The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-02-11
OFFICIAL BILLpASSES
State Senate Acts FaVOrably on the
Peterson County Option Bill
Last Thursday.
Measure Must Pass the House and
Secure Governors Signature
Ere it is Law.

phone lines TO connect With each
others lines on request of any pa
tron it limits the charge for such
connections to l cent for three min
utes; it limits telephone earnings to
} per cent: it prohibits charges for
talk between adjoining cities; it pro-
hibits greater charge for business
phones than for residence phones,
and it requires telephone directories
to be issued at least every other
month and to contain no ADVERTISE
ments.
A bill to abolish the highway COM
mission and place the distribution Of
state road money under a board COM
posed Of the state treasurer, auditor
and secretary of state, has been in
PRODUCED in the senate.
Senator Benson's amendment re-
submitting the proposal to lengthen
the terms of judges of probate from
two to four years was advanced to
the calendar last Thursday.
Last Thursday Senator O'Neill and
Representatives Scott and Holmes
introduced in both branches of the
legislature a bill creating state
teachers insurance and retirement
fund. Teachers are to be assessed
s. to S25 year, depending on their
length of service: and the state is to
furnish tax of one tenth Of a mill.
Retirement at the end Of twenty
years service is provided for with
annuities ranging from $3.50 for
twenty years to $500 for twenty-five
years service.
Senator W. A. Campbell's bill
providing that primary elections be
held on Mondays instead of Tuesdays
passed the senate last Thursday.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
hog cholera serum plant at state
college of agriculture has been intro
duced in the senate. -.aa.- .-.--..- Pcs. s-
The house committee on roads
and bridges reported out without
recommendation the bill repeating
the Elwell road law Thursday
afternoon. This is construed as a
recommendation that the repeal
measure should pass.
The senate last Thursday after
noon passed the 'oficial' county
option bill by a vote of SO to 81, after
four hours of debate. This is the
first time in the history of the state
that county option bill has passed
the senate. AS result of the vote
of three of ST. Louis county's sena-
tors in favor of county option there
has been some talk of a tonnage tax
bill being introduced again at this
session, but it is doubtful if much
Roadway could be made with such a
measure, as there does not appear to
be much sentiment in favor of ton
mage tax. The vote in the house on
the county option bill is expected to
be extremely close.
Representative Searls has intro
duced a bill providing for a fourth
hospital for the insane to be located
in northern Minnesota. The bill has
the approval of the of the state
board of control.
The house last Friday passed a bill
authorizing state banks to join the
Federal reserve system.
The bill creating a board to super
wise the issuance of state bank
charters, with power to see that no
community has more banks than it
needs and can support we'll. has been
recommended to pass by the house
committee on banks and banking.
The board would consist of the state
auditor and the state treasurer.
The house committee on elections
has recommended for passage the
bill to avert the election of thirty
four clerks of district court in 1916.
Two years ago the legislature put
county officers, with the exception
OF probate judges, on a four-year
basis. The clerks were already on
that basis, but only ffty-two of the
eighty-six were elected at that time.
the other thirty -four clerks having
been elected two years before This
DILL will give the clerks two more
years to serve if passed.
The board of controls budget for
the charitable, penal and correc-
tlonal institutions, introduced Fri
day calls for an appropriation of &c.
1884, "a. This amount is $780,
64S. 81 in excess of the sum granted
by the last legislature and is $780,
35l. IS less than the amount asked
the legislature on that occasion.
The house had it's first Saturday