The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-03

600. To improve and reforest the 10000
acre congressional grant of lands for
forestry purposes, in the neighborhood
of $4,000 is asked. At the Glenwood
fish hatchery $4,000 can be used, its
friends say. The Murray bill for a
state home for aged and infirm carries
an appropriation of $4,000. The live
stock sanitary board asks for a de-
ficiency appropriation of $4,000 and
then requests a practical doubling of
its ordinary appropriation of $4,000.
The state board OF health asks for some
$1,000 more for its current expense
fund.
Provision. IL is said, will be made for a
second assistant state law librarian, ow-
ing TO the fact that the library Is now on
two floors OF the capitol instead of one
The state dairy and food commission
wants 81, 900 more and Chairman Rob-
erts says he believes II ought TO have
il. The labor bureau is content to take
its old appropriation of two years ago with
$500 for conducting free employment
bureau. The adjutant general and his
corps of assistants have a bill before the
committee increasing their salaries. An
appropriation OF $4,000 is asked to be
added to the state library fund. The ru-
raj schools OF agriculture provided for In
Mannix schools of domestic science and
rural culture will require as much more.
should both bills finally pass the two
houses.
Many Salary Bills
The game and fish commissions de-
mands are not fully specified. but here
there is a demand for increased appropri-
atoms. Salary bills for the supreme and
district court judges .to passed wi, will
preparation for Justice. The good roads
bill will take 5000 besides the money
obtained from the special road and bridge
f0xr Iw,4 Denl Of Il
900 is asked, with $4,000 to establish a
state drainage system. immigration de-
mands $4,000. state printing will require
an increase of probably $4,000. new
digest of the laws to be printed in Octo-
Der, 1907, will cost $4,000. 1t has been al
ready contracted for by the printing com
mission. Should the revision pass the
senate its printing will cost from $4,000
to $4,000.
Increases In salaries of state officers on
which the committees are working. more
ditional office employees for the governor
will all take more money. The appropri-
ations for state aid to high, graded and
rural schools will be supplemented by de-
ficiency- appropriations OF possibly $4,000,
If the friends of the schools prove suf-
ficiently strong In the legislature.
Bills for the state agricultural college
aggregate some $3.50, 000 and 500, 600 Is
asked for the proposed school Of agricul-
ture at Crookston. These items are not
to come through the appropriations COM
mittee. but through special tax levy.
Two bills carry appropriations, but the
amount of which there is no way to de-
termine. One is the rattlesnake bounty
bill and the other the bill pensioning civil
fans who participated in the Sioux In
dian outbreak Both. II is said, will re-
quire a lot of money.
The men who will have to settle nearly
all the questions of finance for the leg
islature are: Senators r. B. Brewer. G..
b. Ward, A r. McGill and George p
Wilson. and Representatives w. p. Rob-
erts, w b. Anderson. T. c. Fulton, II. w.
Putnam and n. F. Hugo.