The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-17
Bill Provided That No Liquor License
Could be Issued Where There
Was Not 100 Inhabitants.
WAS EFFECTIVE IN BELTRAMI
Committee on Railroads Down Cash
man Distance Tariff Bill-Its
Author Votes for It.
(By z. A. Wilsou)
Benidji Pioneer Legislative

st. Paul, April 17.-(Daily Pho
neer Special Wire Service. 1.-The
senate today began it's last day of
labor by killing the r. c. Dunn bill,
which sought to rid the northern
woods of undesirable saloons.
This is the bill which provided
that no license could be issued by
the government in any territory of
one hundred and fifty acres not pop-
ulated by more than one hundred
persons.
Following this action the senate
passed bill extending the local op-
ton to cities of less than 10000
local inhabitants working under the
laws Of the charter.
X X X
The senate committee on railroads
today killed the eastman distance
tariff bill There was but one vote
in favor of the bill and that was cast
by Mr. eastman himself.
XXX
Clinton Robinson, the noisy demo-
cratic representative from St. Charles
Winona county, is in bad" with
Northern Minnesota. He is show
ing a letter received by him from a
man at Akeley which contains the
following:
IF they were to take your brains
and put them in a mustard seed
there would still be room left to
rattle
Discussing the author of this, Mr..
Robinson said:
That fellow is either a blamed
fool Or malicious liar"
The Winona representative also is
in receipt of letter from the Axe
ley Commercial club severely criti-
Ching him for having talked from
the floor of the house against estab-
fishing an agricultural school at
Akeley at which time he said:
Il have had the misfortune to have
been in Akeley once and of all the
God forsaken places, Akeley is it..
There isn't farm within forty
miles"
The Commercial club of that place
now informs Mr.. Robinson that if
he will visit that village along about
June l he can behold as pretty a vii
lage as the state shelters. He also
is Informed that Akeley is far from
being merely a ''saw-mill" town and
that farming is yearly becoming
more extensive and that for this reas-
on an agricultural school is much
needed
Now that it is too late, Mr.. Robin
son is willing to admit that he spoke
hastily and with exaggeration.
This episode is a good example of
What the North is continually forced
20 suffer from the hands of careless
"I wilfully malicious members from
the south.
Tomorrow night at midnight is the
limit for the passage of bills by the
present session of the legislature. A
session will be held Wednesday but
merely to 60 through the formality
of adjourning sine die. which auspic-
ious and meritorious event will oc-
cur at noon
FOrmer senator A. u. stephens OF
Crookston was at the capitol on Sat-
urday and was showered with con-
gratulatiOnS as a result of the part
he played in unearthing the condi-
tons Of cruelty at the Red Wing
training school. With his usual
modesty, Mr.. Stephens refused to
give any public expression as to the
adverse action of the legislature but
his manner plainly indicated that he
was satisfied that the majority re-
port of the investigating committee
would have SO powerful an influence