The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-09
6be Legislature.
Items Of Interest from
Minnesota So1onS. e

Wal ~" uO"A dill Ol1lS UnaC sought to
change the primary election law. The
mousse defeated the Bowling bill which
provided that a voter could take all the
ballots into the booth, mark the one he
wlshed and return all to the judges
VINO would deposit the marked ballot.
The other bill was one that provided
for a blanket ballot, on which all of the
tickets were to be printed in perpen-
dlcular columns The voter was to
mark in but one column, and it would
invalidate his ballot if he marked in
more than one.
Another election bill, fathered by
Representative Tighe of St. Paul, which
exempted judges of the district court
from the operation of the primary law,
was likewise killed. Mr.. Tighe's bill
permitting minority parties, casting
less than 10 per cent and more than l
per cent Of the total vote, to hold con-
Ventlons for the nomination of candi-
dates, thus absolving them from resort
ing to petition as required by the pres
ent law, was reported to pass. The
convention must be held at least ten
weeks prior to the general election.
Two bills have been introduced pro-
vld1ng for band concerts in villages.
Inns will cause lot of music in the air
about the capitol. One measure
authorizes village councils to pay for
musical entertainments furnished in
public parks. The other legalizes ex-
penses which villages have thus in
Cured.
The krostue bill providing that the
State must pay three-fourths the value
OF animals killed by order of boards of
health has passed both houses. The
owner bears the other fourth. The bill
provides that horses killed for CHAMBERS
shall also be paid for.
The senate temperance committee
will recommend for indefinite postpone
ment Senator 5. E. Sundberg's bill
granting counties with no cities of over
10000 inhabitants local option in the
matter of licensing saloons. The meas
ure gives to counties the same power to
deal with the sale of Intoxicating LIQUOR
as townships possess.
The house has decided that farmers
that lost their crops from hail or other
storms during the summer of 1902 are
deserving of public aid, and in commit
tee OF the whole it recommended to
pass the Block bill exempting the lands
so visited by destruction from taxes for
1902. County boards are to pass on ap-
plications for such relief.
The bill giving the board of railway
and warehouse commissioners the
authority to examine the books of the
gross earnings corporations, and taking
this authority away from the public
examiner was defeated in the house
last week.
The house in committee of the whole
has recommended to pass the senate
bill by r. E. Thompson of Fillmore
county, raising the State allowance to
high schools from $1,000 to 1000.
Representative Cole of Cass county
secured the passage of his bill to tax
logs in the county in which they are
cut, after hard fight in which almost
the entire delegations of Hennepin and
St. Louis counties were lined up against
him.
The house railroad committee has
voted to recommend for passage the
senate bill by Senator G. B. Ward of
Douglas county providing for an appeal
from the decision of the railroad and
warehouse commission on the question
OF its jurisdiction over freight rate
complaints brought before it. The
bill provides that if the commission
holds that the matter is without it's
jurisdiction because it is interstate
traffic, and one commissioner disagrees,
the case can be taken to the district
court and thence to the State supreme
court.
The Hanaford pool selling bill, re-
quiring the board of managers of the
State fair to lease the grounds for run
ming races during the summer and sus-
pending the law against pool selling
for the purpose, was killed. The pro-
motors of the deal gave up the fight
several days ago.
The bill providing for State live
stock sanitary board to suppress con-
tagious and infectious diseases of do
nestle animals, has been passed by the
house, and will now 60 to the senate.
Representative Ole Peterson's bill
$4,000 to place the Min
nesota farmers institute on sound ba-
sis has been recommended to pass
by the senate in committe of the whole.
The measure establishes board of adj
to consist of three regents