The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-08-30
HOSTS OF LABOR
HOLIDAY MONDAY
Continued From PAGE. /.

while IN Duluth by a. number Of lead
ing friends of the home rule move
ment. In a letter to the Minneapolis
Journal this week he gives the his
| tory of the public utilities legislation
in the last legislature, and exposes
Governor Eberhart's part in Destroy
ing substantial measures to promote
his. idea of state regulation. Mr..
Childs says: ...., go.
About Governors Threat.
7agt5 19vernori EbsEhart thr r the
they passed his rAblic utilities law he
the year.. call aH:extra session for that
I purpose. He is now reported as say
+ ing that he VIII call the special SEES
xenen Rs me mS9f aeon
! that they will confine their: attention
to the. utility bill. Upon what meat
doth this: our Caesar. feed, that he is
gnoT tha 50 srear as to absorb to himsef
/ The people Of this state, through:
their lawmaking representatives, have
passed upon the public utilities problem
in three different bills before the last
errors general public utility bill, the
| last purporting to place all public -util-
teephones etc., a the gas ands of
;; commission appointed by the governor
This bill was introduced in the SEN
ate by Senator Wallace as early as
| mittee on general legislation. The
| committee BILL was a duplicate Of the
wallace bill except some changes that
were made because Of the batterinK it
received in public discussion.
BY its vote upon the Minnette bill,
the: legislature: decided that the sub
scrlbers to Independent telephone lines
may have access to the subscribers to
all other lines and also the reverse,
known as the physical connection Of
telephones.
Nolan Bill Protected Ctes. !,
BY the Nolan bill, the legislature
sature ' Should Sav aS the rsSt the te
u1ate e., the charges Of their own public
by the defeat Of the committee gen.
governors bill, the legislature decided
! that they were not ready to remove.
the local control over water, gas, cleo
tricity and other local utilities. and
sion appointed by the governor and To-
Gated at the capitol =: go. ). ;.
strong was. the sentiment in the legis-
the vote upon those three bills are
passage and upon the vote to pass pass
the" 0v VOTE fse o Sq3s6a2f,s. X YiHh
Senate. April r. IS to s.. .~
VOTE ON M1NNETTE BILL
House, March 5; 100 to 3. ::.-~
VOTE TO PASS yT EYER GOVERNORS
ni Sz :$:: z RI = s. 3: s. ;s
EE sSst:, 1 ARP4il !! T. 3: t to g.
zary Ss fsfa to tSs get s nees s
Wallace bill never had enough sup
port In the senate to get it to-a vote
The governor vetoed the Nolan bill
April Is. and the Minnette bill April
general utility bill April Il. BY a vote
| sLeSfslature Threshed 1t out, 49,,
,,t tThis record shows 1,ov that the public
| the legislature IN one form or another
from the very opening Of the legisla-
tures to it's close; April 20. And the
out, not only in public hearings before
| the Legislature, but in st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Duluth After the COVER
nor,g message yetoinE the Nolan bill;
a special session unless his bin was
passed, the senate passed the telephone
bill with only ak opposing, votes. !
1T was then that the dynamics Of
| put in fun operation, to prevent. the
Nolan and Minnette bills from passing
over the governor's veto, with the re-
the governor put the screws onto both
| house and senate. to present the. Min
nette bill from becoming q law. EN-
It was. TOO. that twenty senators who
changed their minds and voted against
i Ats passage over the governors veto.
4 April y 81 and tthat twenty-two house
a Feb. Ri voted & y eainst nAsnin lt ever