The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-02-03
WOULD REPEAL
ANT|-PASS Law
Bill introduced in House by
! Brady Of St. Paul.
|FoR A new CONSTITUTION

itUk 4 NEW GUNSllIUllUH
People Of the State VIII Have a
Chance to Vote Upon Question OF
Having a Constitutional Convention
If Bill Introduced by kneeland OF
! Minneapolis Should Pass-To Fur
nish Dynamite to Settlers.
st. Paul, Feb. 1.-THE people of the
state will have chance at the next
ELECTION to vote upon the question OF
having constitutional convention If a
bill introduced at the session of the
house by Thomas Kneeland of Min
neapolis should pass. Should the peo'
pie vote for such a convention, the
next legislature is under obligation
Ito pass legislation for the calling OF
the convention. the manner of select
ing delegates, the time for it's opening
and other details.
T. J. Brady of St. Paul introduced a
bill that was short, but sweet to many
of the members, if they only dared
vote for it. It repeats the antipass
law passed by the 1907 legislature.
The bunch of bills introduced at the
might session included one by J. J.
Opsahl of Bemidji appropriating $780,
900 to buy dynamite to be given to the
settlers on the cut-over timber lands
in the northern part of the state to be
used by them in blasting the stumps
OF their farms.
J. E. Selb of St. Paul introduced
bill which will give to the state con-
siderable money, which now goes to
banks by default. When person dies
without any heirs his property reverts
ito the state, under the law, and this
actually happens In the case of real
estate, but no one knows where the
deceased had his personal property,
and the party having possession Of it
sometimes keeps it. Selb's bill re-
Quires banks to publish annually a
statement of all deposits which have
remained unclaimed for seven years.
Minerals in Meandered Lake Beds.
Z. H. Johnson Of Minneapolis and
O. M. Bendixen of Morgan, authors of
separate bills declaring the state the
owner of all minerals in meandered
lake beds, joins in q new bill to the
same purpose, providing in addition
that applications for leases for such
lands row pending shall not be recog-
nized, and also a provision that the
principal of the funds derived from
these minerals shall remain untouched
but the interest shall go to the road
and bridge fund.
The batch of bills included one by
Mr.. Bendixen proposing constitu-
tional amendment allowing the state
to buy site and erect terminal ele-
vators; a bill by T. J. Brady of st.
Paul prohibiting cigarettes; bill by
p. G. Spooner Of Morris accepting
from the United States the Indian
school at Morris, and one by J. J.
,Opsahl of Bemidji requiring the treas
urers of independent school districts
to publish In some newspaper an
itemized account Of their receipts and
expenses.
If the charge Of ex-Labor Commits
sioner w. H. Williams is true that the
Tabor department is used principally
for political purposes, that question
ought to be Investigated and things
rsmedied, in the opinion of j. G. Len
non of Minneapolis.
He introduced a resolution in the
house for a committee of five to in
vestigate the charges, not only as to
their previous existence but also as
to whether any changes should be
made and to report to the house such
legislation as would remedy the trou.
ble, If there is any.
| Investigation Desired.
"A resolution stating that some mine
owners were not paying their just
taxes and asking for an investigation
was introduced in the house by Ker-
~ Conley of Wabasha and laid over
upon notice of debate by G. A. Cong
don of Duluth.
The house committee which has
been appointed to investigate the beef
trust will begin it's work today and
subpoenas have been issued for L.. W..
Stock and Louis Becker of South St..
Paul, H. H. Bracket of Minneapolis
and Percy Nash, president of the st.
Paul Retail Butchers association, to
appear at the hearing.
! Why should the state make it easy
for its citizens to break the laws by
permitting the unrestricted sale Of life
destroying engines?
Cd, This Is question which Senator s.
"A. Nelson of Lanesboro has been re-
volving in his mind and he will intro
duce bill regulating the sale of re.
volvers In this state.
Every time pick up a paper" said
Mr.. Nelson, II see an account of the
murder or suicide of some one with
revolver. The other day man went
home and took out the revolver he had
kept for dozen years and killed his
wife.
~ have never carried revolver and
! don't see why people generally
should do SO. We have good police
forces to enforce the laws and see
that people are not held up and
robbed.
my bill provides that the dealer
must know that the person who wants
to buy gun is of good character, and
Il he is not known personally the pur-
chaser must get some one to vouch
for him."
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