The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-04-03

from week to week. AS they tell it
here Keller's friends worked like
trojans to keep his name out of the
report. A st. Paul member of the
house committee drafted it and he
helped out the mayors friends by
simply referring to the mayor as a
certain St. Paul attorney.
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One of the big things to come is
congressional reapportionment. The
senate is making the draft, which will
give the state one more congressional
district, and the political ambitions
OF dozen or more are tied up in
what will happen. The new district
will be whitfield out of part of Hen
nepin county, with Isanti Anoka,
Sherburne and Washington counties
added to make it the proper size. Sen
ator w. S. Dwinnell Of Minneapolis
wants his ward-the Fourth-includ-
ed, so he can run for congress and
he has a rival in Senator M. L. Eos
seen of the same city, who is anxious
to have his district taken in also.
Then there is Senator Frank Clague
of Redwood county, who wants to be
tied onto Congressman Hammonds
district. Still another is Senator S.
D. Works of Mankato, who would like
Blue Earth county shifted so as to
give him chance at a congressional
plum. When the bill is reached look
| out for fireworks. The proposed diVi-
sions are due to be holly contested.
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The senate is expected to make
some decided changes in the house
inspection bill Under the terms of
the measure state inspection is ex-
tended to restaurants and eating
houses of every description and kind
with a state license that all must pro-
cure. Representative Minnette of
Stearns county and other country
members tried hard to wipe out some
of the regulatiye features as they ap-
ply to rural hostelries and eating
houses but we're unsuccessful. The
bill passed the house by bare ma
jority.
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With the new legislative and SEN
atorial reapportionment act now a
law there is little chance of any cor
rections until after the next census.
Not satisfied with some of the
changes made, Seventh and Eighth
district members induced the house
to pass two bills amending the act,
but the senate has refused to accept
them on constitutional grounds They
contend that changes are clearly out
of order at this time.
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Minnesota's $4,000 Jag" cure
farm and hospital will be continued
for while longer. Declaring that
the new institution was a palace in
appointments and the forty or more
patients confined in the institution
were costing the state more than they
we're worth, DR.. Stone of Park Rapids
tried to have the buildings turned in
to a hospital for the cure of tubercu-
losis, but failed. He was voted down
two to one. The house has since in
for it's maintenance from 2 to 4 per
cent. The big end of the cost of the
institution is borne by the large cities
and the increase in the tax is not
relished by them.
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Country and cooperative creamer-
les will hail with JOY the passage by
the house of the Finke bill compelling
the shipment Of cream, when the dis
lance is more than sixty-ive miles,
in iced cars. The only other alterna-
tive is to have it pasteurized at the
point of shipment. The bill is aimed
at the big city centralizers and will
curtail their activities in the country
districts outside of their own territory
For some reason or another the cen
tralizers did not make any fight on
the BILL Those who claim to know
say that the centralizers believe the
bill to be unconstitutional and will
fight it in the courts if it passes the
senate.
Senator Thomas eastman of Steele
county, author of the distance tariff
bill, which is now law, is talked of
as possible candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor two
years hence. The amount of good
advertising he received as a result of
the passage of the bill, it is claimed,
would make him a formidable oppo-
nent for the other side.
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The house committee on appropria-
lions and the senate finance commit
tee have agreed that the payment of
salaries through the medium of fees
must go. This hits George Author,
the governors new private secretary,
and I. A. Caswell, clerk of the SUI
preme court. Neither will fight the
change. It is proposed to give each
straight salary of either $4,000 or
$4,000 year. The latter figure will
more likely prevail Both Offices have
been estimated to be worth all the
way from $4,000 to $4,000 a year
Nach hut tha former fo,,ro ie ,oo.or