The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-01-21
These Two Counties With Clearwater
To Have One Senator and Two
Members of Lower House.
RELIEF SQUAD TO SEE BEM1Du
Legislators from Northern Minnesota
Active in Progressive Program
Monument for Johnson.
(By z. a. Wi1son)
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau

(By z. A. Wilson)
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, Jan. 21.-It is practical
ly certain that, if a real reapportion-
ment bill is passed by the present
|! legislature, Beltrami, Koochiching
and Clearwater counties will form a
new district with one senator and
two representatives. Cass and
Itasca probably will form another
and Pennington, Red Lake and NAH
nomen will go to make new district,
the former having one senator and
two representatives. Marshall Kilt
son and Roseau will have one senator
and two representatives. 1t is not
likely that the final bill will mater
tally alter these groupings, accord
ing to the most authentic information
available.
Neither Senate nor House held a
session today, adjournment being
taken shortly after noon on Friday
until next week, the House converting
on Monday at p. m. and the Senate,
Tuesday at II a. m.
One of the latest acts of the House
before adjournment for the week was
to take up the Robertson joint resoiu-
ton providing for the appointment
of a committee to investigate the
needs of forest fire sufferers by max
ing a trip to the burned zone. The
House considered the resolution as a
committee of the whole and recon-
mended that it ''do pass, and when
committee of the whole recommends
that a thing "do pass it certainly
| "do'', except in extraordinary cases
which certainly does not apply in
this instance. The resolution will
come up for final action early next
week when it will go to the Senate
which will undoubtedly receive it
favorably and Speaker Dunn will
then appoint the three House men,
bers of the committee and Lieutenant
Governor Gordon, the two Senate
members. This committee is ex-
pected to spend some time in Bemidji
and that city will probably will be
the first stopping place. 1t will
proceed to the northern part of Bel
trami county and will visit adjoining
counties. Of course, until the COM
mittee is made up no one knows just
what it will be. Donald Robertson
of Argyle, author of the resolution,
in the natural course of events, will
be made chairman of the committee.
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Beltrami county will receive ST.
225 from the state as reimbursement
for money spent on roads and bridges
if bill from Andrew Davis of Elk
River becomes a law. The Davis
bill provides for an award to many
of the counties of the state through
the state highway commission.
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The House, in a committee of the
whole, recommended for passage the
bill appropriating funds to pay the
$50 newspapers in Minnesota which
published the proposed constitutional
amendments.
An effort to make it impossible by
the state board of pardons to COM
mute the sentence of any person con-
victed of murder in the first degree is
being made by Representative Joseph
R. Keefe, democratic member from
North Redwood. His bill takes
away from the pardoning board MUIR
der cases in the first degree.
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Northern Minnesota members are
active for progressive legislation,
and if the present session doesn't
stand out on the scroll of time as a
model it will not be their fault.
Representative L. H. Rice of Park