The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-20
Backed by Governor, Friends of North
are at Work on Measure Which
May Go Through.
FORESTS TO BE PROTECTED
House Committee Bill Provides An
nual Outlay Of $4,000 BY New
Board of Nine Men.
(By T. 4. W1Son)
BsHl1aji Pioneer Legislative Bureau

(By T. 4. Wi1son)
Bsniaji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, March 2O.-Frantic eff
forts are on foot to redraw with all
possible haste a reapportionment bill
which, it is hoped, may yet be put
through the present session of the
legislature. Governor Eberhart is
lending every effort to the new move
and extraordinary pressure is being
brought to bear to whip senator's
who opposed the Congdon bill into
line for the proposed new measure
Senators. who are behind the new
bill worked all day Sunday making
a tentative draft and while the meas
ure as yet is but a mere skeleton
and. the actual process of it's construc-
ton is going ahead with much Sc
crecy, it can be authoritively said
that the new bill provides for as
much of an increase in representa-
ton for the North as did the de-
feated Congdon bill, with the ex-
ception that St. Louis county will
probably not fare so we'll.
1t is impossible at this writing to
say just how Beltrami will be ar
ranged in the new bill. 1t is pos
tive of it's own and unite with one
or two adjoining counties as a SEN
atorial district
The Murray reapportionment bill
and the Moonan bill, providing
constitutional amendment, should
not be taken seriously as they have
no more chance of passing than An
drew Carnegie has of dying in the
poor house.
One of the most important meas
ures, so far as northern Minnesota is
concerned, up to this time introduce
ed in the legislature, is the one pre-
sented, after weeks of careful pre-
paration, by the house committee on
forestry. 1t has for it's purpose the
protection of the forests of Mime
sofa and provides a complete change
over the present methods and car
ries with it an appropriation of
$4,000 for the balance of the pres
ent fiscal year and $4,000 annual
ly thereafter. The bill provides
for forestry board of nine men,
bers, of which the dean of the state
agricultural college and the direct
or of the school of forestry are to be
ex-officio members. The other seven
members are to be appointed by the
governor, three of them on the re-
commentator of the regents of the
university and one each on the re-
commentator of the state forestry
association, the state agricultural
society, the state horticultural So.
mission The new board will sup
ersede the present foresty board and
wipe out the office of forestry COM
missioner now held by General AM
drews. The new board is to choose
a trained forester at salary not to
exceed $4,000 and secretary at
$4,000. The new bill provides that
when lumber companies fail to burn
their slashings the board may do it
and collect the cost. Railroads will
be compelled to patrol their lines
during dry seasons.
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At the request of the residents in
the stricken fire district of Beltrami
and other counties, Senator A. L.
Hanson of Ada is working hard to
secure an appropriation of $4,000
to be expended under the direction
of the state high school board in the
erection of school houses in the dis.
trict swept by forest fires in 1910.
Senator Hanson will push the bill
49, $ the aid is needed at once in those
'Stricts which are financially unable
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