The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-02-15
Friends Say it Will Go Through
With IS Votes and Pass
Senate.
COMMITTEE FAvORs FROSHAUG
Claim That Harrington Has Failed
To Prove Him Illegally
Elected
(By z. A. Wi1son)

(By T. A. Wilson)
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau
St. Paul, Feb. 15.-At last reap
portionment bill is before the Legis-
lature of Minnesota.
Quick action is to be had on the
bill for instead of going through the
tedious routine process it has been
made special order for Friday at II
a. m, this week.
1t was introduced in the House
this morning, coming from the
c m m i t e e on reappOrtlOn-
ment, of which c. A. Congdon of Du-
luth is chairman. Four members
of the committee out of total of 81
refused to indorse the bill. The
dissenting quartet is made up of
the following representatives Of the
southern part of the state, Albert P
Liberia of Winona, Thomas Frank
son of Spring Valley, w. H. Wescott
of West St. Paul and Knute Knutson
of Swift Falls. All are republicans.
The bill provides a senate of 81
mem bers,- one each being dropped
from Hennepin and Ramsey counties
and a house of 1876 members as at
present, the representation to be
divided as published in The Pioneer
of last Saturday with the exception
Of a typographical error which made
it appear that the new district of
Beltrami and koochiching was to
have two representatives when, as
matter of fact, there is to be one SEN
ator and one representative.
The bill has been submitted to
practically every member of the
house and there seems to be no doubt
but that it will pass that body with
a substantial majority. By some it
is said as high as 80 votes will be
cast for it in the house.
The decision to make the bill
special order for Friday means be-
ginning of the crisis of the fight for
fair reapportionment for after the
measure has passed the house it will
go over into the hands of the enemy
If there is any enemy-the senate
This bill, said man largely in
measure, will have IS votes in the
house and it will be passed practi-
cally as it stands now by the senate. ~
Only few thousands less than
100000 is the total amount asked
of the legislature for the state hos
pitfalls for the insane and other public
institutions, in the bill presented by
Lewis c. Spooner in the house, yes
terday The bills takes in such
places as the hospitals and asylums
for the insane at Anoka. Hastings,
Fergus Falls, Rochester and the
schools for the blind, the deaf and the
feeble minded at Faribault, the Red
Wing training school. the state pub
lie school, the St. Cloud reformatory
the Saltwater prison, the Walker
sanatorium for consumptives, the
St. Paul school for INDECENT Grip
pied children and the Minnesota
home school for girls.
The hospital for the insane at
Fergus Falls is given the largest cur
rent expense appropriation, $3.50,
600. The St. Peter asylum comes
next at S245,OOO.
The total appropriations for Fer
gus Falls as outlined in the bill fol-
low:
Extention to rooms and dormi-
tories, $4,000; kitchen building,
$4,000; tunnel, $1,000; renewing
plumbing $4,000; paint and mason
shop, $4,000; improving slaughter
house, $1,000; dry COW and breed
ing barn and root cellar, $4,000;
young stock and calf barn, $1,000;
addition to horse barn, $500; i'm
proving roads and grounds, $500;
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