The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-20
BILL IS FRUITLESS
SENATOR HENEMAN WANTS THE
&CORRUPT PRACTICES" ACT Oh
1896 REPEALED.
NEW POLICE PENSION BILL
WILL BE INTRODUCED In A FEW
DAYS By REPRESENTATIVE
M'DONALD.
MINNESOTA'S NINE HORRORS.
Legislature VIII Be Asked to Help
Ont the TOiIers on the
Ranges.
NEW POLICE PENSION Bill


~ VI Gil l41OSC Introduced III the
senate yesterday was Senator Hene-
mans bill for the repeal Of the cor
rupt practices act" so called, that por-
ton of the election law Of 1895 which
emphasizes the criminality of bribery
and compels candidates and campaign
committees to make reports OF their
expenditures, and expenditures made in
their behalf. It is universally conced-
cd that the purpose Of the act was
worthy, but Senator Heneman. with
many others, maintains that the act
In It's operation falls far short Of its
aim. Mr.. Heneman insists that instead
or being a benefit it is a detriment in
tnat the honest men who endeayor to
comply with 1t are placed at a disad
vantage beside the dishonest men who
Ignore it, and whom it reaches at best
but ineffectively.
me best that can be said for the
Dill, perhaps, is that it is an advantage
10 the candidate at times, in enabling
MIN to reduce his expenses to a. reason
able basis, giving him an effective ar
gument with which to meet leg pullers
OF one sort and another.
The friends of the act claim that tic
moral effect should not be desnised
and Senator Ozmun, who was it's cham
pion when passed, will not let - ho
repealed without hard fight.
Representative Mcdonald has in hand
Dill Tor the pensioning of police after
twenty years service. The bill which
was proposed at the last session, and
winch provided that the now exhausted
treasury of the police pension fund
should be aided by a portion Of the
taxes on insurance companies, was lost
in the shuttle, and this year the en-
deaVor will be made to secure the mass
age OF law authorizing cities to de-
Duct l per cent each month from tho
salary OF each member Of a police de-
partment, the whole to be used on
the Old pension basis, disability in
CURED in active duty, or retirement af-
ter twenty years of service.
II the conference which is to be held
FRIDAY in Minneapolis by the employees
OF hazardous woodworking industries
ol unat city, proves a. success, it Is like
~ uhat the mining EMPLOYEES of +ba
state will hold one at Duluth or SOM
point ON the range alt an early data
with a view Of considering leeislaticn
Aor the better protection of the work,
men in the mines. The rate of mortal
lily IN mining accidents in Minnesofa
as compared with mining districts in
olner portions OF the world, Is enor-
nous, and so diSproportionate-z 1Eha,,
compared with old world countries as
10 De bloodcurdling. There is a. wide
oIIerence between the figures f01.
Michigan and the old world mines and
yet the Michigan mines fare better
than those of Minnesota. The LAST re
port or the state labor bureau for Min
lEesola SHOWS that during the year just
c!osed, there were tWenty-nine deaths
eight other serious injuries. and eign-
Teen minor accidents. The census re-
port SHOWS a mining population of
5,Io0, approximately, which shows a
mortality rate Of 78 per thousand men
employed per annum. The extraord-
mary proportion in this state is clear
~ SHOWN when compared with the
figures which ]. Parke Charming of
the Lake Superior Mining institute, has
prepared to show the conditions exist
ing IN various parts of the world in
similar lines Of trade.
In 1887 Michigan appointed q. mine
inspector for each county which had
mines. OF 1870 men EMPLOYED in the
Michigan mines in seven wears Am
were killed. Of the II, 305 EMPLOYED I'M
foreground, 378 were killed, and of the
400 employed on the surface, % We're
Killed. The death rate for all was 40
per annum per thousand men: and for
underground hands SGT deaths ner
annum per thousand men. In Prussia
the annual death rate per thousand
men was 135 from 1857 to 1880: ! d in
1oSl-90, LOB in 1891, and LOS in 1892 Tn
Great Britain in 1891 there were 70 mon
killed in 5000 employed, or IT per an
mum per Thousand men, and the same
In 1892. Among miners below ground
the figure was 81 in Great Britain and
o. IN Michigan; and above ground
about .05 in Great Britain and 10 in
Michigan. In other words, the old
world has about half the mortality of
the Lake Superior region
IheTe Is the same difference among
the new and old districts in this region.
The mortality rate is AT at Marquette
90 on the Menominee, and 73 ON the
Gogebic.
While occasionally the mining region
is startled by the news of some bucket
dropping thousands of feet laden with
human freight, as in the Calumet and
Hecla disaster a few years ago, when
ten died at once, due to the Improper
management of the apparatus j for
hosting 1t, Mr.. Claiming finds that
the greatest mortality in the Superior
mining regions is due to the use of
explosives. Thawing frozen dynamite
IN the winter months is, perhaps, as
dangerous as any of the practices re-
sorted to by the trade, while MANY
other fatalities are due to the inyesti-
cation of blasts which have hung fire
or attempts to pick them out Of their
sockets. Another disaster which help-
ed to raise the average death rate for
Michigan mines was the Michlgamme
flood, when the stream broke through
into the mine below, and fifty men
were drowned. Yet in spite of these
frfghtful catastrophes it appears that
the figures for Minnesota for last wear
are even higher than on the Gogebic
range, the south shores worst range.
and this, too, despite the fact that the
annals of the range have not been
marked by such holocausts or momen-
tcus tragedies. For this reason it Is
thought by the miners that there is
ample room for Improvement in the
system of mine inspection. The cap
ttalistic interests are expected to fight
the measure ON account Of it's expense
to them. The men want an inspector
named whose work shall be effective.
The Michigan inspection for years was
farcical, almost, because of the lack
Of power held by the inspector
A bill will soon be introduced for
the erection of q women's prison at or
near the Twin Cities
FAYER WEATHER WILL. CASE