Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-01-23
Minnesota legislature
Proceedings IT the Minnesota State Capitol Tor the
Past Week.
Past Week.

Past
St Paul, Jan. a. Evidently the
house Of representatives is impatient
OF the delay which the United States
supreme Court has shown in handing
down Q decision in the Minnesota rate
! cases. The second resolution on this
subject was offered yesterday BY Rep
resentative Schwartz It calls upon
the state attorney general to transmit
20 the house any information he has
on the subject. sss
Mr.. Lundeen's Bill.
Some days ago Representative Lun-
deem offered q resolution providing
that house employees should not be
paid for Sundays and holidays as is
customary. It was referred to the
committee on rules. Yesterday that
committee reported the resolution
back for indefinite postponement on
the ground that the custom Is author
lied by law. Mr.. Lundeen now in
tends to amend the law in that respect
and has introduced bill for the .pur.
pose II 81
Representative Kneeland seeks in q
bill introduced Monday to create de-
partment of Public Domain as recon-
mended by the governor. He pro.
poses that the head of this department
shall be paid salary of $4,000 a year
and that the heads of sub-departments
shall receive not more than $4,000 q
year. OF these subsidiary depart
ments or bureaus there are five, as
follows:
Subsidiary Departments.
The department Of agriculture and
immigration.
The department Of state lands, in
Guiding drains, waters and waterways
and water powers.
The Department of Mines.
The Department of Game and Fish.
The Department of Forestry.
These departments would absorb the
numerous boards which now deal with
matters which 1t is intended should
be subject to the department Of public
domain.
Cure for Publicity Agents. !.
A curb for the imagination of pub
Lefty agents is proposed by Mr.. Nolan.
His measure makes it gross INSIDE
meanor to misrepresent or exagger-
ate facts in newspaper advertisements
or in literature designed for general
distribution with view tos inducing
people to part with their money. .
Representative Hopkins proposes
the submission of a constitutional
amendment providing that the basis
Of representation in the state legisla-
ture shall hereafter be citizen inhab-
itants instead Of the total population.
In his opinion the man who has not
become a citizen of Minnesota has no
right to be considered when fixing the
basis Of representation. 5-
Two-cent Bill.
To compel railroads, the gross earn
ings Of whose passenger trains are
1920 mile or more, to grant rate
Of two cents mile for passenger
service is the purpose of bill intro
duced by Representative Bendixen.
This would include practically all
roads operating in this state except
the Minneapolis & st. Louis, new
road to International Falls, and one
or two lumber roads.
At meeting of the state drainage
board today Frank HI. Nutter, Jr., Of
Minneapolis, was appointed state
drainage engineer to succeed George
Ralph, who resigned the position some
time ago. Mr.. Nutter is now en-
ployed as drainage engineer by Hen
nepin county.
st. Paul, Jan. 20-Ex-Speaker H: H.
Dunn was the big works so far as
the proceedings were concerned last
Saturday A joint resolution pre-
pared by him calling upon congress to
make federal judges elective, passed
the house without dissenting vote
This resolution charged, first, that
the federal judges Of the United
States are in the main recruited from
the ranks of corporation lawyers; :"
+. second, that "the federal courts have
usurped the powers and functions Of
legislative bodies by arrogant and
willful disregard of the rights of the
people," and, third, that "by long and
unbroken line Of rules and decisions
in. favor of the great corporate inter-
ests and against the private individual
and the masses, the federal judges
have forfeited the confidence and re-
spect of the people
a bill previously introduced by Mr..
y Dunn requiring that in all sales Of
state lands the mineral rights be re-
served, was advanced TO general or
ders. There are said he, "about five
thousand acres of state lands known
to contain iron Of an approximate
value on SO cent royalty basis Of 3d.
100000. / propose that these shall not
be given away to railroads or other
corporations"