Willmar tribune., 1909-03-17

must not appear IL Minnesota thea
ters in red, white and blue tights is
the provision of bill introduced in
the house today by Mr.. Sawyer, first
as a joke, and later taken in serious
vein.
St. Paul, Mimi, March 8.-The spe.
cial committee of the house, named to
consider the employers liability bills,
today delivered it's report to the house
in the form of the introduction of a
new employers liability measure. The
bill does not abolish the existing law,
permitting an employe to sue for dam
ages in event of an injury, but allows
choice to be made between the old
and the new law, the proposed bill
waving the question of contributory
negligence and putting into effect a
considerably lower scale of indemni-
ties than the former bills The in
IDENTITIES are as follows: For death,
$4,000 to $1,000; both hands or feet,
$2,G50 to $4,000; one hand and one
foot, or both hands, or both feet,
$4,000 to $4,000; one hand or one foot,
$500 to $1,000; one finger, $75; thumb,
s1o0; one toe, s25; big toe, $50; both
eyes, $4,000 to $4,000; one eye, one
third of amount allowed for loss of
both; deafness, $1,000 to $1,000; total
disability, $4,000 to $4,000; temporary
disability, so per cent of wages.
Messrs. Spooner and Sawyer joined
today in the Introduction of bill to
provide that at least twenty employees
Of the state reformatory be engaged
in the operating of crushed stone ma
chinery, the stone to be held at the
institution for distribution as ordered
by the state highway commission for
road building. The bill appropriates
$4,000 for the purchase of the neces-
sary stone crushing machinery
Representative Kinds introduced q
bill to place wall-eyed pike among the
fish that cannot be sold or shipped in
this state.
A protest against the bill to permit
six-round boxing contests was re-
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today, signed by Arthur B. Driscoll,
president of the st. Paul organization.
The bill is at present on the calendar
In the house.
The house spent most of today's
session in committee of the whole.
Among the bills considered and or.
dered advanced to the calendar we're
the St. Louis county delegation bill
to permit 100000 additional bonds to
be issued for completion of the court
house in Duluth; St. Louis county
delegation bill to create the office of
county public examiner; by Mattson,
to permit rural school boards to hire
truant officers; by Nolan, to require a
character certificate of those granted
liquor licenses; by Rosenwald, to re.
quire fees and measurements to be
recorded by surveyors general Of logs
and timber
Gov. J. a. Johnson has signed the
bill asserting state ownership in min
eral properties beneath the waters of
meandered lake beds.
AASAS "No AO oOSoAOu VI CI1C ScudIc
today. The finance committees of
both houses are continuing their hear
ings today on the various items of the
pending appropriation bills, prepara-
tory to drafting the omnibus appro.
priation bill.
st. Paul, Mimi. March 9-Senator
c. ]. Gunderson of Alexandria today
jumped into the arena as candidate
for United States Judge, district of
Minnesota, to succeed Judge Milton
D. Purdy, who was appointed original
ly by President Roosevelt, and has
recently been re-appointed by Presi-
dent Taft. Mr.. Gunderson's entry
comes through resolution adopted
unanimously and by a rising vote of
the state senate today. Senator Sew
ard of Lyon county introduced the
resolution. The resolution recites
that:
1--WE have absolute knowledge and
implicit confidence in the integrity,
learning and ability of Hon. G. J. Cum
derson of Alexandria,; and we hereby
respectfully pray that he be appointed
as Judge of the United States district
court for the district OF Minnesota.