The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-18
STATE SAMPLER
OF HOTEL FOOD
NEW OFFICE PROPOSED IN BILL
INTRODUCED TODAY.
Mr.. Hickey Would License Hotels and
Place Them Under State Regulation
Bill for Abolition of Bucketshops Is
Passed-Bill Introduced to Make
-Four More Minneapolis Officials
Elective, = M &: 49, @5

Hotel men will be. interested in a bill
introduced in the house today by James
R. Hickey Of Ramsey, at the instance
of the various associations of CONNER
cial travellers. 1t provides for state
hotel inspector at $1,000 year to be
appointed by the governor, and to. work
under the dairy and food commission
er. The inspector is to have general
police power over hotels, and to inspect
their sanitary conditions, the quality
of the food served, equipment with fire
escapes and general management. An
annual license fee of So is to be paid.
Violate Of the laws are, to be prose
|cuted by the inspector and repeated
convictions are to result in the revoca-
ton Of the license. '.-~..S..
Aid for Chinese Widow.
In far-off China the widow of Ham
Wing Sing. who died in 1899 in the
Saltwater penitentiary, is to be made
the beneficiary of a bill introduced by
John Zelch Of Washington county,. The
bill appropriates $685., good behavior
money earned by the now defunct
Chinaman, converted into the state
treasury by the board Of control.
Manlev H. FOsseen is author OF a
board of county commissioners of Hen
nepin to declare supervision of any
county road outside Of Minneapolis
and to expend money upon it's improve
ment.
The Minneapolis park board is au-
thorized, by bill introduced by Karl
DeLaittre, to restore any public street
taken for park purposes not used for
such purposes. The commissioners are
also gwen authority over parkway traf-
fic, and may prohibit the use Of any
vehicle in the parks of Minneapolis.
Elect More City Officers.
w. W. BardweIl, chairman of the
Hennepin house delegation, introduced
the delegation bill to make elective the
Offices Of the Minneapolis city clerk,
city attorney, assessor and clerk OF the
municipal court.
Boards of appraisers of lands for
feited for nonpayment of taxes and to
be sold by the state auditor, are pro-
vided for in bill by A. L. Cole of
Walker. Where county auditor is
convinced that the land will not bring
as much as is due for taxes, interest
and penalties, the state auditor may
name board of three appraisers to
place a value on the land. The state
auditor may not sell the land for less
than the appraisal
The primary election bills, made a
special order for next Tuesday, will
be considered as a special order on
Tuesday week. J. G.. Lund offered a
motion today changing the date to
Wednesday. . J. T. Mannix objected
because Of the commend cement of the
state agricultural college set for that
date; and finally Sherman S.. Smith Is
motion to make ihe dateIt Tuesday
March 49, was aNaoRted$ without 3 divi,
'4 -" Antt~Bucketshop Bill Passes,
The house, by a vote ;oof Il. to O,
passed the anti-bucketshop bill. It was
fathered by Gustave Erickson of Candy,
who, rumor says, once burned $1,000
off his fingers by putting them in the
fire Of a bucketshop. The bill abso'
lutely prohibits bucketshops, which are
defined as Offices, stores or other places
where trades other than bona-fde
transactions in commodities are made
Violations Of the act are to be punish
able by fine Of from $500 to $4,000, or
by Imprisonment in the county jail un'
year. A straight jail sentence is pro-
vided for second, offense, and the
! revocation of the charter of corpora.
ton is also provided for. Regulations
of commission merchants provided by
the bill are such as practically to elm
mate them from dealing in options on
any Of the standard commodities.
Dynamite Bill.
The house passed Representative J.
| T. Mannix's bill defining a new crime
burglary with explosives. A burglar
loaded down with explosives, whether