The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-03
DIVISION BILL
NOW OPPOSED
BUT EXPECTED
TOBEC0ME LAW
Noonan, In Letter to Pioneer
Today, Says Beltrami Meas
ure Opposed in Senate.
RAKO'S SEED MEASURE
IS NOW STATE LAW
Colonization Bill Drawn by
Senator Nord Considered To.
morrow-Other Notes.
(By W. T. Noonan)

\by w. l. NOouduJ
-. St. Paul, April 1.-Ever since
the kaiser hoped out of bed one
morning and learned that a lot of
rough chaps from Minnesota, Mon
tana and North Dakota bad mixed
up in the big scrap and spoiled his
peaceful war for him there have been
flocks of suggestions as to the best
way to reward the lads who caused
BiIlem to emigrate to Holland with
ont waiting to gather up his luggage.
As I write this in a side room at the
capitol I can hear several hundred
Of the khaki clad boys explaining to
the appropriations committee that the
lad who launched the bill to give
them hundred dollars each in cold
cash was a regular mind reader. They
are making it plain that the bill in
question is the one that would please
them most. But ten million dollars
is a laundering lot of money, and L
can hear southern members gasping
for breath and making remarks about
bills that abolish the constitution,
make the state treasury total loss
and empty the pockets Of the tax
payers. DiVorcing the state from real
money is q painful operation for
many of the southern members, and
the boys are having a; corFugulated
time cenvincing them that the bill
ought to graduate at the end Of the
session. s-,s. Is +. = 49,. Je.-. - a.,
= Up to q few days ago the Beltrarni
comfy division bill =. was sailing
sznoothly along in the Senate but all
Of sudden you could; notlce sub
marines in the vicinity without the
aid Of a telescope. We are not IN
sinuate anything of course, but
Senator Brooks, who is a business
partner of E. w. &Backus, parks his
bunions in the, upper house, and we
have an idea that he isn't staying
awake nights devising plans to pass
the bill. However,, it will become a
law, although there may be little
tilt over it.
Hatchery for Border City.
= International Falls was never not
ED for it's use of water, but it looks
as if they have finally found use
for it in the border city. Represen-
tative McPartlin proved himself a
mighty fast talker the oyher day, and
when the members of the game and
fish committee recovered they found
that Mac had talked them into recon-
mending twenty-five thousand dollars
for a fish hatchery at the Falls. 1t
is better than an even bet that the
bill will become law.
Don't wait for the bill providing
a monument at Baudette to become
a law because it won't. The house is
perfectly willing to pass it IT slight
operating for the removal of the
appropriation is performed. Outside
of that the members say the bill IS
all right. The trouble is that nearly
every other village in Minnesota also
conceived the brilliant. idea that it
needed a monument, and if the re-
, quests were granted the state would
resemble a marble orchard and the
state treasurer would be looking for
another job.
A bill that would have removed the
bulge from the treasury of every
community in northern Minnesota
would have slipped through the other
day but for the eagle eye of F. j..
McPartlin. All it provided was that
a strip a mile wide was to be cleared
around every burg in the state and
the municipalities were to dig up the
funds. When Mac spotted that pro-
vision he raised a roar and in about
two minutes there were more objec-
tions to it than there are Irish police
men in St. Paul. Up to that time
nobody was paying any attention. to
the bill. Which was aimed to pre-
vent forest fires. Needles sto. say It
didn't pass.
McPartlin Gains Point.
By the time you are reading this
over your specs the fate of the Nc
Garry bill providing q hundred thous-
and dollars to advertise northern
Minnesota as the playground of Am
erica will have been decided. When
the motion to make it special
order came up in the house the other
day many southern members staged
young riot, but Mr.. McPartlin did
some stylish talking and won the first
tilt. The vote will be close, but un-
less landslide occurs in the morn
ing the bill will get by in the house
with eight or ten votes to the good.
1t has already passed the senate:
The Nonpartisan Leader took a
whack at Ed. Rako the other day, and
lit was the last thing necessary to
convince everybody down here that
Edward is all right. The Duluth Rip
saw alsa paid its respects to F. j.
McPartlin, and as result Macs
popularity has also increased. What
fCont;nuet IN Pare EiphtA