The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-01-26
GROSS EARNINGS TAX
ChaS. II. Warmers Bill With a Road
and Bridge Fund Provision
Is FavorabIy Received.
Senate Elections Committee Has Its
Hands Full Solving Contests
A County Option Bill.

Hands Full Solving Contests
A County Option Bill.
Unions Special Correspondence
st. Paul, Jan. 25.-Representative
Warmers bill to increase the gross
earnings tax on railroads from four
to five per cent, to which I made
passing reference last week., differs
from Mr.. Spooner's in one important
respect which is likely to give it pref
erence over the other. Indeed, I
understand that Mr.. Spooner himself
IS willing on that account to give it
the right of way. It provides that the
additional one per cent tax shall 20
to the road and bridge fund. Mr..
Warner argues, first, that the money
is needed for roads and bridges, mas
much as most townships and counties
now tax themselves to the limit for
roads and bridges and that the SUM
raised is insufficient; second, that
there is an element of justice in it be-
cause the highways are really rail-
road feeders, and that the better they
are the more business they will bring
to the railroads; and, third, that the
railroads owe it to the state because
the internal Improvement land fund
OF $1,000, 600, which might have been
used for roads and bridges, was
appropriated to pay off railroad
bonds.
| Senator Denegre's bill to deprive q
woman of the right to be consulted in
the disposition of her husbands
property met an early and an untime-
ly death. The senator himself
slaughtered his offspring, of which at
its birth he was Unfortunately proud.
He says he did this because he had
; not the time to give to educating the
women up to it. The fact is there
we're three reasons for the sacrifice:
First, the women jumped on him so
hard that his life became burden;
second, the bill was unsatisfactory to
the lawyers of the senate, who soon
: found that it alone would not accom-
plish the purpose intended; and
third, I he saw, as any blind man
could, that it was certain to be killed
anyway. Hence he decided to give it
its quietus himself. No flowers.
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The senate elections committee has
been as busy as can be with the elec-
ton contests. There are three of
these. The election of Senator
Amman is being contested on the
ground that he is not citizen of the
United States. SENATOR Froshaug's
election is being contested by Ray G.
Harrington. Senator Saugstad's
election is being contested by A. D.
Stephens.
The elections committee has decided
that Senator Amman ought to retain
his seat. He has already served a
full term in the state senate, and on
this account, and because otherwise
he has discharged the full duties of
citizenship, the senate declined to I'M
seat him on a mere technicality.
Moreover, in the opinion of the sub
committee to whom the matter was
referred, Mr.. Emmel has not proved
his case.
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In the case of Senator Froshaug the
issue is by no means so clear. The
judges of election found on counting
the votes at the close of the polls that
he had majority, and on this find
ing he was given certificate of cleo
ton. On a recount being ordered it
was found that Mr.. Harrington had a
majority. While in all the other pre-
cincts there was no variation in the
votes which materially affected the re-
suit, there we're very material changes
in five precincts which had gone
strongly. for harrington. In these it
was found, when the ballots we're
scrutinized more than month after
the election, that ballots which had
been counted for Froshaug had a
cross both after his name and after
the name of another candidate for the
same Office, thus voiding them. On
these ballots being rejected the result
was a majority of over twenty for
harrington. ..-.... ..s.....
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This naturally raised the question
whether the judges of election had
improperly counted these ballots for
F'roshaug, overlooking tie second
mark, Or whether the ballots had, in
the weeks intervening between the
election and the recount, been
tempered with. Froshaug's attorneys
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