The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-01-24

OF the DILL Other sections refer to the
manner of holding elections, forms of
notice, penalties for violation of the
law, police regulation, prosecutions and
SO on. The bill has been carefully
prepared and its terms are, in gen
eral way, understood to meet the ap-
prevail of representatives favorable to
the enactment of county option law.
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1t seems probable that the house
will consider the bill to increase the
gross earnings tax introduced by Rep
resentatige Warner of Aitkin county
rather than that introduced by Mr..
Spooner. Indeed, / am given to I'M
derstand that Mr.. Spooner himself
prefers to give the Warner bill the
right of way. Both propose an in.
crease of the gross earnings tax from
4 to 5 per cent. Mr.. Warmers bill
however, differs from Mr.. Spooner's
in this important respect-he would
turn the I per cent over to the state
road and bridge fund.
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Mr.. Warner argues that his bill
ought to be the more acceptable to
the railroads, because in this state ev-
cry publie highway is railroad feeder.
The more and the better the roads
the greater the traffic turned over by
them to the railways. The proposed
increase in the gross earnings taxes
will net the road fund some 100000.
The 1-mill tax it is proposed to levy
will bring the fund S1,000,000. AS Mr..
Warner says, THE wise expenditure
of these sums will soon work won
ders for our material development"
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A great deal of sentiment has de
veloped this session in favor of the
eastman distance tariff or equal rate
bill. 1t has been introduced in the
| house by Mr.. Crane of Mower county
and will be considered concurrently
in both branches. The speaker made
distance tariff part of his cam
paign and the railroad committee ap-
| pointed by him is understood to favor
! the measure. The measure is de-
/ signed to make rates equal for equal
tonnage of the same class from and to
all points The determinations OF
which Mr.. eastman complains are
| largely II favor of the Twin Cities
| although there are discrepancies in
the rates charged all over the state
Mr.. Cashman's bill does not name any
rate whatever This is to be done by
the railroad commission. AS illustrat
ing the discrepancies of which he com
plains his remarks in explaining his
bill before the railroad committee oil
the senate may be briefly quoted.
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ct costs 9 CENTS" said Senator
| eastman to the railroad committee
/ ito ship wheat the sixty-eight miles
Paul, and yet you can ship it on up te
Duluth, distance of 1859 miles, for
| cents. Is that square? 1t costs $1.4(
ton to ship coal from Duluth to my
home, and yet you can ship Illinois
coal-a distance of more than 50t
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you call that square? You've got {
big packing plant here in st. Paul tt
which we'd like to ship our cattle an6
our hogs, and yet it costs us IL cent!
per hundred to get our stock to it
The railroads charge us $26.40 TO
moving % 000-pound car from DIVA
tonna here, distance of sixty-eigh
miles And you can move that same
car from St. Paul to Duluth, a distanc.
of 169 miles, for $3.50, just 81 cheaper
Do you call that square? Manufactur
ers don't come to st. Paul, Minneapo
lis or Duluth of their own choice
Taxes are higher in the cities; labo
is higher; property costs more. TIL
reason is that freight rates are lower
That's why we have no manufacturing
industries in our interior cities. Don
you see the need Of a distance tariff t
prevent discrimination against tn
country districts? If this distance tai
if becomes law there'll be an equal
cation"
Antecedent to the enactment of an
legislation affecting public schools a
education conference was held las
, week with the house committee. TIL
, subjects discussed were: First, CON
, pulsory attendancee; second, consol
dated schools; and, third, the need G
) educational qualifications for count
) superintendent. Sentiment SCENE
to favor the granting of state aid fo
consolidated schools, which wer
unanimously favored, as follows: Fn
schools having four departments, 81
: 900 annually and one-fourth the cos
of school buildings; three depar
: ments, $3.50 a year; two department.
$500 a year. In consolidated school
: elementary instruction in industrii
work, including agriculture, was t;
vored, each consolidated school
have tract of land of at least tw
acres. 1t was suggested that law b
passed to provide for the election of