The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1916-12-08
SUMNER MEETING
WILL Be HELD AT
VIRGINIA; SEVENTH
ANNUAL MEETENDS
Middleton is Reelected President and
Mccarthy is Reelected
Secretary.
r. R. WISE OF BRAINERD IS
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT
Important Resolutions Passed by the
Association at Final Session
in Bemidji.
r. r. WISE OF BRAINERD IS
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT

IN 6em10J1.
The organization of the Northern
Minnesota Development association
will continue.
This was decided at the closing
session of the seventh annual con
vention in Bemidji this morning.
The association will meet next
summer at Virginia and next winter
at Brainerd.
G. r. Middleton of Baudette was
reelected president. r. r. Wise Of
Brainerd was elected vice president
George Munford of Two Harbors was
reelected treasurer and George D
Y Mccarthy of Duluth was reelected
secretary.
Bert Rodman of Akeley, A. P. Sill.
liman Of Hibbing and George Jones
tive committee.
Resolutions Passed.
The meeting adjourned this noon
after passing the resolutions pre-.
pared by the resolutions committee
of which M. N. Kohl of Cass Lake is
chairman. -.
The resolutions recommended the
following:
That the legislature enact a law
providing for department of public
domain.
That the legislature at the forth
coming session provide the necessary
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effect Amendment No. 1.
That legislation be made for the
organization of land mortgage de-
benture companies for the purpose OF
making longtime loans on the amor.
tization plan and issuing bonds
against collective security on land
mortgages.
That committee be appointed by
the association to study the work
ings of the Federal farm loan law
and report at the next meeting.
That all the states money allotted
in the several counties be expended
upon continuous arterial roads to be
determined by the several county
boards with the approval of the state
highway commission and that the
several counties and township boards
use the surplus money in the con.
struction of feeder or lateral roads
connecting with the state highways
That the association recommend
the passage and approval of Senate
File No. 73 of the session of 1915
placing the unemployed prison labor
on public highways.
That which was known as the FL
1ou ho in
fed form as to better suit the condi-
tions incorporated in the Dunn law
That motor vehicles be listed fol
taxation on the same basis as house
hold furniture and farm machinery
and that each owner of motor We
hicles be charged and pay license
to the state of 20 cents per horse
power. That all the moneys received
from such Licenses be turned into the
state highway fund to be used as a
maintenance fund.
- That the powers of authorities in
Sharge of drainage work be enlarged
80 as to enable the construction OF
roads by them in connection with
their drainage work.
Ditch Resolution.
The law to be so amended as tC
make establishment of such bitches
possible only at time when condi
tions show and warrant a reasonable
necessity.
That the standardization of the
type and varieties of the potato a.
outlined by the Minnesota Potato
sGrowers' association and the Mime
sofa Crop Improvement association be
recommended for adoption by all po'
tato growers Of Minnesota
- That law be passed which pro.
vides that taxes on lands should not
be increased by virtue of it being
cleared and put under cultivation TO,
the reason that the clearing of lane
blythe settler increases the value Of
adjoining lands owned by the state
and non n-resident freeholders.
That two years college worl
should be extended to local higf
schools.
Other resolutions were passed
thanking the officers of the associa
ton for their excellent work, thank
ing Bemidji for the entertainment
:: accorded the association, thanking
the press for it's efforts and in re
gard to land clearing, leasing of state
lands, tourists, peat lands, wolf boun
ties, All-Minnesota Development as
sociation, utilization of federal dams
for power, dynamite at cost, state
immigration department, small fish