Morris tribune., 1909-03-06

St. Paul, Mimi, March 2-The
house celebrated it's first evening
meeting of the present session by
making a record on the speedy pas.
sage of a radical anti-cigarette bill.
On roll call the bill received 92 votes
in it's favor, to one against-the vote
of Alvin Rowe of st. Paul. L. H.
Johnson then moved the reconsidera-
tion of the bill and asked that the mo-
tion be voted down; and it was. This
prevents the house from going back
on it's passage of the bill.
A flood of new bills were intro
duced. They included the following:
by Holmberg, to appropriate $150,0O0
ing; by Christianson, to make the
state treasurer custodian of state fair
funds: by Ware, to permit all women
over Is years of age to vote in 1910
as to whether women shall be grant
ed the right of suffrage; by Peters,
limiting state fair passes to reporters,
fremen, policemen, veterans, mail
carriers, fair officials, employees and
privilege holders; by Noble, provid-
ing judges of the supreme court and
all county officers be nominated by
non-partisan preliminaries; by Nolan,
tc apply the per cent gross earnings
tax on a share of the interstate earn
ings of telephone companies. The
Grant bill was passed which requires
all counties effected by judicial ditch
petitions, to receive notice of the
hearing; also the bill to permit traV-
cling men to vote for the state and
national ticket in any part of the
state they happen to be.
The house spent the entire morn
ing today in fighting over the pend
ing bills for new normal school.
These bills calls, respectively, for a
school to be established at Warren
Bemidji, Red Lake Falls, Thief River
Falls, Cass Lake, and one bill calling
for a school to be located by the nor
NAL board in northwestern Mime
sofa. After much discussion, P. M.
McGary, author of the Cass Lake bill,
got the house to adopt his minority
report by a vote of so to 57-a close
shave" Representative Opsahl then
asked that the Kinds bill be given a
fair show, and that it be printed and
advanced with the Cass Lake bill to
general orders. The house then turn
ed around and granted his request by
a vote of 81 to 81.
Senator Vail today introduced a
bill in the senate which provides that
no railroad shall charge for the trans
portation of non-bessemer ore, more
than so per cent Of the present tarln
now charged for the transportation
of other iron ore within the state. The
bill was referred to the committee on
railroads.
Senator Stephens of Crookston
introduced the biennial appropriation
bill for the Crookston agricultural
school and experimental station. 1t
provides for number of improve
ments, as we'll as maintenance; for
the agricultural school for 19O9-lo,
for expenses, $4,000; water sys-
tenn, $4,000; for building, library, Of
fees. ETC., $4,000; for 1901, ex.
penses, $4,000; girls dormitory, $685.
900. For the northwestern expert
mental station, 1901, expenses,
$4,000; root cellar, $1,000; to estab-
lish and maintain a denatured alcohol
plant, $4,000; for 1901, expenses,
$4,000: swine barn, $1,000;
slaughter house, $1,000.
Senator harrington comes to the
front for the state fair, with a bill to
appropriate $25O,000 for a new state
fair grand stand. harrington and G.
A. Johnson join In a bill to ar2ropri-
ate $4,000 to dam and dyke Big
Stone lake, the Minnesota and Whet-
stone rivers, to prevent future floods.