The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-02-16
PRESENT TO WARSH|P
STATE WILL SPEND TEN THOU
SAND DOLLARS ON ONE FOR
THE MINNESOTA.
HOUSE ExPURGATEs CRITICISM
OF VAN SAINT FROM REPORT
OF A COMMITTEE.

spend $4,000 on a suitable souvenir
for the battleship Minnesota, which is
to be launched at Newport News, April
8. A resolution for an appropriation
OF that amount was introduced in the
senate Tuesday and unanimously
adopted. It recites that, as the Unit
ed States has built magnificent fight
ing ship and named it in honor of the
North Star state, it was fitting that
souvenir OF this honor should be
placed on the ship as gift from the
state. A committee of three senators
is to be named with Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jones, to decide upon the form
the souvenir shall take. It is Gus
tomary in cases of this kind for the
gift to take the form of a solid silver
set to be used on gala occasions
A similar resolution was introduced
in the house. It was referred to the
committee on appropriations,
The senate refused to adjourn till
Thursday, in spite of the fact that to-
lay will be largely devoted by com
mittees to inspection trips, and the at
tendance is likely to be slim in conse-
quence.
The state public school committee
and the state training school commit
tee will go to the institution at Red
Wing. The normal school committee
consisting of the delegation from Ram
sey, Hennepin and st. Louis counties,
will visit the sick and crippled chill
dren's ward of the city hospital of st.
Paul.
Three Bills Passed.
Three bills were passed by the SEN
ate. One was Senator ThOmpson's
bill to appropriate $4,000 to pay the
deficiency in the state aid to high
schools for the years 1903 and 1904.
Another was Senator Schains bill,
providing for $4,000 appropriation
for school district libraries and the
third was Senator Calhoun's bill, pro-
viding for the diverting of the channel
of Bassett's creek SO as to make it
flow through the Lake of the Isles,
Lake Calhoun and Cedar Lake.
AJCIolol olCpuCuo Jill LII al CNI w
exempt all property Of G. A. R. posts
from any taxation. except local i'm
prOvement assessments, was passed
and then reconsidered and re-referred
to the judiciary committee.
Senator Thorpe introduced a bill
amending the gross earnings tax law
SO far as it relates to telephone COM
panies. requiring those whose lines be-
gin and end in any one city. town or
village to pay 3 per cent gross earn
ings tax to the county instead of the
state. as at present.
Senator McNamee introduced bill
allowing villages having charters to
amend the same, upon petition of five
per cent of the legal voters to the,
charter board.
The senate adopted resolution urg
ing the Minnesota delegation in con-
gress to support the legislation asked
by the Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement association, relative to-
deepening the channel of the river.
ExPURGATED FROM THE REPORT
House Eliminates Criticism Of Van
SAINT and Johnson.
The house Tuesday promptly ex-
purgated from the report of the COM
mittee on accounts and expenditures,
criticism directed at Ex-Governor Van
SAINT and ex-Public Examiner Johnson
for an alleged failure to report to form
er legislatures that Former Insurance
Commissioner Dearth had gold mine.
in his office.
The report concluded with recon-
mendation that the commissioners
fees be abolished and the commission
er given a $4,000 salary instead. Mr..
Dearth is said to have taken in over
$4,000 in fees in four years
A bill extending the protective limit
for Japanese or Chinese pheasants to
1915, and General Flowers bill, max
ing the bribing of legislators and leg
a felony, were passed.
Corporations or so-called trusts do
ing business in Minnesota will have a,
hard time of it if a bill offered Jointly
in the house by Representative A. J..
Rockne and Z: T. Ofsthun becomes a.
law
1t is an antitrust measure, without.
any reserying clauses, and puts every,
business combination in the state on