The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-04-25

st. Paul, April 22.-The legislature
so far has made short work of the
passage of the appropriation bills once
the committees had reported them.
Three of them have been passed and
now await the governors censorship
and signature
Contain Many Budgets.
These bills contain the department,
the educational and the charitable and
penal budgets. The deficiency bill has
yet to be reported. 1t is estimated
that the total appropriations will APP
proximate $20,O0O,OOO. Besides this,
there are appropriations of ISL, 2OO,O
for public buildings, the funds for
which it is proposed to raise by the
issue of certificates of indebtedness.
Interest still centers in the action OF
the senate, now that the house re-
passed them, on the governors vetoes
on the holland bill granting cities the
right to regulate their own public util-
tiles, except telephone service, and the
Minnette bill putting telephone COM
panies under the supervision of the
board of railroad and warehouse COM
missioners.
g.. Want One Passed.
The ward leaders want the senate to
pass the Nolan bill over the governors
veto. About the Minnette telephone
bill they care nothing but the Nolan
bill would add just that much to
ward politics. Yesterday morning,
counting of noses showed that the
Minnette bill had all or very nearly
all the strength needed to pass it.
But last night there was a change of
tune.
Grounds For vetoes.
The governor vetoed the former
measure on the ground that he ia
vored state supervision. The latter
he vetoed, first, because it made no
provision to give the commission au-
thority to prevent telephone COM
panies watering their stock; second,
because, while the legislature was
about it, it should have made pro-
vision for the regulation of all public
utilities; third because the railroad
and warehouse commission is already
overworked, and fourth because the
public utilities commission should be
non-partisan and this could not re-
suit if it was elective.
Extra Session Warning Repeated.
Incidental to the governors veto
of the Minnette bill, he repeated his
warning first given in his veto of the
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sive bill for the control of public
utilities were passed he would call
the legislature in extra session to con-
slider the matter. I'm view of the
fact that the legislature will be called
together in extra session within few
MONTHS he says, Il return this bill
without my approval
At yesterdays session the senate
passed Representative Swensons bill
prohibiting the manufacture of oleo-
margarine colored to resemble butter,
requiring all packages of oleomar.
garine to be so labeled and cornpeIl.
ing all hotels, restaurants, ETC., in
which oleoma1sarlne is served to post
placards to that effect. sc
st. Paul, April 21.-The House late
Saturday repassed the Minnette-H olm-
berg-Schwartz bill for the regulation
of telephones and the Nolan bill con-
firming the right of municipalities to
regulate all utilities except telephones,
over the Governors veto. Both bills
now to the senate for repassage or
defeat
Passes Very Easily.
The Minnette bill, so-called, passed
so easily that even it's friends were
surprised, the vote being 50 to IA,
eighty being necessary to pass bill
over a veto. The Nolan bill, however,
was passed only after the prettiest
fight of the session The absence of
a. half-dozen of it's foes proved the
salvation of the bill. '-.- -,
Nolan Bill Called.
w. 1. Nolan then moved to take
from the table his BILL and then asked
to have it passed over the veto. 81
am not going to make any argument
over this measure" he said, ''as | be-
|
1t applies to every city in the state,
but it is needed just now especially
to cover a situation we have in Min
aeapolis. Our city council passed an
ordinance fixing electric light rates,
and the company took the matter in
to court, where Judge c. A. Willard
held that the city had no power to
determine the rates. This leaves the
people of Minneapolis powerless, to
accept any rates the company may
charge.
''If this veto is sustained it will
mean a present of about million dol
lars to the Minneapolis General Elec-
trio company"
Nolan Bill RoIl-CaII.
The roll call was then opened, and
after the scenes and changes already
related, it stood as follows:
| Ayes-Anderson, j., Anderson, W.,
Barten, Bjorge, Bjornson, Braatelien,
| Brown, w. W., Burchard, Burrows,
Wilson's Dine Cabinet Officers.