The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-26
FUND T0EQUlP
and MAINTAIN
NORMAL HERE
IS PROVIDED
Appropriations Recommended
to Legislature Total $142,-
600 for Bemidji School.
SENATE TO CONSIDER
DIVISION BILL SOON
Senator Nord's Colonization
Plan Will be Acted Upon
Friday-Save Sherman.
By w. T, NOonan.

ST, Iaul, MdICu
might Just as well start in to page
the architect and contractor for the
pone. hundred thousand dollar dorml-
tory which will decorate the scenery
on the Normal school grounds. be-
cause the appropriation to be in
herited from the state is what is pop
ularly known as "cinch.' When
the house appropriations committee
said "yes" on Thursday things began
TO look rosy, and now that the SEN
ate committee has also got on the
bandwagon you can bet battleshlp
against a rowboat that when Ed.
Rako points his ears towards home
he will be accompanied by the appro-
priation. The item now goes in the
omnibus bill, and when an item gets
that far it stays, because members
are afraid to assault it for the very
good reason that if they do, some
pet appropriation Of their own is
likely to have verbal confetti thrown
at 1t. AS result an armistice is al
ways knitted regarding the omnibus
bill appropriations, and nothing but
an earthquake would jar an item out
of it. So residents Of the "City OF
ENTERPRISE can pound their ears
in peace, safe in the knowledge that
in another year pink pajama clad
Normal girls will be staging pillow
fights in one of the most beautiful
dormitories in the state. We have
gathered the above facts from old
timers who know the Legislative
game, and who know what they are
talking about.
The Bemidji appropriation was put
through without much debate, but
similar appropriations for Mankato
and Winona were keenly urged, but
they also escaped the shoals
Another item on the appropria-
ton bill is an additional item of ten
thousand dollars for equipment for
the Bemidji Normal, and also $3 900
for conducting the school.
No session of the legislature seems
Official without a tonnage tax riot
>and today the fiery untamed orators
are going to it with arguments pro
and con-but mostly "con." The fer
mented chatter won't change single
vote, but that won't prevent the lads
from getting the oratory off their
chests, and it is likely to last long
after twilight has merged into the
shadows of night.
Is Reported Favorably.
The Beltrami county division bill
moved up another notch today when
Senator Nord got It reported out OF
the senate committee favorably, and
all indications point to the probable
ity that it's passage is just around
the corner.
Another bill Of interest to north
enders was introduced the other day.
1t asks for twenty-five hundred dol
lors for a monument for the thirty
four victims of the forest fire of 1910.
Perhaps it will pass, and then per-
haps it will be found inthe debris
at the end of the session, but you
can't blame chap for trying, can
you?
Still another bill gives s192 to DR..
Corrigan, formerly of Spooner, for
rem oving the appendix from young
girl who had run away from one OF
the state institutions.
Dough for the doughboys appears
to be popular with the legislators,
and bills donating them free tuition
at colleges and the university, one
hundred dollars in cash. medals, land
and other recognition are before the
legislators, and some of them will be-
come laws.
The bill to kill the state immigra-
tion department and aim Fred Sher-
man for the exit is deader than a
brewery, and Fred, who had been
wearing his chin at half mast, is
again taking an interest in life.
Its ADproval Expected
lot of peODle thought Pat Nc
Garry was aiming his toes at the
moon when he asked the Legislature
for hundred thousand dollars for
advertising Minnesotas ten thousand
lakes. but since he piloted the bill
through the senate they are singing
a different tune The indications are
that it will also pass the house and
that Pat will gain fool the wise ones.
Senator Rockne says that the only
difference between Pat and Jesse
James is that Jesse used "A while
Pat uses lot of Irish barney
Bemidji and other cities Of over
five thousand will see smuggling con-
tests staged under the disguise Of
boxing matches if a bill before the
Legislature becomes a law, but in our
humble opinion it is due for knock
out when the country members get
a whack at it, if it ever comes out
of committee.
The knitterines are happy since
Governor Burnquist signed the bill