The Ely miner., 1907-02-01

immediate further action and inves-
tigation of railroad matters; but that
the state senate is free to take up the
fight for the people. The resolution
will be actedupon next Tuesday when
according to another resolution by
Senator Putnam which passed, the
state railroad commission is asked to
report on what information about
railroads it has on hand and what
further date it desires.
The session of the senate today was
marked by the Introduction OF nine
bills for reform of life insurance
companies. The bills regulate the
salaries of insurance company Off
cials and employees, disbursements and
investments of companies, provisions
relative to agents, prohibition of nom
participating policies, prohibition OF
determinations, and methods for
election of company directors by
policyholders. The bills were intro
duced by Senators eastman (two),
Glotzbach (two), Collier (two), Works
and harrington (two).
Senator J. F. Calhoun of Mimi
eapolis introduced a bill to appropriate
$tO,O for a silver service to be
presented by the state to the new
Battleship Minnesota, the governor to
name a committee of three to pur-
chase the service and present it to
the secretary of the navy.
A new county option bill, to take
the place of the one now pending,
was introduced in the upper house to-
day by Senator Thorpe of Willmar,
and in the lower house by Represent
ative Rachie of Madison. The new
bill is endorsed by the prohibitionists,
Anti-Saloon league, and several Scam
dinavian temperance organizations
which are interested in the issue.
The new bills call for petition of 25
per cent of the voters to have the
matter voted upon. The district
court receives the petition, and is
authorized to order special election
on the subject instead of having the
issue met at the regular town election.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. Ex-senator
Sundberg of Kennedy today sue
ceeded in getting his resolution, call
ing for an investigation of Minnesota
railroads by a special senate commit
tee, passed by the upper house. The
vote on the resolution stood 55 to 1,
practically every senator wanting to
have his vote recorded "right" in the
sight of his constituents, tho many
were evidently opposed to the meas
ure. J. F. Calhoun was the lone
senator who voted against the resolu-
ton, and he probably would have
joined the "band wagon'' if it were
not that his name. on the roll call is
about the first and he had to an
nounce his vote before knowing how
the rest of the senate would declare
itself. There was much discussion
on the resolution. E. E. Smith
thought it unnecessary extravaganza
to engage and extra clerk for the
committee when the senate already
had so many employees. Sundberg
replied that Smith might as well
come out and try to kill the resolu-
ton in the open. Geo. p. Wilson,
former attorney general, took ex-
ception to the insinuations made by
Sundberg to an honest criticism and
Sundberg said if his remarks had been
ungentlemanly he would apologize.
/ The chair named on the special
committee Senators Sundberg, chair
man, eastman, Nelson, Sageng and
Canestorp. The opposition to the
resolution on the part of some of the
senators was because of the belief
that the "expert clerk'' called for by
the resolution was to be Eric Olson,
who injected himself into most of the
railroad rate hearings before the state
commission, and whose evidence
submitted, though voluminous, was
of little aid from a point of view Of
legal intelligence and enlightenment.
; There were numerous bills intro
duced in the senate today, but they
were for the most part of little inter-
est. Senator George P. Wilson intro
duced a bill making uniform laws for
the sale of all goods. The bill was
drafted by conference of commits
sioners on uniform state laws. Sem
ator Hinton introduced bill appro-
priating $25, 900 as state aid for the
teaching of domestic science in high
schools, the aid to be from 5000 to
$40O a school. Senator Oar Hall pre-
sented a measure to appropriate
$4,000 for establishment of a state
fruit breeding farm, and making a
standing appropriation for the insti-
tuition of 500 annually.
In the house today s. D. Peterson
caused lively debate by offering
resolution commencing former
Congressman ]. M. McCleary of the
Second district for his stand in con-
gress for high tariff. The resolu-
ton went over on notice of debate by
Ambrose Tighe of ST. Paul. A third
fish hatchery is established at Detroit
Lake in bill introduced by Repres-
entative Bjorge. The measure carries
an appropriation of $4,000. j. A.
Gates introduced bill to PROPAGATE
prairie chickens in the state by for
bidding that they be killed for the
next two years.