The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-12
WOULD LOCATE
NORMAL SCHOOL
Senate Objects to Board Sc
Iecting the Site.
CASS LAKE TAKES The Lead.

Measure Locating the School in That
City Placed on the Calendar, While
the Benidji Bill Is Still on General
orders-st. Paul People Present
Big Petition Protesting Against Lo-
eating Packing Plant at New
Brighton.
st. Paul, March 1.-THE senate
does not want the new normal school
located by the state normal board, the
body which has control of the schools.
This was settled after q legislative
combat lasting half a day. At the end,
the Cass Lake bill as drawn, was on
the calendar, and the Bemidji bill is
still on general orders.
The result is sure, but tina way Cass
Lake was pushed ahead OF Bemidt
was one Of the cleversst pieces Of leg
islative legerdemain seen IN the SEN
ate this season. Tuesday in commit
tee of the whole by close vote tho
Cass Lake bill was amended into a
general bill, giving the location to the
normal board. This action by the
eommittee- of the whole was not &C.
cepted by the senate, and on q motion
to adopt this report Of the COMMITTEES
Of the whole Senator George P. Lay
bourn of Duluth asked for a call of the
senate and refused all efforts at q
truce until all the senator's were ~
their seats to be counted on this propo-
sition.
The senate waited nearly two hours,
but Senators Cooke, MCGOWAN and
Gunderson failed to appear. The call
was raised and the roll call on the
motion to adopt the amended bill was
lost, SO to "a.
The chair had already ruled that the
rejection on the motion to adopt the
report of the committee would strip
the bill of all amendments. On Sena-
tor Laybourn's motion to place the
bill on the calendar that motion car
ried IS to Is, and Cass Lake was
ahead of Bemidji in the fight.
Big Petition Presented.
In the presence Of at least 5000
citizens of st. Paul the mammoth Pc
tition in favor of the Rowe bill and
against the location of the Armour
packing plant near New Brighton was
presented to the legislature of Mime
sofa. The petition contained 26,112
signatures and was 1858 feet in.
length.
Mayor Daniel William Lawler pre-
scented the petition as chairman Of the
general citizens committee to Speaker
A. J. Rockne of the house of represen-
tatives. The speaker received it with
out reply, excepting to assure the
mayor that it would be placed before
the house in regular course. e..
The house adopted a resolution ap-
pointing a commission of fifteen, to
take the Rowe bill under considera-
ton and report after a full hearing.
The appointment of the commission Is
great victory for st. Paul.
Tho house rejected the report Of the
temperance committee. which recon-
mended killing the Adams bill giving
cities Of less than 10000 local option.
The house railroad committee had
hearing on the J. N. Johnson bill pro-
viding for the regulation by the state
of the issues of stocks and bonds by
railroads.
A second hearing will be held Eext
Monday afternoon on the bill. It Is
similar to the one which A. J. Rockne
introduced at the last session, which
the house killed.
Favored by Attorney General.
The bill was favored by former At
torney General b. T. Young, who had
previously tried and failed to regu-
late an issue of stock by the Great
Northern.
Mr.. Young was present and talked
or the bill. He said that in making
rates the railroads were entitled to
just percentage on their valuation
and the more stocks and bonds they
had the greater would be their valua-
ton. Therefore these issues OF securi-
ties should be regulated by the rail-
road commission.
W. r. Begg, general counsel for the
Great Northern, said that the bill
would apply only to the Great North
ern and the 500 line and would COM
pei them to advertise to the world
sixty days before, when they were
contemplating building new lines.
The committee also heard argu-
ments on the caboose bill. A number
of trainmen were present and favored
the bill, saying that the so-called
"dinkey" cabooses were unsafe be-
cause they jump the track. The bill
calls for caboose of a certain length
with two trucks. The bill would af-
feet very few except the ore roads.
The law permitting the state to
lease it's mineral lands, which was
repealed by the 1907 legislature, is
re-enacted in a bill introduced by c..
M. Bendixen of Morgan, but the roy
alties are much higher. Formerly
they were only rs cents a ton, but In
this bill they are from 20 to 80 cents a
ton, according to the quality pf the
ore mined.
The senate adopted resolution ask
ing the Minnesota delegation to work
against any federal inheritance law,
because Minnesota already has such
law in operation, and double tax
would be ineQuitable.
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