The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-02-15

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| the management of the directors Of
the State Agricultural society. The
bill empowers them to erect neces-
sary new buildings and acquire 80
acres more of land. The money is to
be raised by sale of state certificates,
similar to those issued for the state
capitol, and the certificates to be paid
off by the profits of the exposition
and ensuing state fairs. For the ex-
position, the governor, attorney gem
eral and auditor are added to the
state fair directors.
Under suspension of rules today,
the Spooner bill first passed the house
then went to the senate, and there
was rushed thru without being re-
ferred to any committee and on re-
commentator of Senator G.. P. Wilson
former attorney general. This is the
! bill which appropriates $50, 900 for the
attorney general for special con-
tingent fund for engaging legal assis-
lance to fight the injunction brought
by the railroads of the state against
any reduction in rates, as has been
ordered by the state railroad COM
mission. According to the bill, $25,
600 becomes available as soon as the
bill is signed by the governor, and
$50, 900 more Jan. 1 next.
The senate today also passed the
Rines house bill, which prohibits the
state auditor from the further is
suance of any further mineral leases
on state lands. Bills were introduced
in both houses today for the regulation
of automobiles. They provide that
county commissioners may prohibit
certainroads from being used by autos,
that autos must slow down to s miles
an hour at crossings and when pass
ing any objects; and that on no road
shall the speed exceed IA miles an
hour.
Lieut.. Gov. A. o. Eberhart today
announced the appointment of Sena-
tor Clague, of Red Wood, and II. HI.
Witherstine, of Rochester, as spec
ial committee on the part of the sen.
ate to make an investigation of ex-
press rates in Minnesota. The house
is to name a committee to act with
these senators.
The joint committee for the inves-
LEGATION of the Minneapolis Chamber
of Commerce, the Duluth Board of
Trades, and all combinations in re-
straint of trade, today organized by
electing Senator Peterson of Owa-
tonna chairman and Frank T. White
of the house secretary.
st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 9-Interests
at Thief River Falls and at Bemidji,
both of which have had bills intro
duced in the legislature for normal
schools, have reached a compromise
and today had their special bills
Withdrawn by Senator A. L. Hansen,
their author in the senate, and new
bill introduced which contains the
terms of the compromise. That is,
that pew normal school be esta-
blished at some point on the Great
Northern road between Duluth and
East Grand Forks, to be determined
by the state normal board. The bill
carries no appropriation but provides
that the town getting the institution
provide five acre site for the build
ing.
Senator Albert Schaller of Dakota
county, introduced bill unique in
that it makes cumpulsary the teach
ing of physiology, hygiene and mar
cotics in the public schools from the
third grade every year up through
the high schools. The bill calls for
special attention the study of alcohol
and it's effects on the human body.
Teachers to be granted certificates,
must pass examinations on these as
well as the other usual subjects.
The event in the house today was
the presentation of what is known in
insurance circles as an "anti-com-
pact" bill, that is, to prevent fire in
surance companies combining in fix
ing and maintaining rates through
boards of underwriters as is the pre-
sent custom in the state. The bill is
introduced by w. HI. Putnam of Red
Wing.
AS a "follow'' bill to the one intro
duced yesterday calling for a big ex-
position at the fair grounds in 1908,
S. o. Morse of Slayton today intro
duced bill to permit county COM
missioners to make special appropria-
tions for county exhibits at such an
exposition.
The joint committee of fifteen men,
bers of both houses, appointed to
investigate all combinations in re-
straint of trade, late today met and
divided into three subcommittee
One committee will look into the
International Harvester trust. A
second will investigate the ways of
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
and the Duluth board of trade third
will look into the methods Of coal and
lumber dealers in Minnesota.
Both houses of the legislature adj
journed today till next Wednesday
morning. This is to permit the COM
mittees on state hospitals of both
houses to make the regular biennial
iunket to some of the state institutions
those to be visited this particular trip
being the Rochester hospital and the