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BLOCKED BY JONES
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Senator Adams practically withdrew
his bills. ~ ~, -:
Jones Makes Explanation.
In an interview with a press rep
resentative in st. Paul. Senator Jones
made an explanation Of his action in
part as follows: -,
. 1T was, the understanding between
thes members of the St.: Louis county
delegation. at the beginning. of the
session, that all local bills would be
submitted to the. members of the
house and senate from Duluth before
being introduced. r. .~.r, -,
Senator Adams attempted to sus-
pend the rules and have these three
park bills placed upon their final pas
sage before the other members Of the
senate" from Duluth were given an
opportunity to examine them. 1t was
for this reason alone that I objected
to the rather unusual procedure at
the eleventh hour. We at least had
a right to ask that the bills be laid
over until we might have an oppor-
tunity to see what they were.
Upon examining Senate File 7S9,
I discovered that it proposed to
amend Chapter &c, Laws of 1911, so
as to include Duluth within its oper-
alton. In my estimation, Chapter. 26,
of the Laws of 1911, is a. dangerous
law to have on the books, either in it's
present form or as amended. BY it's
terms it permits cities and villages to
exchange lands acquired for parks or
Fairgrounds for other lands to be
used for the same purpose.
Son
enough, but a careful scrutiny Of the
law discloses the fact that the city
may condemn your land or mine os-
tensibly for park purposes, but in
fact, for the purpose Of trading it for
other property after the city acquires
it by condemnation.
+ Under this law, Chapter rs, If I
want a piece of property belonging to
you and you do not care to part with
it, I may induce the city council to
condemn your land with the under
standing that the city council will
trade your land for tract that T
own.
"A law which allows the city coun-
Gil to condemn land for the purpose
of trading it off is, in my Judgment, u
dangerous law and I hardly believe
the people Of Duluth would approve
of Senate File 789 when they are
| made acquainted with it's provisions.
II believe the city should be COM
PEELED to use property acquired under
the power Of eminent domain, for the
purpose for which it was acquired; if
the property is not used for the pur-
pose for which it was condemned,
then If should revert hack tn fhp
original owner, as in all other cases
| under condemnation proceedings.
''The other two bills are unimport.
ant except when considered in con-
| nection with the first one. They seem
to fit together to accomplish a pur-
| pose. OF course, I do not mean to
say that the city officials actually
contemplated condemning some par
ticular piece of land with the purpose
of trading it off, but the passage of
these three bills would certainly al
low the city to do HAT very thing. :,
However, we submitted an amend
ment to the introducer of the bills
providing that the act should apply
only to lands that had heretofore been
acquired by the city for parks OF
Fairgrounds.
when this amendment was pro.
posed the introducer practically with
drew the bills altogether, which &C.
ton on his part would seem to con.
firm our suspicion that the object OF
the bills was to enable the city to
condemn certain lands for the pur.
pose of trading them off for other
lands at g. later time