The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-02
MANKATo FREE PRESS

was Immediately rushed over to the
house and repassed. AS amended
| it applies only to cities of the first
/ and second class and limits the
working hours for women in stores,
restaurants and hotels to ten hours
a day, telephone operators to eight
hours, telegraph operators and fac
tory workers to nine.
The McGrath blue sky" law, which
was amended in the house by strik-
ing out the entire bill and inserting
the S. r. Child blue sky bill, was
reported in by the conference COM
killed by the house last night Sen
ator John Moonan, one of the con-
ferees, said in the senate that as
amended it was perfectly harmless"
Representative G.. E. Southwick's
bill for a teachers employment bu-
reau under the state department of
education passed yesterday. The
state department of education" is
the new name given to the depart
ment of public instruction under an
other house bill which passed the
senate yesterday.
Several important bills were re-
; passed by the house last night as
; amended in the senate. One is Rep
; resentative John G. Lemons hotel
; bill, providing for rigid inspection
; of all hotels and restaurants and
;. stringent requirements on the part
) of the hotels for safety from fire.
; The bill had been amended only on
; the question of salaries in the ho-
; tel inspection department, the old
; salaries having been replaced in the
; bill by the senate.
; Against Moonlight Dance.
. Another bill repassed was Repre-
. sentative Victor C. Sundberg's dance
. hall license bill, which puts ban
) on the moonlight dance and the
pass-out check.
The house repassed bill giving
the board of control authority to
erect buildings costing $4,000 or less
at the state university without leg
islative enactment. The Hillman bill
providing penalties for persons mis-
representing labor conditions in or
der to obtain workers also was re-
passed
The house bill permitting street
care companies to give free rides to
firemen and policemen passed the
laf nj,
members of the house had failed in
an attempt to carry out an alleged
compact under which the house was
to pass the bill prohibiting the Civ
ing of transfers.
The non-partizan election BILL one
! of the most important results of
+ the legislative session, is likely to
) be found invalid by the courts, says
The Minneapolis Journal. Attorneys
. have examined the measure, which
has been signed and deposited with
the secretary of state, and they say
, that the bill apparently violates a
) section of the state constitution.
Section q of Article says:
, mo law shall embrace more than
5, one subject. which shall be express
J, ed in its title"
The title of the new law, which
/ was Senate File Az, and is Chapter
, $3.50 of the session laws of 1913, reads
as follows.
= A bill for an act to amend sec
, ton 1S1 and 1872 of the revised laws
, 1905, as amended by chapter 9 of
, the general laws, special session,
. 1912, section 1874 of the revised laws
; OF 1905, as amended by chapter 226,
general laws 1907, and chapter 95
general laws 1909, and chapter 2
, general laws, special session 1912.
section 1877 revised laws 1905, sec
'tion 200 revised laws 1906, section
213 revised laws 1905, and section
217 revised laws 1905, all as amend
nd by chapter 2 general laws special
session 1917, and to repeal part of
section Is of chapter 2, special SEES.
sion 1912"
4 Nothing in the Title.
Nothing in the title of the bill
gives any idea as to what the meas
j ure does. The facts are that It
docs several important things. IT
changes the election laws to the fol-
lowing effect: '@
i Nomination and election of
county officers and members of
/ the legislature is to be made on
| the non-partizan ballot
No candidates may be nomi-
mated by petition for non-parti-
! Fan Offices
Where there are just as many
! candidates filed as nominations to
make, the nominations are to be
certified without putting the
! names on the ballot
County surveyors are to be
| elected on the ponpartizan bal
lot without going through the
primary election at all.
The date of the primary is
! changed from seven weeks be-
fore election, in September, to
the third Tuesday in June.
The 'bulI moose. party ia le-