The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-01-19
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askance at Senator Denegre's bill to
take from the wife the right she now
mas by law in her husband $ property.
AS is we'll known no married man can
dispose Of real property without the
vile joins him in making the deed.
Inc law now entities wife to third
or ner husbands real estate while he
is living. This right would be taken
away by the bill and her dover right.
except as to the homestead, would
cease TO exist until after he died.
Inc clubwomen of the state are up in
arms IN the matter and are expected to
appear In considerable numbers at the
state capitol to protest against the
passage OF any such law. At the
same time it is said similar law is
in operation in Iowa and has worked
no serious harm. The clubwomen
claim that farmers wives and the
wives of persons of moderate means
would be the principal sufferers bv
the passage of the law.
"A bill introduced by Senator Hack
ney provides for the establishment Of
q legislative reference bureau to be at
the service of the legislature, state
officials and others Interested. The
bureau will be in charge of a director
to be appointed by the governor,
attorney general and the president of
the board of regents of the state uni
Versity. The directors salary is to
be $4,000 and he has to have assis-
tants whose combined salaries will be
$4,000 more. The business of the
bureau is to collect the laws of the
several states and systematic them
for public use. He is also to collect
statistics and other information and
aid the legislators in drafting laws.
Such bureau is in operation in New
York and Wisconsin and has proved
IN those states of great advantage to
those interested in legislation.
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Monday evenings session of the
legislature was notable as being the
first in which the house resolved itself
into committee of the whole. The
bill considered was one providing for
an appropriation for legislative ex-
penses. Speaker Dunn on this &C.
casion called Mr.. Burnquist to the
chair, and he was given the glad hand
by the house. The bill passed with
out any special trouble, although
John Lennon thought the money
should be taken from another than the
revenue fund and Kerry Conley had
a notion the amount could be reduced.
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The same evening there was a very
pretty scene in the senate. Z It hap
pened when Senator Sageng intro
duced bill to so amend the constitu-
tion as~to give women the right to
vote. AS the secretary read it's pro-
visions ladies in the galleries
showered roses and carnations on the
senator's: This bill always comes up;
always there are those, including
men high in Office, eloquent in it's
favor; and always it is voted down.
There is little likelihood that any
other fate awaits it this year.
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If Mr.. Spooner is going to have as
much trouble with all the appropria-
ton bills as he is having with that
appropriating money for the state
university he will have the time @of
his life this winter. The bill in ques-
tion appropriates some 5000, 600.
Part of it is for deficiency in the
university maintenance fund; part for
the Increased cost and equipment of
the ngineering building; part for the
Increased cost and equipment of Mil
lard hall: part for the increased cost
and equipment of the anatomy build
ing, and part for the equipment and
maintenance of Elliott Memorial hos
pital. The board of regents, it ap-
pears, want the money bad and they
want it at once. They first tried to
have the bill pushed through under
suspension OF the rules, but this Mr..
i Spooner wouldn't stand for. The
bill, he said, must take it's regular
course. Because the regents wanted
the money so bad and so quick John
Lind has spent hours and hours
pleading of the urgent nature of the
bill before the appropriation CON-
mittee and telling the reasons why.
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i While he appears to have Convinced
the; appropriation committee of the
urgency of the bill in question, and
while Mr.. SpOoner is ready now To