Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-02-06

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MINNESOTA LEGISLATURES
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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 special senate commit
tee, passed by the-upper house. The
vote on the resolution stood IS 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 80 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-
cepHon 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 bill making uniform laws for
the sale of all goods. The bill was
drafted by a conference of commits
sioners on uniform state laws. Sen
ator Hinton introduced bill appro-
priating $4,000 as state aid for the
teaching of domestic science in high
schools, the aid to be from 5000 to
$500 school. Senator Oar Hall pre-
sented measure to appropriate
Sit, 900 for establishment of state
fruit breeding farm, and making a
standing appropriation for the insti-
tuition of $1,000 annually.
In the house today s. D. Peterson
caused lively debate by Offering
resolution commencing former
Congressman J. M. McCleary of the
Second district for his stand in con-
gress for a 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.
St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. Ex-senator
Albert Schaller of Hastings, demo
crat, today introduced bill in the
senate which if it passes, will permit
the state to give the laugh to. the
railroads which have secured a tenn.
porary injunction against the putting
in effect of the new low tariff on
general commodity freights, as esta.
blished by the railroad and ware.
house commission. The bill reads
that the tariffs for carrying general
commodity freight in the state OF
Minnesota shall be-and then follows
in detail table of rates promulgated
by the state commission. If this be.
came law, the rates would of course
be in effect and in the meantime it
will be impossible for the railroads to
bring an injunction suit against the
legislature to stop the passage of the
bill.
Another important measure which
put in an appearance today was an
Innocent looking bill by Senator V.
B. Seward of Marshall, proposing the
substitution of the words ''every per-
SOM for the word "male," in section
1, article of the constitution. The
effect of this change would be to per-
NIT free and equal suffrage of women
with men at any and all elections.
The senate held a long debate this
morning on the Moonan resolution,
ordering the senate railroad commit
tee to report on the 2-cent fare as
soon as possible, and not later in any
event than Feb. s. The resolution
suffered several amendments, finally
being lost by vote of % to 81. Sen
ator Peterson, the author of one Of
the 2-cent fare bills, led the attack
on the resolution on the ground that
the railroad committee had not had
an opportunity to meet and consider
it's bills because several of it's mem
bers had been busy serving on the
; elections committee ON the Butler
Hackney contest; and that the com
mitteemen should not therefore, be
made to suffer the odium which
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