The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-03-16

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the session. The two wide-open ta1
amendments introduced in the Senate
by Senators Lord and Thorpe, have
both been reported back "withou
recommendations because the com
mittee preferred to let the whole senate
examine both measures and decide
upon one or the other. The same
course was pursued relative to the
county assessor bills by Senators
Collier and Schain. These four i'm
portant tax measures as well as an
inheritance tax measure by Senator
Somerville, are now on general
orders" and may be called up for
consideration in committee OF the
whole almost any day now.
Senator Frater's bill appropriating
$25, 200 for a third State Fish Hatchery
to be located near Deerwood, Crow
Wing county, has been recommended
for passage by the senate committee
on game and fish laws. 1t will have a
harder row to hoe in the Finance
| committee.
In view of the recent collapse OF the
Coe Commission Co. of Minneapolis,
the chances are naturally better for
the passage of some antl-bucket-shop
bill. Senator Ward of Alexandria, is
the author of one such bill, which has
already been recommended for passage
by committee. This bill provides that
if ten electors petition for it, the city
or village council must submit to
popular vote an ordinance prohibiting
bucket shops to operate within the
corporate limits. If the people vote
favorably on the proposition, the
bucket shops must go. This measure
was asked for by the State Municipal
League, and in all likelihood will
become law. 1t ought to.
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1t is nearly two weeks since the
resolution was passed in the senate
calling upon the Board of Control to
investigate and report as to the
feasibility of establishing at the state
prison plant for the manufacture OF
! binders and mowers, but as yet no
report hiss been made. This PROPOSE
ton is certainly full of possibilities
and the boards report is being
awaited with considerable interest
In South Dakota the Legislature
recently appropriated money for an
overall factory to be operated by
prison labor. If the movement in
this direction keeps on it will soon be
up to the Legislature to define some
new crimes with prison sentence as
punishment or our judges will have to
be more severe in order that the
various industries at our prisons may
not languish for want of operatives.
| Senator Woods bill, permitting the
admission of wives, widows and
mothers of soldiers to the Soldiers
Home, was passed by the senate today
and as it has the endorsement and
support of the G. A. r. it is not likely
to fail of passage in the honse. The
passage of this measure will, Of
course, be followed by the passage Of
another bill by the same author
appropriating 500, 900 for new cottages
at the Home to care for the "girls'
who stood by the "boys' so loyalty
in the dark days of 81 to rs. During
the state encampment last week a
couple hundred members of the
G. A. R. appeared before the legisla.
ture to urge by their presence and
through several speakers the passage
of both of the above mentioned bills
The bill by Senator Brewer of St.
Cloud, providing for the taking Of
the fifth decennial census of the state
has received favorable consideration
so far and will no doubt pass the
senate within day or two. 1t carries
an appropriation Of $65, 900 and makes
Secretary of State, P. E. Hansen
superintendent of the census. The
remuneration of the enumerations in
the country districts and villages is
increased from $1.75 per hundred
names to So per hundred. The taking
OF the census is to begin June l, anC
be completed by July 1.
The anti-pass bill is being made the
subject of occasional "retiring-room
cOnfabs' and if am not mistaken il
will not pass, unless more members
than think lose their nerve for mere
political considerations. There il
election of senators in 1906 and severa
present members are credited with thu
ambition to succeed themselves
Personally l don't think the pc SEES
sion of railway passes has any effec
on members so far as their votes ar,
concerned, and so long as legislator!