Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-27

per cent Of ION. The aver lge Mimi
esota ore RI ms about IS per cent,
which is taxed s cents per tom
The senate committee on logs and
lumber today presented measure to
increase the price paid for scaling
state timber from to Is cents per
thousand feet. The bill is introduced
at the request of the state timber
board, the members of which say that
because of the diminutive size Of logs
at present being cut, and which one
member of the board jokingly de-
scribes as ''hand-picked'', scalers
have to do vastly more work to tie
thousand feet of scaling than a few
years ago. The timber board members
say the states interests have suffered
much because of being compelled to
accept the services of poor men, the
experts not caring to work for the re-
Enumeration offered.
There is every Indication that at the
end OF the present session, the bills
piled up in the house swapping that
body will be hundreds in number. The
house for ten days past has failed to
catch up with the bill on general Or
ders. The senate, however, manages
to clear up both it's calendar and gen.
eral orders each day. The house has
an over-supply of takers, who insist
on taking the floor at the least pro-
vocation and making the body as a
whole hold it's horses'' while they
address the galleries. Every speech
made at this stage of the session,
acts as a compulsory order on each
pending measure TO whoa Bill
St. Paul, March 21.-A new phase Of
the railroad question has sprung up in
the legislature. L. L. Brown, and
Pierce Butler, the attorneys who are
leading the campaign OF the railroads,
have requested d conference with the
joint committee of the house and sem
ate which has in charge the rear
rangement of the bill to the satisfac-
ton of both houses. Though both
houses have passed the two-cent fare
bill, it must be remembered the house
bill as passed by the senate, was
amended to take on exactly the form
OF the senate measure. The bill can
not go to the governor for signature
until the same amendments are rati-
fed by each body. 1t is understood
the railroads will ask for some COM
promise, a two and a half cent rate if
possible, and offer in return further
general reduction in commodity rates
throughout the state.
The most interesting legislative
work today took place in the senate.
Two important bills were passed UNI
der suspension of the rules. One was
the Elwell measure to permit the
state to accept a donation of $114, 600
by Walter J. Trask of Los Angeles,
CAL, for clinical hospital at the
state univ ity in memory of DR..
Adolphus F. Elliott and wife; also a
donation of $4,000 in addition, made
by the university alumni. The other
bill. passed was an appropriation of
5000 for First Minnesota regi-
ment memorial monument over the
grave of the famous organizations
colonel, William Colville, whose re-
mains rest at Cannon Falls.
The senate committee on state pri-
son, today voted to report favorably
the Sullivan bill for an appropriation
of 100000 for the new prison to be
erected at Saltwater on the site pur-
chased some time ago by the state
board of control.
The senate judiciary committee
spent much further time today in
considering the j. NJ. Hackney bill
for semi-centennial exposition in
1908. By vote of II to 8, the COM
mittee decided the bill to be consti-
tutional.
The house today began saving
wood in vigorous manner on the large
supply of bills piled up on general
orders. A rule was created at the
opening of today's session, that here
after the house shall have afternoon
as we'll as morning session, the work
in general session being FROM 10 a. m.
to IL noon, and from 80 to p. m.
daily.
Swan Nelson today introduced bill
to remove the management of the
Soldiers Home at Minnehaha, from
the board of trustees to the state
board Of control. Mr.. Swanson says
the bill is introduced at the request of
some of the inmates of the institu-
tions who think the change would be
advantageous.
A new house bill to stimulate the
teaching of practical agriculture and
domestic science in country schools,
was today introduced by N. J. Holm
berg Of Renville. His measure appro-
PIRATES $4,000 for this purpose.
Senator L. o. Cook and Represen-
tative Fred B. Wright have been ap-
pointed a special committee to draft
report for joint committee on the
taxation of ore lands. It is said in
this matter the steel trust does not
oppose a material increase in it's as
sessment, but that it will fight as un-
constitutional any bill for a tonnage
tax.
Brainerd-Ervine Bailey, the A.
year. old son of Levi Bailey, of the
town of Crow Wing, was killed by a
fall from an engine on which he and
his chum were trying to ride home
from school. The engineer did not
know the boys were on the engine, and
they fell when it was going twenty
miles an hour. Bailey's skull was