The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-01
TWO TAX MEASURES
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO REPORT
BILLS TO INCREASE REV.
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49,, ENUE OF STATE. z
WOMAN SUFFRAGE GETS DEATH
BLOW FOR THIS SESSION
IN THE HOUSE.

thousands of dollars into the state
treasury will be reported to the house
by the tax committee. The commit
tee after consideration receded from
it's original plan of dividing the reve~
hue from the mortgage registry tax
among the counties, towns. school
districts and the state, and decided to
report the bill with original provision
that the entire revenue shall go to
the state. The bill, which will be re-
ported as committee bill, is the bill
drawn by Ambrose Tighe and Judge
Fish. It will take the place of several
measures introduced in the house. 1t
Is estimated that the tax will bring
100000 in Hennepin county alone
and a proportionate amount from 9th
er counties.
The committee will also report for
passage the bill introduced by Mr..
Tighe providing stamp tax upon
sales and agreements made in grain
and produce exchanges. The COM
mittee has no knowledge of what this
tax will bring, as there Is no record
kept of the sales made at the Min
| neapolis and Duluth trading places,
but it is a safe estimate that the tax
will run into six figures annually.
Another effort to stop the use of
automatic guns in hunting small game
Is being made in the legislature this
year. The effort was made two years
ago and failed but J. A.. Gates of Ken
yon has introduced bill in the house
to prohibit the use Of any automatic
gun in hunting quail, prairie chicken,
grouse of all varieties, wild geese,
brant, wild duck and other water fowl
Woman Suffrage Killed.
Woman suffrage received a setback
in the house committee of the whole
and the proposition for constitution
al amendment to allow women to vote
will not be submitted to the voters at
the next election. When the bill came
up on general orders, the motion TO
recommend it for indefinite postpone
ment was lost and a moment later
the motion to recommend for passage
was lost by one vote. Another mo-
ton for Indefinite postponement was
made and carried.
The coupon ballot system now in
use in Wisconsin is to be introduced
In Minnesota if a bill introduced in
the house by B. H. Timberlake of Min
neapolis is passed The system pro-
vldes for sheet for each party and
sheet for individual nominations,
the sheets of different colors and
separated by perforations into little
squares with one name in each. In
| stead of marking the names to be
voted for with a cross, the voter tears
| out the squares bearing the names of
! the persons he wishes to vote for and
! places them in little pockets provided
| on another slip that goes with the bal
! lot. These slips are then deposited in
| the ballot box and when the box is
opened the judges separate the little
| slips with the names into piles and
count the number of slips in each pile.
The means of the annexation of
South saltwater to Saltwater and for
the annexation of similar suburbs to
| cities of 10000 to $4,000 is provided in
bill introduced in the house by John
Zelch Of Cottage Grove The an
nexation may be called for in q petit
| ton by twenty-five residents Of the
territory to the county board. The
county board shall order an election
to determine the question.
Binding Irvine Question.
The house committee on binding
| Irvine has threshed out the binding
Irvine question and will report bill
covering the features that have been
recommended by the board Of control
and others. The bill will provide that
the board Of control at it's discretion
| may sell to dealers at any time and
also sell outside of the state at it's dis
erection. The board cannot sell to
dealers, however, unless it reserves a
certain amount for farmers orders
The house wants to talk over the
judges salary bill before killing it,
ana turned down a minority report Of
fered by Fred B. Phillips recommend
Ing the bill for indefinite POSTPONE.
ment. The bill will be printed and go
on general orders without recomrn en-
dation .
A pure food bill, embodying the pro-
| visions of the national pure food law.
was introduced by Senator J. f. Cal
houn Of Minneapolis. The bill is a
long one and covers adulterated food
products, drugs and confectionery. z
also incorporates some Of the pro-
visions in the existing state law not
covered by the national law.
A bill authorizing cities Of the
fourth class to issue bonds for the pur-
pose of aiding in the construction of
steam and electric railroads was in
PRODUCED by Senator A. S. Campbell.
The legislature may get into dead
lock on the 2-cent far bill and it may
! be some time before the two houses
| can agree on bill and send it to the
| governor for his signature The bill
| passed by the house last Thursday
was turned down by the senate with
/ statement that they feared that it
might not be effective Now the SEN
| ate bill Is before the house for action
and tho house bill before the senate.
| Worry Makes Disease.
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