The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-08
WHEN 70 a ] .|:|!! JUDGES.
Is1sfHe
GENEROUS LAND GRANT FOR THE
BLIND ASYLUM AT
GARY
REMEMBER THE WOLF BOUNTY
Bill to Require City officials to Fix
Rental Charges for Telephone,
Gas, Water and EIec- 81
trio Light.

PIERRE, S. D., Feb! tx Especial THE
house today killed the 7bill to increase
the number of regents of educational in
situations to seven, and passed the bill
to make judicial elections at same time
as the elections of other state officers
and the senate bill, granting %, 900 acres
of land to the Blind. asylum at GARY
The principal house bills introduced were:
Requiring the city officials to fix rental
charges for telephone, gas, water and
electric light. While there was no fight
on the regents BILL the opponents of the
wolf bounty took it up as a Black hills
measure and defeated the bill in revenge
for their defeat on the bounty measure.
The senate put in the day on unim.
sportant measures, among them the house
resolution for an amendment allowing the
investment of school funds at per cent.
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The bill for the establishment of a food
and dairy commissioner, which passed
the house on Tuesday, prescribes that
his duties shall be to enforce the pure
food laws already in existence and to
>superintend the manufacture of dairy
products for food. His salary is fixed at
$1,000 per year, with 5000 for a stenog-
rapher. He will be appointed by the
governor for a term of two years. and
may be removed by the governor at any
time for cause. 1t prohibits the coloring
of oleomargarine, compels the posting of
placards in all places where it is handled
and requires the branding of all packages
in which it is contained.
rumor is current that an effort is
being made to combine the small counties
against the large ones for the. purpose
of forcing just a little more than Justice
in the way of representation under the
new apportionment This subject has
been somewhat neglected so far. but
promises to become burning issue with
in a short time. }.d
The firecracker bill that has passed the
senate Is a peculiar product. 1t absolute.
ly prohibits the manufacture and sale of
cannon frecra ckers and air guns but
does not prohibit their use. The small
boy therefore, is lef4Sfree to enjoy these
abuses If he purchases his supplies out
side the state. $50 ~,
The bill to repeal the law permitting
the compromise Of taxes died an uutimely
death. In effect it operates against the
farmer whose land is valuable and
against the lot owner who has something
worth owning. AS was stated on the
floor of the senate, it placed premium
upon the non-payment of taxes. Hughes
county owes the state $4,000 in taxes,
Pennington county owes $24,010 and sew
eral others are in arrears almost rs bad
These counties, of course, fought the bill
and it died because the representatives of
counties in which taxes are paid failed
to realize its true import.
A considerable percentage of The bills
so far introduced are special in char
acter-that is, they were framed to meet
special emergencies that have arisen in
certain localities or in the practice Of Ger.
tain attorneys. 1t has been said of at
torneys that when one of them is elect
ed to the legislature he proceeds straight
way to knock out some law that at some
time Knocked him out in the trial OF, a
case.
The obnoxious engineers license bill has
been amended by the committee so that
it will provide for boiler inspection only,
and in this form 1t Is likely to pass
Bo1erinspection, it is stated, besides prov
ing o safeguard against explosions Of
stationary plants, will prove check on
Ghe practice of some threshing machine
companies OF fixing up old boilers and
reShipping and reselling them for rev.
The bill passed by the house requiring
sheriIfs to collect delinquent personal
property taxes is a radical change from
existing law and the debate upon it was
spirited. A few friends! OF the farmer
tried to make it appear that the meas
ure would work a grave injustice to
farmers, but friends of the measure soon
made it plain that the farmers pay their
taxes and that the collection of all de-
Innuent personal tax would be greatly
to their benefit. Thefsheriff, being con-
silently about the county and about the
county seat. is better posted upon parties
who are making preparations to leave
than the treasurer could be, and it IS
believed that for this reason he will
make the better collector Representa-
tive Stewart, CT Codingten county, intro
duced the measure. no Oh