The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-05-08


finally passed. No effort was made
to interfere. For instance, there is
the dog slaughter bill. It is so dras-
tic that it can never be enforced In
the case OF child labor there are 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
iine-laws galore, many of them SIM
ply repetitions of what are already
on the books and others that work a
hardship inste.zd of giving relief. If
this state aid to schools keeps up it
might be we'll to provide a course of
study for voters.
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Ambitious house and senate men,
bers with an eye to future political
preference in the shape of executive
jobs may have seen their chances
glimmering 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 a year after the expira-
ton of his term as member of the
legislature. State Auditor Iverson
was given a fiat salary Of $4,000 a
year, which was his stipend before,
though his actual salary was only 49,
500. Rines thinks the word "emolu-
ments' is the saving clause. J. T.
Johnson, 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 APPROPRIATION of $4,000 for the
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, a husky
boy and a stenographer. Its powers
were greatly broadened by the last
legislature
Even matches were not exempt
from the regulation prerogatives of
the legislature. Under a law now on
the books the old style parlor match
must go. Its place will be taken by
the safety match of commerce, or a
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
$500 to the head of the family only.
And this head of the family, the at.
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 and
the activity shown in dividing up the
personal belongings of family among
its individual members had three card
monte beat mile. The division was
expected by the assessor and every
body did it,
Two MinnesOtans prominent in TO-
litical life figure in leading magazines
this week. The one "mucked" is
United States Senator Moses e. Clam
and what Hearst's Magazine does not
say of him in nasty way is hardly
worth mentioning. Clapp, you probably
know, conducted the senatorial CAM
paign contribution investigation last
year and he may have stepped on
toes. At any rate he had
ticklish job, as the magazine init
mates he failed to look into his own
shortcomings in the matter of cor
poration help. The statesman to get
a boost is Representative Lindberg of
the Sixth district, whom Ida M. Tar
bell, in the American Magazine, styles
'the Swede who Dreams" Lindberg
is the lad who has been hunting for
the money trust and while that indi-
vidual is still doing business at the
same old stand he seems to have
made some dents in it's armor.
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Both Lieutenant Governor R11rn-
quist and Speaker Rines of the house
have named committees in accordance