The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1913-04-21
HOUSE 0Y|'E;RRDES Y
GOVERNOR I: R. [ R VETO
Minnette Bill Passed Easily But No
Ian Measure Found it Hard to
Get Necessary Votes.
ARE UP IN THE SENATE TODAY
At Press Time, Indications Were That
Former Would Go Through and
Latter Would Not.
DEMONSTRATION IN MILL CITY
Minneapolis Wild Over Eberhart's
Action-Big Meeting Held
Saturday.
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DEMONSTRATION IN MILL CITY
Special to The Pioneer.


afternoon, the legislature had taken
no action on either the Minnette or
Nolan bills. The general opinion ap-
pears to be that the ,Minnette bill will
muster sufficient votes to override the
veto but that the Nolan bill will not.
st. Paul, April 21.-A scene unpre-
cedented in the history of Minnesota
was enacted in the house chamber
late Saturday, when two bills were
passed over the governors veto, one
after the other. The Minnette tele-
phone bill, first taken up, was put
through easily with a vote of '95 to
IL, but the house was held an hour
and half while votes were drummed
up to pass the Nolan BILL: Five mem
bers were absent without excuse and
on the ground that these men should
be brought in and made to vote, the
house was held under call, and friends
and enemies. Of the bill labored des-
sperately with members to get and
hold their votes. The plea to help
relieve Minneapolis from it's helpless
condition as to the Minneapolis Gen.
eral Electric company won vote after
vote, and though only II had voted
aye at first, change after change came
until 7S votes had been rolled up.
Two more votes were needed. l..
G. Spooner of Morris, proved to be the
man of the hour. "Mr. Speaker" he
said, 81 voted against this bill because
I believe in the principle of state con-
troll of public utilities. I still believe
in that principle, but am persuaded
to believe that an emergency exists
in Minneapolis that justifies US in
passing this bill at this time, and
change my vote from nay to aye"
Applause which had greeted every
change was = redoubled, and G.. H.
Moeller of st. Paul, who had agreed to
furnish the necessary last vote, made
No. 80 by announcing a change of his
vote to "aye'
!. Danger was not yet passed, for it
was rumored that three men who had
voted "aye" were ready to change to
.sno' whenever the bill went over the
line. The bill quickly was placed be-
yond possibility of harm, however. C.
T. Knapp, F. L. Klemer and A. G.
Stoven Joined the procession and
changed to aye, making the bill safe.
The call then was suspended and the
vote announced. 1t was 83 to 27, and
the Nolan bill will do wedding.
march into the state senate today
with the Minnette bill. It will then
be up to the senators whether the two
measures are made laws.
Governor A. o. Eberhart, some of
whose appointees had been laboring
all the past week to line up the house
members to sustain the veto, was
waiting news of the house action in
his office. He professed not to be dis
appointed. s
81 am not surprised at the vote in
the house." he said. 81 rather looked
for it from the vote that was cast for
both bills in the first instance, and
from the fact, that the house organiza-
tion was working to pass the bills
over the veto. = ..s z.==..
The governor would not hazard
prediction as to- the-senate, but evil
IDENTIFY is pinning hopes in failure
to muster the necessary votes for the
two bills in the upper house. They
must receive AZ Of the 63 senate
votes.
Remonstrance Meeting.
A remonstrance meeting against
the veto of the Nolan bill to give mu-
nlcipalities power to regulate rates
charged by public utility corpora
TONS, arranged jointly by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers associa-
tion and Saturday Lunch club, at
tracted nearly ], 900 citizens Saturday
night to the assembly roolh In the
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