The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-04
FAT FRYING"
MADE ILLEGAL
HOUSE PASSES THE DORSEY Bill
BY LARGE VOTE.
Prohibits Corporations From Contrib
uting to Campaign Funds-1mmigra-
tion Bill Is Also Passed Up to the
Senate.

Campaign contributions by corpora
lions will have closed season all the
year round If the senate concurs with
the house in passing the Dorsey bill,
which went thru the house today. Dr.
Dorsey of Mcleod amended his bill to
make it apply to only those corpora
tions organized for pecuniary profit and
amendment permits the giving of rail
road transportation and newspaper ad-
vertising to campaign committees and
candidates. Seventeen republicans
voted against the bill.
General M. D. Flower, who said he
had been aided by the corporations in
raising $4,000 to entertain the last re-
publican state convention in st. Paul,
when individuals had failed him, led
the fight against the bill. He believed
corporations were just as honest as in
dividuals and the bill should be made
| to include individuals in it's prohibitory
clause. He insisted that corporate
money was occasionally necessary to as
sist in the defeat Of unworthy candi-
dates. - a.7~
W:SD. washburn, Jr., argued that the
government is the pernicious activity
both parties in effect blackmailed the
corporations by holding them up in
times of financial stress.
The Dorsey bill was declared pop
ulist measure by John G.. Lennon, Of
Hennepin. He asked where the repub-
lican party would have been in 1896,
had it not been for the aid given the
party by the great corporations to con
duct the educational campaign that led
the people away from the heresy Of free
silver:
unfortunate, it is the power of corpora
tions,' said J. T. Mannix. 'tThe &C
tion Of the Hennepin delegation in max
ing certain municipal Offices elective in
was based on knowledge Of the dis
graceful influence Of local public serv-
fairs. -
John F. Selb Of Ramsey vainly tried
to amend the bill to make it apply to
public officers, and the bill was put on
its passage. The men who voted
against it were: Ekman, Flower, Han
naford, Juliar, J: B: Kelly, R. T: Lewis,
SON, skinn e2' TimberisHes, ~ W Vi
Wood and Zelch:: :. ~
The house, without debate, passed a
concurrent resolution offered by s.
Swanson of Carlton, asking congress
to open northern Minnesota coded
chippewa lanQS TO SeJClemenC. Inc
resolution, which is said to be the re-
suit Of the work of junta of Cass
Lake and Duluth men, prays that 1885,
600 acres of forest reserve lands, from
which it is claimed IS per cent Of the
timber has been cut, be thrown open
to agricultural settlement. The lands
are adjacent to Cass Lake.
Ware Bill Sent Back.
The Ware 21a-cent passenger fare
bill was sent back to the railroads com;
mittee. William SWichman Of Renville
made the motion. He said the bill
might jeopardize the legislation to be
offered by the Eberhart special rail
road-rate Investigating committee. II
is the general belief in the house that
the reference means the last of the
Ware bill. The vote to rerefer it tc
railroads was carried AZ to %. 49,.
BY permission of Governor johnson
John Zelch introduced a new bill tt
prevent the fraudulent use of log marks
,, The applicant for log mark must sat
isfy the surveyor general that he has
uncut timber upon which he wishes tt
use the log mark asked for.