The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-11
ed an attempt to adjourn the house

day and as a result the representa-
tives are. today grinding away as
usual although the senate yesterday
adjourned until Monday at II a. m.
Mr.. O'Neill objected to a motion made
to adjourn until Monday, saying;
"You all know that this house will
not be in session next Tuesday be-
cause of the town elections and we
are in no shape to vocate our seats
tomorrow .r
When the governor has written
the words ''Adolph @. Eberhart'' on
the Dunn good roads bills they will
be laws of Minnesota. The senate
passed the bills Thursday with GER
tain amendments and yesterday the
measures went back to the house
where the amendments were con-
CURED in and the bills now await
the signature of the governor. One
of the bills goes into effect Immediate
ly and gives the state highway COM
mission $4,000 to pay salaries and
expenses of expert road engineers.
This will provide forty road experts,
each to work in a district of one or
two counties. The second bill is
constitutional amendment to be voted
OH at the general election in 1912.
1t raises the limit of state road tax
which may be imposed by the legis-
| lature to one mill which would bring
more than 100000 a year to the
state road and bridge fund
1t isn't likely at all that an employ
er's liability bill will be passed by
, the present legislature, because of
the wide variance of opinion as to
the REASONABLE eness and effectiveness
of the measures presented. 1t is,
however, more than probable that
the Lundeen bill raising the amount
that it is possible to collect as dam
ages as the result of death from $5,-
900 to $500, will be enacted into
law. This bill passed the house by a.
substantial majority and will soon
be acted upon by the senate.
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The proposition contained in a bill
introduced by Senator Johnson of
Brainerd to construct barge canal
to connect the Mississippi from a
point near Brainerd with Lake Su-
perior, at Duluth, has caused, some
discussion but the plan hardly will
be authorized by this session of the
legislature. The canal commission
reported that such CANAL sixth
eight miles long, could be construct
ed at cost of $9,783,457. The
Johnson bill provides for the crea-
ton of what he terms state canal
and river Improvement fund, and re-
quires the state auditor to set aside
annually for such fund per cent of
the taxes derived from the gross
earning taxes of railroads, from pub
lie utilities and from possible ton
mage tax on ores and one-fourth a
mill tax on general property.
Although the public doesn't know
anything about it, these are moment
GUS days in the fight for reapportion-
ment The forces behind reappor-
tionment are concentrating every
ounce of energy for the crisis which
comes on Thursday of next week
! when the bill is to be considered as
special order by the senate. On
the other hand, opponents of reap
portionment are busy as bees.
Thursday of next week will be the
most important day of the present
legislative session, so far as Northern
Minnesota is concerned.
K X K
Members of the state board of con-
troll on the witness stand at another
public hearing on Thursday night,
of the investigation of the Red Wing
Training School, admitted that they
knew boys were stripped and whip
ped while others declared they
knew nothing of corporal punish
ment until the present investiga-
ton began and that, had they known,
they would have made vigorous
| protest. Four boys went on the
stand and told graphic stories of how
they had been fiogged and otherwise