The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-03-20


centers of the state will undoubtedly
be able to tell some interesting
things in vice way if forced.
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Cities of the fourth class now have
the right of local option. The Sen.
ator Clague bill extending it to them
was passed by the house last week
and was duly signed by Governor
Eberhart. This session of the legis-
lature has not been overstrong in the
way OF temperance legislation. All
it's efforts have been along lines SO
radical as to make the proposed
measures almost impossible of en-.
forcement and their defeat has been
natural.
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Representative Campbell, known as
the Minneapolis fire eater,' has
brought to light, a new form of brib.
cry. He was approached with $500
worth of editorials in leading Twin
City paper if he would drop a certain
bill, and he Indignantly refused This
is what he told the house last week
in confession before that body This
confession he later embodied in a
sworn affidavit, which he filed with
the house. Later he modified his
statement to the effect that the value
of the editorials he was to get was;
not stated, but that he figured they
were worth $500.
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The mothers pension bill, which
Mr.. Campbell fathered and which has
since passed the house, was the bill
which Mr. Campbell was asked to
give the double cross. The promise
of the editorials came from man
connected with Minneapolis charity
and the reason of his interference,
Mr.. Campbell claimed, was because
organized charity wanted to- handle
the pension funds and distribute them
under it's direction. The Minneapolis
mans estimate of the value of the
editorials perhaps was rather far
fetched, but that does not stand in
the way of the statement that organ
lied charity has been making an ef-
fort to get it's hands in the public
trough via the mothers and depend.
ents' pension bill. If there ever was
a cold blooded affair it is. the organ
lied charities which flourish in the
big cities.
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The poor mans butter. oleomargar-
inc, received a decidedly black eye
when the house sent to the senate the
Dunn bill regulating it's manufacture,
sale and use. Any resemblance of
color is knocked out of the substitute
by the bill and this even extends to a
prohibition of the use of ingredients
that would go toward making the sub
stitute yellow or even tinge of yell
low. The dairy interests backed the
bill solidly and the city members
were swept aside in the struggle like
so much chaff.
When the house took a vote on ton
mage tax week ago and sent it to the
discard it was thought that legislation
along this line had been effectively
squelched for this session at least. It
seems not, however. Representatives
Frankson, Bjorge, Dunn and others
who backed the bill which was defeat
ed have figured out a new scheme,
which is the taxation of franchises of
iron ore companies on tonnage basis.
For every ton of iron ore mined.
bought or sold they would impose
tax of 1 cent a ton, which would stand
as lien against the company's fran
chise. That the proposition will ever
prevail is doubted.
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There are more ways than one of
whipping the ''old fellow" around the
stump and the house and senate mem
bers have found the latest method in
the passage of a bill increasing the
number of judges of the supreme court
to seven. The bill has been signel by
Governor Eberhart and Judges Dibel
of Duluth and Taylor of st. Cloud have
been named for the positions. An in
crease in the size of the court is i'm
possible under the constitution and
this the two legislative bodies got
around by creating two offices to be
known as supreme court commission
ers. They are to have the same DOW
ers and duties as the constitutional
members and to draw the same salary.
81. 900 a year.
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r. c. Dunn's county assessor bill.
which passed the house early in the
session, went by the board Thursday
when the senate gave it a decided
quietus. Many amendments were at
tempted and finally the opposition
gave it the blow that put it out of
business. Another Dunn to suffer a
reverse was H. H. Dunn of Albert Lea.
whose bill amending the present anti
trust act was defeated. The farmer
members got it into their heads that
the bill hit the country, and that set
tied it.
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