The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-08
Motion That Bill Be Recommended
For Indefinite Postponement Re-
suits In A Tie Vote.
O'NE1LL REDRAWs TWO BILLS
Ten O'clock Saloon Closing Measure
introduced - Lundeen Would
Limit Female Working Hours.
(By T. A. Wilson)
Be1nidji Pioneer Legislative Burea

(By f. A. Wilson)
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, March S.-Woman's stuff
rage in Minnesota all but had the life
choked out of it yesterday afternoon,
the senate jumping on the measure
. with both feet. 1t was first strangl
ed when a motion was made, while
the senate was in committee of the
whole. that it be recommended for
passage. The motion failed and then
Senator Carl Wallace moved that the
bill be recommended for indefinite
postponement. This thrust at the
life blood of the measure caused it's
friends to rush to the rescue and by
a vote of % to ga tie-the vote
lost.
What does that do with the bill?"
inquired Senator Rockne of Senator
Schaller, who was presiding.
Don't know" admitted Mr.. Schal-
ler
1t was finally decided that the bill
should retain its place on general Or
ders, which means that it will again
be considered by the senate in COM
mittee of the whole before a final vote
is taken
While the bill survived the attacks
of the day, it was mortally wounded.
1t is known that thirty-seven senators
are pledged to vote against the meas
ure, which means that the bill, in
troduced by Senator Ole Sageng, is
doomed and that women of Minnesota
must struggle along for few more
years without the right to vote.
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Because the house judiciary COM
mittee opined that Representative
sO'Neill's bill, of direct concern to
Bemidji, should have been drawn as
two bills, his measure was killed.
The gentlement from Thief River
Falls didn's accept defeat, but re-
drew the measure as two bills, and
he introduced them yesterday. One
provides that "all appropriations
made by any board in aid of agricul-
tural fairs or expositions to any agri-
cultural society and all outstanding
warrants issued by reason thereof are
hereby legalized." The second bill
approved, by the way, by the Bemidji
Commercial Club, provides that
when any county board has hereto
fore appropriated money to aid any
town or village within such county
in constructing roads or bridges, such
appropriations and all outstanding
warrants issued by reason thereof
are hereby legalized. Mr.. O'Neill
says he will make a special effort to
get these bills through the house AID
senate.
Another echo of the Baudette and
Spooner fire came in the house yes
terday when Representative Spooner
of Morris introduced a bill, calling
upon the state to pay into the nation
al guard fund $2,311 to reimburse it
for the equipment used at the forest
fires of Baudette' incidentally,
Donald Robertson's effort to have a
committee visit the fire zone has
failed. Early in the session, the Ar
gyle representative introduced res
olution calling for committee OF
three senators and four representa-
tives to proceed to Beltrami and ad-
Joining counties to ascertain just
what the needs of the fire sufferers
are. The resolution passed the house
and went to the senate committee on
forestry and fire protection. Here it
was opposed by agents of the Red
Cross and all hope of getting it out
of this committee has been aban-
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Saloons in Bemidji will be compel
led to close at 10 p. m. instead of II
if bill introduced by Representa-
tives ]. F. Lee and Putnam becomes