The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-07

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ten THOUSAND FOR PRIZES
And Twenty Thousand Dollars Ap-
propriated for Bulletin Service and
Travelling Lecturers-House Would
Abolish the Old System of Buying
Books for Public SchooIs-Big Stone
Lake Dyke Bill Passed.
St. Paul, April 6.-The passage of
the bill by J. M. Hackney of st. Paul
permitting the establishment of cor
respondence course in farming in con-
nection with the state university
starts the state toward the head of
the procession of states which are
taking education to the homes of the
people.
liz D1A1 w co C1AACAuOu I'll SSAAOA GA VI
ders by cutting the appropriation
from $4,000 to $4,000 and before
passage it was further reduced to
100000. One-third of this amount is
to be distributed as prizes among the
farmers for the best crops. The rest
will start bulletin service and a
course Of lectures in the country
among the farmers upon topics close
~ related to their work.
Many of the country members were
opposed to it, there being minority
report when the bill came from the
senate finance committee.
After a speech by F. B. Wright of
Minneapolis, in which he called For
mer Commissioner C. c.. Andrews a
pensioner who had never put out a
fire and never will, the house killed
the bill increasing the salary of the
forestry commission from $1,000 to
$4,000. I, 49,. 49, r.' .-.*s.5... ~
G. E. Stone, the author, and several
others said that position with the
responsibility of preserving hundreds
of millings of dollars worth of tim
Der, should surely be worth $4,000 a
year, but the house could not see it
that way. ~. ....@
Bill Will Die in Committee.
The senate committee on public
health decided that it would be a
waste of time to consider the Armour
plant bill in the senate, and it will
be permitted to die peacefully in COM
mittee. This bill gave jurisdiction
over packing plants between two and
five miles from state building. to
the state board of health. The bill
was killed in the house, and there is
little hope of a senate bill on the same
subject receiving favorable considera-
ton. EE &ts
The house killed the bill intro
duced by c. ]. Wohlhuter of Albert
Lea requiring the annual publication
of the assessed valuation of each de-
scription of real property in each
county. The editors of the state were
behind the bill, and J.. G.. Morrison of
the Morris Tribune and others ap-
peared before the house tax commit
tee last week in favor of the bill, but
the committee thought that it would
cost the state about 100000 year
for this work, without being of any
benefit to any one except the editors,
In spite of some opposition during
the debate, the house passed E. A.
Kings bill requiring abutting owners
to pay half each of the cost of parti.
tion fences when either of the prop
erty owners think that fence is neces-
sary
The Gates bill, authorizing counties
to erect their own tuberculosis sana.
taria, passed the house.
Farmers to Get Pay for Healthy Cows.
The senate passed the Wright
Swanson bill increasing the amount
farmers will get for condemned tuber-
cular cattle. At present If COW is
killed as the result of a tuberculin
test and found to be free from the
disease and farmer RECEIVERS nothing.
The law is to be changed so that
on an appeal for post-mortem ex.
animation the animal is found healthy
the owner will be entitled to full COM
pensation.
The house passed the bill introduced
by Representative r. j. Wells and
others, doing away with the present
contract system of buying books for
the school libraries of the state. The
bill allows school boards to buy their
! library books wherever they please,
and if they certify to the state super
intendent that they have expended
| $40 or more in the purchase of books
the state will refund SO.
Hitherto the state has made con-
tract with st. Paul firm to furnish
books at a certain price, and the
school got the state aid only when
they bought books from the list fur
nished by this company.
The senate took the first step to-
ward protecting the Minnesota valley
from floods by passing the bill intro
duced BY r. G. harrington Of orion.