The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-01-22
6be Legislature.
Items Of Interest from
Minnesota So1onS. -
SENATE

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county has been elected president pro
tenn of the senate. Senator Thompson
is the senior member of the senate.
Debate on Senator Wilson's Cana
dian reciprocity resolution has been
postponed until next week. Some of
the members do not think that the
legislature should take any hand in
this matter and think it is better food
for thought for the national congress.
Senator Ferris has introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 to build a
tuberculosis sanitanum near Walker,
MINI. The bill calls for an additional
appropriation of $4,000 for the main
tenance of the institution.
Senator Barker has introduced a bill
providing for the inspection of wood
shipped into the cities. The bill was
introduced by Senator Barker at the
last session of the legislature, but
failed of passage. The, bill is in the
interests of the farmers who sell wood
to city dealers. The surveyor general
of logs or one of his deputies must in
spect the wood as it arrives and grade
the same, three grades being estab-
lished by the bill. The inspection
must be done before the cars can be I'M
loaded. Whenever cars are unloaded
without the inspection fine of $40 may
be imposed. Railroad companies shall
notify the proper authorities upon the
arrival of the wood.
The senate was in session just thir-
teen minutes last Friday when it adj
journed over to Tuesday.
A bill by Senator Dale has been in
troduced allowing farmers bounty for
clearing weeds from the public high
ways. Each farmer who keeps the
highway clean of weeds is allowed the
sum of So per mile for his work,
which sum is deducted from his taxes.
Senator Dale has also introduced bill
providing that all penalties, costs and
by county treasurers, either by pay
ment of taxes, sale of land, by redemp-
ton from sale or by assignment of the
rights of the State, shall be appor-
toned to the county revenue fund. AS
the law, chapter 81, section 2, of the
general laws of Minnesota, now reads,
the county reaps the profit from such
sale or collection. After that the pro-
ceeds are divided among the different
county and city funds. The members
from the cities say that the bill will
deprive city funds of considerable
revenue to which they are entitled, but
the author of the bill says that it can
be amended so that the cities need not
suffer. The bill is intended to apply to
country districts.
Senator Butt of Faribault is the
author of a bill removing the univer-
sity, the normal schools and the schools
for the blind and deaf from the oper-
alton OF the board of control law. His
bill differs from the Morley bill now
before the house in that it leaves out
the Owatonna State school.
Senator DuToit has bill which i'm
poses fine of $1,000 on any railroad
that moves a station in any village
without the action of the railroad and
warehouse commission
Senator Barker has introduced the
bill sent him by the Princeton board of
trade, providing for payment of road
and bridge money to villages that are
separate road district. The bill is
known as S. F. So. Representative
Mark introduced the same bill in the
house yesterday and it is known as H.
F. IS.
Senator Sunberg has fathered two
bills providing for issuing bonds by
towns for road building.
A bill providing for an amendment
to sections one, two, three and four of
article nine of the constitution has been
introduced by Senator Lord. The bill
is practically verbatim copy of the
one proposed by the tax commission
and rejected by the legislature.
Senator Morgan has offered a resolu-
ton asking the Minnesota delegation
to work for the repeal of the duties on
lumber. The resolution will be dis
cussed in connection with Senator,Wil-
sons Cuban reciprocity resolution.
The committee on public buildings
has dec-S to fovorably report the
bill increasing the limit of expense on
the new State capitol to s4,500,0OO.
HOUSE.
Representative Rosenwald, success
sor of Jacobson of Lac qui Parle, tried
to have the house do little pruning
by cutting off the extra employees,