The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-01-26

meet at 10 O'Clock every day Gin
order that we may complete our work
carefully and we'll before the limit of
time set for our adjournment by law -.
In support of this resolution he made
q short speech which left an excellent
impression. The delay in the con-
sideration of bills, he said, was fav-
orable more to those who had wood
chucks to hide than to any one else.
He was plain farmer, he said, and,
speaking of the practice of meeting at
IL o 'clock and remaining in session
only an hour or so, he said that, if
members thought that was what they
we're sent there for they had "another
guess to make" If a farmer hired
a man to work on his farm, and in the
first few days of his employment be =
acted as though he thought it was
only necessary for him to work half
the day, che would be given about
twenty seconds to change his mind or
get off the job" The people expected
equally faithful service from their
representatives as farmers did from
their hired men. Although the chair
man of the judiciary committee
thought the resolution superfuous.
and unnecessary, and that things were.
being pushed as fast as they could
go, and although he declared that be =
himself, ever since the opening of the
session, was working from O'Clock
in the morning till at night, the res.
olu tlQ was approved by a majority
Of the house on a rising vote.
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b. F. No. l57, introduced Friday.
was made a special order for Tuesday
and, after consideration an amend
ment, was advanced to the head OF
the calendar for passage next day.
This bill appropriates 1925, 900 to pur-
chase timothy, clover and redtop seed
to be sown on the lands burned over
during the recent forest fires. This
seed is to be given to the settlers and
to be planted by the state on it's lands
in partly settled districts. The dis
tribution is to be under the SUPER
vision of the department of agricul-
ture of the state university, which is
also authorized to buy the seed.
Settlers wanting seed must make ap-
plication to the county auditor, stat
ing in each case the number of acres
burned over and the number of
pounds of seed necessary to resow the
same. Later the applications will be
submitted to the county commits
sioners, who will fix the amount of
seed to be given to each settler by res
olution and transmit the resolution
to the dean of the agricultural de-
partment. The dean will then appor-
tion the seed. The planting of this
seed is considered necessary, not
only for the relief of the settlers, but
to prevent the growth in the burnt
over district of noxious, weeds. There
was no opposition to the bill, which
appeared to be considered to provide
a practical method of affording
needed relief to the unfortunate
settlers.
The two most important railroad
bills introduced in the senate were
presented by Mr.. eastman. The first
he calls his "equal rate" or distance
tariff bill. Its aim is to prevent dis
examinations. He would have the
railroads charge equal rates for an
equal tonnage of freight of the same
class for equal distances. The bill is
confessedly in favor of country towns,
and it's aim is to prevent discrimina-
tons in favor of populous CON-
mercial centers. This bill, which is
copy of the Iowa distance tariff law.
was introduced at previous session
and sentiment in it's favor appears to
be growing.
Senator Cashman's other bill pro-
vides that a consignor may demand
that his shipment shall be transported
to it's destination over two or more
connecting lines of railway, to be
transferred at the connecting point
without change Of cars, if in carload
lots, or with change of cars if in
less than car lots, whenever the dis
lance from place of shipment to desti-
nation is less over the connecting
lines than it is over single line, or
whenever the initial line does not
reach the place of destination. The
charge for such transportation is to
be reasonable joint through rate,
to be fixed by the board of railroad
commissioners.