Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-04-10

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St. Paul, March 30--The legislature
is preparing to do it's part toward
counteracting the ruling of the state
supreme court in upholding the pro-
posed issue of $50, OOO, 900 of addition
al stock by the Great Northern rail-
road. Today A. J. Rockne secured
permission of the house to call out
of the railroad committee a measure
OF his which had been sleeping there
for some time. The bill provides that
before any road shall issue any bonds
or securities for construction or ex-
tension purposes, they shall first be
passed upon by the railroad and
warehouse commission. The bill is
measure drawn by the attorney GEN
eral some time ago and introduced at
his request to counterfeit the possible
| adverse decision of the court which
came. The bill was placed under the
head of general orders.
The bill to increase the salaries of
district and supreme court Judges, was
recommended for passage bv the
committee of the whole, tho yigor-
only opposed by Representatives
Philips and Thayer.
St. Paul, April 1.-The railroads to-
day submitted their proposition for a
compromise of all pending disagree
ments with the state, to the legisla-
tive conference committee and the
railroad commission. The offer of
settlement did not come up to expec-
tations, and it took the committee
less than five minutes to vote unani-
mously against recommending the
legislature to accept the compromise.
This means that the negotiations
between the roads and the state
! which have been going on for so
many weeks, are now all off, and that
there will now be war to finish in
both legislative halls and courts The
| offer which the conference committee
will tomorrow submit to the legisla-
trre, provides for "a 212 cent fare
maximum rate, with 1900 mile books
as now issued, a 500 mile family
mileage book for $40. The expected
offer of a 2 cent rate on all round
trip tickets did not materialize.
neither did the 1900 mile book, good
on all roads, to be sold for $40 instead
of $50, with rebate of $40 when used
within year. The offer relative to
freight rates was also disappointing.
The northern roads refused to grant
any further concessions on grain, and
the southern roads agreed to meet
the cut made in grain last fall by the
northern lines. The reduction offered
on commodity rates was about so per
cent of the 10 per cent cut ordered
last fall by the state railroad and
warehouse commission and now tied
up in litigation.
Outside of the receiving of the COM
promise offer from the railroads bv
the conference committee, today was
an uninteresting one in legislative
circles. 1t was devoted almost en-
tirely to the introduction of new bills,
the attorney general having ruled
that this is the last day new bills NAV
be introduced. A perfect flood of
measures appeared in both senate and
house, and evening sessions were held
to permit members delayed in draft
ing measures to ''get aboard.'' AS
whole the bills were of minor impor-
lance. The one class of bills which
predominated were for state aid to
counties in road and bridge work.
There were number of bills intro
duced which follows with slight vari-
alton along lines of measures already
under consideration. There are now
total of 2,O56 bills which have been
introduced, and the great bulk of
which are still pending. In the SEN
ate the measures number SS2; in the
house, LIZA. T. J. Brady of St. Paul
introduced bill to increase the gov
ernor's salary from $1,000 to S., 600
year. Senator T. M. Pugh presented
bill which grants the rights of emil
nent domain to public service corpor-
ations. The senate game and fish
committee introduced a measure re-
vising the game and fish laws to agree
with desires of Wisconsin relative to
interstate waters, and also creating
series of rewards for those supplying
evidence against illegal hunters of
large game. J. B. Murphy introduced
a bill in the house limiting the hours
of work for female labor to eight
day, between a. m. and 6 p. m. Sem
ator MCGOWAN introduced a bill es-
tablishing the specific gravity instead
of the inefficient "fash'' test for oils
in Minnesota and also extending the
same test to gasoline.
The bill to increase generally the
salaries of state officials was killed by
the house in committee of the whole
today by vote of 40 against, to 80
for the measure.
St. Paul, April 2-The legislature
did but two things today, but those
two are numbered among the most
important actions of the session. The
first was the acceptance of the report
of the conference committee appoin-
ted to transmit the offer of settlement
by the railroads of all difficulties be-
tween these corporations and the
state and tho naaooro of tho %,ro