Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-03-19
]. NEW AJET OMOBILE Law .szs

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NEW ATT MO BILE Law
4 1 understand that. the senate COM
mittee think that improve ments could
readily be made in the new utomo-
bile bill that has passed the house.
AS the bill came from that body it
provides for a license fee Of Ave doll.
ars to be paid annually by all owners
Of: automobiles. The present fee is.
$3.50 for three years. This SIS lie
ense fee is not made payable until
january, 1915. It is calculated that
by that date it would add "a quarter
of million dollars to the.pub}ic rev J:
enues. 1t is proposed that this shall.
be added to the state road and bridge.
fund It's understood that in the
main, the bill is satisfactory to- the
organization Of automobile owners in
these two cities, who do. not object
to the disposition made Of the money
if there can be any assurance that
the roads. will be made better .sz.
BAD. PRACTICE STOPPED. .
At least one bad practice has been
put an end to as a result of the grain
Investigations. It has been the Gus Z
tom Of some Of the line elevatorscom-
panies to sell grain consigned to
Ethem to their own subsidiary com
panies, a practice which was scarce
| ly devised in the interest Of shippers
Of grain. The Minneapolis chamber
of commerce has now issued an or
der against it and. it will without
doubt be discontinued. So: .=:.. .s5=s
REINFORCEMENT ASSURED
While the house: does not regard
the changes made in.the reapportion-
ment bill by the senate as improving
It, it preferred to accept them rather
than take any action which might re-
suit in danger to the measure. AS
amended by the senate the bill pro-
vides for senate Of 81 members and
a house Of 100. It gives Hennepin
county nine senator's and eighteen re-
representatives., Ramsey county six
senators and twelve represent tives
and St. Louis county five: senator's
and ten representatives. The distri-
oution made Of seats in the country
by the senate was subjected to very
little criticism in the. debate which
preceded the passage Of the bill, but
a determined effort was made to cut
down the representation of the three
more populons counties. Senator Put
nam offered an amendment to confne
Ramsey and Hennepin counties to the
representation they now have, and
when this was defeated the opposi-
ton to the bill united on Senator
Duxbury's amendment limiting Hen
! nepin county representation to eight
senator's. That too was voted down.
THESE PERSISTED,
Only ten senators carried their OPP
position to- the bill to the final roll
call. These were all from southern
Minnesota except Senator Handlan
Of St. Paul, who was dissatisfied with
the way Ramsey county was cut up
/ and especially with the shape his
own district was left=:in. The Other
senator's voting against the bill We're
Anderson of Freeborn county, Cash.
man Of Steele, Duxbury Of Houston
i1aycraft Of Watonwan, Klein Of Car:
yer, Moonan Of Waseca, Olson 81
! Cottonwood, Poehler Of, Sibley and
Thoe Of Dodge. .ss : .
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. &
| A bill passed by the house last
week which received little attention
and was scarcely mentioned at all BY
the press is regarded by business mer
and lawyers as one Of the most i'm:
,ortant Of the session. It provides
A uniform law governing negotiable
& Instruments. There is no general Law
covering this subject on the statute
. BOOKS Of the state. The .treatment#o1
paper. of this character comes under
common law rules and is governed By
precedent and custom. Decisions =o1
4 che courts are conflicting The worl
the Legislature has done was to worl
those Of these decisions best suited
I to modern practice into code which
1 covers the whole subject fully While
| there are changes made in some cases
in the practice usually observed The
i law under the provisions Of the bill
i will be plain and definite and there
/ will be not that trouble there is nov
j; in finding out what it . ==.5.
EXTENDING LOCAL OPTION .55
!. Hereafter cities Of the fourth class
{ .Whether.=it is provided for in thei1
!. charters or not will be given mop.
4 portunity to vote, when any consiid:.
q cradle number Of the people SO desire
4 LIT, on the question Of license or ne
. license. Frank Clague is the author
/ Of this bill which local option people
I have long wanted to see enacted into
a law, and it will no doubt add to his
4 reputation as q eformer. Speaking
4 Of Mr.: Clague, there is a story going
! that he IS regarded as the hope q
j those repub hcanss who want to SCI
4 Mr.: Hammond defeated in the second