The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-26
SUMMING UP THE SESSION
(St Paul Disnatch)


The history into which session of the Mime
sofa legislature passed Thursday will write record which,
best will damn it with faint praise It's ledger account will
show little the credit side and such accusing array OF
entries debit that the balance not calculated to boat the
average legislative bosom with pride Individual members
an accounting stewardship though the showing
limited home interest and effort but the body
convicted of incapacty which the more con-
spcuous Of the higher than Intelligence OF
the membership the extraordinary opportunities presented
the passage of the Babcock constitutional good
roads ac displayed series of dismal shortcomings
Standing progressive and constructive piece of
legislation against background Of general ncompetency in
appreciation and want Of conception this measure covers
multitude heads the abbreviated list of accomplish
ments Taken the Intelligent recognition of the
educational necessities of the providing for the require
ments of the university and with the discernment with which
several vicious and dangerous propositions sangled
furnishes the only paiatng plea for word OF commenda
tion
the failure the several for which
public camored nstenty there neither
paation The time abundant and the opportunity for
ample Nothing but discredt attaches to the session
the defeat of the budget system which might have obv
aed the future the caames Of the assembage just ended
The failure to get under popular expression of apprec
soldier and sailor sacrifice in the form of state
memorial in connection with the cold neglect of returned and
neceous troops mourful record of calous Indifference
which will be called reckoning hereafter The stingy
recognition of the forestry system without equppng with
ss up Do the eave negence ntg
feat of the motor bill carries the hallmark of tmidty
petty disregard Of perous conditions displayed in
failure get together upon to perfect the poent
election law and create responsibility that would make such
another legislative fasco practical impossbiity
The of the constitutional road bill carries moral
to which reference must be made It emphasized the leader
ship the lack of which parayzed the efficiency of the
the Legislature could have rallied throughout the
character of management and concentration would
have developed absence of the individual and petty amb
chance of general constructive the
market place Of dckr and bargain set the session
that did DEATH the benefit of ends the
of general Importance and benefit
There will be those who will criticize the Legislature for
to
There alrusm than practical possibility in these
construction paudes There enough left for regret that
the Legislature failed plainly and gnay in the good
laid before it, without adding to its sins the omission of
thing that best visionary and which has challenged without
results the best constructive though of the nation.
One of national prohibition the financial experts
of the has been the prospective loss of half bill
lion dollars of international But there is silver
lining this cloud The internal bureau after
intensive study of the situation and the outlook
that the loss in alcoholic beverages be
from the taxes alcohol used in the industrial The
of industrial alcohol the United States with double
but hereafter with the development of chemical
dusres the demand bound to be greatly increased both
home consumption and for export In view of the legitimate
industrial of which disteres and breeres be
the official opinion is that probably treefourths Of the
sent liquor and beer investment will continue and large
amount of old will be made good from and pro
ductive sources" jEE
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