The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-04-24
Law IS a BONANZA for the ne spaper

llaw IS q BONANZA for the be paper
lIboys and also for present Repre-
entatives ia Cong ress ndeed
might add for the present Office
holders, but partic ularly for the
former, who will have seeds and and
pnblic documents Of all kinds to
lsend out and jolly up their constitu-
encies The writer may be mis-
taken. but he still believes that the
candidates living IN the very small
towns and in the farming districts,
will have a slim chance for obtain
4 ing office under the primary law
Mr.. Dunn, the author, is one Of the
ablest men il the house, and un-
.doubtedly secured the enactment Of
a wise primary law, from the stand ].
i pointof a represent alive from a city.
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Mr.. Torson s board Of control bill
llis another piece of5Iegis station that
has been adopted by the Republican
Legislature It has been explained
very fully il previous issues Of this
paper. It wipes out every board OF
a charitable and correctional insti-
tuition ia the State, as well as the
/ board Of CORE ctions and charities.
gives all their powers to a board OF
three men, who are on salaries, and
who, if they carry out promises, are
to materially reduce the,s running
Expenses of the institutions over
(which they will have control. 1T is
1 hoped that this will be done. The
i present boards all have excellent
#Irecords. ii case the board of CON
troll is not satisfactory it is doubt
4 full whether the old boards will ever
Il be re-instated d. Indeed, to use the
i language Of Mr.. j. a. Peterson,
I 1T is an easy matter to get down
Into the internal regions, but it is a
i livery difficult matter to get the door
lopen leading out after a person once
i gets in. 81
The adding Of another million
4 dollars to the completion OF the new
4 State capitol. and making S., 0O0, 600
& positively the limit, is another piece
Il of. work on which the legislature
! can be congratulated. The enact
4 mento Of the Torrens system of land
i transfers to be tried in the three
II larger counties Of the StateHen-
4 nepin, Ramsey and st. Louis, is an
Il other measure to the credit of that
! body. Innumerable bills have been
q passed prohibiting the adulteratior
4 of food products. The general APP.
4 preparation bill is liberal, yet at the
same time, the ropriations fol
\ each Institution is kept within {
REASONABLE limit, and the commit
& tee on appropriation is entitled to- {
great deal Of credit for the hare
work they put il and the excellent
1 manner ia which they handled the
pruning knife. Every institution
I seems to be satisfied. The omni bus
road and bridge bill appropriatine
), on an average Of about $400 to every
8 county in the State for bridge pur
j poses, is another measure that vii
have a tendency to convince the
8 people that they are being helped.
.
] @ The most important item to thu
4 lcredit Of the legislature is the tas
Ilevy budget. When Representative
! Frank Swanson, chairman Of tht
I. ways and means committee Of ths
n|shouse, offered the bill providing fol
4 the tax levy for the next two wears
Wednesday before adjournment, i
was announced that the appropria
J tons had been kept down so vel
and the expenses of the State GOV
eminent would be so diminished
D that the levy was reduced to a figur,
a great deal lower than it has beef
) for q g number Of years, And on tol
\ LOT this, after the session adjourned
= State Auditor Dunn announced tina
T the levy would be- still further de
! creased from one to two tenths Of /;
mill mill pplause greeted the an
4 noun cement Of the reduced rat,
when the bill was introd uced in til,
house, and it was at once gwen II.
], second and third reading and placed
upon its final passage. and tn,