The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Minnesota Legislature
Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for the
Past Week.
Past Week.

I questions relating to soils, crops. stock
breeding, stock Judging, stock disease
and kindred things are to De taught
The house committee appointed by
Speaker Dunn to investigate the R. c..
Dunn bill, which provides for an ap-
preparation of $2S,100 to pay 2S1 state
newspapers for printing the proposed
constitutional amendments in October,
| 1910, will make its report next Tues
day. The report will censure julius
| Schmahl, secretary of state, for over
| stepping his authority in selecting
| newspapers TO print the amendments
The bill passed two years ago provided
for the publication of the amendments
in not more than three papers in any
county. The report will say that Mr..
Schmahl had the amendments printed
in 10 more papers than allowed by
law, at a cost of $1,000. Chairman
Moriarity, of the investigating commit
tee, does not favor compelling the Sec
rotary of state to pay the $1,000 over
expenditure, but suggests that in the
future state officials stay within the
law.
Representative w. F. Kunze intro
duced his educational bill In the
house, providing for state board of
education and reorganizing the state
educational system in every way. 1t
eliminates the state normal board, the
high school board, state literary board,
state public school library commits
sion, board of managers of the state
public school at Owatonna and the
board of directors of the Minnesota
schools for the deaf and blind.
The Moonen primary bill, providing
for the direct nomination of state Of
ficers, has been reported favorably.
This is the first big primary bill of
the session. 1t states that voters in
the primaries shall state their party
affiliations.
Beautifying the capitol grounds by
commission is provided for in bill in
troduced by Senator Denegre of st.
Paul. 1t provides for the appointment
of three commissioners by the govern.
or to buy lands adjoining or near the
capitol grounds and beautify them.
st. Paul, Feb. T.
Only five new bills were introduced
in the house. The most important
bill was that of Representative Cong
don, authorizing the board of control
to purchase site for a fourth state
hospital for the insane. The Mattson
bill specifying the classes of public
schools and fixing the amount of state
aid available, was passed. The house
acting as a committee of the whole,
considered twenty minor bills.
Free Rein Asked for Mayors.
Representative Fuchs of St. Paul in
troduced a bill allowing mayors Of
cities of the first class governed by
home rule charters to remove any of
their appointees at any time without
cause. The bill does not affect Mime
apolis, but is intended to allow Mayor
Keller of St. Paul to remove certain
members of board appointed under
the Lawler administration
House Votes for Parcels Post.
The house went on record in favor
of parcels post by a vote of As to 80.
The vote was taken on a resolution
introduced by Representative Hopkins
memoralizing congress to favor such
a bill.
C. H. Warner introduced bill ap-
propriating 5000 to defray the expense
of term of court held in Cass county
in April, 1909.
State Fair Law is Drawn.
The house committee on state fair Is
preparing bill which will make the
fair a semi-state organization. The
committee is satisfied to allow the
State Agricultural society to elect it's
own officers, but it wants the state to
fix salaries and to supervise improve
ment and construction work. The pro-
posed law fixes the representation in
the State Agricultural society along
the lines of the Spooner resolution
adopted week ago, that every county
maintaining county fair shall have
three representatives and those not
maintaining county fairs shall have
board of county commissioners. The
committee proposes that state fair
buildings be placed under the super
vision of the state board of control
The bill will not reach the house for
two weeks. 1t was delayed because of
the absence of several members of the
state fair board who attended the corn
show at Columbus.
Garnishment Bill is Framed.
Representative Andrew Davis of Elk
River introduced a bill amending the
state garnishment law He would ex-
empt 80 per cent of the wages of any
workingman from garnishment pro-
ceedings. Under the present law only
the wages over $25 can be garnisheed.
This practically eliminates the collec-
ton of judgment or debt from a man
who is paid weekly. The new bill
would make it impossible to garnish
workingman's wages if he has only
81 coming to him.