The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1907-04-06
SALARY OF GOVERNOR
House Passes Bill Increasing
1t to $1,000.
BACK TO GENERAL ORDERS

Judges Salary Bill Returned for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Passes Johns
ton Measure Regulating the Trans
portation of Live Stock.
st. Paul, April 5.-The house passed
the bill raising the governors salary
from $4,000 to $1,000 with not vote to
spare over the sixty required for pass
age and with fifty votes against it.
But the house refused to pass the
bill increasing the salaries of the
judges of the supreme court and the
district courts and sent the bill back
to general orders.
The vote on the bill increasing the
governors salary did not follow party
lines. J. H. Dorsey of Glencoe, who
Is the Democratic house leader, voted
against the bill. every session we
have continual clamor for increases
OF salaries" he said. 1--WE should put
stop to this thing"
a few moments after the passage of
the governors salary bill the bill in
creasing the salary of the supreme
court judges from $4,000 to $1,000 and
the district court judges from $3,5OO to
$4,000 was returned to general orders
for amendment.
The bill came up on the calendar
for it's final passage Being a senate
bill, the passage by the house would
have sent 1t to the governor, but there
were protests against so large an in
crease and those who tried to have the
close vote of &C to SO.
The Prohibition members of the
house secured thirty-eight votes for
motion to adopt minority report
recommending the passage of the bill
for the submission to the voters of a
constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture, sale or transporta-
t1on of any intoxicants. The bill was
recommended for indefinite postpone
ment by the committee on elections,
but G. w. Higgins Of Minneapolis, au-
thor of the bill, moved the adoption of
the minority report. On the roll call
there were 38 yeas and So nays.
To Increase Assessment of Mines.
Two resolutions looking toward a
substantial increase in the assessment
valuation Of the iron mines on the
Mesaba and Vermillion ranges were Of
fered in the house, but both were laid
over on notice Of debate
The first resolution was signed by
all five house members of the special
committee which has been investigat-
Ing the iron ore tax proposition The
other was offered by r. H. Jefferson of
Bingham Lake, author of the first ton
mage tax bill.
The committee recommends that
the legislature instruct the state board
OF equalization and other officials
whose duty 1t is to make the valuation
to Increase the mining properties to
between $210,000,0OO and $25O,OOO, 900,
and the Jefferson resolution makes the
amount $3OO,O00,OoO.
The value of the mines last year
was raised from $42.o00,oOO to 100000
900 by the st. Louis county officials,
and the state board of equalization
raised this another $5,000,00O
The senate in committee Of the
whole recommended for passage H. F..
No. 285, the municipal ownership of
public utilities bill after amending it..
The bill was especially desired by Min
neapolis to enable it to make better
terms with the lighting company, but
an amendment was adopted requiring
a three-fourths vote of all of the votes
cast at the election. This same pro-
vision in the bill relating to the adop
tion of a home-rule charter has pre-,
vented Minneapolis several times from
adopting such a charter
Senator Manley L. Fosseen, who,
with Senator John T. MCGOWAN Of
Minneapolis, introduced similar bills
In the senate, explained the provisions
of the bill. It is intended to allow
cities to own, operate or lease public
utilities, such as light and water
plants and street railways.
Live Stock Bill Passed.
Senator James Johnston's bill regu-