The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-08
PENSIONS FOR
| THE TEACHERS
TrkCounty Delegation Favors
+ Passage Of Bill.
oNE-TENTH MILL TAX LEVY

City Council Permitted to Make 1t for
the FunG-New House Measure
Would Merge Election Systems.
James J. Hill Talks to the Lawmak.
ers-Nine O'Clock Lid Proposed for
Towns.
st. Paul, March 5.-After pro-
longed discussion the teachers pen
sion bill, drawn up at the request OF
the teachers declarations of the three
cities, was recommended to pass by
the tri-county delegation. There was
an effort to strike out the clause
which permits the city council to levy
a one-tenth mill tax for the fund, but
Il was voted down by vote of II to
II. An amendment was inserted Sc
associations without dictation by the
school board or other body. 49,
Before the executive session friends
of the teachers in st. Paul and Min.
neapolis, appeared before the delega'
ton and urged its passage. Mayor
Hafnes Of Minneapolis, Mayor LAWYER
OF St. Paul. T. D. O'Brien of st. Paul,
p. M. Roberts of Minneapolis, Presi-
dent E1well Of the Minneapolis school
board, President G. w. Gordon of the
st. Paul school board and Superinten.
dent 8. L. Heeter Of st. Paul spoke
for the bill.
A 3 o'clock lid is proposed for vii.
lagos and cities Of less than 1000 in
a bill Introduced in the house by r.
L. Mork of Bricelyn. The same rule
is applied to saloons licensed by coun-
ty boards. s.-
Another bill by Representative Carl
son Of Cokato provides that whenever
a sa1oonkeeper sells any drink to a
minor or other person to whom he is
not allowed to sell 1t. the fact that he
sold the liquor shall be prima facie
evidence that It was Intoxicating.
This Is intended to prevent them from
pleading that they sold pop when ar
raigned for selling stuff to minors.
Liquor Bills a Feature.
Liquor bills were feature in the
house. The senate bill which limits
saloons to one for each 500 inhabi-
tants, passed by the senate. was sub
stituted for the similar house bill on
general orders.
John Lennon Of Minneapolis tried
10 take his bill prohibiting saloons In
villages within mile of any public
park in Minneapolis, from the general
orders, and send it back to the com.
mittee. The house consented, then
thought the matter over and passed
the bill under suspension of the rules.
p. B. Wright said the intention Of the
bill was to abolish one of the worst
resorts. in Hennepin county, the Kee-
gan's lake saloon.
A license for brewers, distillers and
wholesale dealers in liquor, to go to
the state treasury, Is proposed in bill
by H. G.. Mattson of Roseau. The
license fee is from 500 to $1,000, de-
pending upon the volume of business.
Ole Peterson of Nicollet, the author
Of the bill which the house killed last
week, requiring all road taxes to be
paid In money and substituting, a
town inspector for the road overseers,
introduced two bills designed to &C
complish a small part Of what was
aimed at In the bill which was killed.
One empowers villages to abolish the
poll tax and to require all road taxes
to be paid in cash instead of labor and
the other authorizes towns which have
voted to pay all road taxes in cash to
appoint an inspector Of roads for the
town.
Rooseve!t's Work Approved.
Ranuhlicans and nnmncrats in the