The Bemidji Daily Pioneer

BOTH GO TO
WASHINGTON
President and Secretary
of
Drainage League Will
Lobby at Capital.

SUFFICIENT MONEY OBTAINED
TO MAINTAIN LOBBY.

Efforts Will Be Put Forth to Secure
Legislation Favorable
to Drainage Cause.

The Pioneer has it on good
authority that President A. G.
Bernard and Secretary H. G.
Hays of the State Drainage
league have left for Washington,
D.C., where they will lobby at
the national capitol in the interests of drainage.

It is not known whether or
not the league has ever taken any
official action authorizing its
president and secretary to constitute themselves a lobby, but it
has been freely predicted that
the earnest efforts of both gentlemen in soliciting money for the
treasury of the league would
ultimately result in seeing at
least one of them go to Washington to spend the winter
mingling with the national legislators.

Mr. Hays, who spent Christmas in Bemidji with his family,
left yesterday morning for the
south, ostensibly for St. Paul.
but information which has been
obtained since his departure
leads to the conviction that he
will accompany the president of
the league to Washington. Mr.
Bernard, it is claimed, departed
recently for the national capital.

Both Mr. Bernard and Mr.
Hays have spent a large portion
of their time since the formation
of the league in soliciting funds
for the organization, and it is understood that the money collected will go toward paying their
expenses while lobbying for legislation favorable to the drainage
cause.

Program For Drainage Meeting
The program for the state
drainage meeting to be held at
Grand Forks Jan. 10 and 11 will
include an address by President
J. J. Hill of the Great Northern,
who will be principal speaker on
the opening day.