The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-03-04
HOUSE AND SENATE
Tonnage Tax Bill Will in All PrOba.
bility be Reported Out for In
definite Postponement.
investigation of State Oil Inspection
Department Likely to Stir Up
Considerable Effluvia.
Unions Special Correspondence.

Unions Special Correspondence.
st. Paul, March 8, 19O9.-If those
on the inside have it right the Bjorge
tonnage tax bill will be reported out
by the house tax committee this week
and the verdict will be indefinite post
ponement. In any event they say the
action taken will not be favorable, as
a canvass of the committee shows four
teen against the tax with eleven for.
OF course there will be minority re-
port. What the reception of the re-
port by the house will be is hard to
determine at this time, but again TAX
ing the word of an Interested member
it will likewise he unfavorable. A
lineup of the house, this member says,
showed So against the bill with %
doubtful, and he is confident that half
of the latter number will be convinced
of the unjustness of the whole thing
before the final vote is reached.
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Speaking further on this tonnage
tax question there has been a marked
change in the sentiment for the tax
since the arguments before the COM
mittee week ago. The brief sub
mitted by G. A. Congdon, the Duluth
member, is regarded as the best argu-
ment covering the matter yet put forth,
and this has been augmented by the
discovery that the special tax levies in
which are included roads and bridges,
soldiers relief, schools and univer-
sity, stood to lose heavily if the tax is
imposed.
Senator G. J. Swanson of Fridley,
who has been fighting the tuberculin
test for cattle with all the vigor of a
man convinced of it's unreliahililty
played his last card on Saturday,
when the senate livestock committee
witnessed the slaughter of seventeen
cattle at South St. Paul which we're
given the test and had been tagged as
afflicted with tuberculosis. The cattle,
which were blooded stock belonging to
Senator Sunberg Of Kittson county,
proved the accuracy Of the test. Each
proved to be thoroughly afflicted with
tuberculosis. Senator Swanson's con-
tention was that the test and the live
stock sanitary board we're being run
in the interest of the owners of high
grade cattle, but so far as the efficiency
1f tho fort
lost out badly.
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The Minnesota Citizens league,
better known as the Peoples lobby, is
sued it's first bulletin Monday covering
the doings of the legislature, but it's
appearance in the legislative halls did
not cause any unusual excitement. In
most cases it found it's way to the
waste baskets. Lynn Haines is the
editor, and it was natural that the bull
letin should be without the milk OF
human kindness. Votes on all popu-
listic measures killed by the two
houses we're given in full with some
weakened knocks directed at street
car and primary-law bills now before
the two bodies. A note attached con.
veyed the fact that the next bulletin
would contain the vote on all
measures of Importance and would be
distributed gratuitously in the
several congressional districts. This
is the organization that Frank Day,
private secretary to Gov. johnson,
admitted giving a contribution to.
Quite few senators added their mite,
and it is this money that pay the
salary of Lynn Haines, the secretary,
and meets the printing bills. The
LEAGUE is the successor of the defunct
Minnesota Shippers and Receivers
association, which held forth during
the campaign and legislative session
of two years ago.
The repeal of the state primary law
went over for another two years Tues.
day when the house committee on cleo.
tions reported out for slaughter Ole
Peterson's bill wiping the odious act
off the statute books. But while the
committee knitted the Peterson bill it
was just as emphatic regarding any
extension of the law and put to sleep
two other measures, one by John
Saugstad extending the law to state
officers, and another by Representative
Wolhuter extending it's provisions to
United States senator's. The only
bill reported out, and it appeared
without recommendations, was one by
John Saugstad changing the date OF
the primaries from September to the
second Tuesday in June. In the SEN
ate it is expected that Senator Can
fields bill creating a leagalized con-
7ention for the nomination of all can