The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-12
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to the Minnesota Special School for
Deaf and Blind The change is purely
a sentimental one, as the bill provides
that the control of the school shall in no
wise be changed. The inmates OF the
school have long objected to the title
OF Detectives" which they considered
placed them on a par with the feeble
minded and insane The reception COM
mlttee will consider the bill.
Senator Baldwin introduced two bills
the first providing for the amending of
section of chapter of the constitution
of the state relating to taxation. The
amendment provides for a franchise and
income tax but leaves the machinery in
the hands Of the legislature, instead Of
binding it up in the constitution as it
now is. Senator Baldwin hopes by this
measure to force an opening wedge
Which will allow the entrance of rene
dial taxation measures. In speaking to
the Globe yesterday concerning the bill
he said: 1.-THE intention Of this measure
is to prepare the way for remedial taxa
ton, so that If there is a tax commits
SION appointed it will not be necessary
Tor the entire time to be taken up with
struggles to evade the constitutional lin
itations which are now placed upon tax
alton laws" The same. bill has already
been introduced in the house.
Senator Baldwin's second bill provides
for the amendment of section 1880 Of the
general statutes of Minnesota for the
year 1894 relating to taxation 1t specifies
that the chief accounting officers of
any corporation, other than railway
telegraph and banking corporations,
whose taxes are specifically stated, shall
in addition to the regular schedule, give
list of the bonded Indebtedness Ilnon
which interest is paid" and "the amount
of the funded or bonded indebtedness
and the value thereof"
Fence in the Sheriff.
Senator Wilson introduced a bill pro-
viding for the placing of the sheriff of
Hennepin county on a salary basis The
bill states that the sheriffs Of all coun-
ties Of a population of 100000 or over
shall be thus remunerated applying sole
ly to Hennepin county. The bill fixes
the sheriff's salary al S. 600 year, which
includes the serving of all papers, allow
ing him his actual expenses when the
papers are to be served outside the
county. His chief deputy is to receive
s., 200 a year, bookkeeper $1,000, TALLER,
$1,000 assistant jailer $780, night watch
man $500, matron $500, three outside dep
uties s., 200, each supply his, own team,
one court room deputy for each district
Judge at a salary Of 81 600. This bill fur
Their provides that all fees collected or
service rendered private persons shall be
turned into the county treasury likewise
that the county commissioners shall look
after the feeding of the prisoners, and
that the governor may remove the sheriff
for failure to comply with the laws. The
law is to go into effect jan /, 1903.
There was to have been a meeting of
the tax committee Of the senate after the
odi Of fJ7o iVer Of
the senate, but the members went into
the house to listen to the address of
Lawson Purdy, secretary OF the Tax Re-
form association, who spoke before that
body.
When the senators were adjourning to
the house it was understood that they
would listen to the country bankers
objections to the proposed tax law at 2
o'clock in the afternoon. Owing to the
fact that there was no definite action
taken, it was after 9 o'clock when the
members were called to order.
Prof. Folwell, of the chair Of econom-
les of the state university, spoke before
the members particularly in regard to
the income tax proposition and to some
extent on the single tax scheme. He
took no definite stand on the tax report,
and his address was merely in the nature
of lecture on the economic side Of the
question, all sides being presented in a
didactic manner.
A. p Stevens, of Crookston. followed
for the country bankers, whose objection
to the proposed tax measure he present
ed. He said that the country bankers
were entirely dependent upon the pros
perity of the farmers, for their pros
perlty, and that once this was crippled,
they were in a like measure hurt. Mr..
Stevens appeared before the tax COM
mittee of the senate at the opening of the
session, and, although his address at
that time was rather impromptu, his ar
guments yesterday were based upon the
same grounds, although they were more
elaborate.
The tax committee adjourned without
date, presumably until after the first
session Of the senate, which will be
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The
adjournment was taken to that date for
the reason that today Is a legal holiday.