The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-26
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donating them the privilege Of voting
at presidential primaries, and now
they are getting ready to storm the
capitol to put over the bill which
gives the soprano section of the fam
lily the ballot at elections for town.
ship, village and city elections.
To Ask Amendment. ~.
Ed. Rako's drainage bill is still in
committee, where an amendment Is
likely to be tackled on, allowing small
ditch projects to be put through with
out a vote Of the people, but making
a vote necessary on the bigger pro-
jects.
Senator Nord's big colonization
scheme will be special order in the
senate on Friday, and we think the
genial Leonard has a sufficient num-
Der of votes modified to put 1t
across. It is the sweet patootic OF
all projects to benefit Northern Min
nesota and will be of wonderful bene-
fit In putting farmers on the idle
acres.
The bill to boost members salaries
from one to two thousand dollars met
an inglorious death the other day,
but not because the members were
against, it. The southern members
had to vote against it If they intend
ed to return to the legislature, but
they would have shown no visible
signs of pain had it passed without
their votes. The majority of the
northern memoirs voted for it, and 1t
is a good bill, as it would encourage
men who can't afford to come down
here at the present salary to get into
the game.
The bill legalizing certain Koochi-
ching county warrants which are
now drug on the market was safely
piloted through the senate by Mr..
Nord, and F. J. McPartlin will chap
eron it through the house this week,
the lads who are holding few bales
OF them.
Dry members who were In danger
of being drier than ever after the
house went on record as being in fav-
or Of near beer that would be about
as near beer as Christmas is to the
fourth o. July are seeing relief In
sight, as the senate intends to allow
two per cent, with the proviso that
1t can't be inhaled on the premises
where 1t Is bought, but that won't
prevent some of the prohibitionists
from filling their cellars with 1t.
A certain element down here Is
seeking to state the stake to law
providing that real estate dealers are
to be licensed, and frankly we think
1t Is vicious measure. 1t will give
a little ring down here a weapon to
whack rival real estate men, and we
think 1t ought to lbe killed.
Cheney In Wrong.
Charley Cheney Is the greatest
political writer in Minnesota, in ad
dition to being one of the best scouts
in the state, but he learned to his
sorrow this week that he needs to
brush up on his geography. In a
writeup Charles wished Representa-
tive Enstrom OF Roseau onto Warroad
and in about three days the Journal
Inherited a night letter that looked
like a census of the lake burg in
which they made 1t plain that they
didn't own Enstrom, didn't want to
own him, and that Roseau was en-
tirely welcome to him. Enstrom is
q Townleyite, and a socialist, who
votes wrong on everything that he
possibly can vote wrong on. He even
voted against the Babcock road law,
which didn't make a hit with War
road, which is bounded on one side
by the Lake OF the Woods and on the
other three by bad roads.
Holdups and other stylish idiosycy-
GRASSES (we'll bet that one drives you
to the dictionary are still the order
Of the day Cor rather the night) in
the Twin Cities, and are being staged
on prominent streets. where the
police ought to be put never are.
Residents are being robbed Of every
thing but their false teeth and their
second citizenship papers without the
robbers having jail cells wrapped
around Them, and about all the police
say Is that things might be worse
But they couldn't be.