The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-16

for him at home then it should be COM
PEELED to do SO at the nearest estab-
lished high school. 1t is thought that the
practical working of such a law will has
ten the consolidation of country schools
and the establishment of township high
schools all over the country.
Mr.. Carroll, too, has presented bills In
creasing the state treasurer's bond TO
s1.000,000. The present bond is but $780,
900, while the treasurer carries nearly
81, 100000 Of balances all of the time. Gov
ernor Herreid called the attention OF the
legislature to this incongruity. and the
Carroll bill is intended to merely put the
recomm endation into effect.
Increase for Attorney General. NJ
Under the constitution the attorney gen
erals salary is but $1,000 a year. The
legislature has always granted the office
certain perquisites, which have in a way
made the Inadequate salary good. Car
roll has proposed constitutional amend
ment placing the salary of the office at
$1,000. .. ~. Il
Potters usury bill is not particularly dis
turbing *the money power as such
propositions did in other days touch the
sensitive souls of men with money to loan.
The average banker is quite gratihed in
| these days If he can get his money out at
the contract rate, and the 10 per cent limit
| does not at all alarm him. Still there
will be some opposition to the passage of
| the BILL as the banks find it convenient,
| in the case of very small loans, to be able
to charge the higher rate:
The bill to protect creditors from loss
by the sale of stocks Of goods, which the
Retail Merchants association presented
unsuccessfully last session, has been re-
| introduced by Gross of Potter. 1t pro-
vides that every purchaser of a stock OF
merchandise shall require from the vendor
thereof a detailed statement OF all or his
| stu
payment of said debts must be arranged
to the satisfaction Of creditors before the
transfer is completed. Otherwise the pur-
chaser will be held for the debts Of the
vendor.
| A Laugh on Gross.
| Mr.. Gross also brought in another meas
ure which created a ripple OF merrlmen'
when it was read. In the last session ne
proposed the same measure, which pro.
yiaed for the filling Of abandoned wells
and cisterns, under penalty for the failure
so to do, but for some reason the on
failed to pass. Mr.. Gross went to ms
home in Gettysburg and a few weeks late1
was walking across his own oack. yalu
when the ground sunk beneath his Zee
and he was precipitated into an aban:
doned cistern, where he barely ESCAPED
drowning His family and neighbors were
absent at church and his cries for assist
ance went unanswered. When finally res
|cIed. he was exhausted. lie Is HUI . IAle1A
ever In favor Of his bill, and it Will prop
ably pass.
Speltz, the new forage grain introduces
by the Russians, occupied the time OF IN
session for hours, in an attempt TO n:
it's weight per bushel and after man
amendments and reconsiderations forty
five pounds was agreed upon as bushe
The speltz bill was only second In 1nteres
to the wolf bounty. Since the graz
has come into more general use and IN
dealer and farmer has discovered by prac
tical tests that the legal weight is to
! much and there is now a general agree
ment that forty pounds tips the scales
: rather that bushel tips the scales 9
forty pounds. Gross has new bill to Fl
a it right.
WatertoWn and Huron.
] The interests of Watertown and Huro
e are coming into conflict over the permar
= ent camp of the state militia. Some veal
e ago Huron secured the forty acres of Ian
y from the Governor Mellette estate, wh1c
: the state secured through the Taylor d.
f falcation set aside as a permanent can
), for the state guard. Now 1t asks for
state arrnory to make the camp effectiv
, | Watertown is ambitious to have the pc
It manent camp on Lake Kampeska and tt