The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1913-04-25

primary and now all that remains Is
the signature of Governor Eberhart to
make it a law. How 1t will work out
is the interesting thing. 1t was not
the progressive element in the two
bodies that put the bill over. w. /
Nolan and Speaker Rines in the house
were suspicious from the start and
advised caution, but the deed had
been done and they were powerless to
stop its completion. The bill pre-
vailed in the house by bare major.
ity. Democrats are jubilant. They say
1t will increase their standing in the
next legislature and the reactionary
element declares that it will do away
with new party ideas.
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II Minnesota is to be represented at
either the Panama exposition or the
Put-In-Bay Perry centennial celebra.
ton it will have to be by private sub.
scriptions. Both house and senate
committees Topped of appropriations
for each. And this was not all the
looping off it did. There were cuts
all down the line, including the uni.
versity and the state immigration blu.
reau. The latter wanted $4,000. Yet
this same committee found time to
add about $4,000 to the salaries OF
various state officials. The excuse
was that 1t was necessary to equalize
salaries and. put them all on perma-
nent basis.
1t comes on good authority that
Professor Merica, the new head OF
the Red Wing boys training school,
is pretty much Disguised with his job
and is contemplating retirement
Nearly seventy escapes in less than
six months and ten Of them in one
day Is the record, not to speak of q
line of INSTRUMENTATION that has com
PEELED return to corporal punish.
ment. The honor scheme has proven
failure. Frank Whittier, the for
mer superintendent, who was removed,
or rather resigned under compulsion
after being bounded to death by manu-.
featured evidence tending to show that
he was unfit, is now having his inning.
With the big cities caring for their
erring boys the school Is becoming
the home of incorrigables and young
criminals and prison discipline Is
necessary for their control.
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Minnesota Is facing the highest tax
rate in years, "a mills, with q possible
increase to 3 mills, and the question
now being asked is, who is respon-
sible?" The last levy made was IT
last October. State Auditor Iverson,
who announced the levy then, spoke
Of the low levy In glowing terms, said
it was only the forerunner of a still
further cut and the Republican state
campaign committee was so Inn.
pressed that it heralded the fact
broadcast. 1t Is this campaign jockey
ing with the levy for revenue purposes
that Is raising hob with the legisla-
tive finance committees now. They
simply cannot help putting the levy
back where 1t should be and do JUS
tice to legitimate demands. For the
last six years every campaign has
seen some tampering with the levy
for political purposes and the state
has been living from hand to mouth
In consequence. If you or I could
have had the interest alone paid for
borrowed money during that time we
could retire comfortably. Some day
the people will tumble.
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For week now one St. Paul daily
paper has been giving top of column,
next to pure reading matter position
to daily exposure of what it claims
are startling things in connection
with the purchase some years ago Of
several million dollars worth of Vir-
ginla state bonds. They were bought
much below par and are paying the
state 8 per cent. The inference was
that the story covered an investiga.
ton being made by the house COM
mittee on accounts and expenditures,
but majority of the committee de-
MES that 1t Is interested and the
question that now prompts itself Is
what Is behind the whole thing?"
Some say that certain insurance COM
panies want the bonds, with conse-
quent profit to themselves; others that
the powers that be are after the
scalps of r. c. Dunn and State Audi.
tor Iverson, who are credited with
gubernatorial ambitions. Both were
concerned in the original purchase of
the bonds. Be as 1t may there IL
more than an attempt to put before
the public what the paper in question
thinks was an unwise expenditure Of
the peoples money and the truth will
yet come out.
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The house committee which has
been putting in the past three months
investigating the inspection Of grain
In the state has completed its labors.
Its findings are now in the hands Of
the legislature. In brief 1t recon-
mends: That original inspection OF
grain be more liberal; that the sew
eral chambers of commerce and trad