The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-29
Very Probable That Measure Will Be
Introduced in Senate Tomorrow
or Friday.
TWO IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED
Klemer Squabble Still Haunts House
Chamber and Greatly Interferes
With Rapid Legislation.
(By E. A. WILSON,
Bemidji Pioneer Legislative Bureau

St. Paul. March 29.-After a two
hours jangle between city and coun-
try senators, the senate late yester-
day afternoon, failed to take final
action on the bill proposing a con-
stitutional amendment limiting the
number of senators and representa-
tives in the larger cities of the state.
This bill is introduced by Senators
Duzbury, Moonan, Haycraft and
Weis. 1t is founded on a similar bill
in effect in New York state, the aim
there being to prevent the city Of
New York from gaining control of
the legislature:
Senators Rockne, Duxbury, Hay
craft and Putnam spoke for the bill
while General Wilson, senator from
Minneapolis, led the attack of the
city members on the proposed mea-
sure with such skill that after sew
eral amendments, none of which
were adopted, the bill went over for
reconsideration
Two important acts were passed
yesterday, the House adopting the
resolution ratifying the income tax
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton proposed by congress by a vote
of 80 to and the senate, after sew
eral plain talks in which party plat
forms were held up to ridicule, pass
ed the Moonan recall bill by a vote
of 4S to 10. The MOOnan bill pro-
vides for the recall of all public Of
ficers by a petition signed by at least
25 per cent of the voters in the dis
tricts affected with the exception of
judges of the supreme court, dis
trict and municipal court. Senator
Wilson endeavored to have the bill
amended so that legislative officers
would not be included but failed.
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The House today is considering as
a special order of business Repre-
sentative Knute Knutson's bill, Gre
ating a board of arbitration to settle
strikes and lockouts.
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Because Representative D. P.
O'Neill is preparing a substitute bill,
the Minette telephone bill, placing
these corporations under control OF
the state tax commission, which was
made a special order in the House
Yesterday, was continued until
Thursday
The new reapportionment bill will
make it's appearance in the senate
within the next forty-eight hours if
present plans do not go amiss.
Great secrecy is being maintained
about the bill so that just what its
provisions are will not be known
until it is introduced 1t is pretty
safe to say, however, that the new
district of Beltrami and Koochich-
ing will have a senator and one re-
preventative of each 1t is possible
that this bill will provide a section
preventing it from going into effect
until 1914.
The Klemer 'squabble still haunts
the House chamber. DR.. w. T. Stone
who became involved and who was
dragged to the bar of the House with
Representative Klemer is preparing
written charges to the effect that
the organization of the House is not
what it should be. Representative
Klemer insists that he will back his
charges and thus the warlike spirit
still pervades the house chamber and
it is not conductive to rapid legis-
lation, as the bitterness generated
by the fight permeates most, every
measure which comes up for consid-
Grafton although considerable rou-
tine husinass was done vasterdav