The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-02-07


| meanor.
Woman suffrage, although already
| defeated in the senate, is not yet
quite dead. A woman suffrage bill,
! prepared by Representative Sunberg
| will be special order in the house
| on Thursday next at II a. m. The
next day the initiative and referen'
! dun will come up for consideration
and will be before the house until dis.
posed of. 1t is believed that it will
pass without substantial opposition.
Temperance reform is the subject
of large number of bills introduced
in both house and senate. The last
one, of which Representative Fink is
the author, proposes to clamp down
| the lid at s O'Clock in the evening
and not to lift it again until z in
the morning.
Vote is Deferred.
Although Mr.. Bauck's bill permit.
ting counties to appropriate money to
| advertise their agricultural resources
was on the calendar Saturday. the
! vote upon it was deferred. Objection
| was made to it on the ground that it
could be manipulated by land sharks
| to promote selfish ends. The bill pro
vides that county boards may appro,
| pirate money for the purpose referred
| to equal to five cents per capita OF
| the population.
| Senator Works concurrent resolu.
ton urging congress to authorize ma
tional banks to make farm loans.
| thus providing "a new and safe med
! ium for the investor" passed the
house and was transmitted to the gov.
ernor for his signature.
| ST. Paul, Feb. 1.-The senate has
! gone on record in favor of free lum.
| Der. but it hesitated to instruct con.
gress to vote for free sugar. The
vote on the latter proposition, which
Senator G. D. Sullivan sought to in
clude in Senator Moonan's concurrent
resolution for free lumber. was % for
TO "a against.
To Straishten Chippewa River.
Owing to the nature of it's course.
| the Chippewa river in some parts of
! Chippewa, Pope and Swift counties
oyerfiows bottom lands, causing great
| damage to farm lands and endanger-
! ing public health. Senator Froshaug,
therefore. proposes that the legislature
a, authorize the drainage commission to
straighten the course Of the stream
and deepen its channel.
The hour of opening the polls on
primary and general election day in
| townships, but not in villages or cities.
| is changed in Representative Papke's
bill, which has passed the house. from
| 6 a. m. to a. II. ....
October ~ is proposed by Repre-
| sentative Vasaly as a public holiday.
1t is to be known as Columbus day.
Protest is made against the transfer
| of national forest reserve to state con-
troll in a concurrent resolution offered
by Mr.. Dendixen which passed the
house.
Free hog cholera serum is provided
| for in Representative Verbue's bill
which has now reached the calendar.
This serum is produced at labora,
tory in connection with the college of
| agriculture. The serum may be ad.
ministered to their hogs by farmers if
the board of veterinary examiners
| think them competent.
The house meets today for the first
time since the legislature convened
The senate, however, adjourned until
eleven O'Clock Monday.
ST. Paul, Jan. 31.-Measures de.
signed to stamp out tuberculosis occu'
pied largerly the attention of the SEN
ate yesterday. The bill to abolish the
common drinking cup, which was
passed, is of that character.
| Next came up for consideration Sen.
ators Frosbaug and Boyle's bill to en-,
able counties to establish and main.
tain tuberculosis sanitoriums. This
bill authorizes the county commits.
sioners of any county or group of
counties to decide by resolution to es.
tablish sanitorium and to appoint a
local sanitorium commission Half the
expense of building and equipping the
sanitorium is to be betrayed by the
state, the other half by the county
which is authorized to levy a tax
not greater than one mill for the pur.
pose.
The house passed the bill for con.
stitutional amendment authorizing the
loan of state school funds on improved
farm lands.
! Amendments In All Papers.
| Representative Bjornson would have
the constitutional amendments printed
in all the newspapers of the state, In
a bill he proposes that the amend
ments shall be furnished newspapers
in stereotype form and that the price
he limited to 20 cents an inch, except
in the case of papers of 10000 circp-
lation or over which are to be paid
| the present lega, rates
A new agricultural substation and
experimental farm is proposed by Sen
ator Olson. 1t is to be located in
either jackson. Mobiles. Rock. Pipe.
stone. Murray or Cottonwood county.