The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-11
Senate Having Passed Measure Last
Friday House Defeats it by Vote
of II to 80.
TO CONSIDER TARIFF BILL
Is Made a Special Order for Con-
sideration at Four O'clock To-
morrow Afternoon.
(By f. A. WILSON,
Ben1idji Pioneer Legislative q

Ben1dji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
st. Paul. April 1O-While the
decorous senate continued in the
ladylike tenor of it's ways, the House.
suffering from perpetual peevishness,
took time, between it's jangles yes
terday afternoon, to unceremonious-
ly kill the Murray bill providing for
a popular vote on candidates for I'm
tied States senator's This measure,
after having been badly mangled,
passed the senate last Friday.
The House earlier in the session
passed the Keefe bill which provides
for the Oregon system of choosing
federal senator's This bill is still
pending in the senate. The house
looked upon the Murray bill as a
subterfuge intended to sdetrack
real legislation along this line and
for that reason forgot factional diff
ferences for the time being and
jumped on the measure with both
feet. Representative Moyle Ed
wards of Breckenridge sought to
show it some consideration by placing
it on General Orders, but this was
voted down SO to sd and a motion by
Henry Rines of Mora to indefinitely
postpone the measure was carried
II to 80.
Another evidence that the House
can give a good demonstration of
real lawmakers when it wants to
came when that body decided to take
up, and apparently pass the famous
distance tariff bill. This measure,
introduced in the Senate by T. e.
eastman of Owatonna, was the tar
get of broadsides from commercial
organizations of the larger cities
and was further attacked on the
ground that it's passage would
jeopardze the rate cases which were
decided last Saturday against the
state. Nevertheless the eastman
bill all but passed the Senate. Dur
ing all the time the upper branch
was juggling with the measure a
similar bill, introduced by Ralph F.
Crane OF Grand Meadow, was s!um-
bering in the railroads committee OF
the House. AS a result of the rate
cases decision and the growing feel
ing that perhaps the eastman mea-
sure had more merit than at first
supposed, Representative Crane yes
terday afternoon moved that his
bill be made special order for con-
sideration on Wednesday at p. m
and this carried, II to "a, which
indication the final passage of the
bill and there is general belief
that the Senate now will also act
favorably. Opponents of the bill
cite legal authorities in an effort tc
show that to pass the distance tariff
bill would be suicidal to the states
chances in the appeal of the rate case:
1t is shown that one of the reasons
why the Senate voted against the
the eastman bill was because it
peal. The supreme court, it was
pointed out, will not concern itself
with a rate controversy when the
rates in litigation are no longer al
issue, such as would be the case il
they were superseded by the rates
proposed in the eastman bill.
XXX
The House yesterday sustained it's
reputation of being in open rebellion
The most dramatic incident of the
day came during the morning session
when Representative John Lennon
of Minneapolis, who acted as speaker
last week during the illness of H.
Fl. Dunn, lost complete control OF
himself because Representative
Mattson Of Roseau objected to the
maner in which Mr.. Lennon sought
to interpret the House rules. Mr.
Lennon was red with rage and his