The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-15
EXCITING DEBATE
ON The MEASURE.
Street Gar Bill Stirs Up Mem
beers Of the House.
CONSIDERATION IS FAVORABLE

CONSIDERATION is FAVORABLE.
Assembly Votes in Favor Of NoIan's
Bill Placing Street Railways Under
the State Railroad and Warehouse
con1mission-Measure Allowing So
cial Clubs to Sell Liquor Without
License Approved.
st. Paul. March 13.-The house in
committee of the whole voted favor
ably on w. A. Nolan's bill placing
street railways under the state rail-
road and warehouse commission The
debate on the bill was exciting for a
time and charges and counter charges
| were plentiful.
Mr.. Nolan urged as a reason for the
bill that suburban lines which are
building or intending to build cannot
get into the Twin Cities because the
street railway company has a monop-
oily and the city councils back it up.
w. A.. Campbell of Minneapolis
came back with the charge that the
Minneapolis street railway, fearful of
losing the suit which the city has
brought against it to compel it to give
SIX fares for a quarter, was seeking to
get away from the control of the coun-|
Gil and get under the state railway
commission. The company is the one
that wants the bill pushed through, he
said.
w. D. Washburn, Jr., Of Minneapolis
wanted the bill sent back to the COM
mittee so that the Minneapolis alder
men could have a hearing. Mr.. Nolan
answered that there had been three
public hearings on the bill. J. A. Dali
zell of Morton got into a tilt with Mr..
Washburn as to who was telling the
| truth, but they cooled off before any
serious consequences resulted.
For and Against the Bill.
G.. L. Sawyer of Minneapolis and
James Handlan of st. Paul joined in
| the opposition to the bill and T.. II.
Johnson and j. G. Lennon of Min
neapolis spoke for it. Mr.. Lennon
said that the reason the city councils
opposed the bill was that it took away
from them one of their best sources
of campaign funds. He contended
( that the bill would not take away the
right of the city council to prosecute
| the suit which is now pending for six
| fares for quarter.
The bill allowing social clubs to sell
liquor without a license was given ia
vorable action in the house commit
tee of the whole. The bill as drawn
permits any bona fide social club to
serve drinks, but the place where it
lis sold must first be examined by the
mayor, city attorney and county at
/ torney and, as amended, the bill re-
quires all three of them to give their
consent before the club can sell liquor.
| The bill was also amended so that
clubs cannot sell liquor III towns
| where license has been voted down
and another amendment was attached
SO that the club will have to give a
bond of $4,000 that they will not sell
| liquors to minors, to students, to
habitual drunkards and spendthrifts
or to any except members of the club
and their guests. These two amend
! ments were intended to further
strengthen the bill so as to prevent it's
being used by clubs that were formed
only for the purpose Of selling liquor
at times or places when saloons were
not allowed to sell it. Attempts were
made to amend the bill SO that it
would not apply to the smaller towns,
but these failed.
Bill Limiting Saloons Passed.
The house also passed Senator Al,
lsderman's bill limiting saloons to one
for each 500 people.
j. O. Haugland of Montevedeo in
| troduced bill in the house prohibit
ing the sale Of malt at other places
than saloons, whether the malt be in
toxicating or not. This would prevent
candy stores and drug stones from
selling this beer substitute and salts
flying the thirsty when the lid is on.
"A house bill introduced by T. j.
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the senators and they killed it by an
overwhelming vote. The bill proposed
to permit legislators to draw the full
$1,000 for their term of two years dur
ing the session in the first year Of
their term.
The bill passed the house by a big
vote, but the senators are, greater
stickers for -the proprieties and many
speeches were made against It.
G. M. Bendixen's bill by which the
state was to pay $40 a month to first
grade school teachers If the school
district paid them $50 month and
$15 month to second grade teachers
who got $40 from the districts was
killed by the house by the adoption
Of the report Of the committee on
education. The committee also killed
the bill extending state inspection to
private schools which prepare teach
ers for the public schools. and the
bill to have the state pay for the edu-
cation Of children in unorganized ter
ritory.