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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS
BILL COMING TO PUT COUNTY SU-
PERINTENDENTs ON A NON
PARTIZAN BASIS.

Before the end of the week bill
will be introduced putting the office
Of county superintendent on higher
plane than it now occupies. The bill
has the Endorsement of educators gen.
orally, and particularly Of county SUI
perintendents. Its object is to secure
professional and expert supervision of
the country schools.
The bill provides for non-partizan
school board of five, one from each
county commissioner district. 1t is to
be elected at the time of the annual
school meetings. Candidates may go
on the ballot by affidavit or by pc
tition signed by five voters. The votes
are to be canvassed by the county au-
ditor The board is to hold annual
and special meetings and is to receiver
So a day and mileage. 1t is to exer-s
else all the school powers now held by
the county commissioning: 1t is to
levy the necessary tax to pay its ex-
ent, also the expenses of county teach
ers' meetings, meetings of district
school officers, county teachers insti-
tutes, etc. 1t is not to take away any
Of the powers of the local school boards.
The county superintendent is to be
appointed by the county school board
before June l in each odd numbered
year, beginning with 1907. No one is
to be eligible except graduates of the
department. of pedagogy of the univer-
sity, of the advanced courses of state
normal schools or accredited outside
normal schools, or holders of state pro-
fessional certificates, or former or pres
ent superintendent.
The salary, fixed by the board, is to
be not less than $40 year for each
organized school district in the county.
travelling expenses, but nor more than
So year for each organized district.
| 1t is understood that the attorney
general has passed On the constitution
atty of the bill, including the restric-
lions it places on the qualifications for
tho offco
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Senator Hale's Cynicism.

The country has had intimated to
it that Senator Hale made an assault
upon the president in the discussion of
the naval bill last Saturday. The read
ing Of the Record does not carry the
impression that the senator from Maine
attacked the president, but he did make
some very cynical remarks that amount
to about the same thing. Senator Cor
man had asked why the marine corps
was increased and had objected that
in time Of peace it was not necessary
to fully man the warships with marines.
In reply, Senator Hale said: IT think
perhaps the senator from Maryland does
not realize that the marine corps is
the essential part Of the navy that is
called upon in time of peace. The prin-
cipal object Of a big navy in times Of
peace is to bully small and weak
powers."/
OF course the democratic senators be-
gan to inquire whether the chairman Of
the naval committee was excusing or
attacking that kind of business, and the
senator from Maine went on to say that
the course he had indicated had been
the one followed by England for cen.
turtles and that if we were going to imi.
tate England it was necessary to have
large marine corps. Asked by Sena-
tor German If he thought this country
was in the business of initiating Eng.
land, Mr.. Hale said he hoped not, but
left the impression with the senate that
he believed just exactly what German
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
TAX SYSTEM FOR
PARLOR CAR GO. s
MORGAN BILL Provides A FRAN
CHIsE BASIS FOB ASSESSMENT.
Entire Capital Is to Be Divided on
Mileage Basis-Bill Proposes a
Standard Qualification for Locomo-
tive Engineers-Music for Houston.

The Houston village band will
doubtless meet Senator Laugen at the
depot when he next returns home. The
senator introduced a bill today to per-
NIT village councils to "furnish free
musical entertainment Gin other
words to arrange for band concerts) at
an expense not to exceed $50.
Senator Morgan introduced a bill
providing a system for taxation of
sleeping car companies. To secure the
assessment figure, the amount Of each
company's capital is to be, divided by
it's entire mileage. The rate per mile is
miles of lines in Minnesota. The as
sessment thus secured is to be taxed
at the average rate Of other state
property. -
Senator Mausten is author Of a bill
providing that no person who has not
served as fireman three years or q
locomotive engineer one year, may be
employed as a locomotive engineer.
Violation is made misdemeanor for
both employer and employee.
Senator Jepson introduced bill to
re-enact chapter 141, laws Of 1908,
which was Internationally repealed by
chapter 1852, laws Of the same session.
It provides for payment by the state
for live stock condemned by the state
live stock sanitary board. 1t makes
years ago @ Abou $5e IN Claims
await payment. 49,
The Gjertsen bill, making the hab-
itual use of opiates and commitment to
the state reformatory additional
grounds for divorce, was amended in
Senate committee Of the whole this
morning by adding a clause prohibit
ing the party against whom such di-
vorce is obtained from remarrying
within one year. Senator Morgan IN.
| troduced the amendment
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
INVESTIGATING BILLS
House Committee Has a Session with
the Stationers.

The house committee on legislative
expenses yesterday held an investiga-
tion of the bills for legislative sup
plies furnished at the beginning of the
session. Chairman Gandrud had Sc
cured figures from the board Of con-
troll, showing that they could purchase
the articles in the bill of McGill, War
ner & Co. for $955.50, while the bill
that has been paid amounted to ST. $780,
o.. The bill of Brown, Treacy & Sper-
ry amounted to $1,211.49, and the ar
ticles included could have been pur-
chased by the board of control, it's
members claim, for $873.60.
Eli Warner and D. s. Sperry, repre-
senting the two concerns, appeared be-
fore the committee and defended their
bills, declaring that the prices charged
were the same as paid regularly by
state officers. w. P. Roberts remarked
that, according to this statement, the
board of control should buy all sup
plies for the state. The committee
approved the Gandrud bill, which pro-
vides that preliminary supplies for the
legislature shall hereafter be bought
by the board Of control on a state
ment furnished by the secretary of
state. The committee will hold another
session on the subject.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
The Revised Code.

The revised code will come up for
final consideration in the Minnesota
house of representatives the first Of
next week. The legislature is facing
a hard problem. No wonder the men,
bers are Of many minds regarding it..
Judging from the expressions Of opin-
ion heard outside the doors of the jul
dietary committees the outlook for the
code is rather unpromising; particular.
ly 80 unless its friends are willing to
defer the date when the revision shall
become effective.
A few days Of effort will doubtless
spell either success or failure for an I'M
dertaking which has already cost the
state $4,000, without counting the time
spent on it by the legislature. The
members Of the Judiciary committees
of both houses are anxious to secure the
adoption Of the code, claiming that
they have eliminated all obiectional
features. The task they have to per-
form is to satisfy the other members of
the house on that point and to meet the
objections and criticisms of the LAWYERS
- WV oV"'o SOAAOAoaiJ1 WIN 10 not look
upon this revision with much favor.
The chief objection to it appears to
/, be the incorporation Of much new legis
lation, the power to do which it is con
tended was not conferred upon the com
mission. The Judiciary committees Of
both houses have spent a great deal Of
time and labor on the revision, the mos
of which has been taken up with tn,
elimination of this new legislation. How
Y successful the committees have bee,
cannot, of course, be understood unit
their reports are ready, but whole chap
tiers of the revision have been throw,
out and new ones substituted followin
closely the existing law. Whether tn
revision will be revised so as to make
{ safe to adopt it at this session remain
be seen. This much at least is Gel
cain, that the only way to make a RI
d vised code is to revise existing Law
New legislation should run the gauntle
and be subjected to the examinatio
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

The legislature cannot ignore the JUS.
tice Of the proposition to increase the
salary of the state fire warden from
$1,000 to $1,000. The duties imposed on
this office. the special knowledge required
and the responsibility which is loaded on
the shoulders Of the head warden. de-
mand better rate Of salary than mere
clerk. The warden is at the head Of a
system for preventing the destruction OF
timber by fire worth at least siO0,00O,000.
The states timber interests alone are no
gives direction to no less than 1900 depu-
ties. No other state pays it's fire warden
less than $4,000. and Minnesota cannot, in
decency, refuse to give an $1,S00 salary to
that position.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Esch. Townsend Bill Dead.

Railway legislation has expired for
this congress. Perhaps good will come
of the failure of the senate to take
notice of the passage of the Esch-
Townsend bill by the house. One side
has denounced that measure as doing
nothing for the people, and the other
side has denounced it as a general rate
making bill. Neither is what the coun-
try is looking for. o&.@.
The making Of a general schedule Of
rates could only devolve upon the in
terstate commerce commission in case
of a final revolt of the privately owned
railroads against legitimate and legal
control of their acts as common car
riers. 1t might come to it that the
country would have to undertake the
making Of rates, but it could only come
as the result Of excessive stupidity and
observation-disclosures on the part Of the
railroad presidents. Some Of them are
capable of it, but it is not necessary
to believe that men like Tuttle repre-
sent the average public intelligence
and sagacity of railroad presidents.
Nor did the country look for bill
which attacked rate-making abuses
only. 1t wanted something done about
private-car rates, private-terminal
frauds and about secret rebates and
"midnight schedules" Perhaps next
winter the country will get more out
| of this discussion than it seems possible
| to get now.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
LOTUS AFTER YAPP
Claims Errors Were Made in Statement.
Of Comparative RstAA

There promises to be a sensational
meeting Of the joint legislative commit
tee investigating railroad rates, tomor-
row r, afternoon. At a recent hearing
road eommissio oua Presented 'n figures a
which showed the 500 rates on coal are
approximately. the same as those of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific.
Since then George S. LOTUS has been
making investigations, and claims to
have found a considerable discrepancy;
that the 500 rates in some instances BY
cent higher than they are on the tariff
sheets now in force. Mr.. Lotus will
tomorrow demand an explanation before
the committee by Mr.. Yapp of how his
figures happened to- be higher than the
rates quoted on the 500 tariff sheets.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Vale the Slot Machine.

. In the pursuance Of his plan to clean
up the city, Mayor Jones has issued
an order to the police to put the gam
bling devices known as slot machines
out Of commission. The order is to the
chief Of police, and it will be up to
him to formulate plans to rid the city
of these pests.
The slot machine is one Of the most
I demoralizing forms Of gambling; de-
moralizing because it is always in front
Of the young and inexperienced and
does not have to be sought out; de-
moralizing because it is the foundation
Of the gambling habit. Many boy
who would otherwise never be tempted,
has the business stuffed under his nose by
these machines standing in cigar stores.
1t is vicious to have these invitations to
what is illegal and hurtful set up in
legitimate business places and thus
give gambling an air Of responsibility
it could not otherwise acquire.
Lest some Of the ultra liberal shall
say that the mayor is Tightening up
our poor town, they should be reminded
that the slot machine has already been
banished from Chicago, New York and
San Francisco. These are so-called lib
eral towns, and yet they do not counte-
nance the slot machine. In fact, none
but frontier towns tolerate them.
In the same connection it is we'll to
take notice Of Mr.. Wallace's bill to
1,,lo c11 ho ont
state. This is meritorious measure
for the same reasons that apply in cities.
The rural saloon and cigar store reaps
a good deal of illegitimate profit out
of the operation of these machines and
takes it from the boy from the farm,
who can i'll afford that kind of fleeing.
The bill ought to appeal to the coun-
try members of the legislature, who,
under it's provisions, have an opportu.
nifty to do their present constituents
and future rulers of Minnesota a great
service. The viciousness Of the slot
machine is not entirely, nor principally
in the amount of money it takes from
it's victims, tho that is considerable
but in it's getting hold Of the young
man just at the formative period OF
his character and giving him push
downward.
The state can well afford to exercise
its powers in protecting the character
of it's citizens as it can in protecting
the food supply of the people. 1t does
not have to make any new law, but
simply to recognize what Is patent
that the slot machine is a gambling de
vice and peculiarly vicious and do
moralizing one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

Veterans of the Thirteenth Minnesota,
who saw some actual fighting against the
Spaniards around Manila, have a griev-
ance against the state capitol commission.
which has failed to recognize their record
and services, and has provided nothing
to commemorate the part taken by Min
nesota in that war. The men who died
from bullets. bolos and fever intthat far
off land made a sacrifice that should not
be forgotten. Paintings are being ordered
to commemorate the part taken by va
rious state regiments in the, civil war.
One Of the series, by all means, should
represent t. ~ thirteenth in action against
the Spar s's"Eroops outside Manila, the
first time .Inesota troops ever engaged
an enemy on foreign soil.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
SCREENINGS DON'T PAY
Senator Campbell Says Farmers Should
Clean Their Wheat.

The senate committee on grain and
warehouses has decided that the resolu-
ton from the N orth Dakota legislature,
to compel grain dealers to pay for
will recommend sending the resolution
back to the North Dakota legislature
with this message. Senator A. S.
Campbell seemed to express the senti-
ment of the committee when he said:
81 think that grain dealers would be
glad if all farmers would clean their
wheat at home and keep the screenings.
The dealers make no money by cleaning
the wheat, except that they get it in
condition SO that it can be sold. don It
believe that farmers suffer any hard
ship, and if they do 1 don It see how any
laws would help them. There is no way
of compelling a person to buy something
the farmer is to clean his wheat at
home,''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

Arkansas, after struggling with the CT
garet nuisance, has given up the problem.
the cigaret measure passed by the senate.
This bill prohibited the buying, selling and
giving away of cigarets and, cigaret
papers. The ground on which the house
took this action was that, as it was not
possible to prevent cigaret smoking. it
was unwise to pass law that could not
be enforced and thus bring law into con-
tempt, which was a pretty wise conclu-
sion, after all. Tennessee tried an. anti
cigaret law, but was forced to abandon It.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Wednesday Evening,

and scrutiny obtainable only thru the
usual course of separate bills passed
thru the legislature and not concealed
in the mass of matter which this revi-
sion comprises. There has no doubt
been a disposition to engraft individual
notions into the new code-ideas which
were never in the laws beforehand
the measure of success with which they
have been eliminated will determine in
a very great degree the preparedness
Of the revision for acceptance by the
state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

John Alexander, the first apostle, or DR..
Dowie. as he Is better known, asked $780,
900 from the Chicago. Milwaukee & South
Shore Electric Railroad company for right
Of way thru Zion City. The lower court
awarded him $500, and he appealed the
case to the supreme court This august
body, viewing the case from a debased
material standpoint, affirmed the $500
judgment Of the lower court, and Incl
dentally threw the costs on the prophet,
From a worldly point Of view. On electric
line should be fine thing for Zion. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
OPPOSE THE IDEA
House Committee Not Favorable to the
Timberlake Bill

The Timberlake bill, requiring rail.
road trains to stop within 100 feet Of
electric railroad crossings, was referred
back to it's author for amendment by
the house railroad committee yesterday
afternoon. The committee members
seemed of the opinion, that the whole
burden of preventing accidents was on
the electric line. .t-..
The Hetland bill, requiring livestock
trains to be transported at minimum
rate of ten miles an hour, was rec
bill, requiring grain shipments to be
weighed on track scales, was referred
back to the grain and warehouse COM
mittee
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
AGE is OPPORTUNITY, Ell; osLERg

Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
Wrote his grand "Oedipus.'' and Simonides
Bore OF the prize Of verse from his compeers
When each had numbered more than fourscore
years,
And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten,
Had but. begun his Characters Of Men,"
Chaucer at woodstock with his nightingales
At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;
Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed Faust when eighty years had past
Something remains for us to do or dare;
Even the Oldest tree some fruit may bear.
For age Is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, tho in another dress.
r -IOnpfellOw
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
believed about the policy Of the adj

believed about the policy Of the adj
ministration.
Senator Hale's position ms chairman
of the naval committee Of the senate
makes his utterances Of more than
ordinary Importance to the country, but
it does not seem as tho he meant any
thing more than to explode some
senatorial spleen at the expense Of the
president. There is plenty of it stored
in the upper house and it is ready to
exude over the place on the slightest
provocation. sftqfg
But that doesn't hurt the president
any. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Auto Bill Approved.

The senate judiciary committee today
bin, regulating the speed of auto
mobiles on highways. the Horton bill
prohibiting the production of unpub-
1ished dramatic and musical compost
lions without the consent of the owner,
and the Collier bill giving municipal
courts jurisdiction over justices of the
peace in all criminal cases.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
Must Call It Poison.

The house committee on public health
made favorable Recommendation on
the Durant senate bill, requiring wood
alcohol bottles to be labeled wood
also requiring the word "poison. The
bill is designed to prevent confusion
between grain alcohol and its deadly
relative.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
GRAIN TARIFF BILL
Mr.. Ware Would Limit Charge to !
Cent a Ton per Mile.

Representative Ware of Mortified
has grain tariff bill which will be
introduced in the house tomorrow. 1t
fixes maximum rate on grain carried
between Minnesota points of l cent a
ton for each mile hauled. Railroads
on penalty of $1,000 fine for each Of
tense.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

The University of Pennsylvania made
the kaiser an LID. as we'll as the presi-
dent. Doc Hchenzollern and Doc Roose-
welt make a pretty good pair to tie to
In case of International sickness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
RULES FOR LAND SALES
Substitute for Murray Bill Retains It's
, Leading Features.

Aeau1ug feaLufeS.
The house committee on public lands
has agreed on substitute for the Muir
ray bill providing new rules for the
appraisal of state lands. The bill con-
tains several important changes. One
Of the three appraisers is to be ap-
pointed by the state auditor from out
side the county where the land is To-
Gated. The pay is increased to SIS a
day and railroad fare. Small timber
may be sold to the purchasers of the
land, collecting the appraised value at
the time Of sale. Land that may be
benefited by drainage is to be desig-
mated, and if subsequently drained, it
is to be appraised again before being
sold. =, =.
The substitute for the Jefferson
bill making new rules on timber tres
pass, which was drawn by Attorney
General Young, was also recommended
for passage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
VALUABLE DISTRACTIONS
Kansas City Star,

The one person, tho, Of all others who
is giving Dr. Osler the merry f1a-ha is
John D. Rockefeller. If a man is no good
after he Is 40, argues John D., what does
Osler make Of Senator Aldrich, who is 81,
and where would the Standard Oil COM
pany be without ALBRIGHT :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

Gay, the handcuff king, last night I'M
derwent some severe tests at the Unique
theater. Sheriff Dreger produced several
pairs Of handouts of the latest makes.
Gay retired to his cabinet each time and
liberated. himself, generally within a min
ute's time. AS he returns the handouts
unlocked it, is certain that he does not
slip them over his hands. He announced
that he was willing to allow himself to
be shackled hand and foot, locked in a
cell at the county Jail, and promises to
release himself from both the shackles
and the cell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

While 1.-THE Lighthouse by the, Sea" at
the Bijou this week, is sensational, the
story is presented with such telling eff
feet that the audience is deeply impressed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

Next Sunday night Richard Carrie will
return to the Metropolitan with his mu-
steal comedy triumph, TIE Tenderfoot,"
for brief stay. f..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01
BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE.

a. f. 10. Bardwell-A bill for an act to
amend section Il. chapter 49, laws Of 1882
H. F. 30, Bardwell-A bill for an act to re.
peal section 1, chapter 1875, general laws Of
1893.
S. r. IA, W. A. Smith-To authorize the issrr.
ance Of county courthouse bonds In certain caseq
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

An aged scientific worker in st. Louis
to think that DR.. Osler was probably
right. This is good evidence against
entertaining a bad idea
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

1.-THE Girl with the Changeable Eyes,
otherwise known as Mae Sailor, is one of
several young women on the Orpheum bill
this week who are proving interesting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-01

When Vladimir goes walking, he feels so
much passe, -- rs 30 -
He has to take his wife along, to keep
the bombs away. -.