The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-01
Plan Under Way Have Investigating Commte Call for
Resignation of Members of Board of Control as
Well as Superintendent Whittier
MAY BE RESULT OF ALLEGED BARBARISM
Would Mean Doing Away of Men Highest in Authority
Who are Held Responsible and Incidentally,
Republican Victory.
(By +. "A. WILSON,
Pionaar r.aoI.,o %1v,

~~~S- SSo@SA"IASo bureau
St. Paul, April demands for
the resignation Of members of the
state board Of control as we'll as
superintendent r. A. Whittier and
speedy cessation of brutal corporal
punishment and other brutality, is
the startling substance of a report
being considered by the legislative
committee which has carried on an
investigation of conditions at Red
Wing, as the result of charges made
by former Senator A. D. Stephens,
IF Crookston.
The committee has not reported
it's findings to the legislature. 1t
had been expected that it would do
so the first of this week and when
the delay began to lengthen, specu-
lation became rife as to the cause of
the hitch.
Now it leaks out-althoug the
city papers haven't caught onto it
that far reaching political move is
behind this singular silence of the
investigating committee, and that
the delay is caused in order that
pressure may be brought to bear on
one lone committeeman who has so
far failed to agree to the plan, said
to have been conceived by the most
powerful and shrewd private citizen
in the republican ranks in Mime
sofa.
The plan was conceived with the
idea of not only administering a
severe rebuke to the Red Wing school
administration, but of placing the re-
sponsibility upon the shoulders of
the state board of control, under
whose direction all state institutions
are run.
At this point the cunning of the
politicians can be seen for the trail
leads up abruptly to the fact that all
members of the present board of
control are democrats, appointees of
the late Governor Johnson.
The Legislature is republican; the
governor is republican and if the
committee has been convinced that
the Red Wing school for boys has
been conducted along disgraceful
and inhumane lines-and no one
doubts but that it has-and that it
is determined to strike at the root
of the evil by asking the members of
the board Of control to resign--and
in the last analysis they are the ones
responsible, it probably would not be
an unpleasant task for a republican
governor to fill their places with
republican appointees.
Whether such a drastic report is
ever presented remains to be seen,
but that an effort to have the COM
mittee turn in just such report is
known to be true by those "in' on
the deal, and that some progress is
being made is shown by the fact that
the committees report has been tenn
pOrarily held up, and no one is in a
position to say just when it will be
made
DR.. w. 7. Stone, favored by light
attendance of the house, waged a
successful fight yesterday afternoon
against the bill to pay country news
papers for having printed proposed
constitutional amendments. There
were three bills bearing on such pay.
ments, the first providing that all
but nineteen papers be paid $50 fol-
three publications of the amend.
ments, having been passed few
days ago by the house. The second
adding $25 for the fourth publ
cations came up yesterday. DR.
Stone contended that the printing o
the amendments largely were mat