The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-31
bill, offered later, never came to a
vote.

st. Paul, January 2S.-County op
ton and half a dozen other measure!
aimed at the liquor traffic appeared
in the house yesterday afternoon. ]
F. Lee of Annandale introduced the
same county option bill that wa:
beaten two years ago. The county
Optionists believe the bill has, an eX
cellent chance of passing the house
j. T. Johnson introduced bill i'm
posing penalties upon saloonkeepers
who sell to persons after parents
guardians, relatives, employers or am
officer of the law has instructed then
not to make such sales. The list o.
persons who may be thus posted in
cludes students in any educational in
stitution of the state, habitual drunk
ards, spendthrifts and persons having
Indian blood.
I, Hit Blind Pigs.
T. T. Merken Of Crookston intro
duced bifl increasing the penalties
upon the sale of liquor by blind
pigs" Kerry Conley of Rochester
introduced a measure to give loca
option to cities of the fourth class
A bill appropriating 100000 and
creating a farm development board
was introduced by d, p. O'Neill and
Paul Marschalk. They would have
the Governor, the state treasurer and
the state forester compose a state
farm development board that would
assist in the clearing of timber lands
for agricultural purposes.
Aid for Grabbing Land.
Under the provisions of the O'Neill
Marschalk bill any person might
make application to the hoard for aid
in grubbing out lands. The board, il
il approved, might let contracts for
the work and collect the cost in an
nual installments levied against the
land
Carl P. Carlson introduced bill
prohibiting the killing of duck or
other waterfowl between one-half
hour after sunset and one-half hour
before sunrise. A. c. Johnson intro
duced in the house the duplicate OF
the bill already in the senate author
iZing the governor TO appoint two del
GSdicS W lnFcSllSdtc optsti ~
tens Of rural credits.
A bill for the sterilization of crimi-
rails was introduced by G.. w. Brown.
A similar measure was offered in the
senate by Senator Fosseen.
Cut Out the Nonpartisan.
The senate, by a vote of 80 to 1G,
yesterday went on record as favoring
amending the primary election law
10 do away with the right of can.
by petition, following the primary
election.
The vote was made on motion OF
Senator Collier, who said if such an
was favored he proposed
introducing one.
Senator Haycraft's bill extending
the nonpartisan feature of the pri-
mary election law to county offices,
under discussion at the time of the
test vote.
Places Bar on Court.
When the bill providing for a con
amendment increasing to
seven the number of supreme court
justices comes before the house, it is
expected that Representative Bjorge
will attach an amendment providing
that the court shall not declare an
act unconstitutional where more than
one Justice dissent. Mr.. Bjorge has
reached the conclusion that stat
ute providing for this change might
be declared unconstitutional by the
court. The court has the constitu-
tional power to make its rules, and
statutory laws as to what constitutes
an act of the court, might be thought
an infringement.
Would School Legislators.
representative Walter Anderson of
Badger wants to give new members
of the legislature time TO catch their
breath after election before they are
sent against the legislative guns in
actual session. He POUNDS his ideas
on his own experience. He has in
his mind two legislative measures of
Importance. If he could have year
to study and post himself upon
these measures, he believes that he
could present them to the legisla-
ture in much better form, and if
passed they would be better laws.
Mr. Anderson does not know
whether this breathing spell for in
struction and the finding of bearings
should be secured by putting off the
session of the legislature, as is the
case of the United States congress,
for year after the election, or by
annual sessions of the legislature.
Does Not Know in Advance.
"No candidate knows in advance
whether he will be successful in the
election" said Mr. Anderson. "He
of preparing legislation until he
knows whether his work will be of
any use. When he is elected, the SEES
sion opens before he has time to do
much of anything. If he could have
more time, his work would be much
more valuable to the state"
Mr.. Anderson pointed out that az
ter getting the training of one SEES
sion, the legislator is likely to be
to give any service to the state. A
case where an annual session would
be useful, it is pointed out, is the
organization of the state departments,
If the legislature might set a com
mittee at work this session and
have it report back next year, it
might do workmanlike job and its
report might be given Legislative
effect before the men who directed
it had gone out OF office.
State Life Insurance.
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