The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-01

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in order to keep the expenses within
/ the limits of 11a mill tax levy had
to shave many of the expenditures
considerably. For the capitol grounds,
for which 100000 was asked, $4,000
Is provided in the BILL
The state university appropriation
bill is still in dispute. AS originally
passed by the senate it provided for
raising by special tax S250,000 a year
for four years, making a total of ST.
600, 1000, Of which $4,000 was to be
used for ladies' dormitory, $250,G00
| for an engineering building and $780,
j 900 for pharmacy and dental build
/ ing. The balance of the money, S575,-
! 900, was to be used for acquiring adj
ditional ground for the campus. The
! house has stricken out the appropria-
! tion for the dornitory and the phar-
macy and dental building and cut the
annual appropriation from $250,0o0 to
! s175,G00.
Road and Bridge Fund Cut Up.
The joint road and bridge commit
| tee has reported the bill cutting up
the 100000 appropriation for the next
two years among the counties. The
bill was ordered placed at the head of
the senate calendar for early action.
Ramsey county gets $4,000 and Hen
nepin $500 The largest amount
goes to Otter Tail county, which gets
$4,000. st. Louis county comes next
with $4,000 and Stearns newt with
$4,000. The smallest apportienment
go to Cook, with $500, and La,se. with
| $500.
A bill recently passed mas $780,
600 available for each of tla fiscal
years ending July 81, zoos, and July
/ 81, 1909. Under the bill, as introduced,
the money was to be expended under
the supervision of the state highway
commission, but this was amended by
leaving the commission out of consid-
Grafton entirely and giving the county
commissioners the exclusive super
vision over the expenditure of the
money
The bill designates the places where
| the money, or a part of it, is to be ex-
| pended in some counties and in the
others it simply specifies the amount
the county shall receive.
The usual end of the session finan-
cial adjustments commenced Saturday
in the senate when resolutions raising
the pay of two of the employees and
granting $3.50 each to a telephone OPP
orator and a telegraph operator were
passed. The pay Of E. " Nyquist,
/ secretary to the lieutenant governor,
and I. L. lngebretson, committee
clerk, was raised from S. to 81 day.
| New Rate Bills Accepted
The Great Northern, Northern Pa
! cific and Omaha railroads have an
/ nounced that they will accept the new
2-cent passenger rate and the. COM
modify rate schedule enacted by the
| legislature. 1t is almost certain that
| the other roads will fall into line
4 shortly. In filing its notice of accept
ance with the railroad and warehouse
commission the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Omaha announced that
present passenger rates applicable to
AhAAnCoOld Will Gnu Aldy L.. WIFI LnG
readjustment of the intrastate tariff
special rates within the state. such as
communication tickets between st. Paul
1 and nearby towns, homeseekers' rates
and party excursion rates, are to be
taken off, SO that practically all kinds
of travel within the state boundary
will be on 2-cent basis.
The acceptance of the commodity
rate law is not an unmixed victory for
the state The rates are considerably
! higher than the figures contained in
i the schedule which the railroad and
warehouse commission determined
upon as reasonable, but it was thought
by the legislature that it would be bet
ter to get the lesser reduction without
waiting for the end of the litigation
than to insist on the deeper cut and
not get it until the case had gone
through all the courts in the land.
Status of Anti-Pass Bill.
The anti-pass bill has been sent to
conference in an effort to adjust rad
ical differences in the measure as
passed by the senate and house AS
passed by the house it does not inter-
fere with the @courtesies" extended to
the members of the present legislature
/ during their terms of Office in other
words, the bill does not take effect
until Dec. 81, 1908. When the bill
reached the senate it was amended to.
go into effect Immediately on passage
and the upper branch also struck out
a large number of exemptions inserted
by the house. After passage by the
senate it was returned to the house.
where 1t was discovered that clerical