The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-02-01
O'Nei Behind Measure Appropria-
ting $4,000 to Pay for Work
Ordered By Wardens in 1910.
BILL MAKES TREATING CRIME
Representative Putnam Would Jail
or Fine Person Who Says,
'What'ell Yer Have, Fellers?"
(By z. A. Wi1Son)
Iemidji Pioneer Legislative 3

(By r. A. Wilson)
Bennidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, Feb. 1.-Pay for men
who fought fire in northern Mime
sofa at a time when they had no as
surance that they would ever re-
ceive remuneration for it is provid-
ed in a bill introduced in the House
yesterday by Representative D. P.
O'Neil of Thief River Falls and Hen
ry P. Webb of Sandstone.
The measure provides:
whereas, The appropriation for
$4,000 for the present fiscal year
to enable the forestry commissioners
to prevent and suppress forest fires
in dry and dangerous season be-
came exhausted September 1, 1910.
"Whereas, The year 1910 proved
to be unprecedented in respect to
drouth and prevalence of forest fires,
and the verified accounts of many
persons lawfully commanded by fire
wardens and duly rendered in sup
pressing principally forest fires in
1910, to the amount of $94,5O7.30
are unpaid, therefore,
-sssss:Be it. enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Minnesota:
" s'That there is hereby appropriated
$94, 507.30 or so much thereof as is
needed; provided that before any
funds are thus expended to any per-
son claiming same the state auditor
shall satisfy himself that service was
actually rendered and was of value
claimed"
The bill was referred to the COM
mittee on forestry and will not be
brought to vote for several days,
but it's final passage is anticipated.
In the senate, yesterday, the fol-
lowing resolution recently passed by
the st. Paul Commercial Club was
received: ''Be it resolved, that we
urgently request the legislature and
the executive departments of the
state to take such steps at their earl
lest convenience as will, as far as
possible, prevent the further need
less loss of life and property from
that source in the timbered portions
of the state, and to that end we sug-
gest that a sufficient and effective
patrol system be inaugurated by the
state, say, of one patrolman to every
six square miles of territory, whose
duty it shall be, so far as possible,
to prevent forest fires and to discover
and extinguish them at their outset
without waiting until they have de-
veloped into raging CONGREGATIONS. -
J. J. Amman of Torah will con-
tinue as member of the state SEN
ate. This was decided at a meeting
of the senate yesterday afternoon.
the Ahmann contest case having been
made special order for 2 p. m.
Nearly every member of the senate
was present as were also many visit
ors who had expected to hear flights
of oratory. The "fights'' did not
materialize. The proceeding were
very ordinary. The attorney for the
OuLcSLduC SCdt0u lie Case ana S0Qd-
tor Ahmann's attorney replied.
Senator Haycraft, chairman of the
Elections Committee, expressed the
I decision Of the committee as favoring
the seating of Senator Amman and
a vote upon this recommendation by
! the entire senate followed and it
was unanimously in favor of the
Torah man who was given a rousing
round of applause. 1t had been
claimed that he was not a citizen OF
| the state.
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"What'n you have, Fellows?" will
be dangerous invitation if bill in
troduced in the house, Monday, by
Representative H. A. Putnam OF
!