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fJI* If 'f J.p pi f~ Kt VF WK $ &tfKUbi ^w*'^ 3 J' ^*-*i ij*(frfn ^l. 1 (if, I J5".. JLxlxLi DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL SESSION Sixty Third Congress Has Many New Faces, New Measures And New View Points GALLERIES PACKED TO CAPACITY Camp Clark Was Again Chosen Spearker Amid Tremendous Applause. JOINT COMMITTEE NAMED Notify President Wilson that all was in readiness for .his wishes. By United Pres. Washington, April 7:With Pro gressive Democracy in full control the ranks of the Republicans deplet ed and their old leaders gone, the opening of President Wilson's spec ial session of the 63rd Congress to day, was eloquent of transition from Nineteenth to Twentieth century po litical government. New forces were in the ascendant new phrases passed easily from togune to tongue. New measures and new viewpoints favor by the older men were in harmony with the confident claims of the new men fresh from the people, who crowded the House benches and rilled in the Senate picture. Yet the ceremonial with which the House began its sittings was as old as its tariff problem. The formal pro cedure that was in vogue when Henry Clay was on the floor served by mu tual consent today. The crowds that filled the galleries from early morn ing to witness the show were able to predict and nod recognition at each step. Clerk South Trimble stood at the speaker's desk at noon, and rapped for order. Chaplain Coudon offered praper. Trimble directed the reading of the president's proclamation call ing the special session. Then the roll was called. The roll was answered in order of the states, with the territories and dependencies following. George V. Taylor of ^Alabama (answered first, and Manuel Earnshaw, commisioner from the Philippines, was last. In the long list were 294. Democratic and 14 5 Republican and Progressive members, besides the delegates and commissioners from Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The Democratic majority was overwhelm ing, its responsibility complete. Absent from familiar stations were "Uncle Joe" Cannon, long dictator of the House, '"Nick Longworth, son-in law of Col. Roosevelt, Victor Berger, pioneer Socialist memeber, and many another who figured largely in Con gressional news of the past two years. On the new cane-seated benches half encircling the rostrum, were the suc cessors of 117 members who failed to return, and thirt-five men chosen from additional districts or from states at large. Only five of the 142 new members had ever sat in Con gress before: The clerk announced a quorum pre sent, and stated that vacancies exist ed in three districtsthe Thirteenth Massachusetts, First South Carolina, and Tenth Texas. He announced the next business to be the election of a speaker. Champ Clark of Missouri was plac ed in nomination for a second term on behalf of the Democratic caucus. James R. Mann of Illinois was simil arly presented by the Republicans. Victor Murdock of Kansas was named by the Progressives. The roll was call ed in alphabetical order, and Clark was declared elected. A committee of the three parties was named to escort him to the chair, amid applause that swept the galleries and echoed thru the chamber and the corridors be yond. Election of the clerk, sergant-at arms, chaplain and minor officials was secured by resolution, offered on behalf of the majority caucus. The Republican minority submitted its list of candidates as a subsitute, Which was promptly voted down.,The officers were immediately sworn in. Resolutions of a routine nature, such as always accompany the con vening of a new Congress, then were adopted and the Senate sent in word that it had named a committee to act wiA a House to notify the president that all was ready for his wishes. Under time-honored precedent, the lottery of seat-drawing was the next icheduled procedure. But the rear rangement of the House chamber, "(Continued on teat pare). M-^ri^M 5s& ft-***, PROF. JOHN B. MOORE. Columbia Instructor Coun selor to State Department. 1913, by American Press Association N. M. E. A. Visitors Last Week. The following people from North ern Minnesota registered at the im migration rooms of the Northern Minnesota Development association in Minneapolis last week: Arne Solberg, Fosston F. A. Dare, Walker J. W. Naugle, Bemdii Miss Arabelle Neal, Bemidji L. F. Rice, Roseau T. S. Kalberg, Bagley P. J. Espeseth, Clearbrook E. J. Wanke, Wanke Albert Anderson, Clearbrook M. G. Scofield, Brook Park J. D. Har adon, Park Aapids E. C. Randall, Hinckley C. A. Warren, Hinckley Charles Trondson, Blackduck Geo. J. Silk, Pine River M. J. Kolb, Bagley G. P. Jones, Bagley. GRAND HAS FEATURE .ACT. Tonight Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Nic hols of Nyniore will present an act with seven-Sti4:z dogs. The dogs have been raised in Nymore and have been trained by Mrs. Nichols. They do some clever stunts and will undoubt edly make a big hit with the audi ence. No extra charge will be made but the regular 5 and 10 cent admis sion charge will hold good for every performance. The Nichols have been on the road with their troupe of dogs but they met with some trouble in Moorehead where some of the dogs became sick and were unable to per form their #ct and they "were forced to return home. Tonight's perfor mance will be the first after the Moorehead incident. NEW COLLECTION AGENCY. A new collection agency that will be known as the Titus-Moore Bel trami County Collection Agnecy has opened offices over the Palace Meat market. Both young men are well known in Bemidji and are working hard to make a success of their new business. They will accept bills for collection of any kind and a rate charge will be made according to the work necessary fn collecting. BOYS LEAVE HOSPITAL. Chester Otto and Homer Oranger have left the hospital where they have been confined for the past two weeks with injured hands. Both young men were injured about two weeks ago. Otto will save all his fin gers and they will not be stiff but it will be necessary for him to undergo another operation and artificial joints made. BACONS RETURN FROM WEST. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bacon, who have been spending the winter inCali fornia returned to Bemidji Saturday morning. They spent much of the time in Los Angles and visited San Francisco, San Deigo and other im portant cities of the West. Miss Har riet Cochran who left with them is now visiting friends in Portland, Ore gon. SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER (scoop-THERE'S A rA&x*cAN lxu THAT5 A PfiACH- \*vw DON 'T ^OO 3S.E F- St WOULD/ STfcND F0tl'*A BT OP A PL\RTAT*I0N-/ BREEZE. UP AN' JQ\ ^ftv ,T-- S W VOLUME 10. NUMBER 290. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7. 1913. fV SUBSTITUTE BILL READY Senate Temperance Committee Drafts One to Take Place of Nelson's to Reduce Saloon Ratio. WILL COME UP THIS WEEK By United Press. St. Paul, April 7.The senate temperance committee has offered a bill as a substitute for the Nelson bill, which will come before the sen ate this week and which is expected to pdss. The Nelson bill provided that the number of saloons in any city in Minnesota shall not exceed one for every 500 population. The senate bill amends it to read that the existing number shall be cut down twenty per cent a year until the correct number is reached. Following is the full text of the committee bill: 4 A Bill For an Act to Amend Section I Chap ter 75 General Laws 1909, Limit ing the Granting of Licenses for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Section I. That section I of Chap ter 75, General Laws 1909, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: "Section I. From and after the passage of this act, the number of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors which may be granted by any county or municipality shall be lim ited to one for each five hundred of population or fraction thereof in any township, town, burrough, village or city of this state, such population to be determined by the last preceding state or national census provided, that in all cities, villages, burroughs, towns and townships where a great er number of licenses mjay have been granted or issued at the time of the passage of this act, than would be permissible under the foregoltfg.f limitation, it shall be lawful, and the local authorities are hereby au thorized in their discretion, to grant and issue licenses in excess of said limitation, but the total number of licenses so granted or issued each calendar year shall be at least twenty per cent less in number than the to tal number of licenses granted or is sued during the preceding year, and the reduction shall continue until the total number of licenses in force in any such township, town, burrough, village or city shall equal one for each five hundred of population or fraction Jthereof as ascertained by the last preceding state.or national cen- sus.". Section 2. This act shall take ef fect and be in force from and after its passage. MACLACHLAN REPAIRING BOATS. Capt*. W. B. MacLachlan is repair ing his passenger boats and expects to launch them about the 25th of this month. He has ordered 100 new life savers and a fire extinguishing apparatus which he will install in the "City of Bemidji" his fast passen ger and mail boat. Mr. MacLachlan will make his regular trips around the lake this summer as he has changed his plans regarding his mov ing his boats to Cuyuna. He has pro mised the mill men that he would take them to the mill on April 25 as he belives the lake will be open at this end on that date. GRAND RAPIDS DIDN'T COME. The bowling match between the Bemidji "and Grand Rapids five which was to have been bowled here yes terday was not held as the Grand Rapids team did not show up. The local team has been preparing for the match for some time and were prepared to win from the Grand Rapids quint by a larger number of points than they did on the Grand Rapids alleys. If possible an other match will bo arranged with that team in the near future. (Copyright. AKELEY A BUSY TOWN Commercial Clnb Has Secured Can ning. Factory for 1915 and Land for Necessary Crops T. B. WALKER IS INTERESTED Special to Tli 9ionvL Akeley, Minn., T.-A^Recently Camm eApffll i eJu ^7f & big meeting of the business men and farmers living in the country around Akeley and after a public discussion on the question it was decided to es tablish a canning factory and have the same ready for business for.the season of 19*15. President Neill of the Federation of Commercial clubs of Minnesota, A. E. Chamberlain, development commissioner of the Great Northern and other prominent gentlemen were present. T. B. Walker, of Minneap olis, owner of a greater part of the land immediately adjoining the towhsite, was successfully urged to plat out the land in small tracts of five and ten acres, to be cleared for raising produce for the proposed factory. The work of platting was complet ed this week and the lots placed on the market, with the result that it has required two men to make out land contracts, the land being dis posed of very cheaply and ,on most reasonable terms. Akeley is a saw mill town of 2,700 and at one time it was thought the town would follow in the wake of other saw mill towns1 and become extinct after the mill completes saw^ ing a few years hence. An average of 5,000 cars of lumber a year has been shipped put for the past four teen years. The timely action of the Commercial club will make possible a larger and more permanent busi ness. Demonstrations have proved the soil of exceptional merit. There are sixty-seven lakes within a radius of ten miles and the lands are ..especial ly adapted to dairying and stock raising. A new creamery has re cently been completed The Com mercial club is now communicating with big contracting firms with a view of having them clear the cut^ over lands for the new owners, so as to have the work done quickly and at lowest possible cost. DROWNS IN SMALL POOL Peter Ostgaarden meets death On being thrown from sleigh into water. ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR BAGLEY heI4-a-j^opla^^rtea-forApril his home Saturday Bagley, Minn. 7.Peter Ost gaarden a resident of the town of night with his team and when about two miles out of the city he was thrown from his sled into a pool of water and was drowned. He was found with his face toward the ground and dead. Ostgaarden was a man.about fifty years old and married. The widow lost her former husband, John Sand vick last fall in somewhat the same manner. He was thrown from* a load of wood last December and crushed between the Sleigh and a large stump near the road side.-%:.. Reports, from Bagiey indicate that Ostgaarden was under the influence of liquor when he left for home Sat urday night. FOSSTON WINS THE TITLE Mountain Lake Loses State Basket ball Champsionship, 29 to 27. Fosston high school won the state basketball championship in Sayles Hill gymnasium at Carlton College Saturday by defeating Mountain Lake high school in tne fastest game of the whole tourney. The score of the final game was 29 to 27. The Bemidji High team played two games with, the Fosston team and met defeat at their hands both games. The games were close and the local team believes that they are a close second. The Fosston quint the only team that claimed a victory over Be midji game that the Fosston team was clearly the strongest team of the two but he believed that the local team was the strongest team they would meet during their entire sea son. CLEANING STREET PAVEMENT Bemidji street pavements are being cleaned lis rapidly as the weather conditions permit. Street superinten dent Carter has a foree of. men "busy hauling.away the surface gatherings-, which adds much to the present ap pearances. There Are Senoritas And Senoritas By "HOP r- II i i if 1 1 NOW, W0ULDN'T|YH WjTHE 'sAlHK CROWELL GIVES WARNING Says "Gambling wiU not be tolerated I in Bemidji saloons." Fine is light. OTHERS WILL GET MAXIMUM. With a warning to the saloon keepers that those who permit gam bling in their places of business will be dealt with more severfy in the fu ture municipal judge A. M. Crowell imposed a fine of $22 and costs upon H. Gunsalus for the permitting of a game of "Rummy" in his place of business last Saturday. The com plaint was made by George Harkey, apparently a stranger in the city. Harkey also made'complaint to an assault and battery charge against Gunsalus for which a fine was im posed of $7.00 and costs. :Gust ma Mack was: up for merely be ing drunk. As this was the third time he has honored the court with his presence the judge gave him his choice of paying a fine of $10. and costs or ten days in the city bastile at hard labor. He chose the latter be cause he-had to. Jack Daugherty was given one of three things to do for saying things to a friend. What he said wasnot re peated in court and the sentence he drew was to leave town before one o'clock. Albert Gunrud fell in with some "good fellows" Saturday and became loaded with such a jovial disposition that it was necessary for him to ex plain to his honor just what happen ed. This priveledge cost him just $5.00. He found also that during his short stay that he had been releaved of a pocket book containing about $15.00 WHEN WILL THE ICE GO OUT Boatmen on Lake Bemidji are mak ing guesses as to when the ice will leave the lake. Last -year a number guessed and made a few small bets on the side. A. A. Warfiield won by one day he having guessed the twen tieth and the ice disappeared the twenty first of April. W. B. MacLach lan stated this morning that he be leived. that the ice would not leave before May first this year unless the weather became considerably warmer before that date. W. S. Chapman be lieves that the ice will leave about the 25th of this month. Other boat men will probably turn in guesses in a few days. MINNESOTA HfSTORfCAL TEN CENTS PER WEEKJ HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BEGIN SPRINGWORK Track Team Will Be Organized To Compete at the Carlton Meeting. ELECT BASKET BALL CAPTAIN Meeting Will Be Called This After noon for Purpose of Making Selection. JUNIORS HUSTLE BANQUET FUND Base Ball Team Ready to Begin Spring Training.Captain to be Elected. During a recent visit of Prof. Headley of Carlton college in Bemidji an Interscholastic track meet was dis cussed. The Bemidji High school will probably receive an invitation to the meet which will be held at Carlton some time this summer. Prof. Car son stated this morning that he would call a meeting of the boys and call for candidates and a team will I be organized. If there is any good terial Coach Carson will take a team to the meet. All expenses are paid to these meets and it is consid ered an honor to have a Bemidji team represented. Last year several boys practiced for a team and during the season some good work was done. Prof. Carson will have charge ot the team. He was formerly a run ner at Carlton college and there are 'bapes oT la first class team for Be midji. Among the best material for a team who will probably appear are Delbert Elletson, Leslie Slater, Earl Bailey, Claude Bailey, Lester Achen bach, Newall Johnson and others. To Elect Captain. A meeting of the Bemidji High school basket ball team will be held immediately after school this after noon to elect a captain for next year. Earl Bailey was Captain of this year's team but as he will leave school this year a new man will be elected. The captaincy will proba bly fall on Ray Johnson, Elletson or Claude Bailey who played on the team last winter. All are fast play ers and either would make good as captain. Juniors are Busy. Next Saturday afternoon and eve ning the proceeds of the matinee and evening peiformance at the Majestic theatre will be turned over to the Junior class to defray the expenses that will be incurred in the annual Senior entertainment this year. Pre parations are being made by that class to give a banquet in honor of the Seniors some time during the first of May. A special film has been obtained for the Juniors benefit. The name of it is Shylock and is tak en from a Shakspearian play. The Juniors are boosting for this enter tainment as the banquet expenses will be large and tife class expects to receive enough from the Majestic to pay the larger part of the expens es. A caftdy sale was held a few month ago and sixteen dollars was netted. It has been the custom for the. past several years to entertain the Sen iors at a Junior ball but the 1914 class believes that the present class will appreciate a big banquet more. Class To Present Farce. Practice on a farce that will be presented by the Public Speaking class next week has been started and will probably be ready for presenta tion the latter part of the week. A program was given by the same class a few weeks ago and a large crowd of Bemidji folk attended. The farce will probably be presented during the afternoon before the High School as sembly and no admission charge will be made. Special music will probably be prepared for this occasion. Baseball team to practice. The High school baseball team will start practice the latter part of this week at the Fair "Grounds. Coach Car son will keep the team in until Thursday or Friday. A Captain and. Manager will probably be elected at the first meeting. There will be only, a few new players this year as near- ly all of last year's players will ap pear for practice. The battery this year will probably be between Bailey and Riley for pitcher with Johnson^ \fZ, %t* JS i