The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-23
MONEY FOR n =.
STATE PRISON
House Measure Appropriates
! Three Million Dollars.
RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE

Committee Meets and Decides Unani.
mousIy to Urge That the Bill Be
Adopted-Thirty-eight New Meas
ures Introduced in the House, Gov.
ering Large Variety of Subjects.
for the new state prison at Saltwater
Is provided in bill introduced in the
house by L. G. Spooner of Morris. The
bill directs the board of control to
complete the prison according to the
plans adopted by the board on the
site which has been acquired, at a
cost of not more than 100000, in.
Guiding the sums hitherto appropriat,
ed.
The house committe met and de-
cided unanimously to recommend the
| bill for passage.
The house had flood of bills and
when the clerk was through reading,
thirty-eight new laws had been intro
| luced, covering nearly everything I'm.
der the sun. Two bills for constitu-
| tional amendments for the initiative
and referendum were introduced, one
by J.. n johnson of Candy and one
| by 3. E. Lobeck of Alexandria. John
Holton of Fertile introduced five bills
which were duplicates of bills intro
IN TO 1,1yA n Cf0y,hO
| of Crookston. s.-. g. -..'
w. B. Blackburn, Jr., of Minneapo-
| lis offered a bill creating a bureau of
legislation to be under the supervi-
sion CT the state library commission.
A librarian is to be appointed by the
board and they are to keep copies of
laws of other states, as well as any
other information that may be of val
ue to state officials and members of
the legislature.
Again After Patent Medicines.
J. A. Gates of Kenyon introduced
the bill which he fathered two years
ago, requiring patent medicines to
state on the label all their ingredients
! and to have the word poison" in big
letters if they contain opiates and
| other dangerous drugs. A bill for the
regulation of medical advertising was
introduced by the committee on. pub
lie health and pure food which takes
the place of the two previous bills on
Objectionable medical advertising.
Two bills pertaining to temperance
came in, one by S. B. Duea of Ruth
ton giving counties Is per cert of So
loon license money, and one by +. T..
White of Elk River limiting saloons
to one for each 500 inhabitants in a
town.
The soldiers home board is abol-
ished and the institution placed under
the board of control in bill by John
Goodspeed of Minneapolis.
Mr.. Goodspeed also introduced a
bill allowing electric lines to carry
freight from midnight until 5 a. M,
unless the city council ordered them
to quit if it became a nuisance.
Albert Pfaender of New Ulm intro
duced a bill giving city or village
councils the right to license and regu-
1(tC0 u
Under a bill by J. r. Phillips of
Faribault, crippled or deformed chill
dren or those physically helpless from
nervous diseases or chronic adult in
valids, may be sent to the state school
for feeble minded at Faribault and
new department is created for them.
To Permit Boxing Bouts.
Boxing matches of six rounds may
be authorized by the mayor in cities
of $4,000, under a bill by Tom Greene
of st. Paul.
T. M. Ferguson of Baker intro
duced a bill for the acceptance of the
tract Of land known as the Fond du
Lac reservation in Carlton county for
demonstration works and experiments
In forestry.
Oscar Christensen's bill requiring
that not more than two members of
the board of control shall be of one
party was killed by the general legis-
lation committee.
Some of the house members are
BROKE" and they cannot get their
pay until Feb. 15, according to the
law which increased their salaries. So
F.. B. Wright of Minneapolis proposed
that the law be changed so they could
get their mileage right away instead
of at the end of the session, as the
code provides. He introduced bill
to that effect in the house and it was
passed under suspension of the rules.
The house, with only one dissenting
vote, adopted a resolution offered by
]. T. Johnson Of Fergus Falls calling
for committee Of Ave to inquire into
the doings Of the state fafr board.
Although the senate is sepnding
more than S226 seven DAYS q week