The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-02-20
STATE LEGISLATURE
Lees County Option Bill fleets De-
feat in the House by Vote of
Fifty-nine to Fifty mine.
After a Battle of Four Hours Senate
Annihilates Woman Suffrage
Bill Passed by House.

sentative Lees bill was killed by a
vote of 50 to So, two members being
absent. Sixty-one votes were neces-
sary to carry the measure. The
absentees, Albert Pfaender and W.
H. Wescott, were both opposed to
the bill. While the measure fell four
votes short of the expectations of it's
friends it came nearer passage than
in any previous session.
The state senate on Friday, follow
ing a parliamentary battle lasting
from noon until p. M, and after
six roll calls on various motions,
killed the woman suffrage bill passed
by the house. By this action all
hope of the women having this con-
stitutiOnal amendment submitted
to the people at the 1914 election
goes aglimmering. The final vote,
on a motion of Senator G. H. Sulli-
van of Saltwater to reject the bill,
motion said to be without parallel in
the history of the state, was 81 to 25.
Seven members were absent, but all
of those present voted the same as
they did when Senator Ole Sageng's
suffrage bill was defeated by the SEN
ate two weeks ago, except Senator S.
B. Duea, who voted for the bill the
other time but with the opponents
now.
The senate committee on towns
and counties recommends that 10 per
cent Of the liquor license money in
villages and cities OF the fourth
class, which now goes into the
county revenue fund, be placed in a
road improvement fund and expend-
ed on roads leading into the munich
palities.
BY vote of nearly three to one
the house killed J. J. Preston's bill
prohibiting the employment Of per-
sons not native born or natura]ized
on public works.
Representative Brown of St. James
has introduced bill providing for
the removal Of the power of appoint
ing the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction from the governor
and giving it to the state high
school board, such board to act with
one person chosen by the county
superintendent and one by the city
superintendents.
AS tribute of respect to the
memory of Robert A. Smith, former
mayor Of St. Paul, who died last
week, both houses of the legislature
adjourned over Saturday.
G. J. Buell., who has succeeded the
notorious Lynn Haynes as the seen
sor" Of the state legislature, was
ousted from the house floor by the
sergeant at arms on Friday.
"A bill providing that minor who
mlsrepresents his age for the pur-
pose of obtaining liquor may be
punished for misdemeanor on Friday
appeared in the house with G. W.
Bouck as its sponsor. Similar
measures have been introduced at
every session of the legislature for
years past and have been voted down
on the ground that the result will be
to relieve liquor dealers from all re-
sponsibility in the sale of intoxicants
to minors.
The senate general legislation COM
mittee held a bill-killing bee on Fri
day and among the measures an
initiated were Duea's bill for ]icens-
ing real estate dealers, Elwell and
Lund's bill creating legislative
reference bureau, two bills by Carl
Wallace for the regulation of hotels,
Frank Murray's bill for giving aid
to poultry associations and another
bill by him prohibiting lobbying, and
Pauly's bill creating state board
OF boiler inspectors.
Line house committee of elections
has reported out the Lundeen presi-
Dental primary bill with a recon-
mendatlon that it pass. The bill
PROVIDES for primary election on
the second Tuesday in March in each
presidential year, at which the vot-
ers shall express their preferences for
president and vice president and
elect delegates to the national con-
ventions of their respective parties.
the state delegation to the national
convention to select the national
committeeman for the state.
Members of the state game and
fish commission were on Tuesday
subjected to grilling by the house
committee on public accounts and
expenditures. The committee
sought to ascertain why Lake
Shetek, in Murray county, was set
apart as the exclusive fishing pre-