Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1911-02-24


acting under a home rule charter
which specially so provides. J. N.
Johnson's bill would give all such cit
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-
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 immemorial, 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 a similar case, and these were
sent to the papers for insertion.
These things, 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, l assume, being that subscribers
to the other papers did not need to
know what the constitutional amend
ments were 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 a 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 |
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 a bornin'. The
themselves couldn't
agree on it. Mr.. Gillette, for the en-
ployers, stood out, his contention be-
Ing that law designed to remunerate
charge Of their duty should contain
provisions for the workmen them
selves contributing towards that re-
Other objections are
technical and go to the constitution
ality of the proposed act. Two other
bills have been introduced, but the
of any is improbable. Public
opinion in Minnesota apparently is not
ready to accept the principle that in
Jury to workman is proper charge
against the industry in which he is
When in a hazardous en-
oloyment a machine is broken 1t is
nended or replaced. When man is
broken he is dumped in the scrap heap
md another one secured without cost
% the employer.
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Donald Robertson has secured a IA
7orable report on his peddlers' bill.
This bill provides for the issuance of
\ license by the county auditor and
loes not interfere with the rights of
to regulate peddling,
The fees the bill proposes to charge
ire: Fifty dollars where two horses
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