Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-02-10
MINNESOTA SO[ONS
PUBLIC EXAMINER BILL PASSED
BY THE HOUSE.

PUBLIC EXAMINER BILL PASSED
BY THE HOUSE.
This Official Will Hereafter be Elected
by the People and Not Appointed
by the Governor.
st. Paul, MIMI, Jan. 2S.-Gov. J. A.
Johnson today sent his predicted spe-
cial message to the legislature-both
house and senate-recommendi leg.
islative enactment to provide for a
commission of three, an attorney, an
employee, and an employer of labor, to
make a full investigation during the
coming two years with view to re-
porting an ideal employers liability
act to the next legislature. The mes
sage is accompanied by petition
signed by representatives of number
OF labor organizations, of the State
Bar association, and of the Minnesota
Employers association. It asks for
the commission which the governor
recommends. In the house, the mes
sage was referred to the labor COM
mittee; the senate started to debate
the subject, but was interrupted by
the arrival of the time for memorial
in memory of the late Senator P. Fitz-
patrick of Winona. The senate will
dispose of the message tomorrow.
Senator McColl of St. Paul today
introduced measure which carries
out the democratic state platform of
state guarantee of bank deposits. It
provides for tax of one-half of 1 per
cent on the amount of bank deposits
to thereby create state guarantee
fund. A bill for an appropriation of
$4,000 to aid high schools, graded
and consolidated public schools, in
establishing agricultural courses, was
introduced by Senator H. S. Putnam.
It provides that the state pay two.
thirds of the expenses of such new de-
partments for a year.
In the house today there was a
merry political tilt on the subject of
the W. A. Nolan bill to make the of.
fee of state public examiner elective.
The democrats decried the bill, on the
ground that the examiner should re-
main appointive so as to be respon-
sible to some one, and so the gov
ernor might pick out man of special
training for the place. The repub-
licans replied through Burdette Thay-
er that it is wrong to have the exam
liner a dependent of the governor, and
one Of his official family: that this is
demonstrated by the fact that there is
today being wrongfully suppressed a
report made by the examiner of an
other department of the governors Of
fetal family (referring to the board
of contr0l.
w. B. Douglas.
The special commission, consisting
of Carl Wallace, J. H. Dorsey and w.
H. Putnam, which visited Madison,
Wis, to investigate the operation Of
the Wisconsin public utilities law, re-
ported in it's favor and introduced a
bill which is practically a copy of the
Wisconsin law.
Some 200 women gathered in the
senate chamber this afternoon and
for over an hour fired "hot shot" at
the senate election committee in the
shape of reasons why the Ole Sageng
bill for woman suffrage should pass.
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 29.-The first
"big" bill of the session passed the
house today-the w. A. Nolan bill to
make the Office of public examiner
elective. The bill was holly contest
ed by the democrats up to the very
last, but on the final roll call, eight of
the democrats broke from their party
and voted with the republicans, max
ing the vote Is in favor of the meas
ure to only q against.
Representative Saugstad today in
PRODUCED a resolution limiting the ses-
sion to March 81, and March 10 as
the last day for introducing bills.
John Lennon of Hennepin gave notice
of debate, so that the resolution will
not be acted upon until tomorrow. It
is doubtful if it will pass, as the leg.
islature now has nearly two hundred
more bills before it than it had the
same legislative session day two
years ago.
The session in the senate today was
uneventful except for surprising re-
port presented by Senator Swanson
of Fridley, as chairman of the special
committee which had been named to
investigate the efficiency of the tuber-
culine test for cattle and horses. The
report severely criticised the state
live stock sanitary board, which
board, according to the report, alb
solntely refused the committees re-
quest for the aid of veterinarian, or
to cooperate in any way in helping
the committee. The committee play.
ed clever trick, however, which
seems to demonstrate that the tuber.
culine test for cattle is little to be
depended upon. Nineteen COWS which
had passed the test were purchased
and sent to South St. Paul for slaugh-
ter with a lot of other cattle. Fed
eral inspectors in post norton exam
nations condemned the meat of all
nineteen, declaring the animals to
have been infected with tuberculosis
in spite of their having passed the
tuberculine test. The committee also
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