was feared, turned down the proposition. Now it is up to the governor, unless thhe senate should change its action by a later vote-—Duluth Herald. sota who do not believe in represen- | |could have the entire are abie to do this by a scale of living not desirable for American labor. Even with this great flow of cash away from our shores, we are — em- | phatically the gainers from this | la- bor. It would be gratifying if we profit from their thrift, but as it is we have not }only whatever they spend for their | maintenance, but the profit from their) llabor, which, in fact, makes possible the development of the mines, and near- ‘ly all those enterpriess of which com- mon labor is a large factor.—News- Tribune. PRESS BULLETIN ~ FOR THE FARMERS the building of our railroads, Some Valuable Suggestions as to the Spring Crop for this Section. ‘ESSENTIAL THINGS 10 CONSIDER Market and Feed for Live Stock, Potatoes and Other Vegetables Should be Among the First in 1 Northwestern Minnesota. | | (Bulletin No. 86, by A. J. McGuire, Superintendent Northeast Experiment Farm, Grand Rapdis.) In planning the crops for the comii g season there are certain things that should be taken into consideration— the market, the number and kind of live stock on the farm and the char- acter of the soil of the farm. The Market. The question should always be con- sidered, what can be sold on the lo- cal market and what can be shipped ‘to an outside market? If a market can be secured for certain products | by” shipping, what will the cost of | Shipping be; the railway, express | and freight rates. | These questions need to be taken | into consideration for the reason that the.crops the Northeastern Minnesota | farmer can best afford to grow are not | grain crops and do not command a jconstant market. Vegetable crops, | when they can be marketed to advan- tage, yield the greatest profit per acre, and the growth of vegetables in Northeastern Minne-ota in yield an: | quality cannot be surpassed. The market, however, is limited to far- mers living near to a good local mar- ket, or near to a shipping point to a good market. The Producers Co-oper- ative Market association of Duluth, soil, upon which it is grown and the most profitable results are obtained when clover is rotated with the other crops: , Fodder ‘corn, root crops and pota- toes do best on clover sod. Plow up the old meadow. if high land and plant fodder corn and root crops. Old meadows last year yielded less than a ton of hay per acre. Broken up an put in fodder corn the yield was from three to five tons per acre. A bushel of fodder corn seed will plant ‘three acres in drills three feet apart. Fodder corn may be grown in any part of Northeastern Minnesota. It may be planted from May 20th to July ist. A crop can be produced in ninety days. Fodder corn is the largest yielding feed crop that can be grown. It is an excellent milk producing feed for dairy cows and may be fed’ to horses in place of hay. The Soil and the Crop High land and sandy soil is more favorable ,to vegetables and cultivat. ed,crops than low, heavy clay soils. Potatoes, the best market crop in Potatoes the, best market crop in Northeastern Minnesota should not be attempted on low clay soil. Pota- tatoes drown out more quickly than anv other crop. They require a high or well drained soil. Fodder corn, while it may be grown on heavy soil will do best on a high sandy loam soil. Clever is the one crop that will grow on any soil—the surest crop for the low heavy soil and a builder of fertility for the too sandy soils. In plannnig the crops, not only the sales for 1911 should be taken to consideration, but the bilding up of the farm for future years. The Best Market Crops Potatoes are the best market crop for the majority of farmers of North- eastern Minnesota They may be made to yield 200 bushels per acre under fair care, and can be produced at a total cost of $25.00 per acre. For the early.fall market.grow.the.Early Ohio. For late.market.and largest.yield.grow the Carmen. Seed is comparatively cheap this spring and it is the time to secure the right variety of seed. The market for rutabagas is limited but this crop can always be fed = on the farm to.advantage.when the.mark- et is over-stocked. Table carrots,.pars nips, onions and cabbage are staple products and can usually find a mark if of good quality and well put up. Green onions, radishes, head let- tuce, peas and swect corn are all pro- ducts that can be shipped and may be «considered as marketable crops f 191i. The farm produc.s for which there in- is always a market, are dairy and poultry products. The farmer who plans his 1911 crop with the view of.increasing and.improving.the e.proc ucts will plana wisely. ENGLISH BANKER IS SUICIDE Sensation Caused in London by Death of R. F. Carnegie. London, March 18.—A sensation has been caused in financial circles by the suicide of R. F. Carnegie, manager of the Lombard street branch of Parr’s bank, limited, who shot himself at his residence. The affairs of the institu- tion are said to be in perfect order. The authorized capital is $62,500, 000. For years it has paid a dividenc of 10 per cent per annum. KENYON GAINS FOUR MORE Deemer’s Ranks in lowa Senatorial Race Further Depleted. Des Moines, March 18.—Four more, all progressives, deserted the Deemer standard on the forty-second joint bal- lot, Judge Kenyon coming within nine of receiving enough votes to elect. The vote was as follows: Kenyon, | 68; Deemer, 33; O’Connor, 51; Por- ter, 1; total votes cast, 153; necessary to elect, 77. | STIRS UP SOME BAD FEELING Defeat of Reapportionment in) the State Senate GOVERNOR'S WISHES IGNORED Lower Branch of Legisiature Also in Bad Humor Over the Turning Down of the Congdon Bill. (Special Correspondence). | St. Paul, March 20.—Reapportion- | ment was defeated in the senate and} tonnage tax was beaten in the house) last week. It was a notable week in| the legislature for many other reasons. The week saw the development of a! stiff fight between the governor and) the Republican majority of the senate, | the awakening of a vigorous policy on the part of the executive and a dispo- sition on the part of a large faction in the senate to ignore the governor. An extra session, because of the defeat of | reapportionment, is now pending, and, | while the governor is intimating that he may call one, the Southern Minne- sota senators are standing pat and say they will never submit to any kind | of apportionment which will enlarge | the representation of the cities. | x lic fs 2 The defeat of the Congdon reappor- tionment bill was probably the chief event of the session. The bill had passed the house by an overwhelming majority, had been amended in the senate committee on reapportionment and finally came up for a hearing as a} special order on Thursday. The final/| vote on the bill snowed it away by a} vote of 36 to 27. Those who voted for, it were Ahmann, Boyle, Cheadle, Den-| egre, Dunn, Dwinnell, Elwell, Fosseen, | Froshaug, Gunderson, Gunn, Hackney, | Hanson, C. D. Johnson, V. L. Jobnson, | Johnston, L’Herault, Pauly, Pugh, Rus- | tad, Sageng, Saugstad, G. H. Sullivan, | J. D. Sullivan, Sundberg, Wallace and Wilson.—27. Those who voted against it were An- derson, Bedford, Benson, Carpenter, | Cashman, Clague, Coller, C. F. Cook,/ L. O. Cooke, Dale, Donaldson, Duea, | Duxbury, Glotzbach, Handlan, Hay-| craft, Klein, Lende, McGrath, Marden, | Moonan, Murray, Nelson, Odell, Olson, Peterson, Poehler, Putnam, Rockne, | Schaller, Stebbins, Swanson, Thoe, | Van Hoven, Weis and Works.—36. | = ihe geo { One of the features of the debate | was a motion made by Senator George | H. Sullivan of Washington county; \ made, it is understood, at the sugges- | tion of the governor, to recommit the bill to the committee for amendments. This was put as a result of statements made by senators opposed to the Dill that it was objectionable. Senator Sul-' livan suggested that if this was so it) shouki be recommitted so that the ob- | jections could be met. Men like Sena- tors Haycraft, Putnam, Duxbury and others contended that enough time had been given to the measure and that it should be settled at once. The} vote to recommit was lost by the exact number accorded the bill on the final ballot—36 to 27. et + The fight against reapportionment has been conducted to a large extent by the Democratic senators, under the direct leadership of Senator Weis of | Le Sueur. Both county optionists and anti-optionists joined in voting against the bill, although it was notable that two Ramsey county Democrats, Hand- lan and Van Hoven, anti-county op- tionists, voted against it. The debate against the measure was conducted by Senators Putnam, Haycraft, Lende, Duxbury and others, while Senators Dwinnell, J. D. Sullivan and George H. Sullivan, Boyle, Hackney and others led in the debate for it. + a ee Previous to the final submission of the question there had been a good deal of jockeying for position. During | the day previous to the vote Governor Eberhart decided to call a caucus of Republican senators. Only fourteen, of them appeared, the word having gone out for the rest to remain away for fear they would be bound by the caucus. To these Governor Eberhart represented that the Republican party was pledged to pass a reapportionment bill by its platform and he urged the Republican senators to get together on some sort of a fair reapportion- ment measure. He said he was not committed to the Congdon bill—all he wanted was a fair reapportionment measure. After the conference was over the governor said he would not say whether or not he would call an extra session, as that would assume the Republican senators would not carry out their party pledges. But he intimated clearly he might do so. Fol- lowing the vote in the senate he still refused to say whether or not he would call an extra session, inasmuch as the senate still has thirty days in which to reconsider its action, and he hoped that within that time something might be done. 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The strongest speeches in opposition were made by Senators Haycraft, Dux- bury and Lende. BSR ia 7 In the house there are threats of re- prisal for the senate’s action in de- feating the bill and representatives say they will hold up senate measures unless the upper body reconsiders. R. C. Dunn saia he was planning to intro- duce a bill appropriating $63,000 for the senators in lieu of salary they would sacrifice by voting themselves out of office in the event they passed a reapportionment measure. oe ik One of the events of importance of the past week was the exercise of the veto power by the governor for the first time. The governor vetoed the | bill bearing the authorship of Repre-! sentative Fuchs, allowing policemen and firemen to ride free. This is the bill in which the Ramsey and Henne- pin senators and representatives have been especially interested in during the past two sessions, or ever since the anti-pass bill was enacted. The governor, in refusing his approval, took the ground that it would be the opening wedge for the final abroga- tion of the anti-pass bill, which has met the general approval of the people of Minnesota. He later vetoed a simi- lar bill in favor of the mail carriers. 2 ae The Frankson tonnage tax bill was defeated in the house, simultaneously with the defeat of reapportionment in the senate. The final vote was 70 to 48. The debate in the house against tonnage tax was led by C. A. Congdon, R. C. Dunn and others. For tonnage tax Thomas Frankson, J. N. Johnson and Albert Pfaender were among the chief speakers. The Democrats op- posed it almost to a man on the ground, chiefly, that it had been ve- toed by the late Governor Johnson in a previous session and that to vote for it now would be to question the wisdom of the late governor’s action. oer aie 5 Senator James Johnston of Bertha has introduced a bill in the senate ap- propriating $100,000 for the building of a plant for the manufacture of dy- namite, fuse and caps under the direc- | tion of the board of control. The plant is to be built near the state prison and convict labor to be used, if possible. The product is to be sold at cost for the use of the agricultural in- terests of the state. AB Bs 2 Representative W. I. Nolan is the author of « resolution which will in- corporate the ideas advocated by Gov- ernor Eberhart in his message relative to the reorganization of the adminis- trative departments of the state. It contemplates the abolition of tne pres- ent system of boards and the installa- tion of one man as the head of each department, with the responsibility resting upon him. It is urged that by this system the cost of administration cold be reduced one-half. + + + The house public lands committee has decided upon two important bills relating to the conservation of the state’s minerals and lands. One au- thorizes the people to vote on a con- stitutional amendment which would create a state land department sep arate from the state auditor's office. The other provides for a legislative commission to investigate the state resources and recommend an organ ization which will conserve these re- sources in the future. The proposed bill calls attention to the value of the 3,000,000 acres of state lands and the great mineral possibility of this prop erty. It declares the state has already received $24,000,000 in royalties from iron mines on its lands and that ap proximately $150,000,000 will be re ceived in this way in the future. +r + A reorganization of the state forestry board is provided for in a bill intro- duced in the house by the committee on forestry. Under its provisions the state board is to be made up of the director of the state forestry school, the dean of the state agricultural col- lege, three members to be suggested by the board of regents of the state university and four members to be recommended by the State Forestry association, State Agricultural society, State Horticultural society and the fish and game commission. The board is to appoint an expert as state for- ester. «he bill embodies a drastic regulation in the forest districts to prevent fires. + t+ + The bill by Senator Boyle providing for a new form of “vag” farm, where the virus of energy was to be injected into the blood of listless hoboes and where wife deserters were to be made to see the error of their domestic ways, carrying an appropriation of $150,000, has been recommended for an indefinite postponement treatment. + + Acting upon the recommendation of former President Northrop of the uni- versity the senate committee on gen- eral legislation has reconsidered its action recommending the bill for pas- sage which would take from the board of regents the purchasing power for the university and vest it in the board of control. The committee reconsid- ered this action and then voted to rec- ommend the bill for indefinite post- ponement. Ces oe The drainage investigating commit- tee is still at work on what seems an endless task. Many witnesses are be- ing called. —