The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-11
Millionaire Duluth Chairman of Re-
apportionment Board Believes
Proper Legislation Assured.
OYSTERS MAY BLIND JAGGARD
Member Of Supreme Court Suffers
from Ptomaine Poison-Row
Over Houp Appointment.
(By E. A. Wilson)
Benlidji Pioneer Legislative Bure

oSAA4oJ4 1IOASS1 Leg 4SAdU4NS BUREAU
St. Paul, Jan 11.-At last the be-
ginning of the end is in sight for
reapportionment in Minnesota, and
that means that the north part of the
state is to be more properly repre-
scented.
The reapportionment committee OF
the house, as announced by Speaker
Dunn on Tuesday, is looked upon by
friends of the north here, as a body
that viii see to it that the north gets
what it has been asking for.
c. G. Congdon, the Duluth multi
millionaire, who was named chair
man of the house committee, is en-
thusiastic over the prospects Of the
passage Of the right kind of a bill
Just at present it looks as if just
about the kind of reapportionment
as was urged at the Brainerd con-
vention would go through. This
must not be taken to mean that it
will. for there is many slip twiXt
the receiving CLERK and the govern
or's signature. with nothing deroga-
tory, Of course, meant relative to
the members Of the senate
The reapportionment committee
vial be organized today and will be
in shape to go ahead with its work
the most important of the present
session-without delay. Mrs. F. A.
Wilson of Bemidji has been named
stenographer of this committee.
There is much ado over the ap-
pointment Of William F. Houp as
labor commissioner to succeed Will
liam E. McEwen, the Duluth editor.
1t transpires that Mr. Houp, &C
cording to union officials, has never
been an active union man. They
say that he has never held a union
Office and has kept his union card
merely to retain his position as a
printer with the Minneapolis Tri-
bune.
His appointment is said to have
been made in open defiance to OBJ
jectiOns on the part of the Minnesota
Federation Of Labor and that all
candidates recommended by organ
lied labor were given the cold shoul-
der by Governor Eberhart.
1t is further said that Mr.. Houp
was appointed to please George M.
Gillette, who is president of the lila
bility commission" appointed by the
legislature two years ago to visit
Europe and present at this session
the most desirable form of an en-
ployers liability law. Mr.. Gillette,
Minneapolis business man, repre-
charged that the new commissioner
will be merely tool of the employ
ers.
1t is pretty generally conceded
that the organized labor preferred to
have Mr. McEwen retained, and next
to him the choice seemed to be Henry
w. Libby of Winona.
MIR. Houp has been employed by
the Minneapolis Tribune for the past
twenty-three years and for several
years has been foreman of the com.
posing room. He is we'll liked by
the men who work for him.
r
in the Office of the state labor com
missioner, who died recently in St
Paul, was formerly telephone oper.
atOr in the Duluth Board of Trade
She was given her St. Paul position
by Labor Commissioner William E
McEwen.
Justice E. A. Haggard of the Min.
nesota state supreme court may be.
{ come blind as the result of having
eaten oysters. Some time ago, Jus.
s tice Jaggard was made violently ill