The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-02-28

| 81. Paul, FeD. Zb.-Ine Senate
cleared up a long calendar at yester-
lays session by passing about 20
bills. The majority of them affected
,nly the Twin Cities and Duluth. 9th.
srs were of minor Importance.
Shortest Bill in Years.
Among them was the shortest bill
introduced in recent years. 1t con-
sisted of only two lines and repealed
/ Chapter lis of the General Laws of
1888. Under this law the superintend.
ent of public instruction was authoriz-
ed to furnish any school district in the
state, not supplied with che, with a
copy of Webster's Unabridged diction-
airy.
A bill passed, of which Senator Weis
is the author, is of interest. 1t pro-
vides that 10 per cent of the money
| paid into the county treasury from liq-
uor licenses shall be paid into fund
to be designated as a road improve
ment fund and shall be expended I'M
| der the direction of the common coun-
Gil or governing body of the munich
pality in which the license was issued
in the repair and improvement of
| roads outside of, but leading into such
municipality"
To Improve State Lands.
Representative McGarry's bill to ap-
propriate money for improving state
lands was unanimously recommended
to pass by the committee ON public
domain.
The bill, after reciting the state
owns much valuable timber land in
adequately protected from fire, and
that settlement on these lands are
widely separated and the settlers are
in constant danger of losing their
lives, property and homes by fire, by
reason of the fact that the state has
negligently permitted and allowed
dead and down timber and other de-
bris to accumulate in large quantities,
thereby placing it's citizens and it's
own property in constant danger"
goes on to provide that in any county
where the state owns more than 5000
acres of timber lands there shall be
used annually in constructing fire.
breaks, bitches and roads through
such lands, sum of money equal to
10 cents an acre. The cost of these
Improvements are to be added to the
price of these lands when sold.
1925, 900 Appropriated by Bill.
Two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars are appropriated for the
purposes of the bill. Mr.. McGarry es-
Inmates that if this bill is carried into
effect it will add so per cent to the
value of the states holdings of tim
Der lands In Koochiching county
alone it will protect $4,000 worth of
pulp wood to say nothing of the vast
tracts of fine timber there and in 9th.
er parts of the state in constant dan
ger of destruction from fire.
ST. Paul, Feb. ga. hoenig, man.
ager of the Farmers Equity elevator
at Garretson, N. D., testified before
the house grain investigation commit
tee that the proceeds OF sales of grain
made to the Van Dusen-Harrington
Co., OF Minneapolis, which that COM
pany sold subsequently to it's subsidi-
aries without the consent of the con-
signor, were satisfactory to him. His
company had negotiated loan of $780,
600 last year with the commission re-
ferred to, and it developed during the
examination that the witnesses ex-
penses in coming to the hearing came
from the same source.
Discouraged from Terminal.
The Farmers Equity company at
one time contemplated building ter
minal elevator at Minneapolis but was
discouraged from making the attempt
by the apparent control the Mime
apolis Chamber of Commerce exer-
cised over the wheat market, the wit
ness testified.
F. w. Emmons, chemist for the
Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills was ex-
amined as to the methods of testing
chemical analysis and then ground
and baked. AS result of these tests
witness concluded that the variety of
wheat known as Velvet chaff is not
ordinarily as desirable for flour and
bread-making purposes as Blue Stem.
Mr.. Crosby Testifies.
Mr.. Crosby of the same firm testi-
fed that because of the uncertainty
of the results from Velvet chaff he
was not willing to pay as high price
for it as for other wheat of the same
grade. Ordinarily he could estimate
by the physical appearance of Blue
Stem wheat it's milling value. He
could not be so certain about Velvet
chaff Sometimes it turned out all
right; at others it did not. This years
crop, he said, was unsatisfactory.
The senate yesterday passed the
Lende's bill for publishing the consti-
tutional amendments. The house re-
commended Mr. Bjornson's bill ident.
ical with it for passage after debating
1t for some time. The bill provides
that the constitutional amendments be
given to all legal papers, country pa
pers to be paid at the rate of 25 cents
q folio and naner'S having a circula-