The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-06
aittee. announced that this commit

tee would meet at once and report a
bill back without delay. He called
for caucus of the members and
also several senators together
last night and it was soon ap-
parent that it is now impossible to
unite the warning factions on re ap-
portionment and that reapportion-
ment for the present session is a
dead issue.
Governor Eberhart refuses to be
quoted, reserving whatever he may
have to say regarding possible
extra session until after the Hanson
bill has been disposed Of by the
senate.
It is now apparent that friends Of
the bill will offer no compromise and
that the suggestion that its provis-
ions do not go into effect until 1914
will be ignored
The bill as presented by Senator
Hanson provides for senate of ga
members and a house of 1875. Bel
trami is linked with Koochiching for
senator and one representative
each. Hennepin, Ramsey and st.
Louis are each given an additional
senator and representative. Cass
and Itasca get a senator and two
representatives. Pennington, Red
Lake, Clearwater and Mahnomen get
senator and two representatives
Four year terms for county Off
GERS are provided to replace the
present two year term in a bill
passed by the House yesterday after
noon by vote of II to 80. Effort
to amend the bill by reducing SAL
aries failed. The Offices affected are
auditor, treasurer, register of deeds,
sheriff, attorney and superintend-
ent of schools. Other bills passed by
the House were the one fixing license
fees and regulating employment
bureaus, the S. N. Lee bill authorize
ing constitutional amendment re-
lating TO the investment of school
funds on improved farm lands; the
bill requiring physicians to report
to the commissioner of labor all
cases of poisoning from lead,
phosphorus, arsenic or mercury or
from anthrax or from compressed
air illness; and the Lennon bill by
vote of SO to 35 extending to the
Minneapolis city council the right to
grant liquor licenses to the new
Radisson and Dyckman hotels.
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Yesterday was drainage day in the
House and five bills as important to
northern Minnesota as any yet
acted upon were embodied in one
measure and unanimously passed.
The most important change over the
present law is that this bill provides
that at ditch petition hearing a
ditch must be favored by SO per cent
of the owners of the land and if it
is not so favored the ditch can not
be authorized. The Pioneer will ex-
plain the bill at greater length at
some future time.
Three measures of direct interest
to Bemidji, and fathered by Repre-
sentative O'Neill have been passed
by the House. The first is the one
authorizing the Beltrami county
commissioners to provide more clerk
hire for County Auditor George, un-
der sanction of the Public Examiner
and Attorney General. Another of
the bills was the one to legalize GER
tain appropriations heretofore made
in Beltrami county appropriating
money for the construction of roads
or bridges while the last bill was
the one to legalize certain appropria-
lions heretofore made by the county
board in aid of the agricultural fair.
Both these bills were amended so as
to give the county board final say
as to action.
Representative O'Neill has the dis
tinction of having passed more bills
than any other member in the House.
All of the measures fathered by him,
81 in number, have been passed.
XXX
Theodore Roosevelt will be in St.
Paul on April Ia andWill be invited