The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1913-03-14
Money to Be Used For Good Roads
But Movement is Opposed By
/, Some of City Members :
REAPP0RT10NMENT UP T0DAY
Senate Expected To Pass Measure
After Amending Employees Ban
quoted Last Night.
4y United Press.


St. Paul, Minn., March 14.-After
a lengthy debate, the house yesterday>
afternoon decided to recommend for
passage the bill offered by the COM
mittee on taxes, which proposes to in
crease the automobile license fee to;
SIS a year. At present it is $3.50 for
three years. 1*.~.> >-4.
There was much opposition to the
bill from city members, although they
were not united in this respect. The
argument against the bill was that
the automobiles are already taxed as
personal property and that in addi-
tion, the various clubs voluntarily
contributed money for good roads.
The house devoted the entire after
noon to the consideration of bills on
general orders, while the senate ad-
journed at noon to this morning. The
senators devoted most of the after
noon to committee meetings, - -
+ Reapportionment is the big issue
before the senate today The general
opinion is expressed that the bill will
pass. However, as the senate commit
tee has amended it to the extent of
adding two senators and five repre-,
sentatives, inspite of the fact that
house had previously added a like
number, it will be necessary to ap-
point a conference committee to arbi-
trate the differences. ,.
In it's present form, the bill pro-
vides for sixty-seven senators and 1870
representatives, which are four sena-
tors and ten representatives more
than at present.
Among the bills passed by the SEN
ate yesterday was Senator Wallace's
bill to authorize savings banks to coll
lect funds from school children for
deposit. The plan is to encourage
thrift among the rising generation.
The banks are privileged to employ
teachers as agents to collect for them.
No sum less than SIS is to draw inter-
est, and when the depositor has ac-
cumulated 81 he is to be given a book.
Another bill which passed was
drawn up by Sen. c. F. Cook. 1t pro-
vides for a commission to erect me-
MORALS to Minnesota soldiers in the.
national cemetaries at Little Rock,
Ark, and Memphis, Tenn. -.s. -:
Rep. B. G: Bjornson's bill to per-
nit the state treasurer to publish q
condensed annual report, instead of q
detailed report of the affairs of his
office for each year, was recommended
to pass by the house. .yrs.r' r., p: s s
About 200 legislative members and
employees attended the third house"
banquet at eight o'clock last night, at
the Merchants hotel The dinner was
given by the Gopher culb' composed
of legislative employees. - r ...
Oscar Arneson, chief clerk of the
house, was toastmaster, and Lieuten-
ant Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, Ole
Sageng, W 4. Nolan, J. D. Sullivan, r.
J. Westlake and Speaker Henry Rines
were the speakers. The st. Paul
quartet and Joseph McCrea furnished
the music.
Fifty-one years ago during the In.
dian uprising, state troops Of Mime
sofa confiscated a team of horses
from Albert Freitag, resident of Nic-
ollet county. Freitag sought to OBJ.
tain payment for the team from con-
gress, but his claim was disallowed.
Yesterday Albert Pfaender Of New
Ulm introduced bill in the house ap-
propriating $3.50 for reimbursing
Freitag for the team. .
The mothers. pension bill passed
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