The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-24
ARMORY and
NORMAL funds
!. FOR BEMIDJI
ARE PASSED
Appropriation for Educational
institution Approved in Bud
3xet-Lawmakers Through
SESSIONS END IS
4 TOLD OF BY NOONAN
Salary Boost Provided for Aud
TORS Of Beltrami and kooch-
ichins Counties. =

TORS Of Beltrami and kooch-
ichins Counties. =
- (By w. T. Noonan.) X =,
st paul, April 22.--With only TWO
davs remaining, it is Rwfully poor
s fan down here at the legislature.
like the chap who bought a ticket
On the Canadian Northern, every
body wants to go home the worst
way. and they are about as genla! as
q nentipede with sore feet. All tha1
5we do these days and nights rs work,
and when Thursday evening ratt1es
along YOU can bet your old Drown
derby that everybody will be tickleo
to death to wave sweet goodbye 70
the heer-laden breezes of st. Paul ana
noint their toes towards buckWheat
cakes and home. They surely nave
EXTRACTED all the romance from the
legislature. They start In to WorA
wand talk in the morning, stage an en-
core in the afternoon, pull OH an,
other talk marathon at night, ana
when they finally turn the building
over to the janitors it looks IKE a
>narroom floor on, Saturday night'
TOMORROW county division. and lts
,opupnents will tangle. aud by Lne
/ sine you are tossing an optic at tn1s
ssarticle 1t will be settled. senator
eRroohs who has been tossing all the
I 4shcrp,cornered bricks at 1t says that
4 no viii be good and behave on con
,,,s@issstion that the Backns-B Brooks com
many gets q square deal when the
county is divided The senator was
5nromnt, assured that his company
would be treated like one Of the ram
tly. 80 there will be few votes against
NE measure. A.,
This afternoon Senator Nord
caught the speakers eye and pusneo
over the bill giving an additional nve
hundred dollars salary to the auol-
tors of Beltrami and Koochich1ng
counties, and as it had already passed
the house it is now law
Had Plenty of Company.
The appropriations committee. mas
acted on Mr.. McPartlin's bill! pro'la-
ing twenty-five thousand dollars LOT
an experimental farm at lnternatlon-
~ Falls. They recommended II lot
passage with the slight amendment
that Mac could have the farm, put
not the twenty-five thousand, which
makes the bill about as useful as an
ice cream parlor at the nQrth poie.
Macs emotions were near the oreaK,
ing point when the tidings reached
him, and he was about as gen1al as
a giraffe with sore neck. however,
his cup of misery was not oVerHo"-
ing, as the same day the governor
signed his bill giving free tuition IN
the university and colleges to boys
who served their country, anu II le!l
to Macs lot to have the honor OF put
ting over the first soldiers compen-
sation law,
IF Mac was peeved over the fail
ure of his farm bill he had plenty or
company, when the house gave Sena-
tor Nord's colonization bill the
grand razoo. Leonard's rage knew
m bounds for about an hour, but his
good nature and sunny smile soon
reappeared. Like all good measures 1t
wasn't, thoroughly understood, and
the general prediction is that 1t Will
become a law two years hence.
To night Ed. Rako tried to get
thrnugh bill putting the forestry
'<lepartment under the control OF the
hoard of timber commissioners, and
he came within few votes of doing
it. If the bill had passed Mr.. Cox's
iob would have been wobbly to say
fhe least The battle will be re-
sumed tomorrow and may go elther
way. -.
Ed. secured an appropriation OF
thirty-two thousand dollars for I'M
movements to Itasca State Park the
nther dav. and was as tickled as
kid with new gun.
The appropriation bin totes an in
crease of six hundred dollars 1or
otto Deircks, former Baudette boy,
who is state superintendent OF tim
ber. and as result Otto now drags
down the princely stipend OF four
thousand two hundred dollars
wear which isn't so bad for chap
who has lust passed the thirty-year
mark.
The Bemidji Normal appropria-
tion is now official and under con-
troll. There has been no question
about it for weeks, but with the bud
get passed it makes it certain.
$25.O00 For Armorv.
A bill raising the amount from
fifteen to twenty-five thousand DOL
lars which the state it to give for
armories, has passed, which shouldn't
cause any gloom in Bemidji, which
has been flirting with an armory for
-eome time.
Another bill providing for an, epi-
,eptic colony in the northern part of
the state also passed. and Beltrami
county can make goo goo eyes at 1t
with fair chances of landing 1T.
Ed. Rako. who has been playing
wet nurse to a drainage bill prov1d-
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