Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-06-13

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field, who resigned some weeks pre-
vious following a disagreement with
Secretary of State Schmahl, State Au-
ditor Iverson and one other member
of the board. State Insurance Com.
missioner Preus was decidedly against
Sherman, for Sherman, you know, was
Lee man in the last campaign and If
there is anything that Preus cannot
stand it is opposition to his chief. No
man in the employ of the state gov
eminent stays long on the payroll who
is SO charged. AS sop to the governor
he was allowed to name John Kinietz
of the Cambridge Press as assistant
commissioner. Throughout the pro
ceedings Governor Eberhart made no
protest, but | can see trouble ahead.
In the matter of promotion Sherman
Is regarded as entitled to his new po-
sition, but sometimes it does not pay
to buck the powers that be. AS to
what will happen, wait and see.
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Attorney General Smith is now
wrestling with the problem of wheth-
er attorneys employed by railroads
and carrying a notarial commission
can have free passes. A former de-
cision was to the effect that they
could not Inasmuch as the anti-pass
law has been modified so as to ex-
empt policemen, firemen and mail car
riers almost anything is possible now
The law was never of any value and
the chances are that it will be put
out of business entirely.
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/ The state legal department has
been stacked up against the job OF
defending the cream shipment law
passed by the last legislature and
as get it those in charge do not
relish the job The federal courts
have issued an order preventing the
enforcement of the law and it is up
to the state to show this same court
that the order should not stand. The
law prevents the shipment of cream
for greater distance than sixty-five
miles unless in iced cars. If there
ever was a good argument for law
proposed act to some tribunal to be
passed upon as to it's constitution
atty and language before passage it
is this same cream law. This law
was drafted for the benefit of the
country creameries and against what
are known as the city centralizers
No attempt was made to have it sub
mitted to legal authority. Preju-
dice was responsible for its draft and
the same prevailed in the case of its
passage. Now the state will be at
an expense of thousands of dollars to
prove that it is constitutional, and
the chances are that it will lose.
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If the purchases of automobiles are
any indication of the prosperity of
the country then the number of Ii
censes for automobiles daily issued
by Secretary of State Schmahl show
| Minnesota to be on the up trend For
| the past month nearly 300 checks of
$3.50 each have been received daily
and they still continue to come The
number of automobiles in Minnesota
is now near the $4,000 mark. And
for your benefit, dear reader, will
say most of the machines are owned
| in the country.
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Frank n Stacy will sever his con-
nection with the public examiners de-
| partment after July ! and the news
will no doubt sound good to a few
that ! know. The reason for his re-
tirement after over fifteen years of
service is not given, though Public
Examiner Fritz says he knows but is
net prepared to make the facts pub
lie. Undue activity outside his Off
| cial line is perhaps as good an ex-
PLANTATION as any. Nobody could
write a keynote speech or an essay
better than Stacy am sold not a
| few governors have been the bene-
| ficiaries Of his efforts-and no one
could handle figures better than he,
! but Stacy had one trouble, he always
took sides, and they were not always
on the side of his bread and butter.
During the last legislature he was re
ported to be unduIy active in a pet
| ty investigating way and it is re
ported that it was this activity that
finally landed him outside the bread
line,
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| The commission named by Gov
ernor Eberhart, Speaker Rines of the
house and Lieutenant Governor Burn
quist to select site for sixth state
normal school is preparing to get
busy. The members will visit the
several towns which want the school
Among the applicants are Cass Lake,
Walker, Bemidii, Thief River Falls
and Park Rapids Representative D.
P. O'Neill of Thief River Falls was
the author of the bill providing for
another normal school and it is a
! good bet that Dan will land the plum
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