Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-03-08
Minnesota legislature
Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for the
Past Week.
Past Week.

: Past !
st. Paul, March /. - The Mime
sofa senate went on record in favor
or Sunday baseball. It killed Senator
Sageng's bill repeating the law per-
uniting the exercise Of the great
american sport on the Sabbath. On
the final vote there were 20 senators
opposed to Sunday baseball and q
for it.
Senator Haycraft of the elections
committee is drafting direct pri-
mary bill to be presented to the legis-
lature as committee measure and to
supersede all other direct primary
bills SO far introduced.
The bill will provide for the nomi-
nation of all state officers by prima-
rles instead of conventions, including
governor and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. It
Will not include direct election for
United States senators. Any such bill
will have to take it's chances as an
individual bill.
Senator Moonan's direct primary
bill, providing for the party platforms
being made by the party candidates
after the primaries, will be reported
out for indefinite postponement. as
will also Senator Gunderson's bill
drafted and backed by the progressive
Republican organizations of Mime
apolis and st. Paul. This move Sen
ator Moonan may be expected to fight.
Temperance Measures Recommended.
The senate temperance committee,
Senator V. L. johnson chairman, rec
commended for passage two temper
ance bills and for indefinite postpone
:nent third.
Senator Sageng's bill to give cities
of the fourth class, under 10000, q
right to vote wet or dry was recon-
mended for passage, but only after
threat by Senator Collier to fight the
bill on the floor of the senate unless
an amendment was added exempting
such cities as had home rule chart
er of their own from it's provisions.
This is the same bill that is fathered
by J. N. Johnson in the house, with
the exception that he has consented to
amend it so as to exempt cities with
home rule charters.
School Bonds May be Cut.
That the legislature will be cut
down the bond issue Of 100000
asked by the school board for the
graded schools to 100000 is almost
a certainty, In view of the selection
made by the Hennepin senatorial dele
cation of the subcommittee to confer
with the house subcommittee on this
subject.
The Spooner resolution calling for
afternoon sessions of the house was
passed. The afternoon session will
be tried as an experiment with the
idea of expediting the work. The idea
will be to meet daily at o'clock. The
committee meetings will be held in
the morning.
The house standing committee on
drainage, appointed a subcommittee,
consisting of G. H. Warner, Albert
Pfaender and G. w. Brown to formu-
late and present the charges against
George A. Ralph, state drainage engi.
neer, to the special investigating com.
mittee. The charges will be formally
presented at a meeting to be held
Wednesday morning.
St. Paul, March 2.-The "hogging
machine,' as it has existed in the Red
Wing training school for boys, how it
was made, how used, how it felt to be
in it's embrace and what the after ef-
tects were, were described by witness
es before the special legislative investi-
eating committee in the senate cham
Der.
Stories of women rendered hysterical
by screams and means permeating
the night air, of boys manacled and
hung by the wrists for hours at a time.
OF knockout blows administered by
attendants to boys, and other atrocities
were recited.
The investigating committee was ap.
pointed as the result of charges made
by A. D. Stephens of Crookston, for
mer senator, that corporal punishment
was being used to excess. Mr.. Stephens
furnished the committee with list of
witnesses who were subpoenaed to ap-
pear before it. Mr.. Stephens, when
the investigation opened, suggested
that Superintendent Whittier of the
Red Wing school be made the first wit
ness, as his examination might reveal
enough to substantiate the charges
without further testimony. This the
committee ignored.
AS the result of the publicity given
the charges and the notice of the
hearing to be held last night, the SEN
ate chamber was crowded with repre-
sentatives of the Fifth district OF the
Minnesota Federation of Women's
clubs and men and women outside the
clubs who were interested in the state
institutions.
Beer Getting Made Harder.
No more "growlers" No more full
dinner pals for a nickel. Can rush.
Ing in general will be thing of the
past if the bill introduced in the house
by R. C. Dunn becomes a law. It is
one of three drastic measures framed
by the representative from Princeton
CROWD SHOUTS At HAREM SKIRT