The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-02-01
Three Each to Be Named by Burn
quist and Rines and "Standpat-
tiers" Will Be Few.
100000 ACRES ARE RECLAIMED
Report of State Drainage Commission
Shows That There Are Still f.
100000 Left In Swamps.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
St. Paul, MINI, Feb. 1.--Some ex-
element is anticipated when the
legislative campaign probe commit
tee gets under way, assuming that
Sen. Ole Sageng's resolution, intro
duced yesterday, providing for the
appointment of the committee, is
adopted by the house and senate.
In view of the attempts in both
house and senate, to curb the powers
of the presiding officers by having a
committee on committees appointed,
there is reason to believe that when
the probe committee is named, there
will be few, if any, so called "stand-
patters" on the list. OF the six men,
bers, three are to be named by Lieu
tenant Governor BurnQuist and three
by Speaker Rines.
1t is predicted that the personal
Of the committee will consist of the
anti-brewery element. The resolu-
ton is really aimed at those ,candi-
dates who are supposed to have re-
ceived assistance from breweries.
For this reason, 1t would be no sur
prise If some of the legislators were
subpoenaed to testify.
1t will be interesting to note
whether any of the senators or rep
resentatives, if subpoenaed, will
plead immunity from the service of
process, which is granted them in the
case of a court summons.
Need Wider Taxing Power.
One Of the bills to be introduced
in the senate Monday, will be by Sen.
Fossen, Minneapolis, who proposes to
offer a measure in the nature of a
constitutional amendment, which is
intended to give the Legislature the
power to levy gross earnings or ad
valorem taxes, without4first SUBMIT
ing such matters in the form of a
proposed constitutional amendment
to the voters at a general election.
Woman's suffrage will again be
brought into the limelight next Tues
day, when it will come up for consid-
Grafton in the house. AS the senate
has already defeated the bill which
originated in that body, and, as it is
generally conceded that the house
will pass the bill and again put up
the proposition up to the senate, it
is not believed that there will be the
interest taken in the measure in the
house which was displayed in the
senate last Tuesday.
Would Use More Papers.
Representative G. B. Bjornson of
Minneota introduced in the house
a bill providing that proposed con-
stitutional amendments =, shall be
printed in all legal newspapers of the
state, instead of those designated by
the secretary of state. Mr.. Bjorn-
son frankly admitted that his meas
ure is designed to prevent the secre-
tary Of state from building up a poll
tical machine by handing out favors
to newspapers in the form of print
ing contracts.
81 have no personal grievance
against any one," said Mr. Bjornson.
Secretary of State Schmahl always
has treated me fairly and I always
have got contract for publishing
the constitutional amendments in my
newspaper. But 1 believe that to
permit the secretary Of state to die
tate what newspapers shall get the
states money for publishing the
amendments is to place too much
power in the hands of any one man"
Bjornson's bill provides that the
amendments shall be furnished in
plate form to all legal newspapers.
His bill cuts the rate for publication
the first time from fifty cents per
folio to twenty-five cents per folio
and he believes that this reduction
In the rate will make it possible to
have the amendments printed in all
newspapers without increasing the
expense to the state. Daily newspa-
pers having bona fde circulation
Of more than 10000 are to receive
twenty-five cents per folio for the