The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-03-27
STATE LEGISLATURE
Bill Intended to Modify Certain Pro-
visions of eastman Distance
Tariff Law introduced.
Abolition of Game and Fish Commits
sion Proposed by the Commit
tee on Public Accounts.

A bill intended to modify certain
provisions Of the eastman law and
give relief to stations situated on a
long line and near junction point
was introduced by Senator eastman,
shortly after Governor A. o. Eber-
hart had signed the distance tariff
measure. The bill provides for
joint freight shipment and allows the
railroad and warehouse commission
to fix a rate based on the short mile
age plus the cost OF transferring the
Car. After this rate is established
the long line may carry freight from
any station to the terminal on it's
own line at the same rate fixed for
joint traffic without affecting the
rate elsewhere on the line. The bill
also provides that greater rate can
not be charged for a shorter distance
which is included within the longer
distance.
Abolition of the state game and
fish commission is to be proposed in
a report to be sent to the house this
week by the committee on public &C
counts and expenditures which has
been Investigating state depart
ments. The committee will recon-
mend that the protection of the
game and fish be placed in the hands
of the state forestry department.: 1t
is expected that the report will criti-
else the present methods Of letting
contracts to seine lakes for trough
fish, The game and fish commits
sion appears to have been a losing
proposition for the state.
Five house members, following the
suggestion OF Governor Eberhart,
have manufactured bill appropriate
ing $25, 900 for a Minnesota exhibit
tiania in 1914. The bill was intro
duced in the house by such tried and
true vikings as ". I. Nolan, Fl. 0.
Bjorge, Henry .Steen, DanieI Patrick
O'Neill, N. j. Holmberg and Cleon
T. Knapp. Mr.. Nolan married
daughter of Norway: Mr.. Bjorge was
born in Minnesota, but his parents
came from Norway: Mr. O'Neill is
believed to have descended from the
Nelson family which emigrated
from Norway to Ireland a Thousand
years ago; Mr.. Holmberg is Swede
and hence first cousin of the Nor
wegians; Mr.. Knapp has many Nor
wegians in his district and Mr.. Steen
was horn in Norway.
The ''seven senators'' bill, en-
phatically defeated at the polls last
fall, has bobbed up again in both
houses of the legislature. The bill
is Identical with the one submitted
two years ago, proposing a constitu-
tional amendment limiting the SEN
ate to sixty-three and the number of
senators from any one county to
seven. The authors of the bill in
the senate are John Moonan of Wa
SEGA, f. A. Duxbury of Caledonia,
=. s. Marden of GAINESVILLE, F. E.
Putnam OF Blue Earth, H. F. Weis
OF LIE Sueur and ]. E. Haycraft of
Madelia. The house sponsors for
the bill are Thomas Frankson of
Spring Valley, W. W. Brown of St.
James, Miles Porter of Mankato and
F. E. Minnette of Sank Center.
Speaker Rines has appointed five
house members on the conference
committee, which will meet with a
like committee from the senate for
the purpose of endeavoring to har-
monize the differences in the initia-
tive and referendum bill.
A bill proposing a constitutional
amendment providing for the recall
of judicial decisions has been intro
duced in the house by J. w. Wilson
of Minneapolis. The bill proposes
the submission to the people on pc
tition of 10000, or per cent of the
voters, of decisions involving consti-
tutional questions. -.
M. W. Williams and A. S. Larson
have introduced a drastic measure
which provides that all property used
for immoral purposes shall be for
feited to the state upon conviction
of the proprietor.
The house will consider the senate
elections bill as a special order this,
Thursday, afternoon. The bill was
amended by the house committee to
eliminate the features of the senate
bill making county and legislative
offices nonpartisan and fight in the
house will likely result.
No attempt to arrange rate
schedule under the provisions of the
eastman distance tariff law will be
made until the decision on the states
rate cases is made by the United
States supreme court. The decision