The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-03-31
Bookmaking Measure Sent in by
House Representative.
Senator Everett Would Be
Known as Crust Buster"
State Inspector of Noxious
Weeds; Variety of Acts.

st. Paul, March 27.-An avalanche of
new bills swept into the house and
senate Saturday. They covered varie-
ty of subjects. Eighty-two were intro
duced in the house during the fore
noon.
Citizens are punished for not parti-
cipating in elections by bill introduced
by Representative A. X. Ware of North
field.
The bill imposes a $40 annual poll
tax on all male citizens of the United
States who have resided in Minnesota
for six months, to be collected by the
county treasurer for the benefit of the
is to be considered as paid if the elec-
ton returns filed with the county audi
tor show that such citizen voted at the
last preceding election.
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Bookmaking and the sale of pools at
race tracks of agricultural societies and
driving clubs is allowed Dy a bill in
troduced by Representative John L. OLE
son of North Branch.
The bill allows pool selling only in the
racing Enclosure maintained by such as
ISOLATION for thirty days per year, not
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in any month or more than fifteen days
in the aggregate on the grounds of So
cieties located in the same county.
Telephone rentals i'm Minnesota are to
be limited by a bill introduced by Rep
resentative A. /. Hannaford of Month
cello. The measure forbids charging a
higher rate than 81 per month for bus
mess telephone or 81 per month for
telephones in residences.
Representative A. X Ware of North
field introduced a bill to require an an
nual statement to be filed with the Sec
rotary of state by persons managing
telephone lines having wires or poles
along highways. The report must snow
the owners of stockholders in any COM
pany owning such telephone lines and
give their addresses.
Senator M. r. Everett of Waterville
introduced so-called antitru bill,
prohibiting corporations from pools or
combines" and requiring them to file an
affidavit with the secretary of state
that they have not violated the provis-
ions of the act.
The bill defines a trust as corpora
ton that aims to restrict trade, to in
crease or reduce the price of commodi-
ties or to prevent competition, to es-
tablish non competitive rates of inter
est, insurance or compensation. The
bill requires every corporation to file
an affidavit with the secretary of state
that it has not formed any so-called
spool or combine"
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not less than $500 nor more than $4,000
for the first offense, fine of $1,000 to
$1,000 for the second offense, fine of
from $1,000 to $4,000 for the third of
Tense and fine of $1,000 for all subse-
quent offenses.
Senator Stephens of Crookston has in
troduced a bill providing for the APP
pointment of state inspector of nox-
ious weeds.
Representative Ware introduced
measure which provided that candidates
for United States senator shall be voted
for at the primaries. This would mean
the election of United States senators
by popular vote.
Representative Landeen sent up bill
providing for the licensing of survey
ors.
A state board of telegraph examiners
is provided for in a bill introduced by
Senator o. X. Naeseth of Aspelund. The
bill provides that no person under eight
cen years shall be permitted to serve as
an operator unless he has passed an
examination.
A bill regulating the charges made by
stock yard companies for loading and
feeding stock was introduced by Repre-
sentative r. Z. Ofsthun of Glenwood.
The charges for yarding, watering, un-
loading and weighing are as follows:
Cattle, 10 cents per head calves, cents
per head; hogs, 3 cents per head; sheep,
cents per head. Hay shall not be
charged for at more than 20 cents per
100 pounds nor corn at more than 10
cents per bushel above the wholesale
market price. Stock yards companies
are to file with the secretary of state
annual statements showing the number
of head of live stock received, The act