The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
BILL TO INCREASE THE TAX LEVY
FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES APP
PROVED.
FAv0RS INCREASE TO a MILLS
TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
FAVORS THE LEGISLATIVE
MEASURE CUTTING
SALARIES OF 1DIsTRIcT JUDGES.
Ramsey County Legislators Asked to
Vote Against Mr.. Johns Anti
Trust Bill.

A delegation comprising Profs. J. c..
Bryant and S. A Farnswoth and Miss
margaret Lennon, representing the
teachers' association, appeared before
the trades and labor assembly last
evening in the interest of the pending
Dill to raise the limit Of the tax levy
Ior school purposes in this city from
IN 10 mills. Prof. Bryant went over
the opposition Of the chamber Of COM
MERGE to the bill and cited figures to
snow that there was no extravagance
In the administration Of the schools.
ON the basis Of the rearranged assess
ment, he said, it would be utterly i'm
possible to conduct the schools at the
present rate Of levy without discon-
t1nuing several essential departments
Of the system.
Prof. Farnsworth declared that the
shortage would amount to $121, 900 an
nuaIy. He said the tax levy for school
purposes was lower in st. Paul than
in any other city in the state. He
held that real estate spectators were
the principal beneficiaries IF the reval-
uation, and that they alone were show
ing opposition to the proposed measure.
order that the city may not develop
the deplorable- condition of being able
to maintain only the sixth as the high
est grade. Money must be provided to
establish the free textbook system.
which, the speaker said, could be done
and each pupil be fully equipped for
one-third the cost of what it takes to
fnsufficiently supply them on the pres
ent plan. The system is meritorious
and works a material increase in at
tendance. 4 e.
Miss Lennon also dwelt on this fea-
ture Of the expected effects of the bill
under discussion. Children, she said
were much hampered for want Of books,
and the adoption Of the proposed meas
ure would allow of the adoption Of the
free text book system, thus relieving
them from this hardship.
After discussion, In which a large
number of delegates participated the
assembly declared in favor of giving
the city council power to levy an as
sessment Of not exceeding 4 mills for
school purposes, and referred the rest
of the roposition-bearing on active
support of the bill-to the executive
board.
A resolution calling upon the Ram
sey county senators to support the bill
to repeal the special law which COM
pels this county to pay district judges
$1,000 year in addition to the salaries
received by them from the state was
also referred to the executive board
The assembly declared itself relative
to the antitrust legislation New del
egates were obligated as follows: From
the iron moulders,T Fl K. sShfrk; type
graphical union, Arnold Tuber Con-
sideratiOn Of the Labor Exchange was
indefinitely postponed. The antitrust
bill resolutions read as follows: ot.
Whereas, The house Of representatives of
this state has passed the anti trust bill intro
duced in that body by Representative Johns
OF Ramsey county, after eliminating there
from an amendment excepting trades unions
from Its provisions, against the earnest pro-
tests OF the unions of the state allied with
the State Federation Of Labor and
Whereas, This assembly believes that such
measure as now wOrded Is direct menace
to assemblages of workingmen and women
organized for the purpose of improving their
financial social and moral condition; there
fore,
Resolved, That the Trades and Labor AS
sembly Of ST. Paul. voicing the unanimous
sentiment and speaking for 1000 members of
organized labor IN this city, most emphatic
ally protest against the passage of such bill
as now framed, and call upon the senators
from Ramsey county and all friends of labor
In the senate to use all honorable means to
defeat such bill, .or any other of similar i'm
terms and uneQtivocas language that labor
organizations SHAH be- exempt from its pro-
visions. ISL =
Resolved further, That copy of this pre-
amble and resolution be sent to each one of
the senators from this county and also to
the presiding officer of the senate under
the seal and attested' by the president and.
secretary Of this assembly.