The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-02-14

st. Paul. Feb. 12.-Woman suffrage
passed the lower house of the legis-
hture yesterday by vote of 80 to 81
Only 81 votes were necessary. The
ballot came after two hours of ora
tory.
Women who crowded the galleries
rose to their feet and cheered wildly
when the result was announced Then
they rushed down the stairs to the
floor of the house to thank the mem
bers.
Recall Bill Passes, Also.
An allinclusive recall bill was
passed by the senate yesterday. It is
In the form of provision for a con-
stitutional amendment. If it passes
the house, it will go before the PEG.
pie for approval at the next general
election. The vote was 81 to 9.
1t is considered likely that the
house will adopt just this bill and, as
1t taps popular sentiment, it is almost
certain to receive the required ma.
jority when submitted to the people.
The bill was introduced by Senator
Moonan and was re-drafted by the
common elections. 1t makes the re-
call applicable to every public officer
in Minnesota, whether elective or ap-
pointive.
Distance Tariff Feb. 20.
Efforts on the part of Senator Cash.
man to have his distance tariff bill
made a special order of business in
the senate for Thursday afternoon of
this week failed yesterday. Senator
G. 81. Sullivan of Saltwater pointed
out that the senate, by passage of a
resolution Monday, had asked the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion to furnish information as to the
effect of the bill. He argued that it
would be bad policy to take up the
bill until such information was receiv.
ed Senator Rockne said that a little
delay at this time would be. advan-
tageous. Consequently the hearing
was set for Feb. 20.
The legislature to date has cost the
taxpayers for expenses alone a little
better than $1,000 day.
The committee on public buildings,
to which it was referred, Representa-
tive Knud Wefald's resolution calling
for an investigation of the charge that
liquor was dispensed on the evening
of the governors inaugural reception,
yesterday reported a resolution which
says that it is commonly known that
liquors were dispensed. At the same
time the resolution says: eff such
practices have existed in the past that
such practice be hereafter absolutely
discontinued" The House adopted
the resolution unanimously. The reso-
luton mentioned no names.
st. Paul, Feb. 11-Senator G.. H.
Sullivan's bill to amend the mortgage
registry tax law elected an animated
discussion. 1t was the concensus of
opinion that the mortgage registry tax,
like all other taxes on mortgages was
ultimately paid by the mortgagor and
not by the mortgage as designed by
those responsible for the law. In view
of this the senate reduced the tax pro-
posed in the bill from so to 10 cents.
Effect of Distance Tariff.
At the suggestion of Senator Sulli-
van the railroad and warehouse COM
mission was directed to prepare a
statement showing the effect that the
eastman distance tariff bill would
have on rates in order to help the
senate decide whether they would be
as disastrous as claimed in advertise
ments published in the city papers by
the opponents of the measure.
concurrent resolution was passed
by the house providing for joint COM
mittee of the house and senate to
confer with a similar committee to be
appointed by the Wisconsin legislature
of uniform laws by both states regu-
lating fishing in waters common to
both states.
Representative Brown of Walton
wan county sought suspension OF
the rules in order to advance a bill
introduced by him yesterday which
provided for such amendments to the
corrupt practices act as would pre-
vent the circulation of anonymous ad-
vertising matter or other campaign
literature designed to influence the
vote of members of the legislature
The crisis" which demanded the
speedy enactment of such a law was
brought about by the methods adopt
ed by the opponents of the eastman
distance tariff law to defeat it he said.
A Red Hot Speech.
The motion was supported by Rep
resentative H. H. Dunn in red hot
speech. IAN enormous slush fund has
been raised" he said, Ito defeat the
bill. The interests protected by the
discriminating rates now in force have
stated that if necessary they will
spend million dollars to do so. A
small part of this slush fund is being
used to pay the corporation press OF
the Twin Cities for circulating the
most false and misleading statements
with regard to the bill. We want to
know" he concluded, who is doing
the talking, and how much stock the