The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-03-21
Putnam Pet Recommended For
Passage In House
M0ELLER ACT IS HELD OVER
Reapporti0nment Is Clinched; Other
News and Gossip From the
Legislative Halls

st. Paul, March 19-The house
temperance committee Endorsed the
Putnam anti-treat bill Tuesday, and
recommended its passage to the
house. The bill. besides prohibiting
treating or giving away of drinks.
declares all back bars" shall be
decorated with large sign bearing
the inscription, Treating Prohibited
by Law"
The Holmberg bill prohibiting the
sale of liquor or tobacco within 1000
feet OF state institutions also was
recommended to pass. The Frye bill
increasing from 2 to per cent the
state tax on liquor licenses for the
support of the hospital for inebri.
ates was recommended to pass.
The Moeller bill permitting the
sale of liquor in dining rooms of no
tells with more than seventy-fve
rooms was laid over until Thursday.
The committee also killed Repre-
sentative Frank Hopkins bill making
the maximum liquor license fee SO.
Reapportionment Is Clinched.
The passage of the reapportion-
ment bill by the present legislature
DcCdlllt ldCt Wncl tlC
house cOncurred in the senate amend
ments to the house bill. The mea-
sure will now go to the governor for
his signature The bill provides for
legislature of 67 senators and $50
house members. IL passed the house
with 65 senators and 125 representa-
tives and the senate added two SEN
ators and five house members.
The vote on the repassage of the
bill was 81 to 16.
Good Roads Memorial.
The house today adopted a mem
orial to congress urging that body
to designate at an early date a SyS-
TEN of national highways and to pro-
vide means for the construction and
maintenance Of the highways. The
memorial is by r. c. Dunn, N. J.
HOlmberg and c. w. Burrows and
represents that national plan OF
good roads will foster the develop
ment of a road system all over the
country and that the establishment
of easy means of inter-communication
between the certers of population
and the productive areas will adj
vance the social, moral and material
welfare of the people.
Full Crew Bill.
The senate railroad committee last
night recommended for passage the
'full crew" bill compelling railroads
to have crews of two brakemen, an
engineer, a conductor and fireman,
on all passenger trains and freight
trains of more than fifty cars. The
committee also recommended Senator
L. o. Cookies bill for uniformity of
rates. The bill would do away with
the sale Of mileage books with their
cheaper rate than the rate charged
for single ticket.
Passed Headlight Bill.
The d. p. O'Neill headlight bill
providing that railroads be required
to install headlights with $500 can
dle-power on all freight and passen-
ger engines. was passed by the SEN
ate late yesterday by vote of Sc
to l.
Reapportionmen Bill introduced.
A congressional reapportionment
bill, dividing the state into ten dis
tricts to conform to the number of
representatives given Minnesota by
congress, was introduced in the SEN
ate by V. l.. Johnson of Center City,
chairman of the senate reappOrtiOn-
ment committee.
The second district as arranged in
the Johnson bill and the population
according to the 1910 census follows:
Second = Blue Earth, Faribault,
Martin, Watonwan, Brown, Cotton
wood, Jackson, Mobiles, Rock, Pipe
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