The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-02-27
GIVEN A BOOST
! BY COMMITTEE
Farm Correspondence Bill Or
de,ed to Pass.
PRIZES OFFERED TO FARMERS

Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars to Be
Given to the Farmers of the State
for the Best Showing in the Various
Lines of Farm Work-Woman SUI
frage in This State Not Yet Dead
Issue.
St. Paul, Feb. 26.-The correspon
dence course in farming by the state
farm school was given a big boost by
the committee of the senate when the
bill was amended and ordered to pass.
The amendment provides $4,000 for
the establishment of the correspon-
dence course, of which $4,000 is to
be offered as prizes to the farmers of
the state for the best showing in the
various lines of farm work.
The prize feature was suggested by
Senator A: ID. Stephens of Crookston.
At present there is a prize system
which is maintained by personal con.
tributions.A This will be supplemented
= by certain state prizes at the state
fair and through the counties. The
original bill was redrafted by the fac.
ulty of the farm school so that the
instruction will be given as directly
as possible to the individual farmer.
At present there is only one student
for every $50 farms of the state in
the state farm school, and only one
for every forty-seven farms has at.
tended the school since it's foundation.
That six of the thirteen members of
the judiciary committee who voted to
kill the initiative and referendum bill
gave written pledges before election
to vote and work for such a measure
was the charge that J. N. Johnson of
Candy made before the house in the
discussion which preceded the killing
OF his bill. The statement caused
something of sensation, but it did
not save the bill.
The judiciary committee reported
the bill for indefinite postponement
and four members presented a minor
1ty report asking that the bill be
placed on general orders.
Debate Became Warm.
The debate on the motion to adopt
the minority report occupied over an
hour, and the many visitors who had
come expecting to hear Admiral
EH ans address the house and were
disappointed that he could not come,
had the pleasure of listening to one
Of the warmest debates of the SEES
sion on the bill ~.--. ri
Or the roll call there were AZ for
the motion and the bill and 6S against
It. ....
Representative Adams Of Fergus
Falls tried, but failed to have the bill
which changes the hour for the clos
Ing of saloons in cities of $4,000 or
over from II to IL o'clock taken from
the tri-county delegation and sent to
the committee on temperance.
Woman suffrage in Minnesota is not
yet dead. When the committee report
on Senator Ole Segeng's bill for in
definite postponement came up there
was small-sized storm at the rail-
read methods used by the elections
committee in killing the measure, and
the bill was referred again to the com.
mittee by decisive vote.
Graduates Of the st. Paul college Of
law and the state university law
school will have to take examination
for admission to the bar just as do the
graduates of Columbia and Harvard
II bill presented by Senator Julius A.
Collier Of Shakopee becomes law. He
would amend the present law except
ing graduates from the two Minnesota
institutions so that all applicants will
be under the rules Of the supreme
court, which require an examination
Tuberculin Test Favored.
At hearing before the house com.
mittee considering the Swanson bill
abolishing the tuberculin test for cat
tie. Dr.. Reynolds of the state agri