The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-30
The Legislature
Cor complete list Of new bills see page
Fourteen.)
BILLS ! RUSHED IN
Representatives Framed Bills in
Frantic Haste to Get Them
in Within Limit.
Mr.. Ofsthun Believes in Lower Tel
ephone Rates and Puts in Bill
Limiting Charges.

Before the house adjourned Saturday
afternoon thirty-five belated bills had been
hurriedly prepared and introduced. This
brought the total Of house bills UP to $50.
Several of the bills We're Of considerable
Importance. The last one handed in, by
hlr. Ofsthun, will, if passed, hit the tele
phone companies hard, fixing a ma ximum
both for rentals and tolls. In cities and
villages rentals are limited by the bill to
50 a month for business and 81 a month
for residence phones within half a mile of
the exchange. For each additional half
mile 20 cents is added. The. toll charge
is fixed at five cents for the first FIVE
minutes, over distance of fifteen miles
or less. From fifteen to twenty-five miles
the fee is ten cents, from twenty-five to
fifty miles Is cents, and cents additional
for each extra twenty-five miles. One
half the original charge may be added for
each additional five minutes.
Z ~ Salary of Governors Secretary.
Mr. Yoerg, a. democratic member of
Ramsey county, introduced a bill fixing
the salary of the governors private Sec
rotary at SO, 500 and providing that all
fees from the office shall go to the state.
Rural School Districts.
| A bill by Mr.. Anderegg provides meth
cd for consolidating rural school districts
| 1t is to be done by board consisting Of
four county commissioners the county SUI
perintendent, one person appointed by the
state superintendent and another ap-
| pointed by the county auditor. Such a
board may Investigate and devise a plan
for redistricting it's county into districts
| four or five miles square, after which it's
| plan must be submitted to the voters of
the county. If a majority approve it is
adopted So r. 3d.
| Listinq of Personal Property.
MI. Taylor of lie Sueur introduced a bill
| intended to enforce the listing Of personal
/ property. It provides that no action to
recover debt or lien on personal prop
| erty shall be maintained unless the prop
erty in question has been listed for taxa
ton at it's full value.
| :'sfE A New Bucket Shop Bill.
Mr.. Dorsey introduced an exact copy
of the Gjertsen bucket. shop BILL and Mr..
Armstrong made the point that the SUBJ
ject had already been disposed of. The
speaker reserved his ruling on this point.
| -. The Candidate HoId-Up.
Mr.. Sheppard of Hennepin offered bill
which would do away with the universal
| practice Of holding up candidates for
political office. It provides that no per-
son or association may solicit or receive
support of any kind from candidates for
| O1IlCS, ana IndC d CdIluludlS giving SuCn
/ SUPPORT sratuitous1y shall be declared
guilty Of misdemeanOr, to be fined from
$40 to 500. ~... ~--~--- r.. -.
Live Stock Transportation.
/ 81 Mr.. johnson introduced live stock
J transportation bill as a substitute for
! several such bills which were referred to
| him. His bill requires railroads to fur
| 1lfsh one live stock train a week at each
station on the line where 1T is desired
= Live stock trains going through the state
must maintain an average speed Of twenty
miles an hour until they reach the yard
limits of their destination. They are al
lowed three hours to 60 from the yard
limit to the place of unloading.
For PubIic's Enlightenment.
George R. Smith of Minneapolis intro
duced bill providing that amendments
| to the constitution, with synopsis pre-
pared by the attorney general, before
being submitted to vote, shall be printed
In three newspapers in each county in
stead Of one and that pamphlet copies be
| printed in sufficient number to furnish
one to every voter in the state. The Sec
rotary Of state: is to see to their distribu-
tfon. ~>-
/ - Fryberger's Name Attached.
4 Some one worked off a. joke on Mr.
Fryberger by sending up a bill with his
name attached, providing for the election
Of court: stenographers. This is a sub
ject that has been pounded into the mem
bers by a feverish individual with a
bright light in his eye. Mr.. Fryberger
denied responsibility for the bill. p