The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-03-20
STATE LEGISLATURE
Reapportionment Passes the Senate
and 1t Now Goes Back to the
House for Concurrence.
r. G. Dunn's Getty sburg Bill Passes
House and His Assessor Bill is
Killed by the Senate.

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ter struggle lasting over three
hours. The opposition forces made
determined stand in debate, but
when it came to roll calls the
strength they had claimed melted
away like SNOWFALL in the midday
sun. The end Of two-year fight
for substantial Justice to the under
represented sections Of the state
came when the senate passed the
house bill, as agreed to by the senate
committee, by vote of As to 10.
The bill as passed by the senate pro-
vides for 81 senators and 100 house
MEMBERS two more senators and four
more house members than in the
house bill.
R. G. Dunn's bill providing for an
appropriation of S25, 1000 for the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses of the
old soldiers of the state to the Get
tysburg battlefield next summer
passed the house by vote of 80 to 2.
r. G. Dunn's county assessor bill,
which passed the house by vote Of
81 to IS was killed in the senate last
Thursday after several amendments
had been attached. The vote was Al
to II.
The Wallace bill authorizing the es-
tablishment of savings banks for
school children and allowing savings
banks to place agents at school build
ings passed the senate by unani-
nous vote. The bill had the indorse-
ment of school superintendent of
various large cities of the state and
of the banking fraternity. The
measure simply legalizes what is now
being done by several banks in the
state toward encouraging children to
save money.
AS result of public hearing on
the classification BILL passed by the
house, the senate committee on taxes
decided to refer the question of the
constitutionality of the bill to the
attorney general.
Delegations from East Grand
Forks and Moorhead appeared before
the house committee on temperance
and protested against the proposed
bill limiting the number of saloons
in any community to one to every 500
of population. The present state. law
provides for this limit but does not
affect the saloons in operation when
the law was passed. Moorhead and
East Grand Forks have many more
saloons than the 500 limit would al
low. The proposed law would auto
matically put saloons above the limit
in these cities out of business when
the licenses expire. No action was
taken by the committee.
A bill has passed both houses of
the legislature providing for a con-
stltutional amendment authorizing
the payment of bounties not to ex-
coed 81 50 an acre for the planting of
trees.
.. "A. Lende has introduced a bill
in the senate providing that all SER
wants of the state except those
elected by the people, appointed bv
the governor and confirmed bv thu
legislature, department. heads, men,
bers of boards, bureaus and commits
sions, shall be under civil service
rules. The bill, which also provides
for the appointment of a civil SER
vice commission, was referred to the
committee on general legislation.
The quail will become the state
bird of Minnesota and a perpetual
closed season be established if a bill
introduced in the senate by Manley
Fosseen becomes law. The meas
ure provides that any person shoot
ing, trapping or killing the quail
shall be guilty of misdemeanor.
The bill is preceded by preamble
in which it is cited that farmers lose
annually s8,000:00C through the de-
struction of crops in the United
States by insects. According to the
preamble the quail destroys neither
sprouting nor growing grain, but ex-
tends it's foraging into the center of
large fields, protecting growing crops
by the destruction of noxious weeds
and injurious insects. This bill
should become law.
Recommendation that the state no.
tel inspection department. be abol-
ished and that it's work be done by
the state labor department. is con-
tanned in report made to the house
by the committee on public accounts
and expenditures. The committee
reports that the department costs
the state more than SIS, 900 a year and
that practically all the work of A.
W. Crozier. Inspector, and B. NJ.