The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
LEGISLATIVE FINS.
The Thirty=Third Session of the Tin
nesota Legislature Adjourned
Tuesday Noon.
Some of the Bills that Were Passed
During the Closing Hours of
the Session.

Iueoudy llOOL. bOUn houses were
busy during the closing hours of the
session Monday night and many bills
fell by the wayside in the twinkling of
an eye. One of these-the tax amend
ment to the State constitution-failed
of passage because of the failure of the
house and senate to agree on the bill.
The house passed the ''wide-open"
amendment while the senate passed a
restrictive amendment. Conference
committees failed to agree during the
closing hours, and each chamber charges
the other with the defeat of the meas
ure.
Among the bills passed by the SEN
ate during it's closing hours were Rep
resentative L. c.. Stevenson's measure
creating a State board of osteopathic
examiners; Representative J. r. Nor
ley's bill establishing State live stock
sanitary board: S. A. Nelson's measure
imposing tax on freight line compan-
les; J. D. Budd's measure providing for
a bounty Of ten cents for dead crows;
Representative T. T. Ofsthun's bill
regulating the use of trading stamps;
Senator Henry Morgan's measure Gre
ating State bureau of child and ami
NAL projections: Representative Frank
Clague's increasing the State aid for
graded, semi-graded and rural schools.
The passage of the live stock sanitary
board bill was the result of a hard bat
tie by the Live Stock Breeders associ-
alton of the State which labored hard
for the bill that is of great interest to
the live stock industry Of the State.
Bills which failed Of final passage in
the senate we're Senator George P.
Wilson's bills facilitating State prose-
cutions against conspiracies in restraint
Of trade; Representative J. A. Shep-
hard's bill requiring strawberries,
blueberries, raspberries and blackber-
ries to be sold in boxes of uniform size;
Representative E. W. Stark's bill Gre
ating a new judicial district to have
jurisdiction over Chisago, Pine and
Kanabec counties; George e. Perley's
measure removing the university and
normal schools from the board of con-
troll.
Bills creating a State board of chari-
ties and corrections, an advalorum tax
on public service corporations, requir-
ing logs to be taxed in counties where
cut, and prohibiting corporations to
combine in restraint of trade died in
senate committees.
Among the more important bills that
failed in the house were the following:
G. w. Morley's bill providing for civil
service for the dairy and food depart
ment: the senate good roads bill, pro-
viding for State highway commits
sion; the senate bill creating an i'm
migration board: J. F. Rosenwald's
maximum grain freight bill; prohibit
ing the selling of goods on Sunday:
providing for special instruction in the
common school branches in high
schools
The senate passed under suspension
of the rules the house judiciary COM
mittee's bill regulating the speed of
automobiles. It makes it unlawful for
chauffeur to drive faster than eight
miles an hour in the thickly settled
portions of a city or village; twenty-five
miles an hour in country districts, and
four miles an hour over a crossing.
The house passed Senator Thorpe's
bill which gives congressional candi-
dates platforms, of which the primary
election system now deprives them. 1t
provides that during the State conven-
tion the delegates shall separate into
congressional conventions, in which
each district may make it's own plat
form.
The house passed a bill by Senator
F. II. Peterson which will allow ship
pers of farm products ample time in
which to load them. 1t provides that
cars must be left long enough to give
the shippers thirty-six hours in which
to load their freight.
Among bills that were passed at
the closing session and which will re.
quire the governors signature to make
them laws, were: Authorizing villages
to issue bonds to fund floating indebted.
ness; making it unlawful to procure OF
attempt to procure the discharge of ar
employe because he has engaged in q
strike; extending the right Of eminent
domain to all villages in the State:
authorizing village councils to appoint
boards of three to manage cemeteries
and fixing their powers and duties; au
thorizing county commissioners tc
transfer money from one fund te
another; authorizing the issue of ware
house certificates on packing house
products; authorizing the use of fish
houses in all inland lakes for the Dur