New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-04-05
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| mousse, pEONAulu6 Aoi INV - . n
! what is known as the Oregon plan TOT
the election Of United States senators.
Il is claimed the bill is designed TO
make it possible for John Lind TO Sc
| cure election to the senate IN pace
| OF knute Nelson. The Murray Dill
may be adopted in its place. This Dill
provides for the direct election OF SEN
ators according to what is known as
the North Dakota plan. The Oregon
plan Is objected to on the ground that
it makes it possible for the minority
| candidates to take advantage OF dis
sensions in the majority party and
thus force his election, even at the
hands of majority party legislature
The rules committee of the house is
planning retrenchment for the closing
days of the session. 1t will cut on
some of the extra employees, names as
yet unknown The saving will prob
| ably amount to 500 day.
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The report of the committee which
has been investigating the state re-
form school at Red Wing will recon-
mend the abolition of corporal punish
ment and possibly the dismissal or
Superintendent F. A.. Whittier. Rep
resentative L. A. Lydiard of Minneap-
oils is insistent. that the superintend-
ent be dismissed on the ground that,
with his we'll known views on the sys'
tenn of corporal punishment, he is not
fit man for the place. The report
may gently insinuate to the board OF
control that it is up to that body to
take some interest in the human be-
ings it has in its charge in addition to
the more material task of buying sup
plies. Former Senator A. D. Stephens
of Crookston, who started the investl
CATION, has won a notable victory.
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The senate committee on roads and
bridges has made favorable report
on Senator J. M. Hackney's bill giving
county commissioners control of all
road and bridge funds in counties
where there are forty or more miles
of macadam or other improved roads.
The house bill authorizing cities OF the
second, third and fourth class to levy
2-mill road tax was also recon-
mended for passage.
The senate committee on finance
cut down the appropriation provided
for in house file $50, bill providing
for state aid for school districts in
proportion to the area of unsold state
lands in each district. This bill was
introduced by the house committee on
appropriations and carried an appro
priation of 100000 The senate com
mittee reduced the amount to $4,000
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Representative Kerry Conley's bill!
regulating the dimensions OF lumber
was killed by the house after spirit
ed skirmish The bill provided that
all lumber, except dressed stuff, should
be of the purported dimensions.
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Every now and then the senate
wakes up on the subject of reappor'
tionment When, in the committee
of the whole, the MoonanDuxbury
Weis bill came up, amending the con-
stitution so as to limit the number OF
senators from any one county to four
the authors of the bill contended for it
seriously and the reapportionment bat
tie was renewed. The city senators
did not have great deal to say, most
of them preferring to treat the matter
as a joke. Senator w. S. Dwinnell OF
Hennepin put in an amendment pro-
viding that counties of 100000 should
have no senators at all. Friends OF
the bill realized it was too drastic and
tried to amend it, raising the number
from four to five. then to six and
seven. But with the votes of the city
members these provisions were voted
down. Finally the debate was stopped
| by a decision to defer action and to
try and get together. One feature of
! the bill changing the basis of repre-.
| sentation from population to voters
appeals to many senators and it is pos.
| sible that the bill will be amended so
| as to leave only this feature, which is
also incorporated in a bill by Senator
Schaller. This has special application
to the iron range country.
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knutson's bill declaring for COM
pulsory arbitration was defeated in
the house by vote of "a to 70. Rep.
| resentative Knutson was one of the
men who sided with the house organi-
zation in the fight over the Klemer
resolution. The Klemer men had
their knives out for him and voted
solidly against the bill, or almost so.
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Another bill, marked for slaughter
as a result of the Klemer episode,
was the Spooner bill providing for a
5 per cent gross earnings tax. Rep.
| reSentative SDOOner explained that he