The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-01
FAVORS new
TAX MEASURE
House Committee Recommends
! Il for Passage.
TO ASSIST the COMMISSION

Bill Provides That All Property Shall
Be Listed at Full Value by the AS
SCISSOR and Then Assessed at Forty
Per Cent of Its Value-senator
Dunn Declares canfeld's Bill Is
ineffective.
st. Paul, Feb. 27.-The house COM
mittee on taxes and tax laws recon-
mended for passage the bill which
provides that all property shall be
listed at full value by the assessor
Ind then assessed at 80 per cent OF
this value, but amended it so as to
make It 40 instead of so per cent.
Some of the members had a hard
time to understand the purpose OF the
bill and some said it would discrimi-
nate against the farmers because at
present farm lands were assessed less
In proportion to their actual value
than some other property.
But Chairman Dalzell, Representa-
tive Stuart and others explained that
the tax commission has decided that
next year they will enforce the old
law which says that property shall be
assessed at full value. This law has
never been enforced, but the tax COM
MISSIONS report shows that on the
average property is assessed at about
43 per cent Of it's actual value.
But many salaries. tax lev1es and
limitations of expenditures are based
upon the total assessed valuation OF
the county or district, and If property
were assessed at full value many sal
aries would be doubled and many 9TH
Or things disarranged, so the tax COM
mission asked the passage Of this bill
thinking that this would be easier
than to have the legislature revise all
the laws fixing salaries and other
matters based on assessed valuation.
Opposes canfieId's Bill.
Senator w. W. Dunn of st. Paul,
who confessed before the temperance
committee of the senate that he is
in the employ of large brewing
firm, entered vigorous protest against
The Garfield bill forbidding the own
ership of saloons by brewing COM
panies.
Senator Dunn protested that other
measures should be pursued and that
the number of saloons in each town
should be strictly limited. He is In
favor OF the Alderman bill which linn
its them to one for every 500 popula-
ton. He said that at present there
Is one saloon for every 2S0 of the
population of the whole state. He
protested that by subterfuge the
brewing companies would be able to
avoid the provisions of the Garfield
bill, but that the limiting Of the num-
Der Of saloons would enable each sa-
loonkeeper to make enough money to
rid himself from bondage to the brew
cries which now often advance the
money for license, stock and fixtures.
He said that the company with
which he is connected had at least
100000 loaned to saloonkeepers now,
mostly without interest. He also
characterized the saloonkeepers of the
present as serfs of the corporations
who loaned them money to carry on
their business.
~ The temperance fight was carried
TO the floor of the senate when
In committee of the whole, sew
eral amendments were proposed to the
Alderman bill. Several senators want
the bill limiting the number of sa-
looms to apply to present conditions.
Under the bill the present number Of
saloons will continue until the popula-
ton increases largely, but there will
be no reduction at present.
Favors Zelch's Automobile Bill.
The house by a small majority
voted in favor of the Zelch automobile
bill, which provides that the licenses
shall be secured from the secretary
Of state and makes other regulations.
BY this vote they expressed them
selves against the idea contained in
the Gates bill, which is the bill drawn
by the automobile clubs and which
provides tax of 81 per horsepower
A bill for system of inspection of
the smaller slaughter houses through
OOS SA0 oIeIIO w 40 ILL OuuSCu LII L1lO
house by John Rustad of Whalen. It
provides county inspector of slaugh-
ter houses and meats for each county
In the state with assistants where
such are necessary. They must be
licensed veterinarians and are to be
under the supervision Of the state live
stock and sanitary board.
They are to have power of inspec-
ton over all plants and shops except
the plants where the federal govern
r. nent has an inspector.
That no teacher in Minneapolis
would have a chance for promotion
unless satisfactory to the American
Book company was the opinion of
Clifford w. Thompson of Minneapolis,
q member Of the school board, who
testified before the Adams committee
which II investigating the school book
question.
He said that teachers were intimi-
eatsd. The teachers make recon-
mendations as to what books to buy,
but whGn superintendent G. NJ Tor.
dan, he said, wants favorable report
On book he sends copies not to all
thu teachers, but to those whom he
knows will favor the book.
A state home for the aged Is the
Asa presented In a bill BY 9. J..
Wright Of Fergus Falls.