The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-04-24

EVERY PLEDGE REDEEMED
I Republican Leoisla ture and Off
GERS Make a Great Record:
The RepubI ican party of " inne7
lsota, represented By Gov. Samuel
Van SAINT. Auditor Robert g.
Dunn, and the Repub lean members
of the legislature redeemed every
I pledge made to the people through
/ the party platform submitted before
the last election, during the period
commencing with January 9th and
4 Terminating with April 18th.
Tie legislature was the best that
has ever assembled il the history
of the State, and particularly is this
/ true of the members Of the house,
who came fresh from the people last
November The senators were tried
1 by d previous session. and with the
large legal represent tion, il has
always been admitted to be an ex *
1cellent senate. But the house,
strange as It may seem, contained
sIfew men from the legal profession,
AS compared with former years.
There we're three physicians in the
Halter branch, several bankers, a
flew merchants, and then the balance
[of the membership was made up3of
! the sturdy yeonlanry Of Minnesota,
continually looking out for the agra
7jrian interests. An exception can
1 be made to Messrs. Schurman and
!. Moves, who represented the news
i paper profession, and who. repre-
4 sented the newspaper interests IN
an excellent manner.
The gross earnings tax bill was
q the most important bill enacted into
!. a law. It increases, providing the
people adopt it at the polls at the
ELECTION of November, 1903, the
gross earnings tax on railroad prop
i erty IN this State from three to four
/ per cent. It was something that
certain parties have been strug gling
i for alta number of previous sessions,
/ and at the last Republi can State con-
4 vention the enactment OF a law IN
creasing the gross earnings tax was
j made a portion Of the platform Of
d the Repub lican5 party. The bill was
4 introduced by Mr.. jacobson Of Lac
i qui Parle county. Itwas introduced
.Iabout the middle Of the session, and
!. before it was reported out Of the
n committee on taxes and tax laws it
was apparent thatit would be the
cause of a vicious fght--the big
gest fight of the session. Mr.. ] acob-
j son and the answering friends 81
!. the bill wanted it enacted at this
\ session. The other members, and
]. for a time theyWere in the majority,
] wanted the bill referred to the tax
4 commission. to be acted on with the
other commend ations Of that com
4 mission at the. special session Of the
Legislature which Gov. y an SAINT has
promised to call IN f ebruary of next
wear. Should the bill have not gone
q any further than reference at the
8 session just closed, and had it been
enacted at the special session, which
Els probable, nothing would have
#Ibeen lost, for the reason that it will
mot become effec tive until the PEG
pie pass upon it as an amen nent te
8 the constitution. The first opera
.Ttions Of the amendment, therefore:
will be IN 1905, and with the rail
#Eroads fighting it in the courts it may
|slIsbes several years before it's learned
whether the mendmentsis constitu
tional or not, The fighting Of The
measure, however, at the various
sessions of the legislature, Woule
indicate that the attorneys Of the
railroad companies believe that ths
] Il increase ere will stand the test.
Mr.. Dunn of Ramsey county i.
the. author of the new law regulati
in ing primary elections. This wa
promised, u part, to the people. I
was enacted so as to cover all con
eEtests, except those for State Offices
Hereafter, candidates for county Of
, fees, for legislative positions, fol
Judicial and congressional offices
. will be subject to the primary law
! and instead Of delegates being sen