The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-03-09
STATE LECISLAT U on {
General Road Bill Passes Senate and
Now Awaits Governors Sig
nature to Become Law.
Tonnage Tax Bill Comes Up on Special
Order March IS and Will Very
Likely be Defeated.
Unions Special Correspondence.

Dunn good roads measure, providing
for immediate funds for good roads
was, passed Wednesday afternoon in
the state senate. It now awaits the
governors signature to become a
law: AS special courtesy from the
senate, r. G. Dunn, the author of the
bill, was permitted to speak before
that body. Several amendments were
offered which it's friends thought
would cripple the bill, but it finally
went through by an overwhelming
vote. The constitutional amendment
measure was placed at the head of the
calendar.
The general disposition which exists
in the house to overturn committee
reports resulted in placing the ton
mage tax bill as a special order for
Thursday, March 49, by vote of 10
to Al. This is not regarded as test
of strength on the bill, but as part
of the custom which has grown up
in the house of overturning all COM
mittee reports, a custom that is nulli-
tying committee reports and making
special Investigations by committees
of no value. Z
The debate on the question came up
on motion made to substitute the
minority report for the majority re-
port, which was to indefinitely post
pone.
Misrepresentation of the position
taken by r. G. Dunn on the tonnage
tax question four years ago started a
furry.
A pamphlet had been scattered
broadcast purporting to carry an edi-
torial statement from the Princeton
Uni o on the subject of tonnage tax.
Clinton Robinson of Winona, in ex-
planning his vote, said if he was con-
vinced that the editorial was not true,
ne would vote against the proposition
to make the bill a special order, but
was not so convinced. r.
Previous to this Mr.. Dunn had
shown how his position had been mis-
represented by an alleged quotation
from two-column article by the use
of jumbled sentences, picked here, and
there, and used so adroitly as toaen-
tirely misrepresent his position. . :...
Following Representative, Robin
sons statement Mr.. Dunn rose to q
question of personal privilege and,
| with considerable feeling, explained
| that if a majority of the house be-
lieved he had misrepresented the facts
when he charged that a deliberate
attempt had been made to misrepre-
sent his position, he would not serve
an hour longer in the house.
Applause greeted this statement and
the matter passed over as furnishing
but another example of the peculiar
taste exhibited by the member from
Winona.
It is confidently expected that the
DILL will be defeated. r.."*<.
s. !. -
Reapportionment has had it's first
inning in the senate this week. The
Congdon bill, passed by an over
whelming majority in the house, has
been recommended to pass by the
senate reapportionment committee.
Several minor amendments relative to
representative districts and one SEN
atorial district were tackled on in the
committee. The recommendation to
pass was carried by vote of IL to 6.
Those in favor of the bill we're c.. D.
johnson, V. L. johnson, Johnston,
Cheadle, Hackney, Sundberg, Wilson,
Boyle, Hanson, Lende, Rustad and
Gunn.- Those opposed we're: Works,
McGrath, Anderson, Bedford, Collier
and Rockne. Changes in the repre-
sentative districts we're proposed in
the Winona, Blue Earth and Hennepin
districts, while Senators Dunn and
Hackney of Ramsey fixed up their
senatorial districts so Dunn takes the
second and third wards of the city
and that part of Ramsey lying outside
of st. Paul, while Senator Hackney
draws the tenth, eleventh and twelfth
wards of the city. Thursday of next
week will be the date of a special
order for a consideration of the
question.
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Minneapolis is having a hard time
over it's lid question. Some of the
good residents of Minneapolis would
like to see the lid tilted so saloons
could be kept open until Il O'Clock,
and in this they are joined by the St.
Paul lawmakers, although it would
seem that it would not make a great
deal of difference in St. Paul, as they
are q law unto themselves. But in
Minneapolis Mayor HAYNES has hean