The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-04-06

Minnesota Legislature

The house has passed the State i'm
migration bill empowering the State
auditor to advertise State lands and
the advantages of the State in general.
The amount OF the appropriation is
left with the appropriations commit
tee. The bill has yet to pass the
senate.
The Morley bill, to name the board
OF managers of the State farmers in
stltutes was recommended for passage
by the house committee on agriculture.
The bill provides that the board shall
consist of two regents of the State uni
verslty, the dean of the State agricul-
tural college, and the presidents of
the State agricultural society, the
State dairy association and the
State horticultural society.
The house committee of the whole
approved the bill by Representative
z. 2. Bowling, making abandonment
or neglect of wife or children felony.
Representative Peterson's bill, in
creasing the pay of county commits
sioners acting under the general law
OF the State to SIS day and extending
the legal number of days which they
may sit to sixty, was recommended for
Indefinite postponement by the house.
1t was first amended to reduce the pay
to Sd a day, and was then killed by
quite decisive vote in view of the
changes to be effected in the law by
the provisions of the new code.
The senate committee on public
health has recommended for passage
Representative Lauritsen's bill sub
jecting box car merchants to the sup
ervision of the State dairy and food
commission, whose authorized agents
are empowered to inspect the goods in
the cars to ascertain if they are i'm
pure or put up in shortweight pack
ages.
The Stone senate bill, requiring all
revised by the house on motion of
Representative Cole, who offered an
amendment exempting the present in
Interchangeable mileage books from
the provisions Of the bill. The meas
ure was then put back on general Or
ders. In this form some of the oppo-
sition is removed. which was based on
the fact that the bill would cause the
retirement of all mileage books,
By a vote of forty two to seven. the
senate passed the Roberts house bill
No. l, known as the "wide open" tax
amendment bill, and practically a
duplicate of a bill introduced in the
senate by Senator Lord, who withdrew
his measure in favor of the one which
had already passed the house.
The house committee recommended
for passage the Lauritsen bill requir-
ing county treasurers to give taxpay-
ers an itemized statement in their re-
ceipt, showing the amount of town.
village, school, city, county and State
taxes.
The senate has recommended for
passage the bill which provides that
persons living in or without the State
who have an interest in real estate by
virtue of a mortgage, shall be deemed
part owners Of real estate to the extent
OF the mortgage. The owner of the
real estate shall pay taxes on the
difference between the value of the real
estate and the face of the mortgage,
and the mortgage shall pay taxes on
the amount of the mortgage.
The house has passed the peddler's
bill, authorizing county commission
ers to impose a maximum license of
500 on all peddlers.
The two and one-half cent mile
maximum passenger rate bill secured
the approval of the house committee
OF the whole: without discussion.
Representative A. N. Ware. the author
OF the bill, had previously secured the
adoption OF amendments striking out
all provisions relating to the sale of
transferable or interchangeable mile
age books, leaving only the minimum
rate of two and one-half cents mile.
His motion to recommend the amended
measure to pass was carried by a
viVe voce vote, without discussion or
opposition.
The trust buster bill has been rec
commended by the committee on gen.
eral legislation of the house.
The bill providing that members of
the State board of control be elected
by direct vote of the people was rec
commended for indefinite postponement
by the house committee as was also
the Fulton bill permitting the appoint
ment of deputy boiler inspectors in
each congressional district.
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