Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-01-12
POINTS FROM GOV. JoHNsoNs 1EssAGE.


ed in view of the fact that Minnesotas ironde
posts the largest in the world.
Laws relating to logs and lumber should be
amended by giving timber board power
and range Of authority.
Banks should be allowed to loan % per
cent of their capital and surplus first mort
Cages of improved farm lands Not more than
so per cent of their deposits should be invested
in these securities.
Limitations of levy for good roads to one
twentieth of mill should be abolished
Drainage assessments should be against
lands affected in proportion to benefit derived
For dairy and food department uniform
system of paint labels should be established
also standard for flavoring extracts and for ice
cream There should be more creamery in
spectors
Enactment of uniform divorce law recon
n1ended.
Training school for girls recommended in
connection with the Red Wing institution.
State prison Irvine plant should be enlarged
and provision made to enable it to meet Irvine
trusts efforts to crush it.
Lobbying should be prohibited. .#
Appointment of state truant officers recon
mended and inspectors for semigraded and
rural schools.
Public examiner should have access to rec
ords and hooks of railroads and corporations,
wi,ich should be prohibited from destroying
their records for at least ten years.
Bonds of county auditors should be increas- /,
ed and in general, based on assessed valuation
of counties, which should pay premiums.
Registry and income taxes mortgages
recommended, with penalties for evasion.
Appointment of permanent tax commission
for state and abolition of assessors i'll counties
with tax commissioners and board substituted.
Income tax on royalties or mineral rights
suggested; also increased tax iron produc-
ton of the state.
Substitution of graded income tax for pres
ent personal property tax.
Higher tax sleeping companies
Several netho Is suggested by which this could
be accomplished.
Telephone companies should be subjected
to penalties for non-payment of taxes and ex-
press companies should be taxed better
system.
Present fixed tax mineral leases absurd
~ small Rate should be raised to a minimum
of so cents per ton and on sliding scale.
States revenue from it's iron ore resources
far too small. Suggestions for increasing it
given. /
There should be uniform 2-cent passenger
law.
Passes should be absolutely prohibited ex-
cept to bona fide employees of railroads. |
Orders of state railroad and warehouse COM
mission should go into effect within reason |
able time of their PRONUNCIATION and remain in
effect until modified or reversed by the courts. |
There should be rec procal demarrage law
enacted at this session. Railroad revenue of
this state amounts to about half the revenue |
from the entire agricultural industry, being |
swollen by vast volumes of traffic in iron ore |
and lumber
new primary law after considering amend nents |
which experience has suggested desirable. |
President Hill com plains that all this anti
railroad aggitation has made capital timid
and that it is hard to get money to make the |
needed i'm provements i'll track and equipment.
1t is an old habit of capital to sulk as soon as |
the people try to curb some of it's powers that |
it has been wearing too insolently and it is for
this very reason that the socialist propaganda
is constantly gaining in it's number of adher-
cuts.