The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-24
INVESTIGATING
!. COMMISSION
Provided for in Bill introduced
in the House.
10 CONSIST OF THREE men

Who Are to serve WtthouT SOmPeHsa.
ton While They Inquire Into the
Subject of Workingmen's compensa-
ton for Injuries With the Object OF
Reporting a Bill to the Next Leg
isIature-Plan to Settle Railroad
Fight.
st. Paul, March 23.-The long-iooked-
for bill providing for a commission to
INQUIRE into the subject of working
mems compensation for injuries and
to report bill to the next legislature
was introduced in the house by w. A.
Campbell of Minneapolis. 1t pro-
yides for commission of three, one
to represent labor, one the employers
and one to be learned in the law. They
are to serve without compensation,
but are given power to employ sec
rotary and pay other necessary ex-
penses. The secretary may be one
of the three.
Mr.. Campbell introduced another
bill requiring casualty and indemnity
companies to furnish information re-
garding accidents, giving detailed re-
ports classifying causes and condl-
tions of accidents, compensation re-
ceived and the like. A third bill by
the same author requires all physi-
clans and surgeons, employers and
employees to report all accidents to
the state labor bureau and give COM
plete information concerning them.
A Joint resolution was offered by j.
G. Lennon of Minneapolis in the house
for a Joint committee to confer with
the railroad officials regarding the
commodity freight rates, which are
being tested in the courts, and re-
port a bill which might settle the It'll
cation. Mr.. Lennon offered his reso-
luton in lieu of the senate bill, which
is before the house, re-enacting the
commodity rate bill without the pen
atty clauses.
Gave Notice of Debate.
After Mr.. Lennon had made a
lengthy speech, F. T. White gave no.
tice of debate, which required that
the resolution go over for day.
The red, white and blue tights bill,
which was introduced in the house re-
Gently by T. J. Brady and Frank MINI
ocks and afterwards disowned by
them and adopted by G. L. Sawyer,
has received favorable action by the
house committee on crimes and pun
ishment and redraft of the bill came
back to the house which provides a
punishment of ninety days in jail or
500 fine for wearing red, white and
blue tights or other unseemly apparel
displaying the national colors by any
female at any public performance.
A state wide repeal of the II o'clock
lid is proposed in an innocent looking
bill, which P. J. Welter of Newmarket
introduced in the house.
The bill consists Of only couple of
lines, and amends Section 1882 of the
code by striking out the line which
prohibits the sale of liquor between
IL p. m. and 5 a. m. and inserting a
sentence which leaves the determine
ton of the hour to the city council.
A resolution urging congress to
place lumber and coal on the free list,
introduced by J. A. Gates of Kenyon,
passed the house almost unanimously.
A memorial to congress asking for
the retention of the duty on unfinished
granite was introduced by o. F. Doyle
of st. Cloud, but was sent to the COM
mittee IN manufac t,1rers
ColvilI Statue to Be Unveiled.
A resolution was passed in the house
under which the house chamber will
be used Wednesday of next week for
the unwilling of the statue of Colonel
William F. Colvill.
The house killed Representative Ell
mer Adams bill limiting the cost of
the state inebriate hospital to $780,
900 and allowing the board of control
to locate it on state land.
Appeals for education in terms OF
the environment for instruction which
shall teach children something about
the conditions about their homes
rather than in some for off place was
urged by number of speakers before
the joint committee of the finance
committee of the senate and the ap-
preparations committee of the house.
Professor A. w. Rankin of the state
university and A. NJ Duntan, who has
organized several consolidated schools
in the northern part of the state, ap-
peared among others to support the
district plan of agricultural schools.
Professor Duntan made the predic-
ton that the college work at the st.
Anthony institution would soon crowd
out the school part. 1t is urged that
the work at the state farm school is
SO technical that it tends to take men
away from the farm. Professor Dun
tan said that the Crookston school by
keeping the pupils in more strictly
farm environment is able to accom-
plish more for the farms than the st.
Anthony school, so far as the pupils
are concerned
He is urging that state aid be given
for the organization Of consolidated
rural schools, with central school
where the rudiments of agriculture
can be taught. His plan also includes
higher agricultural schools in each
congressional district, of which the
school at Crookston Is an example.