Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-04-28
MINNESOTA SOLONS
OMNIBUS APPROPRIATION BILL
INTRODUCED.

OMNIBUS APPROPRIATION BILL
INTRODUCED.
Thirteen Million Dollars Is Commit
tees Estimate on Total Ex-
penditures.
St. Paul, April 10.
Thirteen million dollars is the
amount of total appropriations car
ried in the session omnibus appro-
priation bill introduced in the legis-
lature today by the appropriations
committee for the house, and the
finance committee for the senate. It
will be considered by both bodies
tomorrow morning, and probably
passed with little change. 1t Fl
trimmed down from $18,000,000 to
which figure the appropriations first
reached. In its decreased form it
is figured the state tax rate will be
one and two-tenths mills, which is
five mills less than the rate estab-
lished by the legislative session ap-
preparations two years ago. OF the
entire amount, the state university
gets about $1,000,000; of which
100000 is for a girls dormitory. and
100000 for medical and anatomical
buildings. Two university hospitals
are also provided for. There are
number Of salary increases. Harvey
Grimmer, governors executive clerk,
gets an increase of 5000; and the
governors Office another stenog-
rapher at $1,000 a year. In connec.
ton with the state rate cases, the
attorney generals department is
allowed an expense appropriation of
$19,5O0. Each assistant attorney
general gets an increase of 5000
year. Each railroad and warehouse
commissioner gets AN additional
$4,000 a year. The state immigration
board is hard hit, getting it's ap-
preparation for two years cut to $685.
900 when the united Commercial
clubs of the state had asked it to be
allowed at least 100000. Only ST.
500 is appropriated for old capitol
building repairs, where $4,000 was
asked. The state fair gets taken care
of with 100000, of which 100000 is
for the new grand stand that has
been requested of numerous past leg
islators. The state farm school is
also we'll provided for, including new
$4,000 girls dormitory.
N. J. Holmberg succeeded in get
ting resolution passed in the house
today, calling upon the governor to
appoint special commission to in
vestigate the question of bovine tu-
berculosis in the state, and make
recommendations as to the best meth
DDS Of suppressing the same. The
resolution demands that the commits
sion consist of the dean of the agri-
cultural college, president of the
Minnesota Breeders association, pres
ident of the State Veterinarians as
ISOLATION, president Of the State Live
stock Sanitary board.
L. c. Spooner today presented q
resolution, which in . lengthy pre-
amble recites the great honor which
Is due to woman and motherhood, and
then calls upon the governor to name
a ALPHABETICALLY March 5th-which
by proclamation shall be known as
Mothers Day." when by appropriate
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honor and appreciation shall be ex-
tended to the motherhood of our
state.
The house passed the Wright senate
bill, pensioning soldiers who served
the state during the Indian massacre
and uprising in 1862. The bill pro-
vides the pensions shall in no case ex-
coed $12 a month.
st. Paul, April 21.-Exactly at noon
today Gov. John A. Johnson sent
veto message to the house, wherein
he expressed his reasons for returning
the Bjorge tonnage tax bill to that
boy without his signature, thus veto
ing it. The message of explanation
was quite lengthy and went into the
matter in detail. He stated that the
Bjorge bill both in principle and ad-
ministrative features, is IN expert
ment,. and is intensely feared, by the
section Of the state to which it applies.
For this reason, it would have disas-
trous effect to that part Of the country,
In a moral, industrial, and practical
way. 1t would also arouse most unde-
sirable sectional hatred of that part Of
the state against the rest Of the state
which forced the passage of the bill.
Minnesota is already achieving marked
success in its methods of taxing min
eral properties without any change.
The assessments Of the mines have
been increased from 100000 in 1898,
to $3.50, 100000 for 1908. II the north
ern part of the state were fairly rep
resented in the legislature according
to its population, the Bjorge bill could
never have passed. The tax proposed
would be q punishment to the indie
pendent mine owners and the steel
trust would be the one to benefit. There
was no attempt to pass the bill over
the veto.
Both senate and house spent large
part Of today in considering the omni-
bus appropriation bill, which carries
the general appropriations Of the ses-
Many IN Minute.
factories there is new machine