The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-21
Pension for Teachers
Favored By Majority

Favored By Majority
ST. Paul, February 15.--The house
committee on education by vote of
9 to 4, late yesterday endorsed the
general form of the Minnesota Edu-
cational associations bill providing
for teachers retirement fund and
instructed the chairman to confer
with the chairman Of the senate com
mittee on education regarding sew
eral minor changes before reporting
the bill out for passage. Superintend
ent John l.. Silvernale of the Red
wing public schools, chairman of the
legislative committee of the state as.
ISOLATION. explained the merits of
the proposed measure. The bill pro-
vides for ] per cent Of the monthly
salary of each teacher for the first
ten years and 2 per cent for the sec
Ond decade and one-half per cent for
the remaining years of service.
The Assessment Provides $4,000.
The assessment, according to Pro
fessor Silvernale, will provide fund
vi PloO,oVV
A tax of one-tenth of | mill would
be levied on all property of the
state to add to the fund, which
would amount to approximately $685.
900 annually. The teacher on being
pensioned after twenty-five years SER
vice would receive monthly one-half
of the average salary. A meeting
of the senate and house --airmen
and Professor Silvernale and other
members of the legislative commit
tee of the state teachers association
will be held later in the week to
make changes in the bill before it
is reported for passage.
Raps the Lying Minors.
A bill providing that minor who
misrepresents his age for the pur-
pose of obtaining liquor may be pun
ished for misdemeanor, today appear
ed in the house with C. w. Bouck
Little Falls, as it's sponsor. Similar
measures have been introduced at
every session of the legislature for
years past and have been voted
down on the ground that the result
will be to relieve liquor dealers from
all responsibility in the sale Of in
toXicantS to minors.
Wants Nine-Foot Quilts.
H. H. Dunn of Albert Lea, former
speaker of the house, who is six feet
three inches tall in his stocking feet,
argued yesterday in the house that
all hotel quilts should be nine feet
long. The house listened in rapt at
tention while the Albert Lea mem
Der presented his argument.
John G. Lennon, Minneapolis, has
introduced a bill regulating certain
classes of rooming houses and Mr..
Dunn remarked that the state law
provides for nine-foot sheets in ho-
tells and that he believed the law
should be extended to quilts. "The
reason is obvious" he said, as he
rose to his full height.
Mr.. Lennon explained that the nine
foot sheet was sanitary measure
and permitted the folding of the
sheet back over the quilt. Mr.. Dunn
made no further protest.
Bob Dunn's Birthday.
In cOmmemoration of II. G. Dunn s
birthday and twenty-sixh wedding an
niversary, the house took recess at
1915 a. m. while c. n. Orr, on be-
half of the house, presented the
veteran with handsome silver serv-
ice and a widespreading bouquet The
service consisted of a coffee urn per.
colator and salver and cost nearly
$500 Mr.. Dunn today is fifty-eight
years of age. For once Mr.. Dunn
was speechless and about all he
could say in appreciation of the gift
was God bless you; God bless you
ALL"
The Woodmen Bill.
d. p. O'NeilPs bill permitting the
insurgent members of the Modern
Woodmen of America to organize a
new fraternal order in Minnesota will
be a special order in the house at
II a. m Wednesday.
C.. ]. Buell.. who has succeeded Lynn
Haines as the censor" of the state
legislature, was ousted from the
house floor today by the sergeant-at-
arms. He protested and called for
Chief Clerk Oscar Arneson who told
the sergeant-at-arms that Mr.. Buell.
had credentials from st. Paul news
paper.
st. Paul, February 15.-That cry
of "see what the boys want or
what's yours, old scout?" will be
thing of the past if the anti-treating
bill now before the senate passes.
1t may get by at that.
Should the bill prevail, the CONVEX
sation in 1914 will be more like this:
Here's Is cents, Bill; this drinks
on me, you know" or Take this
dollar and pay for your own suds;
give me back the change when were
outside"
Before the two houses of the Min
nesota legislature are bills of every
kind and description calculated to
put liquor out of business, and the
anti-treating bill is one of them.
That it will be recommended to pass,
as far as the house committee on
temperance is concerned, is almost
certain because it has pushed out
practically everything given to the
committee for consideration. In the
language of those who have appear
ed before it in opposition to various
anti-liquor measures it is alright"
Bill Will Go to House.
Thursday the committee had the
anti-treating bill, and while no ac-
ton was taken sufficient sentiment
was shown to make sure that it will
be reported out This sentiment was
i'm the face of absolute admission
that the bill, if it did become law,
could be evaded.
you fellows in the cities evade
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