The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-01-30
ANDREW Fritz, Public Examiner, Be.
lives All Collected By Boards
Should Go to State.
WOMEN ARE NOT DISCOURAGED
Say Defeat Will Awaken Interest
and Sympathy as Nothing Else
Would Do.
ny United Press.

ny United Press.
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 3O-It is evil
dent that the election laws are in for
important changes, unless the other
bills affecting them are disposed of
in the same manner that women's
suffrage was disposed of in the SEN
ate Tuesday.
In addition to referendum and re-
call, it is proposed to amend the
manner and time of holding elec-
tons; first by bill offered by the
elections committee of the senate,
in which filing by petition for non
partisan Offices is done away with !;
and second, by a bill by Ole sageng,
which proposes to change the time of
holding the primary election to the
third Tuesday in June.
Apparently Senator Sageng in
tends to monopolize the limelight,
when it comes to election bills. He
bill. The latter prove more popular
was also the author of the suffrage
with the cities than with the country
and the latest bin ought to prove
more popular with the country men,
bers.
Senator Sageng in explaining the
bill to make the primary elections
held in June, said it was to enable
the farmers to take more interest in
the primaries than is possible at
present, since September is a month
when they are all busy harvesting
their crops.
There is one drawback, however,
to advancing the date of the election,
as proposed in the bill, and that is
that it would mean that candidate
for nomination would be campaign
ing from about May 1 to the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, provided he is success
full in the primaries.
That would mean an almost pro-
spends his own money, the corrupt
practices act Notwithstanding. Most
of the candidates recognize the act
to the extent Of not spending their
money openly, but they get rid Of it
just the same, by having some friend
of theirs buy the drinks or cigars fol-
them-with their money.
"A change in the statutes so as tC
require the State Board of Medical
Examiners and other board to turn
all fees collected into the state treas.
ury is urged by Public Examiner
Andrew Fritz in a report to the house
committee on public accounts and
expenditures.
Thirteen state boards have col
lected during the last year fees ag-
gregating $22,604.24, declares Mr.
Fritz, and while he is not convinced
the state would gain financially il
it received these fees and paid the
board members regular salary and
expenses, he insists that is the right
system.
"The principle of the fee system is
entirely wrong" declared Mr.. Fritz
today. ''1t is not a question whether
the state would make money if a
change were made, it is question
merely of having the states business
run in business way" .--. =,
The public examiner also recon-
mends reducing the number of mem
bers on some of the boards. Three
members should be enough for any
board, he says, while in some in
stances one member could do the
work satisfactorily.
The women who led in the cam
paign for suffrage are not in the
least discouraged at Tuesdays de-
feat in the senat. The anti-suffra-
gists are jubilant. The latter think
this settles the question in this
state for some time, and they will
take no steps to organize an anti
suffrage association
> Mrs. G. H. Higbee, chairman of the
legislative committee for the Mime
sofa Woman Suffrage association,
said: ct is Just another step on the
road to progress. The defeat will
awaken interest and sympathy and