Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-02-24

/ 10 the house. AS the law now stands
cities Of the fourth class may not vote
on the license issue except they are
acting under q home rule charter
which specially so provides. ]. N.
Johnson's bill would give all such cir
les this right. The temperance COM
mittee reported that it be indefinitely
postponed. A minority of the com
mittee recommended that it be ad-
vanced. to general orders for consid-
Grafton In the. first round the advo-
Gates of local option won out. The
vote in, favor of advancing the bill
was 80 to "a.
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The secretary of state got rather the
worst of it in the house the other day,
Incidentally the country newspapers
were given a black eye. Four years
ago law was passed designed to give
greater publicity to constitutional
amendments. They were to- be pub
lished three times in three papers in
each county. In. some cases the Sec
rotary of state ordered the publication
of the amendments in more than three
papers in county. In all cases he
ordered, as has been the custom from
time immemoral, that there be four
instead of three insertions. Instead
OF 'adopting the Anticipated fashion of
sending copy to the papers he had
plates made of the amendments, as
any advertising agency would have
done in similar case, and these were
sent to the. papers for insertion.
These tiS?es. Of course, added to the
expense OF publication. That is the
reason the bill for an appropriation
has hung fire since the first OF the
session. Some members of the house
insist that. although the newspapers
made publications four times, they
should only be paid for three and that
the secretary OF state had no business
sending out the matter in plate form.
They insist also that the secretary of
state should have stuck to the letter
of the law and only advertised in
three papers in county, the assump-
ton, assume, being that subscribers
to the other papers did not need to
know what the constitutional amend
ments We're about. No conclusion
was reached except that the secretary
Of state exceeded his authority. In
the meantime the newspaper boys are
left to whistle for the money earned
months ago.
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Ex-senator Stephens charge that
they use whipping machines to fog
boys at the Red Wing reform school
has caused the legislature to sit up
and take notice. While the charge of
cruelty is vigorously denied by the
reform school authorities the legisla-
ture has concluded that they ought to
be investigated. On behalf of the
house Representatives Dunn, Holm
berg, Lydiard and Reed will look into
the matter.
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Governor Eberhart has appointed
Judge Bum of the Ramsey county
gard, whose death was announced last
week, as associate justice of the SUI
preme court. Judge Bum is Demo
crat, is a st. Paul man and belongs
to family noted for the production
of legal talent. His brother is at pres
ent general counsel for one of the
Pacific roads. The governor has also
appointed Fred N. Dickson to succeed
Judge Bum on the district bench. Mr..
Dickson, who is comparatively young
man, is from Mortified, but has for
years practiced at the Ramsey county
bar. He became prominent in politics
as the manager of Mayor Keller's
campaign a year ago.
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The employers liability bill framed
by the commission appointed by Gov
ernor Johnson is being talked to
death. Indeed it died bornin'. The
commissioners themselves couldn't
agree on it. Mr.. Gillette, for the en-
ployers, stood out, his contention be-
| ing that law designed to remunerate
| workmen injured while in the dis
| charge of their duty should contain
provisions for the workmen them
selves contributing towards that re-
Enumeration. Other objections are
| technical and go to the constitution
| ality of the proposed act. Two other
! bills have been introduced, but the
passage of any is improbable. Public
| opinion in Minnesota apparently is not
| ready to accept the principle that in
jury to a workman is a proper charge
| against the industry in which he is
engaged. When in g; hazardous en-
! ployment a machine is broken it is
| mended or replaced. When man is
broken he is dumped in the scrap heap
and another one secured without cost
! to the employer:
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! Donald Robertson has secured IA
vorable report on his peddlers' bill.
This bill provides for the issuance of
a license by the county auditor and
does not inte rfere with the rights of
municipalities 10 regulate peddling.