The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-04-24
AT TER A HARD FIGHT
Omnibus Appropriation Bill Is
Passed by the House.
ITEMS FOR THE STATE FAIR
All Them Met With Opposition, But
Only One Was Stricken Out-Net
Increase of $a6,so in the Bill Made

Increase of $4,000 in the Bill Made
by the House.
= st. Paul, April 23.-With amend
ments making a net change of $4,000,
the omnibus appropriation bill was
passed in the house few minutes be-
fore midnight last night. The bill as
introduced carried aggregate appro'
priations of $11,500,000.
The bill, introduced at the morning
session, was made a special order for
o'clock and the house worked on the
bill from then until midnight with a
recess for supper. When the bill had
been gone over item for item, with a
fight made on almost every section,
the total amount added to the bill was
only $74,800, while $4,000 had been
stricken out, leaving net increase
of $4,000.
The principal items inserted were
$4,000 for a bridge over Minnehaha
glen at the soldiers home and $4,000
for the battleship Minnesota. The
$4,000 provided for light and power
plant for the state fair grounds was
the only large item stricken out.
Although some members, notably R.
H. Jefferson of Bingham Lake and Ell
mer A. Adams Of Fergus Falls, made
1t point to fight everything in the
bill, the principal fight was on the ap-
preparation for the state fair. Every
item in that section was attacked, but
the power plant was the only one
stricken out. A. ]. Bockne Of Zum-
preparations.
Bill for State Tax Levy.
In connection with the appropriation
bill, the bill for the state tax levy was
introduced at the morning session and
placed on the calendar. 1t provides
for an annual tax levy Of $1,500,O00, or
a rate of is mills 1t is believed.
however, that this will have to be
amended so as to make it IL mills in
order to raise sufficient revenue for
the state. The tax levy last year was
only 1.2 mills.
81 consider this a sort of graft, but
I haven't the moral courage to vote
against it." said G.. B. Higgins of Min
neapolis when the resolution appro-
priating $3.50 each for Rose Bartell
and Rose O'Regan, employees at the
legislative telephone room came up in
the house. Some of the members
said it was not a graft, some said it
was custom, some said the girls had
earned the money. The resolution
passed with only a half dozen votes
against it.
A committee to investigate the
committee which has investigated the
Minnesota Shippers and Receivers as
ISOLATION was appointed by the house
after a resolution appropriating $685.
for the expense of the committee had
been voted down by the house. The
resolution provided SLY for expenses
of the sergeant-at-arms, $3.50 for the
fees Of G. W. Armstrong, an attorney,
and $58 for incidental expenses of the
chairman, S. D. Peterson of New Ulm.
After the resolution had been voted
down it was reconsidered, as it was
considered proper to pay what the
sergeant-at-arms had paid out of his
own pocket.
The house refused to accede to the
request of the senate for the return of
the anti-pass bill for correction and in
CT hot tn INT
mittee to meet the conference commit
tee appointed by the house.
Road and Bridge Bill Passed.
The omnibus road and bridge appro-
! preparation bill was passed by the SEN
ate. The house passed the bill first
and when it came into the senate 1t
was substituted for the senate bill and
| passed without amendment, although
there was a little opposition to the
manner in which the division among
| the countries was made. This was
| restricted to questions mostly and no
| serious objection was made to the bill,
| which received forty-four votes, with
none against it. The bill divides $780,
900 year among the eighty-five coun-
| ties of the state for each of the next
| two years. The money will be ex.
pended by the county commissioners
of each county.
The senate allowed the claims of
Senator J. M. Hackney and Of Pierce
Butler of st. Paul for $1,000 for their
| expenses in the contest for Senator
! Hackney's seat.
| The senate laid on the table the
house resolution demanding the nomi.
nation and reelection of president
Roosevelt for another term. The reso.
luton was called up by Senator M. L.
Fosseen Of Minneapolis and it's adop'
tfon was proposed. Senator J. F. Cal.
houn, also of Minneapolis, moved as
substitute motion that the resolu.
ton be laid on the table, which pre-.
vailed on rising vote.
When a farmer or one of his
"boys" over twenty-one years of age
| goes out in the morning to shoot a
few ducks he will have to have a
license or be in danger of arrest by
the game warden. This phase of the
game and fish law amendments con
tanned in H. F. No. 651 was the burden
of most Of he arguments in the sen
ate. It took some parliamentary ma
neuvering and much argument, but
the bill as reported by the conference
committee finally passed by a vote Of
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