New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-17
Legislative Notes.

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present primary election law will be
changed &C this session. The senate
on Thursday in quick succession de.
feated three measures embodying
alterations in the existing system
the Moonan bill extending it's pro-
visions so as to include all Offices,
state as we'll as congressional and
county, the Garfield bill abolishing
the system except for the election of
convention deleg ates, and the Sullivan
amendment leaving the system as it is
except for the election of these con-
vention delegates.
Representative Bendixen's bill, &C.
cording to the provisions of which the
state was to pay $40 moth to first
grade school teachers if the school
district paid them $50 month and SIS
a month to second grade teachers who
received $40 from their districts, was
killed by the house on Thursday. A
bill extending state inspection to
private schools which prepare teachers
for the public schools also fell by the
wayside, as did one providing for
state pay for the education of children
in unorgani led territory.
Ole PETERSON, the Nicollet county
house member, is the author of per-
missive, but not compulsory, measure
enabling rural residents to have their
farms named and to register such
names in the official records of the
county on the payment of a small
filing fee. The idea is a good one.
The custom prevails in several foreign
countries and in Norway and Scot
land particularly has proved immense
ly popular.
Following the statement by James
J. Hill in his address to the legisla-
ture that railroad companies were do
ing everything in their power to pro-
tect the lives Of their employees and
passengers and that there was no need
of legislation regulating the number
of men who compose train crews the
senate yesterday killed the "full crew"
bill by a vote of 81 to 20. The bill
was introduced by Senator Clague.
Representative Pfaender offered a
resolution in the house yesterday ask
ing for the appointment of commit
tee of five, to be composed of one men,
Der from each Of the Twin Cities and
three members from the country, to
investigate the effect upon residence
property and the state institutions of
learning OF the erection of packing
plant on the proposed site south of
New Brighton.
Representative Dorsey has obtained
the adoption Of concurrent reso-
luton memorializing congress in
favor of a canal connecting Lake
Superior and the Mississippi river.
| The resolution sets forth that with a
canal only fifty miles long the two
great waterway systems could be
connected to the benefit of almost the
entire country.
Citizen soldiers who helped in the
Indian troubles of 1862 have little to
expect in the way Of favorable pen
sion legislation from the present legis-
lature. An effort was made last week
to change the time of service for which
pensions should be granted from two
months to any part OF two years, but
the scheme died in the committee OF
the whole.
1 A bill has been introduced in the
lower house of the Legislature by
Representative Nolan empowering the
governor to remove the mayor OF any
4 city or the president of any village
! for malfeasance or nonfeasance in
Office. Heretofore this power, as far
as related to the non-enforcement Of
liquor laws, rested with the attorney
general.
/ The state oil inspectors department
will not be abolished The Rosen.
valid house bill turning the work over
to the dairy and food department was
I indefinitely postponed.