The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-04-03
STATE LEGISLATURE
K. c. Dunn's Good Roads Bill Comes
Up in Senate and the EIweII
Amendments Are Killed,
Froshaug-Boyle Bill Enabling Coun-
ties to Establish tuberculosis
Sanatoria is Passed.

but final action was delayed in con-
sequence Of the number of amend
ments brought up for consideration
and all of which, with the exception
of one, met defeat-they were rele-
gated to the waste basket. The FL
we'll combine was persistent in it's
efforts but the supporters of the bill
proved too strong. The bill will
come up again tomorrow for final
disposition, and it is safe to predict
that it will pass in practically the
same form as it came from the
house.
Without a dissenting vote the
house on Friday passed the Froshaug
and Boyle bill enabling Minnesota
counties to establish sanatoria for
the treatment of tuberculosis. The
bill has already passed the senate
The bill provides that wherever the
voters of a county decide in favor of
the establishment of a hospital the
county commissioners shall appoint a
commission of three, one to be a
physician. This commission is given
authority to designate a site and
erect hospital, under the direction
of the state board of control and the
state tuberculosis commission. The
state will pay half the cost Of erec-
tion and the counties will sell bonds
to pay the other half of expense.
tot 1pi1 Of +ri ,to
week for the maintenance Of every
free patient in the hospitals. Sew
eral counties can join in the erection
of hospital: The minimum num-
Der of beds in any hospital is placed
at twenty.
DR.. L. "A. CrandalI, pastor of Trim
ity Baptist church, Minneapolis, has
succeeded in inducing the senate f.
nance committee to recommend the
passage OF a bill providing for tire
creation Of a commission to revise
the laws relating to child labor. He
said that he represented 20 child vel
fare organizations. The bill carries
an appropriation of S.. 900 to pay the
expenses of the commission during
two years of research.
Senator Moonan's bill providing
for appeals to the state district
courts from the orders Of the state
board Of medical examiners has
passed the house.
A bill by G. d. Southwick. bach
elor, regulating marriage, has passed
the house by vote of 81 to 29 One
of its designs is to prevent elope-
ments by prohibiting performance of
the marriage service until five days
have elapsed since the issuance of
the license
The house has given it's affirma
tive vote to the bill by the senate
committee on finance repeating all
legislative acts providing standing
appropriations for various state de-
partments and purposes and reouir-
Ing each department. to make an
lte1nlzed statement of it's needs at
each session Of the legislature,
If bill being considered nv the
senate temperance committee be.
comes law the closing time for sa.
looms in the twin cities and Duluth
will be midnight and in villages o.
m.
The senate temperance committee
has approved the passage of the bill
proposed by the brewery Investigate
ing committee aimed at brewer,
ownership and control of saloons an(
named a a subcommittee to draft ;
bill providing for a gradual reduction
of the number of saloons in munici
palities which now have more thar
one to every 500 of population.
A Legislature composed of IS SEN
ators and los representative is pro
posed in a bill introduced by Senator
}. A. Collier proposing an amendment
to the constitution. The bill also
provides that each county in the
state shall be given at least one rem.
resentative. A second bill proposing
an amendment to- the constitution
provides for compulsory congressional
reaportionment every ten years, be.
ginning in 1923. ".
A bill authorizing the state game
and fish commission to seine the
lakes and sell fish instead of LETTING
private contracts as under the pres.
ent system, has been introduced in
the house by the committee on pub.
lie accounts and expenditures. The
bill provides that the commission can
seine lakes where Trough fish, are
injuring the game fish and that one.
half the proceeds from the sale Of
fish shall go to the state and one-hal1