Morris tribune., 1913-05-09

in question introduced, debated and
finally passed. No effort was made
to interfere For instance, there is
the dog slaughter bill. 1t is so dras-
tic that it can never be enforced. In
the case of child labor there IRE three
conflicting acts. The abatement bill
designed to curb immoral resorts
looks as if it could never be enforced
after the federal courts get through
with it. And so it is all down the
lne-laws galore, many of them SIM
ply repetitions of what are already
on the books and others that work a
hardship instead of giving relief. If
this state aid to schools keeps up it
might be well to provide course of
study for voters.
Ambitious house and senate mem
bers with an eye to future political
preference in the shape of executive
jobs may have seen their chances
gIimmering in the passage of the
house salary bill fixing the annual sti-
pend Of all the heads of state depart
ments, but the fact does not seem to
| worry Speaker Rines of the house OF
representatives. Mr. Rines, you have
probably heard, has his eye on the
state auditors Office. According to
the constitution no member of either
house can aspire to any Office, the
emoluments of which have been in
| creased, until year after the expira-
ton of his term as a member of the
legislature. State Auditor Iverson
| was given a fat salary of $4,000 a
year, which was his stipend before,
| though his actual salary was only 3d.
600. Rines thinks the word ''emolu-
| ments" is the saving clause. J. T.,
1 Johnson, a house member from Fer
gus Falls, was said to be anxious to
become secretary of state, but he is
undoubtedly out of the running. The
Office was raised in point of salary.
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During the closing hours OF the leg
islature some one slipped in an an
nual appreciation of $4,000 for the
| maintenance OF the state hotel in
spection department, but it is hardly
likely those in charge will be per-
mitted to fatten off the fund The
old figure was $4,000 and State Au-
| ditor Iverson intimates that this is all
the department will get. The depart
| ment consists of a big man, husky
boy and a stenographer It's powers
were greatly broadened by the last
legislature.
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Even matches were not exempt
from the regulation prerogatiyes of
| the legislature. Under law now on
the books the old style parlor match
must go. It's place will be taken by
| the safety match of commerce, or g
match with a head that cannot be
| struck on any abrasive surface The
promoters say the law is In the in.
terest of fire presentation, but there
are those who smile and say there
are other things behind it.
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Assessors who started out May ]
to list personal belongings in their
districts must have taken consider
able pleasure in the new law, which
confines the constitutional exemption Of
800 to the head of the family only
And this head of the family, the at
i'torney general has ruled, is the per
son on whom family support depends
Under the old law every individual
was entitled to a 500 exemption ant
the activity shown in dividing UP the
personal belongings of a family among
its individual members had three caro-
monte beat a mile. The division was
expected by the assessor and every
| body did it,
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Two Minnesotans prominent in Do
litical life figure in leading magazine.
| this week. The one "mucked" il
United States Senator Moses E. Clapl
and what Hearst's Magazine does no
say of him in nasty way is hardl,
worth mentioning. Clapp, you probabI,
know, conducted the senatorial cam
paign contribution investigation las
year and he may have stepped OF
Hearst's toes. At any rate he had
ticklish job, as the magazine int
mates he failed to look into his owl
shortcomings in the matter of COZ
poration help The statesman to ge
a boost is Representative Lindberg @
the Sixth district. whom Ida M. Tai
bell, in the American Magazine, style
the SWede who dreams" Lindber
is the lad who has been hunting 70
the money trust and while that ind
vidual is still doing business at tn
same old stand he seems to hav
made some dents in its armor.
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Both Lieutenant Governor Burr
quist and Speaker Rines of the hous
have named committees in accordanc
with resolutions by both bodies prt
viding for an investigation of til
question of statewide control of pul
lie utilities. That appointed by Liel
tenant Governor Burnquist come
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