The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-30
Measure is Defeated By Vote of 30
to 32-Sageng Presented With
Bouquet.
HANSON MALT BILL PASSED
House Fails to Pass Stone CONSOLE
dalton of Rural Schools Bill, It
Losing By 49,"
(By z. a. wilson,
Bom1dji Pioneer Legislative Bureau

Bsmidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, March 3O.-By vote of
80 to 80 the Minnesota senate killed
the Woman Suffrage bill late yes
terday afternoon.
The death scene was tense up to
the last moment and there was a
chance that the life Of the measure
might be spared 1t remained for F.
l.. Glotzbach, democrat, of Faribault
the home town of Klemer of
packed committee fame-to seal the
doom of the bill.
After Ole Sageng, the Prohibition
ist member from Dalton, Ottertail
county, and author of the measure,
had made the only speech delivered,
Lieutenant Governor Gordon ordered
the roll call. Glotzbach and Nc
Grath, Winona, failed to vote at
first and the vote was tie 80 to go
Senator Wilson, Minneapolis, arose
and announced that if when the two
senators voted they cast their ballots
in favor Of the bill it would pass
This brought a storm of applause
from the women crowded galleries.
In the meantime excited women
several had been admitted to the
chamber-were buzzing. about Glotz-
bach and McGrath.
Il had intended to vote against
the BILL" said Senator McGrath in a
whisper to the suffragists who were
begging of him to vote with them,
but if my vote will save the bill, I'll
switch and vote for it,
"Glotzbach,' roared Secretary
Peachie, who was calling the roll.
The senator from Faribault rose
in his seat and instantly the chamber
was so still that you could hear a
pin drop whether it dropped or not.
'I've come to the conclusion said
Senator Glotzbach, 'that this isn't a
good bill. I vote no.
Senator McGrath then voted no
and the SECRETARY announced the re-
suit, much to the dismay of the wo-
men and their sympathizers.
The bill has been juggled about in
the committee and on general orders
and once before was near death, a
motion to Indefinitely postpone be-
ing lost only by a tie vote
The measure, the same as present.
ed by Senator Sageng two years ago,
merely provided that proposed
amendment extending the right of
franchise to women be submitted to
the vote of the people at the next
general election.
The roll call resulted as follows:
Yeas Bedford, Benson, Boyle,
eastman, Cheadle, C. F. Cook, Dale,
Denegre, Duxbury, Elwell, Froshaug,
Gunderson, Hanson, Haycraft, c. D.
Johnson and V. l.. Johnson, Lende,
Moonan, Nelson, Odell, Peterson,
Putnam, Rustad, Sageng, Saugstad
Schaller, Sundberg, Thoe and Wilson
Nays-Ahmann, Anderson, Car
penter, Clague, Collier, L. 0. Cook
Donaldson, Duea, Dunn, Dwinnell
Fosseen, Glotzbach, Gum, Hackney
Handlan, Johnston, Klein, L'Her-
ault, McGrath, Marden, Murray
Pauly, Poehler, Pugh, Rockney, G
H. Sullivan, J. D. Sullivan, Swanson
VanHEen, Wallace, Weis and
Works.
After the senate adjourned the
women presented Senator Sageng
with an immense boquet.
XXX s
Senator Hanson's bill preventing
the sale of malt, intoxicating or nom
intoxicating, in any place other than
license saloon, was passed by the
senate yesterday afternoon by vote
of to 10. There was no discussion
on the measure which seeks to do
away with the iniquities now alleged
to exist in ice cream parlors, pool